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Yeah this is James Dixon, my um great grandfather who
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was born in Scotland and he immigrated to New Zealand
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with his mother in a ship.
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His dad who was a market gardener.
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He came early to get a job.
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It took him about three months to sell to New
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Zealand. Jim grew up in Dunedin and he was The
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oldest of nine brothers.
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He wasn't brought up in a Christian home.
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Um So he taught the rest of his family about
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God and that's how he started to get our family
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to follow God.
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He joined the army for World War and he did
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the training in New Zealand before, but before he was
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deployed to the war, the war ended so he didn't
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need to fight soon after he got married and he
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had two Children, a boy and a girl when they
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were newly married they went to the Solomon Island is
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missionaries and he was a teacher on the mission field.
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After a few years his family came back to New
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Zealand and he stayed in the Solomon Islands for another
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year. Then he became a teacher in Timaru where his
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Children grew up.
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Jim's wife, Alba Hopkins died In the late 70s and
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in the early 1800s of 1980s he did away um
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course and met his second wife, Marie, Christine uh Jim
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and Marie went to Hong kong together Uh and China
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as missionaries and teachers of English in the 1980s.
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Uh He then returned to to put the New Zealand
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in the North Island and lived there for a while.
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Having retired.
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He was a king Gardner and would have done it
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all the time.
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It was his passion and it was always had to
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be up to as high standards.
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Later in the 1990s they went to Turkey as missionary
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teachers, but they had to return to New Zealand um
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where they moved to Liston and lived until Very recently.
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He died in April 2018.
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Jim is survived by his second wife, two brothers and
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his Children and grandchildren.
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Uh This is my dad and my uncle, my grandparents.
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And you can see Jim in the back with Marie
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Christine Um the Scott family talk about an ancestor called
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Henry Scott.
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He was born 1830.
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He got drunk, very drunk that he drowned in a
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horse trough, which is a true story.
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And the father of him, George Augustus Scott died one
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April 1915, Anna del New South Wales Walter.
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Henry Scott was born in 1910 in Sydney and he
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was a communist.
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He agreed with a lot of the rules.
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He joined the party And without knowing he was stalked
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by their spies who wrote down everything about him and
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they gathered all this information.
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But he was blind in both eyes.
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And you didn't know about the spies until a long
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time after he left the party in his late 60s
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when his friends found out from one of them who
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he knew the other story is that the scott brothers
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owned a lot of property in central Melbourne, including the
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Scott Hotel and that they lost it or gambling.
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Also told that one or two of them went to
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South Africa and made a lot of money and either
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a diamond or gold mine.
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Uh, this houses where they lived, you can see them
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at the front in these pictures here as well.
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Yeah. uh late 1800s was when we first started living
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in white pro, my Great great great great grandfather started
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a farm up north.
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He started a farm which was really small.
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At first he got married at 19 while his wife
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was 20, that five boys, one girl and lived in
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the farm their whole life.
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One of the boys took over that farm when their
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parents sadly passed away when he was studying, he took
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care of the farm with his girlfriend, heard there are
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three boys and three girls together.
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He passed Um one of the, He passed the five
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down to one of the girls named Margaret who was
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my great grandmother at this point it was getting rough
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and messy and they needed to fix it.
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So she knocked down the house and built a new
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one that was even more bigger.
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She got new fencing, more animals and brought some more
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land as well.
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She was very wealthy at the time.
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She then met her husband thomas, my great grandfather uh
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they worked on the farm for many years, then got
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too old to take care of it.
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My grandparents said that they would take care of it.
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So they did um It's now a huge and they
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have made a vineyard in it as well.
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My family spends a lot of the time, they're especially
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at christmas and the holidays.
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Ah Our family has always been really close from my
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great great grandparents to my mom and dad and it
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has led us to follow God and we're really close
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now. So um basically you can see him in the
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photo with the sheep and he's guarding over there as
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well last year.
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My resources.
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Um Yeah.