India for about five years. 'ta.’tef y T, 1./w s<.«;ég.' {V ’ V \ .A.71§lL>(> c 1%-é,2..,' A ,WORTHY_ PATRIXBOURNE . ‘ i "COUPLE. I g . - all low—p_itcl_1ed cottage with apic- porch, within a stone's throw of - 'ne church, reside Mr. and ‘Mrs’. ho_ celebrated the sixtieth anni- heir wedding on the 5rd insmiit. S110. is eighty-three years of age‘, ),';'Br.i‘dge, but his parents 1-.1-nt . «. _'Patr1_xbourne when he was cnly 1 old_. ‘HIS wife, a. daughter of the . Phillip Grainger, of Patrixbourne, I ded in the village practically all her aving been born in a cottage 1:£-xt g o the one in which she is now living. resent Mr. and _ Mrs. Uden reside at _rside Cottage, within a few yards froin ixbourne church, where they were nar- on December 5rd, 1864. _ ,. '. Uden began his career by joining the India the following _November on the Bob-‘ bay, all old -East Indian man-of-war, Lo take ~ part in the suppression of the Indian‘ Mutiny. ‘When only three days out the Ship I788. :wrecked in the Irish Channel and J 1 Vvtr Lancers on April 7th, 1858, leaving for towed .int,o‘- Plymouth. As a. result Hr. Uden left (in another ship and served in 1865, disenibarking _at_Portsmoutl1 on May 1st. M1‘.iUden was invalided out of the ser- vice’ and’ he then came back to Patrix-I bourne and_ enteredthe service of the se- ’cond- Marquis of Conyngham, at Bifrons, as gardei1_ei-._ The following year he was mar- ried‘, and for over fifty"‘years he has resid- ed_.1n the saigne cottage: Mr. Uden was em- ployed aifB1frons. 1intil_‘Febn1ary of this _ year, whe;1.he had to give up work on as- He was on the es-5 j,-aunt ’ f. afbad, illness. ‘ thegyvholep-of. the. third Marquis He returned in ~_v£l)IADI(.)ND. WEDDING CELEBRATION. of Conyngham’s time, and also séri’-‘ed un- der _the present Marquis. < His wife, who is eighty years of age. Was a pupil at the local school, and for five or six years afterwards was a teacher. The school was then situated at the Lodge Gate, and was known as the Marquis of Conyn,,— .ham‘s private school. ’ Replying to our representative Mrs. _Uden stated that her father (Mr. P. Gramger) —-acted as pall bearer when the first Marquis was buried. In her young days she was a good reader, andduring the last year that the first Marchioness was alive she used to go up to Bifrons and read to her. Since her teaching days the school ha.d_undergone alterations and the present building was erected. _ Mr. and Mrs. Uden have four children livlng—Mr. P. Uden, a gardener in Devon- shire; Mr. L, Uden, postman and jabbing gardener, »Grinste,d Green, Farnborough; Mrs. Hillier, of Sheerness; and Mrs. Mum- mery, of Dunkirk. One son, William, who is now deceased, fought through the whole of the South,Africa.n War. They have six- teen grand