GREAT RECORD.
MANY DESCENDANTS. HAMILTON WOMAN'S DEATH. CHILDREN TOTAL 821 TEARS. (By Telegraph—Own Correspondent.t HAMILTON, Friday. With the death at the home of her daughter, Mrs. J. Rickard, Rototuna, of Mrs. Isabella Gray Tuck, aged 89, an Otago pioneer, is revealed the fact that the aggregate age of her children is 821
years—believed to be a New Zealand record. Thirteen children survive Mrs. Tuck, and there are 09 grandchildren and 80 great-grandchildren. In all, 167 of her direct descendants are living in New! Zealand. Mrs. Tuck was 87 years of age wlien she had her first air flight in the niono-| plane Faith in Australia. She thoroughly enjoyed it. She was born in Hamilton, Scotland, and came to New Zealand in the ship Victory in 1863 with her parents, the late Mr. and Mrs. Robert Martin. In IS6O she married the late Mr. John Tuck, of Komahapa, Otago. As a young woman Mrs. Tuck used to assist her husband in pit-sawing and team driving. She had lived in the Hamilton district for 21 vears.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 25, 30 January 1937, Page 7
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174GREAT RECORD. Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 25, 30 January 1937, Page 7
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