MANUSCRIPT
Catherine O'Driscoll - Jacob Crow, a Cumberland miner in Otago
- Date
- 1995
- By
- O'Driscoll, Catherine, active 1995
- Reference
- MS-Papers-5757-15
- Description
Story of Jacob Crow, from his birth in Cumberland to Joseph and Mary Crow (nee Jenkinson), early years in Whitehaven, marriage to Jane Leavens, immigration to Otago on the `Forfarshire' in 1879, arrival of his wife Jane & 3 children in 1881, employment as an iron miner, gold miner, race builder and quarryman, years living at Bannockburn, death of Jane and remarriage to Mrs Jane Reid Hodgson (nee Bell), and lives of his two daughters. Includes pedigree chart showing antecedents of Jacob Crow and Jane Leavens; map of Cumberland; map of Central Otago; photographs of the Crow family, ca 1879-1930s
Quantity: 1 folder(s).
- Access restrictions
- No access restrictions
- Part of
- Ted Gilberd Literary Trust : Essay competitions / Ted Gilberd Literary Trust : Essay competition
- Format
- 1 folder(s), Manuscripts
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