Link With Old Marlborough Passes
MRS. J. E. O’DWYER, OF BLENHEIM. Per Press Association, BLENHEIM, Last Night. Tho death occurred this morning of Mrs. Jane Evans O'Dwyer, S 6 years, daughter of the late Mr. T. J. Thompson, ono of the surveyors concerned with the events which led to the Wairau massacre in June, 1843, and widow of the lato Mr. James O'Dwyer, a Spring Creek farmer, who arrived at Nelson with his people in 1842. He died in 1904 and Mrs. O’Dwyer had resided since in Blenheim, where she was very highly respected. She was a perfect mine of information on old Marlborough and Nelson history and possessed many interesting relicts of the pioneering days. Surviving relatives are: Messrs. H. P. Thompson (Moutere, Nelson), T. K. E. S. and F. M. Thompson (Auckland), V. Thompson (Kaitaia), and Mrs. L. Ha Sliest .(Blenheim^
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7270, 25 September 1933, Page 7
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143Link With Old Marlborough Passes Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7270, 25 September 1933, Page 7
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