MANY DESCENDANTS
Hamilton Woman's Death With . the death . at the home of her daughter, Mrs, J, Rjckard, Rotorua, of Mrs. Is^bella Gray Tuck, aged 89, ap Otago pionper, is revealed the fact that the aggregate age of her children is 821 years— believed to be a New Zoaland record. Thirteen children survive Mrs, Tuck, and there are 69 grandchildren and 85 great-grandchildren. In all, 167 of her direct descendants • are living in New Zealand. Mrs. Tuck was 87 years of age when she had her first air flight in the monoplane- Faith in Australia. She thoroughly enjoyed it. She was born in Hamilton, Scotland, and came to New joaland in the ship Victory ■ i°?" with her patents, the late Mr. and Mrs Robert MaTtin. . In 1865 she married the late Mr. John Tuck, of Romahapa, Otago. As a young wornan Mrs. Tuck used to assist her husband in pit-sawing and team driving. She had lived in the Hamilton distriet for 21 years
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 16, 3 February 1937, Page 10
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