An historically based story of Scottish
emigration to Otago, spanning five generations.
This dramatised and historically correct
history follows the Crawford family from the defeat
of "Bonnie Prince Charlie" at the battle of
Culloden in 1746, through the Highland Clearances, the
famines and the great disruption in the Scottish Church,
to their emigration to Otago on the Philip Laing in
1848.
It is a history of the courage and
determination displayed by the Scottish forbears of
all the early settler families who left their country
to give us ours.
An appendix records the names and ages of the passengers
who immigrated on all twenty ships of The New Zealand
Company, as recently compiled by John MacGibbon.
Donald Offwood is a direct descendant
of the first settlers in Otago, was born in
Invercargill and lived for some years in Dunedin. This
story developed from research into his own family
history and is in its third print.
Donald is a retired Air New Zealand
International captain with an interest in writing and
painting.
