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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Wellington Provincial District]

Mr. Robert Ewing

Mr. Robert Ewing, Leading Carpenter at the Railway Workshops at Eastown, is a North of Ireland man. Born in 1840, he served nine years learning his trade with his father, and came to Port Chalmers in 1864 per ship “Brachan Castle.” He worked at his trade in Dunedin and on the West Coast goldfields, where he lived for fourteen years. For five years Mr. Ewing was a pattern-maker at Anderson's foundry in Christchurch, and joined the Railway Department in 1884, as a carriage-builder at Eastown. Four years later he was promoted to the leading position in the shop. In 1863 Mr. Ewing was married to a daughter of Mr. D. Craig, of Castlederg, County Tyrone, Ireland, and has four sons and four daughters.