ID Number108018
NameWALLACE Robert Douglas
Family NameWALLACE
Plot2209
CemeteryChurch of England
StatusReinstated Monument after Disinterment for Motorway
Location on the Modern Grid MapB12 22
Inscription on TombstoneIn memory of Robert Douglas WALLACE, died 25 October 1876, aged 52. Ellen, wife of the above, died 7 March 1875, aged 57. Walter James Rolasson WALLACE, died 1875, aged 9 months. Marion WALLACE, died 1871, aged 11 months.
Description of GraveUpright marble headstone, incised lettering.
Date of Death or Burial*27 Oct, 1876
Public Cemetery Register Number
Type of Record Burial
Age52
SexMale
BiographyRobert Douglas WALLACE died at his home in Tasman Street, Wellington, aged 52. The death notice said he was "Sheep Inspector for the Province of Wellington". It was reported that he was "one of the family of John WALLACE senior who came out to Wellington in 1845". A former manager of the Union Bank of Australia in Lyttelton, Robert's many years of service as Sheep Inspector were acknowledged as "considerate and courteous", and he was described as having "modest and unobtrusive ways" and an "obliging disposition". After a long illness, he apparently died of pneumonia, leaving a family of eight children. [Evening Post, 25 Oct 1876]