SIXTY-FIVE YEARS MARRIED
MR. AND MRS. EDWIN HARROP
LONG RESIDENCE AT KAWAKAWA,
The sixty-fifth anniversary of their wedding was celebrated by Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Harrop, of Newcastle Terrace, Mount Albert, yesterday. Mr. liarrop, who will be 87 years of age next month, and Mrs. Harrop, who is in her 85tli year, were for over 50 years residents of Kawakawa, and moved to their present home three years ago. Married in St. Paul s Church, Princess Park, Liverpool, they celebrated their golden wedding in 1914 and their diamond wedding in 1924. Born in Cheshire Mr. Harrop commenced working m the Lancashire mines at the age of 11 years. He was later apprenticed to the shipbuilding trade in .Liverpool, and was working as a shipwright at the time of his marriage. He went to sea for four years as a ship's carpenter, visiting many ports, and at the end of that period came to New Zealand with his wife in the barque Estrella, arriving in Auckland in 1870. Mr. Harrop was a member of the staff of the Bay of Islands Coalmining Company for six years and then went into the building trade on his own account at Kawakawa. He left there three years ago on account of Mrs. Harrop's ill-health.-
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20257, 17 May 1929, Page 12
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