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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 417, 20 July 1880, Page 2

t . Another of the pioneers of Akaroa has joined the majority. On Sunday last one of the largest assemblages that ever gathered together for a similar purpose in Akaroa, gathered together for the purpose of paying the last tribute of respect to the memory of Mrs C. J. Waeckerle by accompanying her mortal remains to their final resting place. The deceased lady was one of the original .'French colonists who settled in this place, having arrived here in 1840 in the " Cptnpte de' Paris' with her parents M. and'tMdine. Eteveneaux' She .was. then,a girl of..fourteen, ; and two yeors'afterlier arrivalshe was united in matrimony 40 Mr.C. -J.. Waeckerle,,wh'o was a passenger by the same ship.. She remained a resident of thisplaee up till the time of her death, which,, took place early on the morning of Friday last. She had long been ailing, but her end was not expected so soon. She leaves a husband and one daughter, an only child, who is married to our fellow-townsman Mr Bayley, to mouin their loss. Mrs W aet ' ier l e was 54 years of age, and we may mention that her mother died only five yoara ago at the advanced age of 86.