In the spirit of their age
Subtitle: three generations of an Australia-New Zealand family
By: Bill Thomas
Publisher: Steele Roberts
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Wellington, N.Z
Language: eng
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9781877448829
Subjects: Family; History; Methodists; Genealogy; Methodist Church of New Zealand; Australasian Wesleyan Methodist Church
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes history of Gallipoli and Western front campaigns in World War 1.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 370-384) and index.