OLD COACHING DAYS IN OTAGO AND SOUTHLAND
BY E M LOVELL-SMITH
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BOOK REVIEW
Old Coaching Days in Otago and Southland by E M Lovell-Smith
Published by Lovell-Smith and Venner Ltd, Christchurch 1931
Facsimile copy by Colonial CD Books http://www.colonialcdbooks.com/
A genealogist�s dream if you are interested in coaching, coaches, coach drivers, coach journey�s, coach fares, coach accidents, coaching inn�s in fact anything coaching in the Otago and Southland area. Many of the coaches and drivers came to New Zealand from the Victorian goldfields. A lot of the coach drivers were American as were the coaches.
The author, Edgar MacLeod Lovell-Smith has written a delightful book and includes such gems as �Driving on the road in the winter (Andrew) Chapman would arrive sometimes with his beard a mass of ice. It would have to be thawed out with hot water� (p120) and �The coach (driven by Robert (Bob) Galloway) (was) going over a pot-hole in the road, (when) a stoutish woman on the box seat was bounced off the coach, landing on her head in a mud-hole. There she was stuck, and the passengers, going to her assistance, found her unconscious. "Give her head a waggle and see if the neck is broken", said one man. However she was merely stunned, and after a drop of brandy has been given her quickly recovered� (p127). Photos and sketches abound throughout the book.
Early drivers mentioned are:
ALLAN | J |
ALLEN | Richard |
ANDERSON | William Musgrave (Capt.) |
ANDERSON | Robert |
AYLING | Robert |
BAINBRIDGE | Joseph (Joe) |
BARNES | John |
BARRY | Jackson (Captain) |
BARRY | William |
BARTON | Edmund |
BASTINGS | Horace |
BEAUFORT | Thomas Ralph Casley |
BIRMINGHAM | William |
BOX | Samuel |
BOYLE | William |
BRADLEY | John (Hoppy, Lame) |
BRADLEY | Thomas |
BRAYTON | William H |
BRAYTON | E J (Ned) |
BRITTON | J F |
BROSNAHAN | James |
BUTLER | William |
CAMERON | Hugh |
CAMPBELL | Duncan |
CAPSTICK | Richard Westell |
CAREY | David |
CARMICHAEL | James (Jimmy) |
CARTER | William Kennedy (Long Carter) |
CASH | Dan |
CHAPLIN | John Thomas |
CHAPMAN | Frederick (Sir) |
CHAPMAN | J W |
CHAPMAN | Andrew |
CLAPP | F B |
CLAPP | Louis Frederick |
COBB | Freeman |
COLE | Charles Carlos |
COLE | Leander Goss |
COLE | Charles (Charlie) |
COLLINGS | F A |
COOK | John (Jack) |
CORKILL | T |
COULING | |
COX | J |
CRAIG | Hugh |
CRAIG | Robert (Black Bob) |
CRAIG | Robert (Red Bob) |
CRAWFORD | W |
CRAWFORD | James Coutts |
CRAWLEY | William |
CROSBIE | Joseph Nelson |
CROSBIE | Joseph Michael |
CROSBIE | Frank |
DANIELLS | R W |
DAVIES | Thomas |
DENHAM | Frederick Charles |
DEVINE | Edward (Ned) (Cabbage Tree Ned) |
DONALDSON | William |
DORE | John Benjamin Charles |
DUFF | William |
DUNCAN | James Alfred |
DUNGEY | James |
DUNNE | John |
EICHARDT | Albert |
EMMERTON | Edward (Ned) |
ERSKINE | R |
FINLAY | W |
FISH | J W |
FLINT | William |
FOLEY | E T |
FOOTE | Frank |
FRASER | G |
FREELAND | - |
GALLOP | G H |
GALLOWAY | Robert |
GARVEY | J F |
GILMORE | Thomas |
GLASSCOCK | George |
GOODARD | William |
GOODGER | George Wellington |
GORMAN | Timothy |
GREEN | F |
HAIGH | Israel (Ike) |
HAMILTON | John |
HAMILTON | J C |
HARPER | Mere |
HEATH | John |
HENDERSON | William |
HENRY | James Young |
HEWITT | Cyrus |
HOOD | Rob |
HORR | James Courtland |
HORR | John |
HORSWELL | Edmund |
HOYT | Charles James |
HOYT | Henry |
HOYT | George |
HUNT | George |
HURLEY | J |
INDER | Albert |
JACOBS | |
JEFFERIES | G |
JOHNSTON | Charles |
JONES | Shadrach (Dr) |
JOPP | John Lumsden |
KENNEDY | Alexander (Alick) |
KERR | John |
KIDD | Robert |
KILGOUR | Joseph |
KINGMAN | C B |
KNOX | John |
LAMBER | John B |
LAMPERT | Thomas |
LANGLEY | George W |
LEARY | Herbert |
LLOYD | William |
LOGAN | Thomas |
LUDLAM | J W |
LUKS | B L |
LYNCH | J |
LYONS | P |
MAITLAND | William |
MALLOCH | Donald |
MANSFIELD | Frank P |
MATHESON | D |
MATHIESON | A |
McBRIDE | John |
McCORMICK | John |
McDONALD | Adam |
McDOUGALL | - |
McINTOSH | James |
McINTOSH | Kenny |
McINTYRE | Alexander |
McKEGG | - |
McKENZIE | Robert |
McKENZIE | John (Black Jock) |
McKINNON | John |
McLAUGHLIN | John |
McLEAN | Donald |
McLEOD | Robert |
McNEIL | J |
McPHERSON | Donald |
McSWAN | Alexander |
MEARS | William |
MILES | James (Jimmy) |
MILLAR | John |
MILLS | Joseph (Joe) |
MITCHELL | William Robert |
MITCHELL | W R |
MOLLISON | A |
MOWTON | George |
MUIRHEAD | A |
NETTLEFORD | Henry Alfred |
NIEPER | Charles |
O'KANE | James |
O'MEARA | - |
ORD | Archie |
OWENS | R D |
PARSONS | Thomas |
PECK | John Murray |
PETERS | A |
PETERS | P M |
PINKERTON | F |
PITMAN | William |
POPE | Thomas (Tommy) |
POTTS | Matthew |
POWELL | Denis |
QUICK | Frank |
QUICK | George |
ROACH | John |
ROBERTSON | Jno |
ROBERTSON | A W |
ROBERTSON | J |
ROBINSON | Duncan |
ROBINSON | Donald |
ROCHE | James |
ROGERS | Frank J |
RUGG | James |
RUTHERFORD | Frank |
SAYERS | G T |
SAYERS | Thomas |
SCOLES | William |
SHEPARD | William Henry (Shep) |
SHIEL | - |
SHORT | Alfred |
SMITH | T M (Yankee Smith) |
SMITHAM | William |
SMYTH | A Jerusulam (Jerry) |
SOUTHALL | J |
STEADMAN | Henry |
STIRLING | Andrew |
SUTHERLAND | James Munro |
SUTHERLAND | Robert |
SWANTON | James |
TAGGART | W H |
TAMBLYN | Alfred Henry |
THOMSON | Murray |
TOBIN | Henry |
WAGNER | Jacob Shepherd |
WAIN | Frederick |
WAIN | Job |
WALKER | Alexander |
WALLS | Frank |
WARREN | William (Billy) |
WATSON | George |
WELCH | William |
WHITTY | Thomas |
WILKINSON | Harry |
WILLIAMS | Robert Benjamin |
WOODS | William |
WOTTON | Robert Bernard |
WRENN | Thomas |
YEEND | Harry |
YOUNG | Andrew |
YOUNG | Thomas |
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