Great Age
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Oldest Pitcairners Die at Great Age
MR. Vieder Young, oldest man on Pit cairn Island, and the last of those who were born before the exodus to Norfolk Island in 1856, died on May 31 1941, aged 91 years.
His sister, Eunice Christian, born on Norfolk Island, died on June 19, aged 83 All the pre-Norfolk Island Pitcairners have now passed away, except Mrs Sey mour Buffett (“Aunt Selina”), who is 85 and lives on Norfolk. All living now at Pitcairn were born since the return from NI.
Eunice Christian and Vieder Young, oldest Pitcairners, whose death recently occurred.
Photograph taken in May, 1939.