Lilian Priscilla WAKEFIELD [1897]

  General Notes:

FOUNDERS RECALLED
REUNION OF DESCENDANTS
MRS. M. B. JUDD ENTERTAINS
"Lilian Priscilla Wakefield, granddaughter of Edward Gibbon Wakefield and daughter of Edward Jerningham Wakefield"; "Mrs. C. Morris, daughter of Captain F. G. Moore, who was with Wakefield in the founding of Nelson\emdash I am the last of his descendants; November 16, 1939."
These two autographs were the first names to be entered in a special "Early Settlers" book by the guests of honour at a delightful afternoon party given yesterday at her home in Waterloo Road, Lower Hutt, by Mrs. M. B. Judd, herself the descendant of one of the first settlers in Wellington. The party, which was held out of doors in a charming setting of lawns and rose gardens, was a. small and intimate gathering for descendants of founders of this country, nearly all of those present being members of the second and third generations of pioneers who arrived in the now historical ships Tory (1839), Oriental, Adelaide, Blenheim, Calypso, Slams Castle, Bengal Merchant, Martha Ridgway, and Clifton (1840). A HUNDRED YEARS AGO. The guest of honour was Miss Lilian Wakefield, granddaughter of Wellington's founder and daughter of Edward Jerningham Wakefield, who was secretary to Colonel William Wakefield, leader of the expeditionary party which arrived in Wellington Harbour on September 20, 1839, a hundred years ago. Later Mr. Wakefield was the Parliamentary representative for Ganterbury where he spent the latter part of his life. He was also one of the proprietors of the earliest daily paper, besides being the author cf "Adventures in New Zealand," which described the early efforts of the Wakefield family in systematically colonising New Zealand. Mrs. C. Morris is-the daughter of Captain Frederick George Moore, who arrived in New Zealand in the Bengal Merchant in 1840 and piloted Wakefield round the coast of New Zealand in his ship Jewess. During the afternoon Mrs. Morris told the guests that she intends to present her father's sextant to the Early Settlers' Association for exhibition in the Wakefield Corridor which is to be established in the new Wellington Central Library.
Ref: Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 120, 17 November 1939, Page 12

Lilian was 82 at her death