MARRIED 65 YEARS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 230, 29 September 1930, Page 5

MARRIED 65 YEARS.

MR. AND MRS. A. WISHART. LONG-LIVED FAMILIES. Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Wishart, of 11, Glasgow Terrace, Carlton Gore Road, Auckland, who recently celebrated the sixty-fifth anniversary of their wedding day, were cordially congratulated by relations and friend's. Mr. Wishart is 88 years of age, and Mrs. Wishart is in her eighty-third year. Mr. Wishart was born at Paisley, Scotland, on June 2, 1842, and came out to Australia as a boy with his father and brothers, in the ship Europa. They arrived at Melbourne in May, 1852, when the wonderfully rich gold diggings were at their height, and most of the c-rew of the Europa deserted soon after the anchor was dropped, and like thousands j of others they went up to the lield to try their luck. Three years later Mr. Wishart came across to Auckland in the ship Fullerton, and stayed for four years, at the end of which time he went over to Sydney, being there at the time of the famous Snowy River gold rush. Eighteen months later he took passage in the ship Breadalbane, which touched first at Dunedin and later at Auckland. The ship was in command of Captain Nearing, who was afterwards for many years a stevedore here, and was one of the best known men in business on the waterfront. Another well known Aucklander, Mr. Cammell, who was also a stevedore, was also connected with Mr. Wishart's early voyagings, Mr. Cammell having been second mate of the Europa. For a number of years Mr. Wishart followed his occupation of builder in Auckland, and about 1880 he joined the New Zealand Railway Department. He remained in the service until he was superannuated in 1906. Mr. Wishart has a son who was also in the railway service, and retired on superannuation last month, so we have the exceptional case of father and 6on being on superannuation at the one time. Mrs. Wishart, who is in her eightythird year, is the twin daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. T. Vernon, who were passengers in the Jane Gifford, one of the two "first fleet" ships that arrived in Auckland in 1842. Mrs. Wishart's eldest sister died about three years ago in her eighty-fifth year, her brother died I about three years ago in Ms eighty-third | year, and her twin sister died last year, so she comes of a pretty long-lived family. Mr. and Mrs. Wishart have seven surviving children.