DEATH OF OLD COLONIAL.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 71, 24 March 1919, Page 11

DEATH OF OLD COLONIAL.

EIGHTY YEARS IX NEW ZEALAND.

The death of another of Auckland's very earliest settlers occurred on Saturday, when Mrs. Jane Young, relict of Mr. VV. J. Young, passed peaceful]v away at her residence, Orange Koad. Mrs. "i orniir, who was in her eighty-eighth year, landed with her parents" at the Bay of Ir-iands at the early age of eight years. They left Scotland in the ship Royal Admiral in 1840, coming by way of Australia to New Zealand. ° She had an eventful life, for the family, having taken up land at Whangarci, were obliged to flee from that place during the Maori war, and reached Auckland in a most unsea worth v craft. For many years after that, and during her married life, she lived on the frontier. and had varied and difficult experiences with the Maoris. .-<he was a power for iiool wherever ehe lived, and rt-taining all her faculties right up to her deatn roight literally be said to die in harness. Her patriotism was intense, and she ,ra " very proud that eight grandsons and two granddaughters had (served in the great war.

Mrs. Young had nine daughters, eight of whom survive—Mrs. Finlayson (ot Hamilton), Mrs. Martyn (of Gisborne), Mrs Buttle (of Sumner), Mrs. McN'icol 'of Bay of Island*), Mrs. Armstrong (of Titirangi), Mrs. Hali (of Otahuhu)Tand two unmarried daughter*, who lived with her. She had 23 grandchildren, and lit) great-grandchildren.