OBITUARY
MRS. M. E. M. WILLOUGHBY A granddaughter of one of the earliest New Zealand families, Marianne Ethel Maud Willoughby, died on July 24, at the age of 67, after a long illness. Mrs. Willoughby was the twin grandchild of the late Mr. and Mrs. William Thomas Fairburn, who, in the service of the Church Missionary Society, arrived at the Bay of Islands with the Rev. Samuel Marsden and Henry Williams, on August 3, 1823, in the Brompton. Her father, the late Mr. John Fairburn, was born on October 18, 1824, among the very first white children to be born in New Zealand. Educated in Germany, he returned to New Zealand and settled at the "Glen Grove" estate, Otahuhu, where Mrs. Willoughby was born. Her father's sister, Mrs. William Colenso, prepared for the Press the third and last revision of the Maori New Testament.
Mrs. Willoughby leaves two daughters, Mrs. L. Mandeno and Mrs. E. J. Skelton, of Milford, and two grandchildren.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 176, 28 July 1942, Page 2
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162OBITUARY Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 176, 28 July 1942, Page 2
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