MRS. AUGUSTA TIGHE.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 95, 23 April 1928, Page 12

MRS. AUGUSTA TIGHE.

A very old resident of Auckland, Mrs. Augusta Tighe, has died at the advanced age of 87 years. She was a daughter of an early settler named Bradley, who came out to New Zealand in 1859 by the ship Whirlwind. He was a member of a special settlement organised in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire by Mr. Ball to take up land at Manganui. Later the family came to Auckland, where the daughter was married to Major Michael Tighe, of the 58th Regiment. He had been born in the regiment, and entered the service as a drummer boy, rising to the rank of captain, having a record of 47 years service. As a captain he was with his regiment at the Bay of Islands during the wars of the "forties" and "fifties." Upon the return of the regiment to England in 1856 he retired from the service, and returned immediately to New Zealand. He was appointed adjutant of the Auckland militia, and then a major in the volunteers. He commanded the local forces when they marched out to Drury in 1863 to check the advance of the Waikatos on Auckland. Major Tighe was buried in the Symonds Street Cemetery many years ago. Since then his widow, who had no family, has lived in Auckland.