Biographies: Couples
Emmeline
and Thomas Galloway
Horace
Grocott (1880-1963) and Ada Grocott (1881-1958)
Thomas
Sidey (1863 - 1933) and Helena Sidey (c1865
-1966)
Biographies: Men
'Old
Vic' Cavanagh (1874 - 1952) and 'Young Vic'
Cavanagh (1909 - 1980): Caversham's
'Professors of Rugby.
Chun
Ding (1876 - 1963): Chinese
pioneer and market gardener
Father
James Coffey (1866-1923): Notable
South Dunedin Catholic Priest
Dr
Millen Coughtrey (1848 - 1908):
Anatomy Professor and St Clairs medical
practioneer
Andrew
Davidson (1894 - 1982): Educational
innovator and first principal of Macandrew
Intermediate School
Daniel
Dutton (1848-1931): Caversham
Presbyterian Minister and Boer War Chaplain
Samuel
Jewel Elston (c1855-1929):
Bringing union power to the men of the metal
trades
William
Ings (1836-1926): St. Clair's
market garden pioneer.
Patrick
John Jager: Chronic systematised
delusionalinsanity
Samuel
Lister (c1833-1913): Southern
Dunedin's most outspoken atheist
George
Methven (1938-1928): The South
Dunedin plumbing manufacturer who made his
own motor car
William
Milne (1865 - 1906): 'Boss'
of Caversham School
David
Proudfoot (c1838-1891): The
man who built Dunedin's first railway line
and tram lines
John Sidey
(1823-1915): The canny Scotsman
of Corstorphine
Robert
Slater (1850-1931): Creating
a workers' paradise on the 'Flat'
Edmund
'Shiner' Slattery (c1839-1927):
A life on the road
Dave
Trevathan (1912 - 1986): Southern
All Black hero
Robert
Turner: Failing the Breadwinner
ideal
William
Henry Valpy (1793-1852): In
his day the richest man in New Zealand
Biographies: Women
Caroline
Freeman (c1853-1914): Pioneer
woman educationalist
(Charlotte)
Rachel Grimmett (1835-1921):
an evangelical Protestant matriarch
Sarah
Hananeia (c1845-1927): pioneer
Lebanese travelling merchandiser (hawker)
Mother
Mary Kostka (lay name Kate Kirby)(1863-1952):
Roman Catholic Mother Superior, meeting
prejudice with mercy
Lucy Mee
(1851-1925): Matron of the
Otago Benevolent Institute
Kate
Crandell (c1885-1943): (not
her real name) an abortionist on the South
Road
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