LONG MARRIAGE ENDED
Invercargill Woman’s Death
(New Zealand Press Association) INVERCARGILL, Jan. 15. Sixty-eight years of married life ended for an Invercargill couple yesterday with the death of the wife. She was Mrs Jane Alsweiler, aged 92, of 71 Bowmont street Mrs Alsweiler married Mr Louis Alsweiler on November 4, 1890. They celebrated their sixty-eighth wedding anniversary last November, and had received two congratulatory messages from Her Majesty the Queen—one in 1952 and the other in 1956. Mrs Alsweiler was born in Coatbridge, Scotland, in October 1866, and went to Melbourne, where she married Mr J. J. Barr. There were two sons of the marriage, Alexander and John both of Invercargill. Mr Barr was drowned, and she married Mr Alsweiler, coming to New Zealand four years later. There were four children of this marriage, three of them living—William (Auckland), Harold (Dunedin), and Mrs W. _J. Finn (Invercargill).’ '■
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28795, 16 January 1959, Page 2
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