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James Edward Fitzgerald – Planting Towns And Villages In This Desert.
“Thus the work of the Canterbury Association will be at a end. And whatever our own feelings may be, who have struggled hard and, some at all events, suffered much, in planting towns and villages in this desert…yet, will there come after us, inhabiting a cultivated, rich and populous district, the seat of manufactures, the …
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Henry John Tancred (1816 – 1884)
Henry John Tancred had a career that would make anyone’s head spin!!! Born in the Isle of Wight in 1814, Henry became an officer in the Austrian Army. In 1848, he had a nasty fall from his horse which left him mildly handicapped. He took his sick leave in England and it was there that …
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James Edward Fitzgerald (1818 – 1896)
James Edward Fitzgerald (1818 – 1896) Died of old age Place of Death: Wellington Was Canterbury’s first Superintendent, the first to step ashore from the Charlotte Jane, founded the Lyttelton Times and The Press, Lincoln and Springston was his farmland which was known as The Springs. Buried at Bolten Street Cemetery, Wellington. The …
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James Edward Fitzgerald – Bolten Street Cemetery
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