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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]
Brown, George Simpson
Brown, George Simpson , Farmer, Wallacetown. Mr Brown was born in 1839, in Aberdeen, Scotland, and was brought up to farming. He arrived in Melbourne in 1854, and for some years was engaged as a shepherd and bullock-driver in Australia. Mr Brown came to New Zealand in 1862, and worked for a time as a miner on the Gabriel's Gully and Dunstan goldfields. In 1863, he made his home at Wallacetown, and, later on, he went to the Picton “rush.” Mr Brown took up his first land at Wallacetown in 1865, and now has a farm of 160 acres of freehold. He served for many years as a member of the Wallacetown school committee. Mr Brown page 914 was married, on the 15th of May, 1868, to a daughter of the late Mr James Honeyman, of Milton, and has six daughters, five sons, and nine grandchildren.