The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]
Henderson, David Melville
Henderson, David Melville , Farmer, Mokotua. Mr Henderson was born, in 1847 St. Andrews, Fifeshire, Scotland, where he was educated. He came to Port Chalmers by the ship “Silistria,” in 1868, and for many years worked as a farm labourer in the Dunedin district. Mr Henderson engaged in sawmill work and contracting in Southland for a short time, and about the year 1881 took up his present farm of 233 acres, most of which he has now brought under cultivation. Mr Henderson was married, in 1890, to a daughter of Mr James Henderson, of Oamaru, and has four sons and three daughters.
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Mr. And Mrs D. M. Henderson And Child.