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Sculptors/Masons Listed by Wises (Dunedin) 1871
Crawford & Dick, Octagon
Munro, George, George Street
Palmer, Henry, Princes St South>
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Mr Henry Palmer
M
onumental
mason and sculptor of Princes St, Dunedin. This business was
established in 1864 at premises near the Southern Cemetery. The
yard was stocked with assorted monuments and gravestones from marble
monuments to simple crosses and headstones. Material was
imported from the marble quarries at Carrara and granite from Aberdeen.
Mr
Palmer was born in Somersetshire, England and accompanied his parents to
Australia in 1858. He came to New Zealand in 1862 and after
two unprofitable years on the southern goldfields he started in business
in Dunedin on the Princes Street site.
- Cyclopaedia of NZ, vol 4, Otago & Southland, 1905
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Thompson & Co.
M
r
Thomas Thompson, the founder of the business was born in Perthshire, Scotland in 1839 and came
to Dunedin in 1862 by the ship "Sevilla". Initially he was employed in
the erection of the Exchange Building in Princes Street and afterwards in the building of
First Church.
In
1874 Mr Thompson founded his own business and this enterprise was later managed by his two sons.
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M
r
Thompson was involved with the Mornington Road Board and was a member of the Caledonian
Society. He died in 1887 leaving a widow and two sons.
T
he
eldest son, Mr Robert Thompson, was born in Dunedin and educated at Mornington and High Street
schools. He took over his father's business in 1887 and was joined by his brother
James in 1901.
R
obert
Thompson looked after the manufacturing portion of the business, supervising the erection of
numerous headstones and monuments which the firm supplied throughout the South Island.
By 1905 Robert was married with two children.
- Cyclopaedia of NZ, vol 4, Otago & Southland, 1905
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- Images courtesy of Trade Directories at the Hocken Library, Dunedin
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