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Jessie (Yasmin) Paget (nee George)
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DescriptionAuntie Jessie
Reference to video of my dear Aunt Jessie (Yasmin) Paget (nee George), who is talking to Suraya Langston and her cousin Marcus Taylor, in Blenheim Hospital in May 2014, about life on the Catlins farm as a young girl. She passed away last April 2015 when she was 90 years old, and was the last of the aunts and uncles born at Kahuika in the heart of the Catlins from the George family. Her parents Josef and Noor George arrived in New Zealand in 1900, and purchased 100 acres of farmland in Kahuika near the Tahakopa River. They farmed there for over 25 years and had ten children in total.
In this video, Jessie (Yasmin) is talking about life on the farm for Suraya's great grandparents, Jidi and Siti George. She speaks of the food they made from the cow’s milk, which included jibin (white cheese strained through muslin), arishi and lubin (yoghurt), as well as making the man’oushe (flatbreads) every day. She also talks about preserving the apples from the orchard by a drying method learnt in Lebanon.
Then Jessie speaks of the family leaving the farm in the mid 1930’s to return to Dunedin to settle in Whitby Street, Mornington because Noor was almost totally blind from Diabetes and the children needed opportunities for work and the social supports of the Dunedin Lebanese community. Jessie was keen for us to share this unique pocket of family history of Josef George’s family in the heart of the Catlins.
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Reference to video of my dear Aunt Jessie (Yasmin) Paget (nee George), who is talking to Suraya Langston and her cousin Marcus Taylor, in Blenheim Hospital in May 2014, about life on the Catlins farm as a young girl. She passed away last April 2015 when she was 90 years old, and was the last of the aunts and uncles born at Kahuika in the heart of the Catlins from the George family. Her parents Josef and Noor George arrived in New Zealand in 1900, and purchased 100 acres of farmland in Kahuika near the Tahakopa River. They farmed there for over 25 years and had ten children in total.
In this video, Jessie (Yasmin) is talking about life on the farm for Suraya's great grandparents, Jidi and Siti George. She speaks of the food they made from the cow’s milk, which included jibin (white cheese strained through muslin), arishi and lubin (yoghurt), as well as making the man’oushe (flatbreads) every day. She also talks about preserving the apples from the orchard by a drying method learnt in Lebanon.
Then Jessie speaks of the family leaving the farm in the mid 1930’s to return to Dunedin to settle in Whitby Street, Mornington because Noor was almost totally blind from Diabetes and the children needed opportunities for work and the social supports of the Dunedin Lebanese community. Jessie was keen for us to share this unique pocket of family history of Josef George’s family in the heart of the Catlins.
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SubjectLebanese FoodCedars of LebanonFamiliesGeorge familyGeorge/ Langston familyImageGeorge Family at Catlin's FarmOrganisationCedars of LebanonPeopleYasmin (Jessie) Paget (nee George)PlaceCatlins, South Otago
Cedars of LebanonFamiliesGeorge familyGeorge/ Langston familyImageGeorge Family at Catlin's FarmOrganisationCedars of LebanonPeopleYasmin (Jessie) Paget (nee George)PlaceCatlins, South OtagoContributors
ContributorSuraya Langston
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