OLD COACHING DAYS IN OTAGO AND SOUTHLAND
BY E M LOVELL-SMITH
INDEX
BOOK REVIEW
Old Coaching Days in Otago and Southland by E M Lovell-Smith
Published by Lovell-Smith and Venner Ltd, Christchurch 1931
Facsimile copy by Colonial CD Books https://www.colonialcdbooks.com/
A genealogist’s dream if you are interested in coaching, coaches, coach drivers, coach journey’s, coach fares, coach accidents, coaching inn’s in fact anything coaching in the Otago and Southland area. Many of the coaches and drivers came to New Zealand from the Victorian goldfields. A lot of the coach drivers were American as were the coaches.
The author, Edgar MacLeod Lovell-Smith has written a delightful book and includes such gems as ‘Driving on the road in the winter (Andrew) Chapman would arrive sometimes with his beard a mass of ice. It would have to be thawed out with hot water’ (p120) and ‘The coach (driven by Robert (Bob) Galloway) (was) going over a pot-hole in the road, (when) a stoutish woman on the box seat was bounced off the coach, landing on her head in a mud-hole. There she was stuck, and the passengers, going to her assistance, found her unconscious. "Give her head a waggle and see if the neck is broken", said one man. However she was merely stunned, and after a drop of brandy has been given her quickly recovered’ (p127). Photos and sketches abound throughout the book.
Early drivers mentioned are:
| ALLAN | J |
| ALLEN | Richard |
| ANDERSON | William Musgrave (Capt.) |
| ANDERSON | Robert |
| AYLING | Robert |
| BAINBRIDGE | Joseph (Joe) |
| BARNES | John |
| BARRY | Jackson (Captain) |
| BARRY | William |
| BARTON | Edmund |
| BASTINGS | Horace |
| BEAUFORT | Thomas Ralph Casley |
| BIRMINGHAM | William |
| BOX | Samuel |
| BOYLE | William |
| BRADLEY | John (Hoppy, Lame) |
| BRADLEY | Thomas |
| BRAYTON | William H |
| BRAYTON | E J (Ned) |
| BRITTON | J F |
| BROSNAHAN | James |
| BUTLER | William |
| CAMERON | Hugh |
| CAMPBELL | Duncan |
| CAPSTICK | Richard Westell |
| CAREY | David |
| CARMICHAEL | James (Jimmy) |
| CARTER | William Kennedy (Long Carter) |
| CASH | Dan |
| CHAPLIN | John Thomas |
| CHAPMAN | Frederick (Sir) |
| CHAPMAN | J W |
| CHAPMAN | Andrew |
| CLAPP | F B |
| CLAPP | Louis Frederick |
| COBB | Freeman |
| COLE | Charles Carlos |
| COLE | Leander Goss |
| COLE | Charles (Charlie) |
| COLLINGS | F A |
| COOK | John (Jack) |
| CORKILL | T |
| COULING | |
| COX | J |
| CRAIG | Hugh |
| CRAIG | Robert (Black Bob) |
| CRAIG | Robert (Red Bob) |
| CRAWFORD | W |
| CRAWFORD | James Coutts |
| CRAWLEY | William |
| CROSBIE | Joseph Nelson |
| CROSBIE | Joseph Michael |
| CROSBIE | Frank |
| DANIELLS | R W |
| DAVIES | Thomas |
| DENHAM | Frederick Charles |
| DEVINE | Edward (Ned) (Cabbage Tree Ned) |
| DONALDSON | William |
| DORE | John Benjamin Charles |
| DUFF | William |
| DUNCAN | James Alfred |
| DUNGEY | James |
| DUNNE | John |
| EICHARDT | Albert |
| EMMERTON | Edward (Ned) |
| ERSKINE | R |
| FINLAY | W |
| FISH | J W |
| FLINT | William |
| FOLEY | E T |
