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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]
Mr. Archibald Nelson
Mr. Archibald Nelson was born near Dunbar, Haddingtonshire, Scotland page 999 where his father, Mr. James Nelson, was a farm steward. He was educated at the parish school, and afterwards emigrated to Port Chalmers by the ship “Timaru.” Mr. Nelson obtained employment as a shepherd with Captain W. J. Raymond, of Avondale, Southland, and remained with him for five years. He was afterwards employed on the Ermdale Estate, and on the British and New Zealand Mortgage Company's “Gladfield” property. When the latter estate was cut up eleven years later, Mr. Nelson acquired 172 acres of that property, and became a wellknown stock-dealer throughout the Southland district. Mr. Nelson was married, in 1884, to a daughter of Mr John Robertson, of St. Kilda, Victoria.