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A GOLDEN WEDDING - On Monday last the golden wedding of Mr. Robert H, Roe, of Fromefield, and Mrs. Roe was celebrated at Christ Church-lodge, Cheltenham, the residence of their daughter, Mrs. W. B. Masefield, and was attended by the following members of their family:
Mrs. Richard G. Roe, wife of Staff Commander R. G. Roe, R.N., her husband being prevented by duty from attending in person;
Captain W. J. Lyon Roe, F.R.G.S., Nautical and Scientific Examiner to the Local Marine Board, Liverpool, and Mrs. Roe;
Dr. Arthur Legge Roe, resident surgeon, Hull dispensary and Dr. Alfred J. T. Roe, sons;
Mr. Francis M Clark, Admiralty; Mrs. Clark, daughter of Mr. Roe;
Mrs. W. R. Mansfield, Miss Clark,
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and Miss Florence Clark, Miss Mayne and Miss Nina Mayne, grand-daughters.
It may be interesting to mention that both the father and the grand-father of Mr. Roe lived to celebrate their golden weddings, the former, Mr. Robert Roe, of Freemount and Newtown, Mount Kennedy, Co. Wicklow, on the 17th April, 1854, and his wife Mary Legge, grand-daughter of the Rt. Hon. J. Bilson Legge, Chanceller of the Exchequer in the reign of George the Second; and the latter, his grand-father, Mr. Robert Roe, of Seafin, King's County, and his wife, Grace Hodgson, niece of the first Earl of Rosse, whose golden wedding was celebrated in the year 1819.
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