OBITUARY

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 8, 10 July 1934, Page 13

OBITUARY

MRS. tANNIE CARMAN

Another :liak: with the early days was broken by-thVdeath. on Sunday of Mrs. Annie : Carman, of Lower Hutt, in her-' -'. eighty-ninth year. She yas born ■: on February 12, 1846, in Ciitch'pole Lane, now knownas Herbert Street, just by the old Manners Street: Wesleyan Church, which was .burned down. Her parents, Mr. and Mi;s. David Kinniburgh, arrived in Wellington.:'from London in the ship GeorgeFifcon November 7, 1842, after a passage of 7 five months. Amoug fellow-passeiigers were Sir AVilliani Fox, Sir Charles Clifford, the Hon. C. A. Dillon, and Mr. Henry Kedwood and family, one of whom, then three years of age, is the Archbishop Bedwood of today. .'..<•' :

Mrs. Carman was the- third child. Many old residents will well remember the eight Krnniburgh sisters and their three brothers. . The family lived first where Pipitea Street now is, later at Catehpole Lane, and then in Cuba Street, where the Burlington Arcade now stands. Here they had 'an orchard with, a stream running at the back of the property. Mr. Kiuuiburgh, who was in business aa a painter, died as the result of an.accident in the eighties, and Mrs Kinniburgh died in 190S at the age of 91 years. Of the sisters, Mrs Elizabeth Brown, of Lower Hutt, who celebrated her ninety-first birthday on. February 3.9, last, Mrs. M. A. Waters, of. Auckland, and Mrs. C. J. Hill, Of Eastbourne, survive," as does one brother, Mr. James AY. Kinniburgh, of Mount Eden. The other four sisters, Mrs. Murray, Mrs, AViddop, Mrs. Mackintosh, and Mrs. Stafford, wore all over 70 years of age at the date of their death.

Mts. Carman's husband, the late Mr. Philip James Carman, to whom she was married in 1869, was well-known on the New Zealand coast as a marine engineer and later as Inspector of Machinery at Wellington • and Christehurch. He died in November, 191S, and Mrs. Carman shortly afterwards removed to the Lower Hutt, where she has resided since.

Mrs. Cfirmun leaves four sons, Messrs. H. G. Caiman (Eltlinm), W. J. Caiman (Johnsonvijlo), A. C. Carman (TnvercargM), and E. P. Carman (Weilinsjton); also two aaugliters, Mrs. C. E. "Crawford, and Misa H. A. Carman, both of Lower Hutt. The two eldest sons, Mr. S. 3. Carman, oi: Sydney, i and Mr. \\*. P. ' Carman, of li'ciiaing, predeceased hei-. . . There- are. ilO.igran.'JchiWren . ax»d lo I grcat-gruu.4vlijld.ren.