MRS. ELIZABETH RUSS
DEATH AT NINETY-ONE
QUEEN VICTORIA'S DAYS
A resident of Auckland for more than 70 years, Mrs. Elizabeth Russ, died yesterday at her home at 14 Oxford Terrace, Newton, aged 91 years. Mrs. Russ, as a girl, men Queen Victoria in unusual circumstances. She was the daughter of Mr. John Roebuck, who had a business as a maker of rocking horses in Euston Road, London, nearly a century ago. Queen Victoria used to drive past the entrance to the shop and on one occasion called there and asked the girl to bijng her whom she commissioned to make a
life-sized model of one of the Royal groy§, to stand in the hall of the palace. Mrs. Russ came to Auckland in the ship Rob Roy, in 1864, and landed from ono of the ship's boats at the spot which is now the bottom of Shortlaud Street. Sho was the oldest colonist at the 70th anniversary celebrations of the Pitt Street Methodist Church last year. Three years previously she walked to the top of Rangitoto. Mrs. Russ was predeceased by her husband.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22823, 2 September 1937, Page 3
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