Transcribed from South Africa Magazine, 12 December 1908
DOMESTIC ANNOUNCEMENTS
(Announcements under this heading are charged for at a minimum of 5s., which in all cases must be prepaid. All notices must be properly authenticated.)
BIRTHS
MCNEIL—On the 3rd inst., at Boksburg, Transvaal, the wife of Robert Patrick McNeil, M.B., Ch.B. Edin., a son.
ROSS—On the 1st inst., at Craigendoran, the wife of Angus Ross, Bloemfontein, a son.
MARRIAGES
BLACK—CAMPBELL—On November 30, at Salisbury, Rhodesia, by the Rev. Mr. Simpson, Duncan, son of the late Archibald Black, Barrmains, Kintyre, to Jemima Ritchie, daughter of the late Alexander Campbell, Broombrae, Campbeltown.
CAYZER—DUDGEON—On the 5th inst. at St. Thomas’s Church, Foster Avenue, Co. Dublin, by the Rev. J. M. Dudgeon, Vicar of Eridge Green, Sussex, assisted by the Very Rev. the Dean of Ossory, uncles of the bride, and the Rev. W. Monk-Gibbon, M.A., Rector of Dundrum, Co. Dublin, Harold Stanley Cayzer, 11th Hussars, fifth surviving son of Sir Charles Cayzer, Bart., and Lady Cayzer, of Gartmore, Perthshire, to Mary Kate, elder daughter of Joseph Hume Dudgeon, of Merville, Co. Dublin.
COURT—PADDON—On the 10th inst., at the Church of the Holy Trinity, Kensington Gore, S.W., by the Rev. W. S. Swayne, M.A., Vicar of St. Peter’s Cranley Gardens, S.W., and the Rev. H. B. Coward, M.A., Vicar of the Parish, Richard Vaisey Court, youngest son of the late Philip Wathen Court, of Tankatara, near Port Elizabeth, and Adeline Marjorie Paddon, youngest daughter of the late William Wreford Paddon, of Oatlands Park, Grahamstown.
MULLINS—BUTLER—On the 3rd inst., at the Parish Church, Parktown, Johannesburg, by the Rev. Julius Gordon, Arthur Francis Mullins, second surviving son of the Rev. G. H. Mullins, Great Billing Rectory, Northampton, to Olive, second daughter of James Butler, of Johannesburg.
SMITH—TOONE—On the 7th inst., at the Congregational Church, Durban, by the Rev. J. G. Aldridge, William Henry Smith, of Ladysmith, to Mary (May) Toone, daughter of Samuel Toone, of Shortlands, Kent.
DEATHS
BERESFORD—On the 7th inst., at Instow, North Devon, the Rev. Walter Vevers de la Poer Beresford, M.A., Chaplain to the Marquis of Zetland, and formerly Acting Chaplain to troops, Maritzburg, youngest son of the late Rev. John George Beresford, Rector of Bedale, and the Hon. Mrs. Beresford, of Mirfield, Yorks, aged 44.
MCCRINDLE—On the 1st inst., at St. Quivox, Ayr, Andrew McCrindle, beloved husband of Jeanie Hood.
PARSONS—On November 7, at Greytown, Frank, second son of Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Parsons, 78, Kensington Park Road, London, W.
PATERSON—On November 26, at Johannesburg, David Broomfield, second son of James and Cecelia Paterson, Chirnside, aged 33 years.
RUSSELL—On the 2nd inst., at The Mount, Portland Avenue, Exmouth, Clara Jane, the beloved wife of Joseph Henry Russell (formerly of Durban), in her 73rd year.
STRACHAN—On the 2nd inst., at Dundee, Mary Strachan, aged 71 years.
THOMAS—On the 6th inst., of bronchitis, at “Hillingdon,” Salisbury, Ellen Susan Thomas, widow of the late Rev. John Harries Thomas, Vicar of Hillingdon, Middlesex, and Rural Dean of Uxbridge, and formerly Archdeacon of Cape Town.
IN MEMORIAM
PRENTICE—In Loving memory of Maggie Calder, wife of James Prentice (South Africa), who died at Edinburgh on December 6, 1907.
Regards,
Ellen Stanton
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