UNUSUAL CLAIM
GOLDEN WEDDING FAMILY
A family record in golden weddings is an unusual claim, but something difficult to beat in this respect is provided by a pioneer Southland family. In her application for membership of the New Zealand Founders' Society Miss B. Clearwater, of Mokotua, Southland, tells how her mother was the second daughter of a family of six sons and five daughters, children of John and Rachael Bently, who built one of the first houses—if not the first —on the Waimea Plains. AH of these five sisters lived, with their, husbands, to-celebrate their golden weddings, an aggregate of at least 250 years of married life.
Miss Clearwater states that her grandfather, Garret Mopper Clear- , water, arrived in Otago several years before the official foundation of that province in. 1848. He was a ship's carpenter and is recorded as having been employed at Otaku whaling station in 1840. He married Ann Stevenson, whose mother, Isabella, came out as matron on the Philip Laing. There are a large uiumber of descendants of this couple in Otago and Southland.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 65, 16 March 1940, Page 18
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178UNUSUAL CLAIM Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 65, 16 March 1940, Page 18
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