Research Notes:

"NOTICE is hereby given, that the Partnership which has for some time past been carried on by us the undersigned, Edward Adam McAdam and Alfred Bate Lakeman, under the style or firm of Thompson, Glyn, and Company, at No. 1, Fenchurch-avenue, Lime-street, in the city of London, in the trade or business of Tea Merchant, was this day dissolved by mutual consent. All debts due and owing to or from the said firm will be received and paid by the said Alfred Bate Lakeman, who will continue the business.—As witness our hands this 25th day of February, 1880...." ³

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Alfred Bate Lakeman died aged 54 years.

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"THE DEATH OF MR. A. B. LAKEMAN.

An inquest was held at Smith-terrace, Glenelg, on Saturday afternoon by the City Coroner (Dr. W. Ramsay Smith) concerning the cause of the sudden death of Mr. Alfred Bates Lakeman, of the Taxation Office, which took place early on Friday morning.

Dr. J. H. H. Finniss deposed that he was summoned to attend Mr. Lakeman shortly after 5 o'clock on Friday morning, but on his arrival, life was extinct. He held a post-mortem examination, and found that death was caused through hemorrhage of the brain.

Alice Selina Lakeman identified the body as that of her husband. He appeared to be in his usual health on retiring to rest on Thursday evening. He rose at 5 o'clock on the following morning, and returned to bed after ascertaining the time. Shortly afterwards she was awakened by the hard breathing of her husband, who was lying with his head out of bed, unconscious. Her efforts to restore him to consciousness were unavailing.

The jury returned a verdict in accordance with the medical testimony. The Coroner pointed out that there would have been no necessity to hold an inquest had the doctor seen Mr. Lakeman prior to his death." ⁴

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"DEATH OF A PUBLIC OFFICER.

The Taxation Department has lost a valuable officer by the death of Mr. A. B. Lakeman, which occurred on Friday morning at Glenelg. Mr. Lakeman was in the habit of rising early, and he got up at 5 o'clcok this morning, but instead of dressing he went to bed again and a few minutes later he died suddenly. The deceased was the son of the late Mr. R. Lakeman, of Middlesex, and was born in that county*, in January, 1849. He came to Australia 14 years' ago, and after being employed for some time in the office of Mr. Francis H. Snow he entered the Income Tax Department in October, 1890, as an occasional hand. In 1894 he was appointed on the permanent staff. The late Mr. Lakeman was an expert book-keeper, and was held in the hightest esteem by his fellow officers." ⁵

* Alfred Lakeman was born in Plymouth Devon (where his birth was registered). However, shortly after his birth the family had removed from Devon to Middlesex [compiler's note].