OBITUARY

Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26797, 31 July 1952, Page 2

OBITUARY

MRS ASHLEY COOPER

Mrs Ellen Frances Cooper, who died on Tuesday severed the last remaining link binding two families well known in Christchurch and Timaru. Born in 1867, Mrs Cooper was the youngest daughter and the first child born to William and Isabella Mayne, or Calama ie, Cornwall, who came to New Zeaiand in the early sixties to farm at Halswell. Some years later the family moved to Timaru where she married Ashley Griffith, eldest son of Charles Edward Cooper, first Collector of Customs there, who arrived at the Bay of Islands in 1840. Most of Mrs Cooper’s married life was spent in Merivale. but since the death of her husband in 1935 she had lived on Cashmere Hills with her daughter, Mrs C. G. M. Boyce. Besides her daughter she is survived by two sons, Mr Ashley Cooper, of Lower Hutt, and Mr Selwyn Cooper, of Rotorua. There are five grandchildren and seven great-grandchild-ren.