OBITUARY

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6992, 19 August 1929, Page 11

OBITUARY

MRS. ELIZA JAMIESON. By the death of Mrs. Eliza Jamieson on Thursday the Dominion lost one of its oldest born. Her father and mother Mr. and Mrs. David Williams, arrived from Wales in the London on its second voyage in 1812, and while Mr. Williams was at Tolago Bay building the Mission Church for the Rev. E. Baker, Mrs Jamieson was born on Juno 12, 1844. Eighteen months later the family shifted to Wellington, living in what is now Northland. Owing to native. trouble it was thought desirable to shift into Mulgrave street near St. Paul’s Church, the site of which was then covered with ti-tree. She remembered the violent earthquakes of 1848, when it was difficult to stand up. The Maori pas then existed in Pipitea and To Aro and Lambton Quay was still tho “beach.” Mrs. Jamieson was twice married, her first husband being Mr. John Stoddart and her second the late Mr. John Jamieson, of the “Independent,” Government Printing Office, and “Evening Post” staffs. Her surviving children arc by her first marriage. Mr. James Stoddart (West Australia), Mr. A. Stoddart (Sydney, N.S.W.), Mrs. C. Mitchell (Hataitai), and Mrs. C. H. TJsmar (Palmerston North), and by her second marriage Mrs. G. Holliday (Hataitai), Mr E. Jamieson (Shannon), Mr. John Jamieson (Ngaio), and Mrs. W. R. Aikcns (Kilbirnio). Her surviving brothers are Messrs David and Arthur Williams, of Tinakori road, while her only sister, Mrs. Harry Plimmer, and a daughter, Mrs. M. Feist, predeceased her. She leaves twenty grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren. Mrs Jamieson was a foundation member of the Early Settlers’ Association and to the last took a keen interest, in the association’s doings.