Macdonald Dictionary Record: John Amery

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George Ranald Macdonald
Production date
1952-1964
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One record, handwritten in ink on rectangular card, with biographical information for John Amery. Written by George Ranald Macdonald for the Macdonald Dictionary of Canterbury Biography project, 1952-1964.
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Christchurch
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Library
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G R Macdonald Dictionary of Canterbury Biographies
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A146
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A146
Catalogue number
A146
Marks and Inscriptions
Marks/Inscriptions: A. 146. Amery. John. He was said , with what found at in r is nd known, to have beon a ticket of - leave man from Australia ariel to have cona to N1.Z. a 3 a ships purser. He went to the Chat ham Sands with Frederick Hunt in 1866 , apparently to teach the Hunts dren at Pitt Is. Two years later he was teaching the Backe and the emory children at Maunganui on the main Island. ( Benche wass a Germ an unsayable who marred a deaconess ; there were 7 sons) Chas. Edward and James Sey mour had come to the Chat hams with ships, wies their1 mother who had married W . Jacobs , a carpenter who sent to the. Chatham to make preparations for the Han Hans . Sey more. sent. had been drowned in the Mo lyness) Amery then went on to the Hays at Te Raki , which was further west than Chudleigh 's lice, Wharekauri . From there Amery want to Lylt and acted an librarian for10 eard He died in Ch Ch a very old man . He wrote v The Anto biography of Fredricka Hunt 3 C Hunt himself could not read nor write ) art another pooh aboard - the Chat eames . He was an educated cellmate and a lover of Shakespear with whose works he was very familiar . E.C. Richards Chatham Islands.; Type of mark: Machine translation/Transcription; Notes: Machine translation by Mark Fryer

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