{"id":1006,"date":"2013-01-04T13:14:18","date_gmt":"2013-01-04T13:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/54.229.91.100\/libraryandarts\/library\/ehistory\/?p=1006"},"modified":"2013-01-04T13:14:18","modified_gmt":"2013-01-04T13:14:18","slug":"lost-at-sea-robertstown-family-bereaved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/lost-at-sea-robertstown-family-bereaved\/","title":{"rendered":"LOST AT SEA. ROBERTSTOWN FAMILY BEREAVED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Leinster Leader 25 January 1941<br \/><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><font size=\"4\"><strong>Lost at sea<br \/>Robertstown family bereaved<br \/><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Mr. Wm. J. Wilkinson and Mrs. Wilkinson, Littletown, Robertsown, Co. Kildare, have received news of the tragic death of their son, Dr. John Wilkinson, who was a ship&rsquo;s surgeon in the Mercantile Marine. No other details are available.<br \/>Dr. Wilkinson graduated at the National University, and was a well-known athlete. He was captain of the athletic team in that University and was sprint champion of Ireland. He was educated at Clongowes Wood College, Sallins.<br \/>Numerous messages of sympathy have been received by the family. The deceased was a brother of Mr. Paul Wilkinson, solicitor, Naas, to whom and other members of the family sincere sympathy is expressed.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><strong><em>An article from the Leinster Leader archive on the death of Dr. John Wilkinson, of Roberstown, in 1941<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\"><strong><em>An article from the Leinster Leader archive on the death of Dr. John Wilkinson, of Roberstown, in 1941<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspaper-articles"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Kildare Local Studies","author_link":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/author\/localstudies\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}