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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]
Mr. William Russell
Mr. William Russell , Town Clerk of Winton, was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1840, and came with his parents, by the ship “Lady Nugent,” to Port Chalmers, in 1850. Mr Russell lived at North East Valley, Dunedin, until 1862, when he settled at Ryal Bush, Southland, and commenced farming with his father and brothers. Ten years later, he was appointed clerk of the Makarewa Road Board, and held that office until the page 984 9th of December, 1881, when the board was merged into the Southland County Council. Mr Russell has been census enumerator for the counties of Southland, Wallace, and Stewart Island since 1886.