FIFTY YEARS AGO.
Sir, —Slay I add a few more to th« "Lost Legion" of the Jessie Readman landing here September 26, 1879. My father and mother came from Belfast with their family of eight. My mother is still here, and remembers Captain Gibson well, and not very far from her are seven of those children, five being in New ■ Zealand, and two in .Australia, Samuel Barry.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20385, 14 October 1929, Page 14
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