GOLDEN WEDDINGS CELEBRATED IN TARANAKI.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XL, Issue 9123, 2 July 1891, Page 13 (Supplement)

GOLDEN WEDDINGS CELEBRATED IN TARANAKI.

We are indebted to Mr W. Skinner for the following list of golden weddings celebrated in Taranaki. Writing on the subject Mr Skinner says: — Some few months back, in a reference to the celebration of the golden wedding of Mr and Mrs Simeon Howell, it was stated that the occasion mentioned was the fifth in the district on which a golden wedding had been celebrated amongst our old settlers. At that time, of my own knowledge, I was able to name many more cases; and as a result of

goes to prove conclusively the wonderful physique possessed by those brave old " Pilgrim Fathers," who, laboring long and hard to subdue the wilderness around them, " roughed it " in a manner that we younger ones are unable to realise, have yet lived to celebrate the Jubilee of their wedding morning :— First on the list should come the names of Captain and Mrs King. A particular interest centres around this old couple. Captain King came out as Governor to the settlement in September, 1841. He was the last survivor of the great naval battle

Of the number next mentioned only one of each pair survives: — Mr and Mrs Thomas Hirst Mr and Mrs F. A. Canington Mr and Mrs Messenger Mr and Mrs Philip Moon Mr and Mrs William Allen Mr and Mrs Brooking Mr and Mrs John Bishop. We will head this list with the names of Mr and Mrs Lander, who have been married 60 years. Mr and Mrs Upjohn, 59 years married

nameß of the passengers who came to New Plymouth in the first six vessels chartered by the Plymouth Company. This list has been revised by Mr Thomas Veale and Mr Thomas King, and, we believe, is as correct as it is possible to make it: — Brougham, arrived February 11th, 1841, with surveyor and staff. Aubrey, Harcourt Baines, — Carrington, F. A., wife and family Carrington, Frederic Carrington, F. (Mrs Von Rotter) Carrington, Miss J.