Jane and Gavin had five more children, all born in Oamaru: William David, born 3 May 1868; James Dunlop, born 14 February 1869; Jane, born 31 October 1870; Andrew Grey, born 7 June 1873; and Barbara, born 18 February 1875.  From the obituary of 1917 we can conclude that Gavin Paterson ceased work for Teschemaker when he and Jane returned to Oamaru with their partially complete family.  The obituary does not tell us, however, how Gavin earned his living thereafter.  Oral tradition informs us that he was at some time a stonemason, so perhaps he worked as a mason when he and the family returned to, and settled in Oamaru.  That line of reasoning gains some support from comments made, and information provided by W. S. Roberts when he noted that the census of 1867 revealed the population of Oamaru to be 1376, and he wrote: No township in the Province had made so steady and satisfactory an advance during the previous six years, having even eclipsed Dunedin itself in the number and importance of the buildings erected. (History of Oamaru, p. 21) The advance, according to that, however, was made between 1861 and 1867, that is, mostly before the Patersons returned to Oamaru, which seems to exclude the likelihood of Gavin having been a stonesmason in Oamaru in its particularly busy building period.  There are surely immumerable ways in which Gavin might have earned his living after settling permanently in Oamaru.  Unfortunately, however, for the moment we can only speculate upon what they were.

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