OBITUARY.
■ OLD BLENHEIM RESIDENT. . Mrs. Emma A. Stratford, widow of the late Mr. Edmund Stratford, who passed peacefully away at her residence in Blenheim on Wednesday, was in her 90th year. She met with an accident three weeks ago, sustaining a broken leg as the result of a fall in the house. Mrs. Stratford was born in Saffron Walden, Great Chesterford, Essex, in 1834, and came to New Zealand with her husband in the ship John Masterman, landing at Nelson in 1857. Mr. Stratford occupied -the position of schoolmaster, and his wife that of schoolmistress on board the vessel, and in Nelson she opened a small school, among her pupils being Archdeacon York, of Blenheim. She spent a year or more in Nelson and then came to Marlborough with her husband. Thus her residence extended over 64 years in Blenheim She is survived by two sons and two daughters, 26 grandchildren, and nine great-grandchildren.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 123, 25 May 1923, Page 6
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