The Argus, Monday 9 August 1937
(Melbourne, Victoria)

Obituary
OLDEST RESIDENT OF GEELONG
Mrs. Elizabeth Andrews
Geelong’s oldest inhabitant, Mrs. Elizabeth Anne Andrews, aged 104 years and nine months, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. F. Parrott, Latrobe terrace, Geelong, on Saturday evening, after a brief illness.
Mrs Andrews was a native of Cornwall. She was aged five years at the time of the Coronation of Queen Victoria, and she remembered having been held up to see the Coronation procession. With her family, she came to Australia at the age of 16 years in the ship Lebuan, and she landed at Point Henry in February, 1849. Soon after her 17th birthday she married the late Mr. Charles Andrews, a builder and contractor, of Geelong. Except for a brief stay at Ballarat, Mrs. Andrews spent her 89 years in Australia at Geelong. She is survived by 13 of her 14 children.
The funeral will take place at the Eastern Cemetery this afternoon at 2.30.

Contributed by Bob Bolitho