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 Shared note | Farmer, Branxholm Park, Oporo. Mr Grieve was born in 1833, near Melrose, Roxburghshire, Southland, and was brought up to country pursuits. He came to Port Chalmers, in 1851, by the ship "Cresswell." and was one of the early settlers in the Oamaru district, where he was employed as a shepherd for six years. Mr Grieve was the first to take sheep over the Kakanui river, and he placed 1,500 lambs on the Totara country for his employer, Mr Suisted. At that time Mr Grieve was obliged to live for some time in a cave, near the totara tree, after which the district came to be named. He also lived for four years at All Day Bay, which was named by him. In 1857 Mr Grieve came to Southland as pioneer for his father's family, and selected a property, which he named Branxholm,after his native place.He was the first settler in the district, the only communication with which was by boat on the Oreti river, and a track had to be cut through the bush in order to get cattle to his land. Some of the journeys between his property and Invercargill occupied several days, and it was not until he had been two years in the district that surveyors came to mark out the boundaries of his property. has six daughters and four sons. |