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

Wilson, Thomas

Wilson, Thomas , Farmer, Yankee Flat, Moutere. Mr. Wilson was born in July, 1838, in Dumfriesshire, Scotland. He was brought up on a farm, and became a shepherd. In September, 1860, he arrived in Port Chalmers, by the ship “Robert Henderson,” and, after undergoing quarantine for thirteen days, he went to the Dunstan district, where he was engaged as a shepherd for about ten years. He took up 200 acres of leasehold land at Yankee Flat in 1870. This property was afterwards converted into freehold, and was increased to its present area of 400 acres, Mr. Wilson was married, in 1868, to a daughter of the late Mr. W. Murray, of Roxburghire, but that lady died on the 23rd of April, 1884, leaving five sons and two daughters; one son has since died. On the 19th of August, 1887, Mr. Wilson married a daughter of the late Mr. D. Parsons, of Wiltshire, England.