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 South African Commercial Advertiser (1841-1851)
| Date transcribed | 2010-00-00 | | Transcribed by | Sue Mackay - Marianne Mansfield - Colleen Sharpe Williams | | Comment | Sue McKay has kindly authorized us to publish her transcriptions of Family History-related data from the Announcements in the South African Commercial Advertiser. This is because they include very many references to personnel in the service of The East India Company en route to or from India or on furlough in S. Africa, which offered a more temperate climate. Also included are many officers and soldiers of the British Army regiments who may well have served in India shortly before or after serving in South Africa. |
| | Publication Date | Saturday 12 August 1848 | | | Event Date | 2 August 1848 | | | First Name(s) | George Voteur | | | Surname | Lambe | | | Rank or Occupation | Lieutenant Colonel, formerly EIC | | | Event | DEATH | | | Full Entry | Departed this Life after a short illness, at his country residence (Terrace Knoll), between 4 and 5 o�clock pm on Sunday the 2nd instant, George Voteur LAMBE Esq, aged 56 years, Lieutenant Colonel of the St.Helena Local Militia and Justice of the Peace, deeply and sincerely regretted. The Deceased was a Native of this Island, from which he was sent in his early youth to England, where he received his education; on the completion of which he entered the East India Company�s Civil Service in the capacity of a writer. He rose through the different grades of the service until he arrived at the rank of Senior Merchant, and filled the responsible office of Storekeeper for a period of nearly Ten Years, to the full and entire approbation of his employers. When this Island was transferred to the Crown in 1836 he was pensioned in common with the other members of the civil establishment. His patriotism was most conspicuous, and he was the staunch supporter of every Public Institution for the promotion of Benevolence or the general welfare of the Island. He had very extensive demands made upon him from the necessitous and destitute, to whom he was ever found a willing friend in need. His remains were removed at mid-day on Tuesday the 4th instant and interred in the Country Church Yard. His funeral being attended by His Excellency the Governor, the whole of the Civil and Military Authorities, and a large concourse of Inhabitants. W.B.T. |
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