100 YEARS OF AGE

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20898, 30 November 1937, Page 12

100 YEARS OF AGE

AUCKLAND RESIDENT Still retaining a lively interest in current world affairs and manifesting a remarkable alertness, Mrs T. G. Marlow, of Wilding Avenue, Epsom, celebrated her 100th birthday last Friday. Born in London on November 19, 1837, the year in which Queen Victoria came to the Throne, Mrs Marlow has survived the complete reigns of four British monarchs, and is well versed in the activities of the present Royal Family. In 1865 Mrs Marlow was about to embark on the ill-fated ship London, but changed her plans and went to Melbourne in the Sussex and continued on to Dunedin in the Alhambra. In the folowing year she married the late Mr Marlow, who was born in London on June 27, 1838. The ceremony was performed at the residence of Mr Samuel Biss by the Rev. Dr. Stuart of Knox Church, Mr Biss was afterwards for many years postmaster in Auckland.

Awake each day at about 7 a.m. Mrs Marlow spends her days actively retiring at 9 p.m. Possessed still of perfect eyesight, she is able to perform the most intricate and finest needlework and other fancy work. She is occasionally shown around the city in motor drives and is acquainted with the housing activities at Orakei. Although one of the pioneers, she is still alert and active at a time when centenaries are being talked of. An Indication of the distance into the past to which her memory can travel was given by a remark she passed at the time of the Coronation. Her comment on the fireworks display at the time was that it was nothing compared to the display after the Crimean War.