Newspaper Article 1938 – Birthday Celebrated

BIRTHDAY CELEBRATED

MRS. AMY ANDERTON

WHANGAREI RESIDENT

One of New Zealand’s early residents, Mrs. Amy Wilhemina Bentick [Bentinck] Anderton, now of Whangarei, celebrated her 88th birthday recently. Mrs. Anderton was born on the voyage from England on the German sailing ship Lord Wilhelm Bentick, her father, the late Mr. William Head, having been called to service in the Maori War in 1850.

At the conclusion of the war the family returned to England, where Mr. Head left the service after 22 years with the Royal Engineers, during which he was presented with the Victoria Cross and a good conduct medal at Aldershot by Queen Victoria.

Mrs. Anderton’s people then returned to New Zealand and at the age of 18 she married Captain Frank Robinson, of the Charlotte Anne. After three years of marriage Captain Robinson was drowned off Whangarei Heads, leaving his widow and a child. Later Mrs Anderton married Mr. Charles Anderton, of Preston, England, a cousin of the Victoria statesman Sir Robert Peel. At the time of his death Mr. Anderton was a farmer in the Waipawa district, Hawke’s Bay.

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“MRS AMY ANDERTON”