When John Carson Reid was born on 24 January 1851, in Upper Hutt, Te Whanganui-a-Tara - Wellington, New Zealand, his father, Thomas Reid, was 35 and his mother, Mary Ann Watson, was 44. He married Jane Hart on 15 August 1878, in Feilding, Manawatū-Whanganui, New Zealand. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. He died on 17 November 1906, in Dannevirke, Manawatū-Whanganui, New Zealand, at the age of 55, and was buried in Clareville Cemetery, Clareville, Wairarapa District, Te Whanganui-a-Tara - Wellington, New Zealand.
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Scottish: variant of Reed , of which Reid is the common modern Scots spelling.
History: Samuel Chester Reid (1783–1861), the sea captain who designed the stars and stripes form of the present the American flag, was born at Norwich, CT. His father, Lt. John Reid, a former British naval officer of a distinguished Glasgow family, had resigned his commission and joined the cause of the American Revolution.
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