Dunedin teacher and researcher Deirdre Cooper holds a 19th-century diary and her recent book, Plymouth to Port Chalmers, which reflects on the life of her great-great-grandmother Julia Blackwood. PHOTOS: GERARD O’BRIEN/SUPPLIED : 1884 diary window on ancestor’s past
Dunedin teacher and researcher Deirdre Cooper holds a 19th-century diary and her recent book, Plymouth to Port Chalmers, which reflects on the life of her great-great-grandmother Julia Blackwood. PHOTOS: GERARD O’BRIEN/SUPPLIED : 1884 diary window on ancestor’s past
1884 diary window on ancestor’s past : 1884 diary window on ancestor’s past
1884 diary window on ancestor’s past : 1884 diary window on ancestor’s past
A photo of Mrs Blackwood as a young woman in Dunedin. : 1884 diary window on ancestor’s past
A photo of Mrs Blackwood as a young woman in Dunedin. : 1884 diary window on ancestor’s past
1884 diary window on ancestor’s past
Studying a diary which was written in 1884 has brought Dunedin teacher and researcher Deirdre Cooper closer to her then 14-year-old great-great-...