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 Shared note | Arr Wellington in 'Bay of Bengal' in 1840 ref Cyclopedia of NZ Mr. Cullen left Wellington in 1845, for Otago, where he followed various occupations, including storekeeping with his former employer, Mr. Anderson, who had also left Wellington for Otago. Later on he was engaged with a survey party. After the arrival of the first immigrants by the "Philip Laing," in 1848, Mr. Cullen bought a horse and started a carrying business, which paid him so well that he bought two more horses and did the ploughing for the pioneer settlers on their ten-acre sections around the embryo city of Dunedin. Mr. Cullen married Miss Stevenson, who arrived in the "Philip Laing." She died in 1902, at the age of seventy, and left a family of seven sons and two daughters, and forty-three grandchildren. |