100 YEARS OLD.
MRS. HUBBARD, OF WAINIATE. FACULTIES RETAINED. ir»y Telegrapn—rress Association.) WAIMATK, this day. Mip. Ann Hubbard. of Wainiate, will celebrate her hundredth birthday toinnrrow. She was liorn at Foulsham. Kngland. and came to Xew Zealand with her husband and six children in the sailing vessel Peeress in 1874, living first at Timaru. and later settling at Wainiate. Of her family of twelve, the seven still living are: Mesdames K. George T. Phillips and S. Kennedy, of Wainiate, H. Xixon, of Timaru, H. Brain, of Christchureh, and Messrs. T. Hubbard (Timaru). W. Hubbard (Albury). There are thirty-five grandchildren, forty-si:# great-grandchildren and one great-great-grand child. Mrs. Hubbard retains to a remarkable degree all her faculties, remembering clearly events from early in the reign of Queen Victoria. Though she fractured her thigh two yeare ago it me-oded. well.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 99, 29 April 1939, Page 7
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