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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]

Dunlop, William

Dunlop, William , Farmer, Spud Bush, Pine Bush. Mr Dunlop was born, in 1844, at Fenwick, Ayrshire, Scotland, where he was educated, and brought up to farming. He came out to Queensland, in 1862, and two years later landed at Port Chalmers. After working on the goldfields at Hamilton, Hogburn, and Hindon, Mr Dunlop removed to Southland in 1864, and three years later settled at Pine Bush. In 1874 he bought 111 acres of land, part of his present farm, and afterwards increased his holding to 300 acres. Mr Dunlop has been a member of the Pine Bush school committee from its inception, and was for about four years a member of the Toi Toi Road Board. He was married, in 1874, to a daughter of the late Mr John Anderson, of Hawke's Bay, and has six sons and four daughters surviving. One of his sons was a member of the Seventh Contingent to South Africa, and lost his life at the Bothasberg fight. Mrs Dunlop was born in Dune din in 1847, and is said to have been the second European child in Otago. Her father, who arrived in Port Chalmers by the ship “Bernicia,” was a stationholder in the Wyndham district for many years, and one of the pioneer pastoralists of Otago.