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Thomas Burns’s daughters

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Thomas Burns’s daughters
Thomas Burns was the spiritual and moral leader of Otago’s Free Church community, from before the settlers left Scotland in 1847 until his death in 1871. His daughters – Mrs Livingstone, Miss Burns, Mrs Stephens and Mrs Bannerman – are shown outside First Church in Dunedin, around 1900.

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Hocken Collections, University of Otago

Reference: S04-153c

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Malcolm McKinnon, Otago region – The Otago settlement, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/22639/thomas-burnss-daughters (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Malcolm McKinnon, published 18 August 2009, updated 1 May 2015.