PIONEER'S DEATH

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23327, 20 October 1937, Page 14

PIONEER'S DEATH

PASSENGER BY PHILIP LAING LAST SURVIVOR IN OTAGO The death at Dunedin on Mondaynight of Mrs Marion Allan, who was in her ninety-fourth year, has removed the sole surviving passenger in Otago of the ship Philip Laing, which arrived from Scotland in 1848. Of the remainder of the passengers there are now only two living, these being Mrs M. Stewart (nee Miss Sinclair), Wellington, and Mrs J.' L.

Souter (nee Miss Duff), Sydney, both of whom are over 90 years of age. The secpnd daughter of Mr and Mrs James Seaton, Mrs Allan was born at Glasgow in 1844, and came out to New Zealand witlr. her parents in the ship Philip Laing, which arrived at Otago in 1848. She spent a good number of years at Portobello, where her family settled on their arrival from Scotland, and in 1865 she was married at Portobello by the Rev. Mr Johnstone to Mr William Allan, who came but to New Zealand in 1862. In 1879 Mr and Mrs Allan went to Waimate, Mrs Allan living there until the death of her husband in 1911, when she came to liye in Dunedin. Of a quiet and kindly disposition, she was esteemed by a large number of friends, and, until the past few years, was a regular attender at meetings of the Otago Early Settlers' Association. Mr Allan will.be remembered, by the older generation, as for many years he was an elder in the Portobello and Waimate Presbyterian churches. There were no children of the marriage. Mrs. Allan is survived by two sisters—Miss E. Seaton (Dunedin) and Mrs C. M'Auley (Awakere, North Island) —and two brothers — Mr J. Seaton (Portobello) and Mr K. R. Seaton (Sydney)—all four being much younger than Mrs Allan.