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James arranges assisted passage and Jeanie sails
In October 1907 James Charteris was living in Epsom and working ‘canvassing for Auckland Orphans Home’. On most weekends he delivered sermons for Primitive Methodists, alongside his eldest…
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The Boy Preacher and Mr Charteris – ecclesiastical 1907
James and James Charteris arrived in New Zealand May 1907 (about a year ahead of Jeanie and the family joining them from Scotland). This is a compilation of…
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James and James sail from Liverpool
In early February 1907 the S.S. Fifeshire arrived at Victoria Docks in London with cargo from Australia and discharged: “10,024 carcases of mutton, 11,824 carcases of lambs, and…
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Lizzie sets sail on the Orontes
On a mid-autumn day in October 1902, thirty-year-old Lizzie Whitehead sailed from England to meet her fiance, George Harry Siswick, who was halfway around the world, in Aotearoa…
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