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Christina and Robert Thomas Cheyne took advantage of the free emigration offered by the New Zealand government. Soon after their marriage in 1874, they set sail for New Zealand, taking with them Christina's 22 year old sister, Charlotte. They arrived at Blenheim on the northeastern side of the South Island of New Zealand.

Christina and Robert Cheyne established their home on a sheep farm at Blink Bonnie in the lower Wairau Valley, a few miles southwest of Blenheim. They moved to Blenheim in 1880 where Robert worked as a milkman and shopkeeper. Around 1882, with three small children in their growing family, they moved to Picton a few miles to the north of Blenheim, and another child was born there. Robert Cheyne died in Picton a few years later, about 1884, leaving a widow and four young children -- James, Ann Margaret, Charlotte, and Robert.

In 1893, some nine years after Robert's death, Christina remarried in Blenheim, New Zealand. Her second husband was James Beauchop. They soon moved to Newtown, a suburb of Wellington, on the North Island of New Zealand. After her son James's wife died in 1907, she had the two grandchildren come and live with her and her oldest daughter, Ann Margaret Cheyne. In 1911 Christina, her daughter and the two children moved from Newton to Woodville, about 120 miles north of Wellington, where they would be near another daughter, Mary Charlotte Cheyne Fraser.

That is where she stayed for the rest of her life. Christina died at the age of 87 in Woodville on September 21, 1934, two days after the death of her beloved niece, Elizabeth O'Brian Lyver.