Frances Stickle

Anonymous Posted: 24 May 2017

Frances was born in Picton in 1864, the daughter of Thomas Tiaki Tikara Stickle and Mary Kenny, and granddaughter of Captain Thomas Stickle and Turikatuku, and John Kenny and Mary O’Hara, New Zealand Company settlers.

The family moved to Otago in the 1870s but after her mother died in 1875, some of her siblings were taken into state care. Her brother John died tragically in 1900 and from 1911 to 1919, Frances is recorded as a “spinster” living in Mataura, near John’s family. A niece was named after her. When her father died in 1906, Frances and her sister Anna McLachlan remembered their “beloved father.”

In October 1924, aged 60, she travelled to Portland, Oregon, where she married 80-year-old Daniel McLachlan, her sister’s brother-in-law. He died four years later but Frances remained in Portland, taking out US citizenship in 1931. Her application described her a 5 foot 1 inches tall, weighing 90 pounds with brown eyes.

Frances died on May 2, 1958, in Portland, at the age of 94.

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