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William Barbour Wilson – ‘Cabbage Wilson’ (1819 – 1897)

By Annette Bulovic on March 14, 2013

William Barbour Wilson was born in Kirkcudbrightshire in Scotland. He started off his adulthood as a nurseryman’s apprentice. He then moved to Ireland where he worked as an overseer for a few estates there. No one knows why he set his sights on New Zealand next. Maybe it was because New Zealand seemed a certain …

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