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Adovate - Saturday 20/2/1932 Page 2
Death of Mr. W. Lapham.
ONE OF BURNIE'S PIONEERS.
By the death of Mr. William Lap-
ham, at the age of 83 years at the home
of his niece, Mrs. T. Holman, King
street, yesterday morning. Burnie lost
its oldest native-born resident. .
The late Mr. Lapham was the second
son of the late John and Julia Lapham,
who came to Emu Bay in 1842. They
first settled at Dayspring, on the main
Coast road, but later became pioneers
of the newly-surveyed township of Bur-
nie. It was while the parents resided
in Burnie that their son William was
born, in a cottage that stood on a block
of land facing Marine Terrace, now oc-
cupied by the Central Hall.
The boyhood of the late William
Lapham was spent chiefly on the New
Country Road beyond Upper Burnie,
and he and his father and brother, John
Lapham, jun., were among the earliest
workmen at Mount Bischoff tin mines.
In 1869 he married a young widow,
Mrs. John Summers, and they had a
family of eight children - William
(deceased), Matthew (Victoria), Ber-
nard (Broken Hill), Alfred (High-
clere), Mrs. W. Pittam (Ballarat), Mrs:
E. Connors (North Fitzroy), Mrs. L.
Connelly, (Woolahra, N.S.W.), and
Mrs. Laycock (deceased).
Mrs. William Maddox, Cotton Street,
Latrobe, and Mrs. Johnson, Somerset,
are the only sisters of the late Mr.
Lapham, who are living.
The funeral will leave the Star of the
Sea Church, Burnie at 3 p.m. tomor-
row for the Wivenhoe cemetery.
Bro. H.. Hilder, N.G., Loyal Welling
ton Lodge, writes: "Bro. William Lap-
ham has been a contributing member
of Loyal Wellington Lodge, I.O.O.F.,
Manchester Unity, for 55 years, and
ranks among the lodge's senior mem-
bers. I would strongly urge all the
Brethren who can do so to attend his
funeral."
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