OBITUARY

Press, Volume LXXX, Issue 24368, 21 September 1944, Page 2

OBITUARY

. MISS E. J. WILLIAMS “The Press” Special Service . WELLINGTON, September 20. 'Miss Elvira Jane Williams, who died recently, lived during the later years of her life mostly in retirement at Silverstream. She was a daughter of the late Mr G. P. Williams, M.1.C.E., Upper Riccarton, Christchurch, who came out in the steamship Great Britain in 1869, and who for some years was the civil engineer for the Canterbury Provincial Government.She was a niece of the Rt. Hon, Sir Joshua Williams, P.C., Judge of the Supreme Court, and grand-daughter of Sir Thomas Tancred, who at one time owned “Taratahi," near Carterton, and land in Canterbury. Sir Thomas Tancred came out to New Zealand in the Charlotte Jane, one of the First Four Ships sent out to found the Canterbury settlement in 1850. He was a brother-of Mr Henry Tancred, chairman of the Canterbury Provincial Council. The present Sir Thomas Tancred, the late Miss Williams’s cousin, lives at Aldborough Manor, Boroughbridge, Yorkshire, the family seat for many generations. Miss Williams’s only brother, Mr G. T. P. Williams, lives in Wellington.