Porters in my past
Subtitle: three brothers face the challenge of early New Zealand
By: John Ewan
Publisher: Chateau Publishing Ltd
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Nelson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
ISBN-13: 9780473291662; 9780473291679
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Pioneers; Biography; History
Description: "They were three young men. Brothers. All arriving in New Zealand to start new lives. Joshua came first, worked with John Robert Godley and then set up his own law practice, later to become a magistrate and a mayor. David came on one of the first four ships into Canterbury and became a surveyor and map maker in Whanganui and Wellington. While in Whanganui, he also acted for Sir Donald McLean in buying land for the Crown. Alfred, the youngest brother arrived shortly after the other two and established what was to become Castle Hill station. He was the first European to discover what would be called Porters Pass. Drawing on contemporary accounts, along with diaries, memoirs and family letters, John Ewan has traced the careers of the three brothers, the women they married and the challenges they faced. Their contributions to early New Zealand were unique but at the same time were typical of the many new arrivals in a new land. The author is a great grandson of David Porter"--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Beginnings on a new land; title: David the surveyor; title: Joshua the lawyer; title: Alfred, man of many parts; title: What was the attraction?; title: The Castle Hill years; title: Towards Porters Pass; title: What became of the Castle?; title: And so to Wanganui; title: The call to arms; title: Outside of war; title: Where did the money go?; title: Alfred comes to town; title: To Wellington; title: The families of David, Joshua, Alfred and Ellen Porter; title: The younger siblings of the settler Porters; title: And aunty came too.