Mary Caroline Bisley
Memoirist of early settler life in New Zealand
About Mary Caroline Bisley
Born 1836.
Mary Caroline Bisley (born Johanna Maria Karalina [Lina] Karsten) (23 December 1836-1917) was an early settler in Nelson, New Zealand, arriving in 1843. She came to New Zealand on the St. Pauli, from Prussia (now Germany).
Bisley's memoirs were published in 1899, and detail early settler existence in Moutere and the Nelson region.
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memoirist of early settler life in New Zealand
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Mary Caroline Bisley was born in 1836.
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