MISS A. F. BROOKE TAYLOR

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 209, 20 September 1937, Page 6

MISS A. F. BROOKE TAYLOR

The death oecurred at Gisborne on Saturday morning of Miss Adelaide Francee Brooke Taylor at the age of 84 years. • Though a prominent church w prker, she was- of a retiring- nature, but was well-known and respected by all who had the pleasure of her acquaintance. . . The deeeased was the eldest. surv'iving daughtef of the late .Mr. and 'Mrs. Brooke Taylor, her father having been a member of the legal-profession in the early days of . Gisborne. , The family came out to New Zealand in the- early 'sixties, while Miss. Adelaide Brooke Taylor was still in her teens, and set.tled first in Auckland, going to Napier a year later. They were living in Napier during the period of the Poverty bay massacre, and moved to Tauranga, later Gisborne, within a year of that dread event in the district's history. Miss Taylor and one of her surviving sisters. Miss , Henrietta Brooke Taylor, . lived the rest of their lives in- that community, where both paTents -died .many years • ago. Miss Taylor was the first organist of Holy Trinity Church, and maintained a close connection with that insfitution throughout her life. The immediate relatives who survive her are Miss Henrietta Brooke Taylor, and Mrs. Frederjck Alexander, Howick, sisters: Messrs. Alexander Brooke Taylor, Hastings, and Walter Brooke Taylor, Wellington, brolliers; and Messrs. Cloorge Brooke Carter, Gisborne, and William John Berry, Wellington, nephcws.