| FOOTE | Frank |
| FRASER | G |
| FREELAND | - |
| GALLOP | G H |
| GALLOWAY | Robert |
| GARVEY | J F |
| GILMORE | Thomas |
| GLASSCOCK | George |
| GOODARD | William |
| GOODGER | George Wellington |
| GORMAN | Timothy |
| GREEN | F |
| HAIGH | Israel (Ike) |
| HAMILTON | John |
| HAMILTON | J C |
| HARPER | Mere |
| HEATH | John |
| HENDERSON | William |
| HENRY | James Young |
| HEWITT | Cyrus |
| HOOD | Rob |
| HORR | James Courtland |
| HORR | John |
| HORSWELL | Edmund |
| HOYT | Charles James |
| HOYT | Henry |
| HOYT | George |
| HUNT | George |
| HURLEY | J |
| INDER | Albert |
| JACOBS | |
| JEFFERIES | G |
| JOHNSTON | Charles |
| JONES | Shadrach (Dr) |
| JOPP | John Lumsden |
| KENNEDY | Alexander (Alick) |
| KERR | John |
| KIDD | Robert |
| KILGOUR | Joseph |
| KINGMAN | C B |
| KNOX | John |
| LAMBER | John B |
| LAMPERT | Thomas |
| LANGLEY | George W |
| LEARY | Herbert |
| LLOYD | William |
| LOGAN | Thomas |
| LUDLAM | J W |
| LUKS | B L |
| LYNCH | J |
| LYONS | P |
| MAITLAND | William |
| MALLOCH | Donald |
| MANSFIELD | Frank P |
| MATHESON | D |
| MATHIESON | A |
| McBRIDE | John |
| McCORMICK | John |
| McDONALD | Adam |
| McDOUGALL | - |
| McINTOSH | James |
| McINTOSH | Kenny |
| McINTYRE | Alexander |
| McKEGG | - |
| McKENZIE | Robert |
| McKENZIE | John (Black Jock) |
| McKINNON | John |
| McLAUGHLIN | John |
| McLEAN | Donald |
| McLEOD | Robert |
| McNEIL | J |
| McPHERSON | Donald |
| McSWAN | Alexander |
| MEARS | William |
| MILES | James (Jimmy) |
| MILLAR | John |
| MILLS | Joseph (Joe) |
| MITCHELL | William Robert |
| MITCHELL | W R |
| MOLLISON | A |
| MOWTON | George |
| MUIRHEAD | A |
| NETTLEFORD | Henry Alfred |
| NIEPER | Charles |
| O'KANE | James |
| O'MEARA | - |
| ORD | Archie |
| OWENS | R D |
| PARSONS | Thomas |
| PECK | John Murray |
| PETERS | A |
| PETERS | P M |
| PINKERTON | F |
| PITMAN | William |
| POPE | Thomas (Tommy) |
| POTTS | Matthew |
| POWELL | Denis |
| QUICK | Frank |
| QUICK | George |
| ROACH | John |
| ROBERTSON | Jno |
| ROBERTSON | A W |
| ROBERTSON | J |
| ROBINSON | Duncan |
| ROBINSON | Donald |
| ROCHE | James |
| ROGERS | Frank J |
| RUGG | James |
| RUTHERFORD | Frank |
| SAYERS | G T |
| SAYERS | Thomas |
| SCOLES | William |
| SHEPARD | William Henry (Shep) |
| SHIEL | - |
| SHORT | Alfred |
| SMITH | T M (Yankee Smith) |
| SMITHAM | William |
| SMYTH | A Jerusulam (Jerry) |
| SOUTHALL | J |
| STEADMAN | Henry |
| STIRLING | Andrew |
| SUTHERLAND | James Munro |
| SUTHERLAND | Robert |
| SWANTON | James |
| TAGGART | W H |
| TAMBLYN | Alfred Henry |
| THOMSON | Murray |
| TOBIN | Henry |
| WAGNER | Jacob Shepherd |
| WAIN | Frederick |
| WAIN | Job |
| WALKER | Alexander |
| WALLS | Frank |
| WARREN | William (Billy) |
| WATSON | George |
| WELCH | William |
| WHITTY | Thomas |
| WILKINSON | Harry |
| WILLIAMS | Robert Benjamin |
| WOODS | William |
| WOTTON | Robert Bernard |
| WRENN | Thomas |
| YEEND | Harry |
| YOUNG | Andrew |
| YOUNG | Thomas |
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