The Origins in Ayrshire
The Brysons
The Bryson family arrived in Southland in 1863, aboard the "Sir William Eyre".
They had had a long and difficult journey, from Greenock to the Oreti (or New) River.
But, having arrived, they had a difficult few years, which some of the family did not survive.
Their name lingered on, in the name given to a grandaughter of one of the youngest members of the family - Iris Bryson Murrell carried the birth-name of her grandmother, Agnes Bryson. But sorting out the story of the family was a difficult exercise.
To understand it, one needs to understand:
- 🕈 Just who were the 'travellers' who came to Invercargill
- 🕈 The voyage of the 'Sir william Eyre', and
- 🕈 The birth of the settlement of Invercargill