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George Dalrymple Monteith (1807 - 1862) c Wellington. 1859
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Doctor Monteith. Sage Journal *
Arrival 1840
PHOTOGRAPHYI was always grateful that my great great grandad started taking photographs. Someone in the history books has even started counting the chairs present at great grandfather and great grandmother’s wedding breakfast. I speculate that in attendance would have been: George Darlymple ( Lucy's mother already dead), Fred and Lucy( Bride and groom). Lucy’s sisters Maria and George Neil, perhaps, who Maria may have been dating, and brother Jacob(Jack) and probably sister Mary Ann. The photograph of George holds up a look in half profile. George looks to the distance with dignity, though, technically, simply only according to a stillness due to the needs of the photograph form then, for George was a congenial, kind, smiling human being, texts about him report.
* Sage Journal is available on the internet.
1979
Laura and David Robinson. Me and Aunty Pris. Kairakau Beach. Central Hawkes Bay. 1979 Laura Robinson ( 19012 - 1995 ) David Robinson ( 1944 - ) Stephanie Beth ( 1948 - ) Priscilla Feickert ( 1920 - 1996) Family Archivist
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Appendix 1.1 Family

Pohutukawa. Wellington. Sunday Market. Wellington 2025
Sunday Harbour Market. Wellington. December 2025. Photograph by Stephanie Beth.
Every Monteith Daughter in their back yard on Dixon Street. Lizzie, Lucy, Maria, Kathryn, and Anne-Mari e. The 6th person? The maid may have joined them) 1858 Aged Stereograph. By George. D. Monteith. Topic. All of the Monteith girls with a tea party. 1858. MTG *
Sepia tones images are typical of damage that is caused by non-controlled temperature storage of early photographic material. These are dated 1858, first held in a cardboard box in private care, later delivered to the MTG museum.

