A Crowded Thorndon Cottage - The Story of Willam and Sarah Randell and Their Ten Children

Published by the Gondwanaland Press, Wellington, 1992. Inscription inside.

When William Randell the stonemason and his bride Sarah the housemaid left the grinding poverty of rural Dorset in 1854 to make new lives for themselves in an unknown town on the other side of the world, what were their hopes?

'A Crowded Thorndon Cottage' is an account of the experiences of a pioneer couple and forty descendants whose lives were, in so many ways, typical of the first two generations of the Wellington-born.