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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]

Scott, Joseph

Scott, Joseph , Farmer, “Castlefinn,” Otiake. Mr. Scott was born in the village of Castlefinn. County Donegal, Ireland, in 1844, and went to sea when fourteen years old. Altogether he spent nearly twenty years at sea, and became captain of a cutter on the New Zealand coast in 1872. He was master of the cutter “Margaret Culley,” and afterwards of the “Hope,” of which he was owner, trading on the coast of Otago, before leaving the sea in July, 1876. Mr. Scott was in business in South Dunedin as a storekeeper for four years, and in 1880 bought 192 acres of freehold land, which he has now increased to 720 acres. The property runs about 500 sheep, and 200 acres are put annually under crop. Mr. Scott has served as a member of the Otiake school committee, and for a time was a member of the Otekaike Licensing Bench. He was initiated as a Freemason in Lodge Glasgow, St. Clair, of which he is a Past Master, Mr. Scott was married, in 1867, to a daughter of Mr. Walter Ross, of Glasgow, Mrs Scott, who was born in Kilmarnock, Scotland, arrived in Otago by the ship “Agnes Muir” on the 24th of July, 1869. Before leaving the Old Country Mr. Scott served five years in the Royal Naval Reserve, and re-reived two stripes and twopence per day extra for accurate firing in the big gun exercise. His grandfather, William Scott, was the first to start cloth-weaving, and giving out shirts to be made, in Londonderry, Castlefinn, and other places in the North of Ireland.

J. C. Milligan, photo. Trucking “Prime Canterbury” at Ngapara.

J. C. Milligan, photo.
Trucking “Prime Canterbury” at Ngapara.

Mahan and Muir, photo. Mr. and Mrs J. Scott.

Mahan and Muir, photo.
Mr. and Mrs J. Scott.