https://booksbywomen.org/settling-earth-emigration-new-zealand-nineteenth-century-rebecca-burns/ Thu, 01 Jan 2015 19:44:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 https://booksbywomen.org/settling-earth-emigration-new-zealand-nineteenth-century-rebecca-burns/#comment-38587 Thu, 01 Jan 2015 19:44:21 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=12656#comment-38587 Hi Jessica – thanks for the message and great to hear you’re going to read “The Settling Earth”. Your family history sounds fascinating – lots of Scots emigrated to NZ in the nineteenth century and, like many settlers, their stories are very interesting. Hope you enjoy the book and thanks for getting in touch!

]]> https://booksbywomen.org/settling-earth-emigration-new-zealand-nineteenth-century-rebecca-burns/#comment-38570 Thu, 01 Jan 2015 15:28:07 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=12656#comment-38570 I’ve ordered your book Rebecca, and I’m looking forward to reading it. My great-grandparents emigrated to New Zealand from Scotland in the 1880s. I have my great grandfather’s letters and initially they were full of hope. He was a successful barrister but was admitted to a public lunatic asylum near Wellington because of his increasingly odd behaviour.

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