Re Olwen's reply mentioning Winton, it is not in Otago, it is in Southland. I know because I lived ten minutes from there when I was a child. It is in Central Southland, about 15-20 minutes from Invercargill. Cheers, Carolyn Deverson.

Depends on your point of view, then versus now. Southland province didn't exist in the early days. I don't know the period when John & co went south having arrived at Lyttelton on 31 Mar 1851, but Southland was first proclaimed a province in 1861 then rejoined Otago in 1870. So if the BECKs went to Otago in the 1850s then it is correct to say that they went to Winton in Otago. I've got an ancestor who left County Down for New Zealand and was in NZ by at least 1871. Some people put him down in their records as being born in Northern Ireland but I always put him as being born in Ireland...because he was. Northern Ireland didn't even exist in the 1800s. Peter -----Original Message----- From: Malcolm and Carolyn Deverson Sent: Thursday, February 9, 2017 8:11 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [nz] Winton Re Olwen's reply mentioning Winton, it is not in Otago, it is in Southland. I know because I lived ten minutes from there when I was a child. It is in Central Southland, about 15-20 minutes from Invercargill. Cheers, Carolyn Deverson. The List Guidelines http://new-zealand-l.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message