Bøger af Lindsay Watson

William PATTERSON and Catherine LOWE married in Dunfermline in Fifeshire, Scotland then immigrated to Victoria Australia in 1852. There they ran a general merchant business in Essendon north of Melbourne and had two sons and a daughter. Attracted by the discovery of gold in Otago, New Zealand, they immigrated to Gabriel's Gully in 1862. They next moved to Wallacetown near Invercargill where William set up business selling chaff to wagoners. About 1875 they bought 200 acres of unimproved land at nearby Ryal Bush on which they had a six-roomed house built. The farm they developed produced oats and wheat and ran horses and sheep. Both sons successfully entered ploughing matches, Robert gaining the title of Southland Champion Ploughman in 1891. Being an accomplished horseman, Robert was also an enthusiastic member of the Southland Hussars and won the Birchwood Steeple Chase in 1884. Younger son, David, farmed at Isla Bank, while daughter Catherine married William ANDREWS and farmed at Heddon Bush. Catherine died in 1894 and William in 1897. The three PATTERSON children produced 17 grandchildren, three of whom died in childhood. Three grandsons served in World War 1.

John William WATSON, tailor, and Ellen Elizabeth PEARCH married in Stockton-On-Tees, England in 1875. They lived with John's mother in Middlesbrough where their first son was born in 1879. That year John left his family and immigrated to New Zealand where he established himself as a tailor in Invercargill. In 1881, John's mother, his wife Ellen and his two-year-old son joined him. John operated his business from the family home, which for two decades was close to the Invercargill jetty so he could sail his yachts. From 1882 until 1889 John and Ellen had a daughter and four more sons, one of whom died in infancy. John managed to support his family by his tailoring business during the poor economic conditions of the Long Depression. As the economy improved John opened a tailoring shop in the town centre that employed about nine workers. However, a disastrous fire in 1903 nearly ruined the enterprise. Consequently John underpaid his employees but was discovered and charged under the Factories Act 1891. In the face of competition from mass-produced garments he kept the business afloat until he retired about 1920. John died in 1923 and Ellen in 1950. One of their sons served in World War 1, was wounded, married in England and never returned. John and Ellen's three remaining sons married and produced 20 grandchildren who survived to adulthood. Five grandsons served in World War 2.

A fundamental study of curses from a literary point of view. First the author differentiates the various types of curses found in ancient poetry; this is followed by a chronological examination of the curses, from archaic and classical Greece to Hellenistic and Roman times.