OBITUARY
MRS; SARAH PERCIVAL
(Special to the "Evening Post.")
NELSON, February .5. The death occurred this morning of an old and respected Nelson resident, Mrs. Sarah Percival, of Wakefield Quay. A native of. Wexford County, Ireland, the deceased came out to New Zealand with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Butler,- arriving at Lyttelton in 1875 in the ship Waimate after a smart passage of 65 days. The ship, the- Cospatrick, in which the family originally intended to travel by,' was burnt at sea, there being only one survivor. Arriving in Nelson in 1879, Miss Butler, who was a cousin of; the Marquis of Normanby, Governor of the. Colony at that, time, married the late.Mr.; Andrew Brown, well known as a ; timber -merchant, who predeceased her 41 years ago. There were seven. children of the first marriage—Messrs. Norman, Douglas, Wallace, Jack (Nelson), Andrew (Auckland) ; iand-Miss Mabel Brown (Nelson), and:Mrs.-A. Rayner. (London).
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 31, 6 February 1935, Page 17
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151OBITUARY Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 31, 6 February 1935, Page 17
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