GOLDEN WEDDING
(Special to the “Star.”) AUCKLAND, December 20. Mr and Mrs Edward Robert Yiekerman, of 8, Station Terrace, celebrated their golden wedding yesterday. Mr Vickerman was born in Nelson shortly after the arrival of his parents from England by the ship Kelso in 184!) His lather took up land at first, later practising his profession as a doctor. Mr Vickerman has been manager of various branches of the Union Bank of Australia in New Zealand, retiring at Lyttelton in 1913. He is now employed by Wilson’s Portland Cement Company. He was married in Napier in 1878 by the Rev De Berdt Ilovell, and has a family of four sons and one daughter. One son died on the wav back from the war. There are five grandchildren. Mrs Vickerman is one of ten children of the late Dr G. M. Darcv-Irvine. of Fermanagh, Ireland. She came to New Zealand in the ship Melita with her parents in 1872, and settled at Waipukurau, later removing to Napier.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18643, 21 December 1928, Page 14
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