PIONEERS' DESCENDANTS.
NEW PLYMOUTH GATHERING. a SHIP AMELIA THOMPSON. [BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN correspondent.] NEW Thursday. Two hundred and fifty descendants of passengers who arrived by the ship Amelia Thompson at New Plymouth on September 3, 1841, after a voyage of five months from Plymouth, met to-day to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the arrival of the vessel, which brought. 188 Cornish and Devonshire settlers under th© Plymouth Company. There are only two survivors of the passengers—Mrs. W. Greenwood, of Wanganui, aged 93, and Mrs. Telfar, of Urenui, aged 96—to celebrate the anniversary. The Amelia Thompson's pioneers laid the foundation of this prosperous dairying province. The committee, comprising descendants of the passengers, entertained the guests at afternoon tea.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20969, 4 September 1931, Page 8
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117PIONEERS' DESCENDANTS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20969, 4 September 1931, Page 8
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