Discover The Delights Of Peeling Back History
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Samuel Butler (1835 – 1902)
Samuel Butler was born in Nottinghamshire, England to Rev. Thomas Butler and Fanny Worsley. From the beginning it was to be an unhappy family. A bright little spark, Samuel was at first home schooled. He would later state that daily beatings accompanied the teachings from his father. He later went to school at Cambridge and …
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DALLINGTON – Henry Joseph Campbell Jekyll (1843 – 1913)
Dr. Charles Dudley and his brother, a farmer, John arrived in Lyttelton in 1851. With them were their wives and children, aged between 2 to 5 years old. Charles went on to practice medicine in Lyttelton for the next 5 years while John settled in Christchurch, buying 99 acres in a area known as Richmond. …
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Lyttelton ~ 1883
The graving dock at Lyttelton on the 24th September 1883. If you look at the hills to the left of the ships, you can make out the Lyttelton Cemetery – tucked into its square fencing. *image courtesy of http://www.ancestry.com.au/newzealand*
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Captain James Cook (1728 – 1779)
When I read about Captain James Cook and his men camped out at Mercury Bay, I romantically envisioned the mighty ‘Endeavor’ at anchor amidst a rumbling blue ocean, the beach littered with its rowboats and the setting sun glistening off the surrounding greenery of Pre-European Nova Zeelandia! What tipped me into my ‘know no limits’ …
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