Ann RUTTER

1807 - 29th May 1892

By the deaths of Jane PINKNEY and Ann DAYKIN, both aged eighty-six, there now remain very few of the octagenarian links that connect Shildon of the past with that of the present.

Ann DAYKIN was a native of Gunnerside, Swaledale, and was one of the earliest to emigrate from the Yorkshire dale to Shildon. That dale, sixty years ago, was comparitively thickly populated, but from five to ten years ago after many left to try their fortune elsewhere, the greater number going to Shildon and Lancashire. And it is doubtless owing to the strong infusion of Cumbrian and Yorkshire blood that Shildon of the present is indebted for its mechanical and inventive superiority.

Both Jane PINKNEY and Ann DAYKIN leave descendants in responsible positions, and although they have passed away ripe and full of years, their stirling Yorkshire habits will long be remembered and made a model of.

(The Auckland Chronicle, 3rd June 1892)