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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.

Dates covered: 1848 - 1970     

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.

Dates covered: 1848 - 1853     

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'.

Dates covered: 1906 - 2003     

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.

Dates covered: 1994 - 2009     

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.

Dates covered: 1845 - 1862     

William Henry Sherwood Roberts was born in Wales in 1834. He immigrated to New Zealand on the 'John Phillips' in 1855.

Dates covered: Circa 1803 - 1916     

Henry Selfe was born in 1810 near Worcester and was educated at Glasgow University.

Dates covered: 1849 - 1870     

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.

Dates covered: 1847 - 1997     
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