EIGHTY YEARS AGO
LIFE IN EARLY AUCKLAND OLD RESIDENT’S MEMORIES Believed to be the second oldest surviving white woman to be born at Kororareka, Mrs. Elizabeth WynnWilliams, of Lismore Avenue, Mount Eden, celebrates her S7th birthday tomorrow. Mrs. Wynn-Williams was born at Kororareka on July 4, 1842, her father being Mr. Bryant Ward, who came to the Bay of Islands from South Australia soon after the arrival of Governor Hobson. Owing to the Heke rebellion in 1845 the family moved to Auckland. Mrs. Wynn-Williams has vivid recollections of her mother’s description of the departure from Kororareka.
In Auckland she was one of the earliest scholars at the original St. Matthew’s School, and remembers that to reach it she had to cross a bridge across the Ligar Canal at Victoria Street. Her family were burned out in the High Street fire in 1858 and left for Adelaide. After being educated in Tasmania Mrs. Wynn-Williams married Captain Oakley, who, when he retired from the sea, came to Auckland, where he died about 30 years ago. Later his widowmarried the late Mr. Edward WynnWilliams. who for a long period was associated with the insurance business in Auckland.
Mrs. Wynn-Williams has many recollections of the early days in Auckland.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 706, 4 July 1929, Page 16
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