ID Number100060
NameALCORN Margaret Andrews
Family NameALCORN
Plot68.G
CemeteryPublic
StatusExisting Grave
Location on the Modern Grid MapN09 09
Inscription on TombstoneIn loving memory of Samuel Wesley ALCORN, born 20 May 1840, died 11 March 1922. Jane ALCORN, born 20 February 1840, died 5 September 1925. Mary ALCORN, born 10 May 1866, died 5 March 1928. Olive ALCORN, born 15 January 1872, died 26 March 1898. Winifred ALCORN, born 10 October 1873, died 11 September 1877. Armer William ALCORN, born 8 November 1879, died 24 March 1880. [-J Glover-] John Andrews ALCORN, born 13 December 1876, died 11 December 1943. Kate Sarah ALCORN, born 1 December 1880, died 9 October 1955. Margaret Andrews ALCORN, born 11 July 1868, died 1 November 1967.
Description of GraveRed granite used for walls and base of grave as well as upright headstone, with incised white-painted lettering.
Date of Death or Burial* 1 Nov, 1967
Public Cemetery Register Number
Type of Record Commemoration Only (Not Buried in Cemetery)
Age99
SexFemale
BiographySamuel ALCORN had a large drapery business on Lambton Quay, which was destroyed by fire on 11 Sep 1877. He and his wife, Jane, escaped with 5 children, but little Winifred (nearly 4) died in the blaze. Both Samuel and Jane were Irish, Sam from Omagh and Jane from Londonderry. (The family photo was published in the Evening Post on the occasion of a family reunion in Dec 1989.) Mary and her sister Margaret started their own very successful 'fancy goods' shop in Wellington, importing from Liberty's of London.