NZ settlers (General)

by slowhands , proud of his ancient Dean Forest roots, Sunday, January 10, 2010, 11:36 (5506 days ago) @ unknown

I have supplied images of adverts for "settlers" placed by Agents in the FoD newspapers in the late 1800's - from memory these were for the States and Australia.

There is of course the Aylburton / Lydney Bathurst connection to New Zealand via Lord Bledisloe ( a little later)...
http://www.dnzb.govt.nz/DNZB/alt_essayBody.asp?essayID=4B39
http://www.forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?id=3755

and the ELSMORE / MORSE / DORRINGTON families
http://www.forest-of-dean.net/downloads/Stories_Articles/Elsmore_Morse_and_Dorrington_F...

and many examples such as :-
http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-Cyc03Cycl-t1-body1-d4-d36-d2.html

MILES, Henry William, Farmer, Caverhill Village Settlement, Cheviot. Mr. Miles
was born in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England, in 1851, and brought up
to farming by his father. He landed in Lyttelton by the ship “Hereford,” and for seven
years had a small farm near Longbeach, whence he removed to Tinwald, where
he was farming for six years and a half. In 1894 he became a settler in the Cheviot
district. Mr. Miles holds fifty acres of freehold, and 150 acres under lease in perpetuity.
He was married, in January, 1873, to a daughter of page 564 Mr T. Kear, of the
Forest of Dean, and has four sons and five daughters.

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