Macdonald Dictionary Record: George Bird

Maker
George Ranald Macdonald
Production date
1952-1964
 Description
One record, handwritten in ink on rectangular card, with biographical information for George Bird. 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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Other id
B443
138/64
604
B443
Catalogue number
B443
Marks and Inscriptions
Marks/Inscriptions: B. 443 Bird, george (1836 -99) was gazetted station in an age of the Telegraph Dept. Lylt. Mar. 64. He became Provincial Telegraph managua and was largely responsible for getting the line over to the West Coast. It was finished Early in '6 at a cost of £7500. He became Inspector of Telegrap hs and made some rough journeys to the West Coast. He left the Got. service about '76 and became licensee of the Criterion Hotel in Glos. St. He then took up journalism and was on the staff of the Press for over twenty years. . He was the Mag. Com t reporter. marr. Annie Doherty, at R.C. Church , Ch. Ch. 10.11.64 He d. at South Town Belt 19.8.99 ag. 63. youngest dau Lille Kale marr. at Wg ti 2.7.02 Ernest Mark 3' son Marcus Sandstein son. Alfred Louis b. ChCh '70 marr. 22.3.94 Alice Emily Cor, 22 dau of Orlando Cox + Mary Ann ing Rev. Sydney James Bale. Cong. M.R. LT. 6.2.66 : 21.8 .99 : 17.7.02 : R.C. Cath. M.R.; Type of mark: Machine translation/Transcription; Notes: Machine translation by Mark Fryer

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