100-YEAR-OLD WOMAN
FORMER RESIDENT OF TIMARU "The Press" Special Service . AUCKLAND, May 8. Mrs Alfred St. George Hamersley, who lived in New Zealand from 1860 to 1888, had her 100th birthday at her home at Seven Acres, Long Crendon, England, on April 28. Four of her five children present included her eldest son, who lives at Havelock North, Hawke's Bay. Bom at Blandford, Dorset, Mrs Hamersley arrived in Auckland with her parents, Mr and Mrs C. H. Snow, in March, 1860. Anticipating housing difficulties, her father, who had come to take up a Treasury appointment, brought with him a prefabricated iron house. When he discovered it unsuited to New Zealand conditions, he sold it on the wharf.
Mrs Hamersley lived in Auckland, in what is now Eden terrace, and also IXIIOI marriage in 1876 to a Timaru barrister, Mr Alfred St. George Hamersley. During the Maori wars, he commanded the Canterbury detachment in the Parihaka In 1888, Mrs Hamersley left New Zealand with her family for Vancouver, and in 1906. they returned to England. Mr Hamersley, who died in 1929,, was Conservative MJ 1 , for the woodstock, Oxfordshire, Division.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27035, 9 May 1953, Page 2
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