DEATH AT 100 YEARS
NELSON CENTENARIAN
MR. FREDERICK FAULKNER
A DOCTOR'S PROPHECY
[BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] NELSON, Friday
The death has occurred at Treton Park, Wakefield, of a very well-known Nelson resident, Mr. Frederick Faulkner, aged 100 years. Mr. Faulkner never married. He celebrated his birthday on April 4 last when a large number of residents from surrounding districts assembled to congratulate him upon becoming a centenarian. Mr. Faulkner's father with his two sons came out to Australia in 1852. He remained there for a few years and then came to New Zealand.
The new arrivals first settled at Waihola, South Dunedin. After some years there they returned to England, but came back to New Zealand in search of a milder climate. He chose the Nelson district, eventually settling at Wakefield. Mr. Faulkner had lived at Wakefield for 58 years. When he was five years of age and in England he had a severe attack of smallpox, the doctor remarking that if he recovered he. would live to be 100, a prophecy that came true.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22006, 12 January 1935, Page 13
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