Title: In the spirit of their age : three generations of an Australia-New Zealand family /
Authors: Thomas, Bill, 1939-
Publisher: Steele Roberts,
Year: 2009
Subjects: Thomas, Bill, Family.; Thomas family.; Methodist Church of New Zealand History.; Australasian Wesleyan Methodist Church History.; Methodists New Zealand History.; Methodists Australia History; New Zealand Genealogy.; Australia Genealogy.
Abstract: This is the story of three generations of Bill Thomas's forebears, centering on his great-grandparents Rev Thomas and Henrietta (nee Felstead) Thomas, their parents and their children from the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries in Australia and New Zealand. The book follows the extended familys evolution from Pioneers and British colonials to South Pacific nation citizens in a unique and dynamic setting, in which their lives were affected by vast social and cultural changes.