James Herries Beattie (known as Herries) was born in Gore in 1881, the son of Scots immigrants James Beattie and Mary Roden, who arrived in Otago in 1862.
James Herries Beattie (known as Herries) was born in Gore in 1881, the son of Scots immigrants James Beattie and Mary Roden, who arrived in Otago in 1862.
The Canterbury Association was set up by John Robert Godley and Edward Gibbon Wakefield in 1848 to plan a Church of England colony in New Zealand.
Joseph South, a brickmaker, his second wife Mary, and the five youngest of his children immigrated to New Zealand from London, arriving in 1874 on the 'Buckinghamshire'.
Through an active career beginning in the mid 1960s, Dr Jill Hamel has established herself in a line of distinguished field archaeologists of southern New Zealand.
John Jones was a sealer, whaler, ship owner, trader and entrepreneur, who helped establish the settlement at Waikouaiti, and had many commercial shipping interests in Otago.
William Henry Sherwood Roberts was born in Wales in 1834. He immigrated to New Zealand on the 'John Phillips' in 1855.
Henry Selfe was born in 1810 near Worcester and was educated at Glasgow University.
Watson Shennan was one of the first and most influential runholders in Central Otago. He was born in Scotland in 1835, the son of Robert Shennan.