AUCKLAND PIONEER PASSES

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 132, 25 August 1927, Page 14

AUCKLAND PIONEER PASSES

DEATH AT WELLINGTON (Special to THE SUN.) WELLINGTON, Wednesday. The death occurred early this morning, at Owen Street, of Mr. W. J. Morpeth, aged 87, one of the early colonists of New Zealand. He came to Auckland in the late ‘’fifties” with his parents and brothers and sisters. They were among a party of settlers from Prince Edward Island, in the mouth of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, who had migrated to New Zealand in their own vessel under a private settlement scheme. The families that comprised this venture were the Bagnalls, the Haszards and the Morpeths, and their descendants in New Zealand are well-known, especially in the Auckland Province. After farming for a few years in North Auckland the late Mr. Morpeth joined the New Zealand Civil Service at Auckland, and on the transfer of the seat of Government in 1870 he came to Wellington, where he had resided since. He was married early in 1868 to Miss Carroll, a sister of the late Mr. Samuel Carroll, well known as the secretary for 35 years of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce, and is survived by his wife, five sons and three daughters, all of whom are well known in Wellington.