DEATH OCCURS OF ANOTHER WANGANUI PIONEER

Wanganui Chronicle, 1 November 1946, Page 9

DEATH OCCURS OF ANOTHER WANGANUI PIONEER

.MRS. MARY ANN HERINGSHAW. The death occurred recently of another of Wanganui’s earliest settlers, Mrs. Mary Ann Heringshaw, who was in her 92nd year. The late Mrs. Heringshaw came to New Zealand as a bride in the sailing ship Strathnaver about 1874, This vessel, then one of the prides of the sea, took many months to make the journey from the iJnited Kingdom to the "Britain of the South." She went aground near Island Bay, Wellington, but later was refloated and left for China, but she was apparently illfated, because she was never heard of again. Mr. and Mrs. Heringshaw established their home in New Zealand and he was on the staff of Messrs. Cock and Company, Ltd., for many years. They bo’.h took a staunch interest in the Baptist Church, and right up until the time of her death Mrs. Heringshaw retained that interest. She spent all her married life in Wanganui and could recall many incidents, gay, amusing, and sad of the early days, and like many other people of pioneer stock noted the sharp contrast in modes of living. There were three daughters, one of whom (Millicent, Mrs. Gifford Remington) died during the influenza outbreak in 1918. The other two are Dorace (Mrs. Bob Howell, of Nelson) and Marjorie (Mrs. P. H. Woods, of Auckland).