DEATH OF PIONEER
LAST SURVIVOR OF SIXTEEN •
P.A. DUNEDIN, this day. Last surviving member of a pioneering family of 16 children, Mrs. Mary Robinson, has died at the age of 87 years. Twice married, she had eleven children, 45 grandchildren, 52 great-grandchildren, and six - great-great-grandchildren. Of these one son, ten grandsons and three greatgrandsons served overseas in the present war. The famous Canadian, Air-Marshal Bishop, V.C., is a nephew
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 152, 29 June 1945, Page 6
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