OBITUARY

New Zealand Tablet, 4 March 1915, Page 41

OBITUARY

MR. WILLIAM FITZPATRICK, BRUNNERTON. (From an occasional correspondent.) Mr. William Fitzpatrick, of the Albion Hotel, Wallsend, Brunnerton, passed away on January 30. The deceased, who was V 8 years of age, and a native of county Galway, was one of the early band of miners and pioneers of these parts, having arrived on the . West Coast in 1865, and was also on the early goldfields of Victoria. He resided for a number of years at Maori Gully, and entered into possession of the Albion Hotel over seventeen years ago. The deceased was a man of many good qualities, highly respected for his many manly virtues, and one of the best of the pioneer band whose numbers are fast decreasing. His wife predeceased him about twelve years ago, and of a family of eight children, two sons and five daughters are left to mourn their loss. Mrs. Maurice Moore (Runanga), Mrs Kenneth Chisholm (Invercargill), are daughters. Misses Margaret and Annie Fitzpatrick are at home, and the eldest daughter is a Sister of Mercy at Singleton, New South Wales. Messrs. James Fitzpatrick (Runanga) and Michael Fitzpatrick (Reefton) are sons of (he deceased. The remains of the late Mr. Fitzpatrick were interred in the Greymouth Cemetery; The Very Rev. Dean Carew officiated both at- the church and at the graveside. A Requiem Mass was celebrated at St. Patrick’s Church on Monday, February 1. The funeral was a thoroughly representative one, including many of the old pioneers of the Coast.— R.T.P.