OBITUARY.
MRS. W. A. DE LUC A. One of the women pioneers of Auckland, Mrs. Wilhelmina Alicia De Luca, has died at the age of 81 years. She was the wife of the late Mr. D. De Luca and only surviving daughter of the late Captain W. Hamilton Irwin, of the Royal Tyrone Fusiliers, and Mrs. Anne McCauseland Hamilton Irwin. Mrs. De Luca came to New Zealand in the ship Mary Warren in 1804 and had lived
in Auckland all her life, mostly in l'arnell and Remuera. She was born at Lake Mount, the ancestral home in County Tyrone, Ireland. Practically all her life, Mrs. De Luca had been a* member of St. Mary's ProCathedral and was a well-known social worker. She is survived by four sons, Michael. Ernest, Lorenzo and Joe, and seven daughters, Mesdames Dyson, (libbons, Phillips, Corbett, Lennox, Galbraith and Thomas.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 229, 28 September 1938, Page 16
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144OBITUARY. Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 229, 28 September 1938, Page 16
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