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

Mr. William Gregory

Mr. William Gregory , sometime of “Rosebank,” Fortrose, was born at sea in 1843, and was brought up in Tasmania, where he was educated by his mother, who was a teacher. In 1863 he arrived in Invercargill, and became a shepherd at Morton Mains. He settled in the Fortrose district, in 1872, and acquired 200 acres of land on the deferred payment system; and the property is now known as “Rosebank. Mr Gregory was a member of the Fortrose cemetery committee, and was also chairman of the school committee. He was married, in 1865, to a daughter of the late Mr Archibald Wilson Lauder, an old settler, who brought a saw-milling plant out to New Zealand. Mr Gregory was killed in a trap accident in 1888, and left a family of eight sons and eight daughters, of whom one son and one daughter have since died. Mrs Gregory, who, since her husband's death, has farmed the land with the assistance of her family, has twenty-four grandchildren.

The Late Mr. W. Gregory, And Mrs W. Gregory.

The Late Mr. W. Gregory, And Mrs W. Gregory.

Gerstenkorn, photo.Mrs W. Gregory.

Gerstenkorn, photo.
Mrs W. Gregory.

Waipapa Lighthouse.

Waipapa Lighthouse.