OBITUARY
MR. G. A. PROBYN
The death occurred in Wellington last Thursday at the age of 77 years of Mr. George Alfred Probyn, second son of the late Mr. George Stewart Probyn, of Bromley, Kent, England. Mr. Probyn, who was a former member of the Wellington Harbour Board staff, was born in 1862. He" married Miss Jessie Henrietta Houghton, granddaughter of Captain Robert Houghton, master mariner, who came to Wellington by the Aurora in 1840. Mr. Probyn was a life member of the Wellington Working Men's Club. He leaves a wife, two daughters, Mrs. Catherine Hocking and Mrs. Caresa Doring, and a son, Sub-Conductor Leo K. Probyn. Indian Army Ordinance Corps. Representatives of the Kentish Society, Birmingham and Midland Counties Society, Early Settlers' Association, Harbour Board, and the Wellington Working Men's Club attended the funeral services, which were held in St. Peter's Church and at the Bolton Street Cemetery on Saturday. The pall-bearers were the deceased's sons-in-law, and the president of the Wellington Working Men's Club. Mr. J. A. G. MacKay. The services were conducted by Archdeacon Bullock and the Rev. T. F. Fagg.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 39, 15 August 1939, Page 11
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184OBITUARY Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 39, 15 August 1939, Page 11
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