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Accidental Immigrants : They Sailed For India But Settled Innew Zealand
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When Thomas Powell and his family left Leeds, England, and sailed out to India in the early 1850s, they little realised that within a few years they would be living in New Zealand and facing different futures. By then a widower, Thomas would remarry and
become a prominent businessman in Wanganui, his daughter would marry surveyor David Porter and raise a large family. Meanwhile son Wilmot went goldhunting, became a soldier, and then an auctioneer, businessman, newspaper correspondent, poet and borough councillor. The accidental immigrants - along with a growing family of young Powells born in their home town - played major roles in the formation of a New Zealand city.
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Featured in the 21 August 2017 New Zealand / Pasifika Newsletter.
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Pages : 164
Publisher : Chateau Publishing Limited
Publication date : 2017-09-01
Subjects: Non-fiction, Published in New Zealand, New Zealand, Social Sciences, NZ History, NZ Biography & True Stories, Sociology, Migration, Immigration & Emigration