Last Of The Pitcairners
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117 HEN Mr. J. D. McComish, in a recent T 1 “PIM,” reported the death of “Aunt Selina” Buffett, on Norfolk Island, at the age of 87, he said that, unless Charles C. Vieder Young, of Pitcairn Island, was still alive, Mrs. Buffett was the very last of the 194 Pitcairn Islanders who were brought to Norfolk Island in 1856. Both Mr. McComish and the editor of the “PIM” overlooked the fact that Mr. Young had died on Pitcairn on May 31, 1941, aged about 91. “Aunt Selina,” therefore, actually was the last of the 1856 party. Soon after 1856, 43 of these people returned to Pitcairn Island, and C. C. V. Young was one of them.