Reference
CRT154/6
Title
Notes on families who emigrated from Bedfordshire to New Zealand
Date free text
1870s
Production date
From: 1870 To: 1880
old accession number 4484
Scope and Content
Thomas Lineham & family together with his brothers Alfred & Harry and their families of Lidlington and Richard Allen & family of Ridgmont - emigrated 1874 after being recruited by Joseph Arch's National Agricultural Labourers Union probably by Andrew Duncan who held a meeting in Lidlington in April 1874. Charles Welch & family from Lidlington and Joseph Fuller & family from Cardington.
Includes a letter printed in The English Labourer 13 November 1874 from Thomas Lineham to his parents in England giving an account of their relatively prosperous life in Karamea Settlement, New Zealand.
Level of description
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