A great many things : the life of Simon Forsyth
Roberts, Rae2025
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Simon Forsyth's life was remarkable; from his poor early crofter childhood in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, to disappointment on arrival in Auckland, draining a swampy farm in Canterbury and eventually becoming a visionary leader in the dairying industry in Taranaki. This is a New Zealand colonial history seen through the eyes of an early settler. It is also a family history; Simon married a pioneering English women, Margaret Rothery in CAnterbury and they raised nine children. His life was embeeded in community; a boyhood among Scottish rural families, as a young man reliant on farming neighbours in Canterbury and in later life helping with others to develop a South Taranaki town in the 1880s.
Main title:
A great many things : the life of Simon Forsyth / Rae Roberts, his great granddaughter.
Author:
Roberts, Rae, author
Edition:
First edition 2024. Revised edition 2025.
Imprint:
New Zealand : Rae Roberts, 2025.
Collation:
312 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 26 cm.
Variant title:
Added title page title: A great many things : the life of Simon Forsyth, a New Zealand colonial history through the experience of an early settler
Contents:
Foreword - - Timeline - - Introduction - - Formed by Scotland - - A Scottish childhood - - The decision to emigrate - - Forged by New Zealand - - Arriving in Auckland - a free land grant - - Canterbury life - a notable Sedgemere pioneer farmer - - Taranaki - new beginning & leadership - - The man - - A community man and natural leader - - A progressive man - - Firm friendships - - Trip back home - - Wealth, health and death - - The family - - Margaret: an industrious pioneering mother and forebears - - A large brood - the next generation - - Beloved Scottish siblings and forebears - - Appendices - - In his own words - - Family myths - - Clandestine Masons - - What happened to William Wilson and James Gerrie? - - Forsyth Clan origins - - List of maps, family trees, tables, graphs, charts & diagrams - - Thanks - - Glossary - - Bibliography - - Index.
ISBN:
9780473715892 (pbk)
Local class:
F2 FOR920.1
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
4292414
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