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Carse Head and Crichton Park Farms
Margaret Pullar
其他書名
A Story of the Land and Its People
出版Writes Hill Press, 2013
主題Reference / Genealogy & Heraldry
ISBN09922603109780992260316
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=h74AngEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Over 150 years ago Frederick Trapski arrived in New Zealand from Poland. In 1864 he married Alicia McKenna from County Cork, and they lived in a settlement for Polish workers near Mosgiel. Their son purchased Carse Head in 1896, which has been farmed by five generations of the Trapski-Pullar-McIntosh descendants. In 2006 this superb Southland property, Carse Head and Crichton Park farms, was a recipient of The New Zealand Century Farm and Station Award. Established in Lawrence, South Otago in 2005, the award recognises farming families who have remained resilient working and improving their land for over a hundred years. It was James Gow Black, from Scotland, the first professor of chemistry and mineralogy at Otago University, who in 1867 bought and named the Crichton Park Downs after his wife Jeannie Crichton. The book provides a fascinating account of this farming knowledge and appreciation of the land. Documentation on Carse Head and Crichton Park farms, assembled by Margaret Pullar for the Award submission, has now been extensively expanded with additional historical material including details of the gifting of land to the Presbyterian Church for Camp Columba; and comprehensive family trees of the Trapski and Pullar descendants. The narrative provides a riveting insight into the world of Otago and Southland farming families: travails, tragic deaths, failures, successes, and one of New Zealand's unsolved murder mysteries. Numerous photographs show farming activities, early farm dwellings, machinery and baking of family recipes handed down from Elizabeth Trapski. Portraits of weddings and other festivities in effect record a history of costume in New Zealand.