*A verification original letter to Priscilla Feickert from the Dominion Museum that confirms this stereograph is in a private collection, Wellington and is available.
My first prompt for the website: Essayist. Novelist. George Eliot. 1819 - 1880 Specifically, Author of Middlemarch. 1871-72
Bearing in mind, Einstein ( 1879 - 1955)
Scientist , I pasted a poster up on the wall above the dining table for a couple of months when I started writing notes in 2022. Albert Einstein. ( 1879 - 1955 )
Cousin Caroline Genet and daughter, Charm, look over a scrapbook that belonged to Charm's Great grandmother Priscilla Feickert. ( 1920 - 1996)Photograph by Stephanie Beth. 2022. Caroline's Dutch father arrived to New Zealand on a flight from Holland in 1970. Her mother is Julia. Her grandmother from New Zealand was Priscilla Feickert. (1920 - 1996)
Ida Lysnar( nee Tiffen) (1886 - 1939) Daughter of Lucy nd Fred Tiffen. Wainui Beach. Poverty Bay. c 1896
Seth Tiffen. Elmshill. c 1915. Photograph by Frank Tiffen.
Frederick John Tiffen ( 1846 - 1910) at home. Lyttleton Street. Napier. c 1903
Building one's own bedroom. Young Seth Tiffen with his friend Wallace Atherfeld. Elmshill 1928.
Family. Frank Louis Tiffen ( 1873 - 1938 ) , Priscilla Ruth, Eleanor Beth, Seth John and Irene Tiffen with Frank Monteith. c 1922
Eleanor( 1913 - 1959) Priscilla Feickert ( 1920 - 1996) Seth ( 1908 - 1992)
Farmer. Mr Seth Tiffen and two shepherds, Bob Farrier and Doug Malthess. Elmshill c 1964
Kirkaldies Department store closes in Wellington. January 2016. Photograph by Stephanie Beth.
Tom Robinson. c 1988. Photograph by Stephanie Beth.
MONTEITH DEPARTURE 1839 from Graves ARRIVAL February 8 1840
 George had been in a business partnership with an Apothecary in the West Midlands. George closed up shop and bought a ticket out in 1839. Lucy, fourth Monteith child, was six weeks old when she departed London 1839. The Monteiths arrived at the Petone stream. After leaving being aboard ship, the family loaded into a rowboat and paddled up a small side stream, ( the Waiwhetu )stopping soon in the narrow strip of water and marsh flax bushes.( by what is now a golf course, the Shandon ).For all settlers to be migrants, the real target focus was food, shelter and viable work. DR MONTEITH FIRST Advertisment for BRITANIA
------------------------- Dr . Monteith S UR G E O N Britannia----------------------- He, with family, slept in the temporary ‘camp site’, Britannia, in Petone when he came in for the first two or three months. The family cleared out of Britannia quickly, for season floods happened there. ( There are detailed stories about the Britannia camping city having to evacuate). Noted here: It appeared in all issues of the weekly newspaper New Zealand Gazette & Britannia Spectator during October 1840.City planners noted Spring Tides on the Petone side of the southern shore, after which hasty new plans for a town on the Te Aro side of Nicholson Harbour, (about to be renamed Wellington) took hold. George, at 39 years, bought a section on the Te Aro side of the harbour. He had a house built on Dixon Street where the family remained through both of the parents deaths. Dr Monteith formally announced in the newspaper that he had relocated his surgical practice to the new settlement .This first incentive he put on hold. There was little sign of medical work being required in a new colony to start with, the population dominantly being strong young able men. Therefore, he ran his own bar on Featherston Street for two years, by all accounts, with affability and charm. Dr. Monteith’s first advertisement notified that he had commenced proprietorship of The Freemason’s Hotel. The advertisement appeared in The New Zealand Gazette & Wellington Spectator 8 May 1841. The hotel was located on Lambton Quay, a major waterfront thoroughfare. Advertisements for the hotel during Dr Monteith’s management appear regularly in both the Wellington newspapers until mid-February 1843.6 ---------------------------------------------------------------MEDICINE AND MIGRATION NOTES George D lost his dad to yellow fever, when he was just one. We may ask what traveller from the north coped well in warm latitudes before quinine or penicillin? George’s childhood and education was to live in the Stirling area in England once his widowed mother trooped the seven children back to England. He got to study medicine. He qualified to run an Apothecary with skills taught prior to the Cambridge University system, where learners were with equivalents in England or Glasgow, or in France or Germany. Medical books in England, and later, medical books via the Suez canal, did reach their readers. ( We do not underestimate the Suez canal even today. See the Covid shipping crisis at Suez in 2021 ) His interest was research. He explored the possible values of ether as a brief resuscitator. A high number of Victorian women, none who could swim, were drowned in their clothing. There was so much fabric drag even close to shore as rowboats encountered tidal rough waves and tipped passengers out. He had established an Apothecary just out of Birmingham in the 1830s with a partner, but the partnership dissolved. By the late 1850’s his second son Jacob, better known as Jack, ran his Pharmacy on Manners Street, Wellington. In Britain, medical expertise was growing in recognition, particularly in metropolises. This article is a useful overview about medicine for physicians. It was written in the Oxford Academic about 1830 in 2020. The author is Bonner. ‘The political revolutions of the old century, which ushered in a long period of turmoil and conflict, had been followed by a period in the early nineteenth century of reaction and consolidation, new industrial growth and the spread of cities, commercial expansion and rising prosperity, and a high degree of political turbulence in every country. No nation escaped the impact of rapid population changes, of buoyant capitalistic enterprise, of the spreading democratic tide, or of the efforts of reformers to help those most adversely affected by the urban-industrial revolution. The training of doctors was inevitably influenced by the rising power of the middle classes in Europe and America as they demanded more medical services and a higher standard of medical competence. The continued growth of industrial cities, notably in Britain, posed serious problems of public health and the medical care of the poor. By 1831, London’s population was already approaching a million and a half, and nearly half the remaining population were now living in towns of more than five thousand. The doctors most in demand in these conditions were those who joined a skill in practical medicine with a knowledge of the new practical sciences. The new studies of science, it was increasingly believed by laypeople, gave the physician a surer command of diagnosis and a better understanding of the disease process, and his practical skills assured the patient of the best possible treatment. Medicine as a practical science, in short, was seen by the public as an important advance over both the old humanistic Medicine of the universities and the crude empiricism of the earlier practical schools. The triumph of the clinic and the rise of the new sciences together created a new confidence in medical education. The schools themselves were becoming more alike’. He lived in the country for eight years before even a government had formed. George Gray, (politician) was the first Governor from 1845 - 1853.

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