CENTENARIAN'S DEATH
AUSTRALIAN WOMAN reached nearly ins SYDNEY', Sept. I*B. The I'uncrnJ took jil,acc to-day ol Mrs. Mnry Magnay, who would hav< boon ins years of age next. December She was in good health and in full possession of her faculties until hot death. Mrs. Magnay was born at Wollongong. She came to tlie Richmond I'iver district, where she married -Mr. Matthew Magnay, and after her marriage went to live at Wiaugaree .attic station. Luf. r her husband took up land a I South Kyogle. During her inisliand 's absence one day Hie Kennitt brothers, the bush rangers, visited her home and fired shots under it. Before her marriage Mrs. .Magnay was a children's nurse, and travelled in European count-lies 'with charges. She was once shipwrecked off the coast of Portugal. Ucr husband and three sous predeceased her. Mr. Edward Magnay, of Lismore, is her surviving son. There arc 30 grandchildren and 50 great-grandchildren.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19131, 28 September 1936, Page 8
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154CENTENARIAN'S DEATH Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19131, 28 September 1936, Page 8
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