1 Henry Nash Smith, Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth, Cambridge, Mass., 1950, p.135

2 Lyttelton Times, 16 December 1879, p.6

3 Weekly Herald (Wanganui), 20 December 1879, p.9

4 Lyttelton Times, 30 December 1879, p.6.

5 See e.g. Ibid., 7 April & 5 May 1880; N.Z. Mail, 22 May 1880, p.12.

6 Lyttelton Times, 20 February 1858, cited Gardiner, History of Canterbury, II, pp.191–94

7 Labourer (Boston), 1 July 1876, p.1

8 L. G. D. Acland, The Early Canterbury Runs, rev. ed., Christchurch, 1946, p.122

9 Canterbury Times, 17 November 1877, p.16, cited W. H. Scotter, A History of Canterbury, III, Christchurch, 1965, p.27

10 Lyttelton Times, 14 October 1879

11 Johannes Andersen, Jubilee History of South Canterbury, Christchurch, 1916, p.376; Taranaki News, 26 January 1875

12 Labourer (Boston), 29 May 1875, p.2

13 Ibid., 31 July 1875, p.6;CNZ, III, p.729

14 Labourer (Boston), 14 April 1877 (letter from West, dated 20 June 1876).

15 Tomlinson, Diary, p.14; Labourer (Boston), 12 June, 24 July & 20 November 1875; N.Z. Methodist Times, 9 March 1929, p.16

16 CNZ, III, p.452;RFNZ, p.H52

17 CNZ, III, p.522; RFNZ, p.W41; ‘Crusader’ Association, The Clipper Ship Crusader, Christchurch, 1928, p.124; D. N. Hawkins, Rangiora Borough School: 1873–1973, (Rangiora, 1973), p.35

18 Clipper Ship Crusader, pp.97–98, 126–29; Lilley Family: 100 years in New Zealand (pamphlet) 1974; RFNZ, p.L26; Letter, 3 March 1975, from Trevor George Lilley, Ashburton (a grandson of James and Selina Lilley).

19 LUC, 24 July 1875, p.3

20 Letter, 8 July 1874, from Mrs Cecil Addington, Addingtons Rd, Darfield R.D., for information on George Addington's career. Mrs Addington's husband is a grandson of George.

21 Acland, Early Canterbury Runs, pp.52–54; G. H. Scholefield, A Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, 2 vols., Wellington, 1940, I, p.209

22 Gardiner, History of Canterbury, II, pp.187, 308

23 RFNZ, p.T25; CNZ, III, p.585; Labourer (Boston), 1 May 1875, p. 4

24 Clipper Ship Crusader, pp.123–26; CNZ, III, p.868

25 Acland, Early Canterbury Runs, pp.175–76; Andersen, South Canterbury, pp.125, 347–48.

26 CNZ, III, p.1037–38

27 English Labourer, 20 November 1875, p.5

28 RFNZ, p.T26

29 P. G. Stevens, John Grigg of Longbeach, Christchurch, 1952

30 Ashburton Guardian, 22 February 1889, cited W. H. Scotter, Ashburton, Ashburton, 1972, p.84

31 CNZ, IV, p.760

32 CNZ, III, p.1091

33 Press (Christchurch), 21 August 1871, p.3; Lyttelton Times, 2 August 1873; both cited Scotter, Ashburton, p.60

34 Scotter, Ashburton, pp.61–62, 70

35 LUC, 26 August 1875, p.3

36 See Berry's letter below. Jeff's critical letter has not been discovered in the incomplete extant files of LUC.

37 LUC, 26 June 1875, p.3

38 Ibid

39 English Labourer, 11 September 1875

40 Scotter, Ashburton, p.383

41 RFNZ, p.L18, gives its 1882 value as £235

42 English Labourer, 20 November 1875, p.5

43 Ibid

44 As New Zealand has no established church, such terms as ‘nonconformist’ and ‘dissenter’ are misnomers. However, they are still useful in relating New Zealand denominations to their British origins.

45 Scotter, Ashburton, p.149

46 N.Z. Wesleyan, 1 August 1877, pp.179, 185

47 Ibid, 1 April 1880, p.102

48 AJHR 1879 Session II, D-4, p.3; Gordon Ogilvie, Moonshine Country: The Story of Waitohi, South Canterbury, Christchurch, 1971, p.67

49 CNZ, III, p.919

50 Ibid., p.893

51 Ibid., p.907

52 LUC, 19 December 1874, p.3.

53 RFNZ, p.B66; Timaru Herald, 27 March 1918, p.11

54 English Labourer, 9 October 1875

55 Ibid., 20 May 1876, p.15

56 Kent & Sussex Times, 19 November 1875, p.6

57 CNZ, VI, p.415

58 Ruth Wilkinson, “First Families of Cambridge” 1864–1899 …, Cambridge, 1972, p.60; N.Z. Wesleyan, 1 April 1880, p.89, 1 August 1882, p.186

59 Wilkinson, “First Families of Cambridge”, pp.86–87

60 Labourer (Boston), 24 July 1875, p.7

61 Waikato Times, 25 December 1879

62 Immigrant ship passenger lists collated with information from Mr W. H. Hicks, Cambridge (letter, April 1974)

63 English Labourer, 14 August 1875, p.9

64 Wilkinson, “First Families of Cambridge”, pp.55–56

65 Horn, ed., Minute Book, Oxford District, p.41; LUC, 24 April 1875, p.7; IM 3/1/2 (75/14/55); CNZ, II, pp.767–68

66 Wilkinson, “First Families of Cambridge”, pp.59–60, 91; RFNZ, p.K4; CNZ, II, p.779

67 Wilkinson, “First Families of Cambridge”, p.76

68 Ibid., p.52; RFNZ, p.C74; CNZ, II, 4