The Pitcairners

From a Special Correspondent

Pitcairn Is., Nov. 25.

is still alive here one of the * old Pitcairners, who were moved to Norfolk Island in the Morayshire in 1856.

He is Vilder Young, now 86 years old.

Age is telling on him, however, and he is subject to heart attacks.

Two other Pitcairners of that genera tion died during the year. Mrs. Alice Butler, 87, passed away on February 28, and Miss Mary Ann McCoy died on August 19, aged 85.

Vilder Young and these two ladies re turned to Pitcairn with the first party to leave N.I. in December, 1858, reaching here in January, 1859, Since then Mr, Young and Mrs, Butler had made this

their permanent home. Miss McCoy, how ever, had travelled extensively through out most of the Pacific groups. She lived for a time with her sister at N.I. and later with another sister, Mrs. Walter Fetch, at Tahiti. After spending some years at Rarotonga and Aitutaki in the Cook Group, she returned to Pitcairn in 1923. Miss McCoy was very active until three years ago, when she became almost totally blind.

There are still two original Pitcairners on Norfolk Island —Mr. Parkin Christian and Mrs. Selina Buffett.

Mr. E. L. Baker, a District Commis

sioner in Fiji, accompanied by Mrs.

Baker, departed from Suva by the

November Aorangi.