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The Farthest Promised Land — English Villagers, New Zealand Immigrants of the 1870s

1 Brogdens' Navvies

1 Brogdens' Navvies

1 As this work is concerned solely with nineteenth century material, the contemporary measures will be used throughout, and not their metric equivalents.

2 Terry Coleman, The Railway Navvies, rev.ed., Harmondsworth, 1968, p.26

3 A. H. & A. W. Reed, eds., Captain Cook in New Zealand, 2nd ed., Wellington, 1969, p.241

4 Marlborough Press, 17 July 1872

5 Ibid

6 AJHR 1873, D-2D, p.29–31, gives a useful summary of the firm's recruitment campaign

7 AJHR 1871, D-6, p.4

8 Ibid., pp.3–7

9 Ibid., pp.6–7, 22–48

10 AJHR 1873, D-2C, pp.4–5; 1–5, p.7

11 R. H. Silcock, ‘Immigration into Canterbury under the Provincial Government’ (unpublished MA thesis, University of Canterbury, 1963), pp.187, 190

12 AJHR 1872, D-1A, p.5

13 Ibid

14 Ibid., pp.10–12; D-1, pp.8–9

15 AJHR 1872, D-19D

16 AJHR 1872, D-1B, pp.11–12

17 Ibid

18 Ibid

19 >Marlborough Press, 19 February 1873

20 AJHR 1881, I-1A, p.25

21 This letter and those quoted in the following paragraphs, are taken from Marlborough Press, 19 February 1873. The Press was reprinting from the Cornish Weekly News and Advertiser, but noted that the letters with an identical introduction, had appeared in several other English newspapers. They appeared in The Times on 5 November 1872 (p.6).

22 IM 5/4 contains a complete list of the members of this party, and John Reynolds and his family were found in collating with the 1871 Census of Population for Penryn, Public Record Office, RG 10/2296/64. In general, lists of Brogdens' immigrants are not available in the archives, but lists of most of the shiploads of N.Z. Government assisted immigrants are preserved in IM 15. The present work makes widespread use of the collation of these passenger lists with English 1871 census enumerators' books. Precise references will not in general be given for these manuscript sources, but the text will include sufficient information for them to be traced.

23 John Rowe, Cornwall in the Age of the Industrial Revolution, Liverpool, 1953, pp.320–21.

24 AJHR 1873, D-2D, p.19

25 Marlborough Press, 14 & 21 August 1872

26 Ibid., 18 September 1872

27 Ibid., 19 February 1873: AJHR 1881, I-1A, p.25

page 360

28 Marlborough Press, 19 February & 19 March 1873

29 AJHR 1881, I-1A, p.25

30 RFNZ, pp.A23, F18, H19, B106, L41. All details of New Zealand 1882 land ownership in this work are from this source.

31 Evening Post (Wellington), 2 January 1873

32 Appendices to the Journal of the Legislative Council, 1873, No.12. p.40

33 AJHR 1881, I-1A, p.25

34 North Otago Times, 7 March 1873

35 Ibid., 4 April 1873

36 Hawke's Bay Herald, 1 January 1873

37 IM 5/4/3

38 Ibid

39 AJHR 1873, D-2D, p.30

40 AJHR 1873, D-2A, pp.16–17

41 AJHR 1873, 1–5, p.8

42 AJHR 1873, D-2A, p.16

43 LUC, 12 July 1873, p.2

44 AJHR 1872, D-1B, p.12

45 AJHR 1873, D-2D, p.30