Alfred Randall Sargison^{[1, 2, 3]}

1888 - 1955  (66 years)

• Name	Alfred Randall Sargison  [2, 3]
  Birth	22 Sep 1888	Tasmania   [3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	1955	Battery Point, Tasmania, Australia
  Person ID	I172026669355	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	17 Feb 2025

  
  

  Father	Samuel Bacon Sargison,   b. 19 Nov 1861, Byron St. Hobart, Tasmania, Australia d. 29 Mar 1933, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia (Age 71 years)
  Mother	Jane Louisa Randall,   b. 1 Nov 1865, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia d. 27 Oct 1949, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia (Age 83 years)
  Marriage	1 Sep 1886	Hobart, Tasmania   [4]
  Family ID	F3232	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Madge Pauline McMillan,   b. 17 Mar 1893, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia d. 09 Mar 1974, Noble Park, Victoria, Australia (Age 80 years)
  Marriage	17 Mar 1915	Tasmania, Australia   [4]
  Children	1. Madge Alice Sargison,   b. 13 Oct 1916, Battery Point, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia d. 30 Jul 2008, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia (Age 91 years)   2. Dorothy Jean Sargison,   b. 10 Jul 1920, Battery Point, Tasmania d. 24 Jul 1996, Noble Park (Age 76 years)
  Family ID	F3251	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	17 Feb 2025

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 22 Sep 1888 - Tasmania Marriage - 17 Mar 1915 - Tasmania, Australia Death - 1955 - Battery Point, Tasmania, Australia  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  Skip to contentSkip to searchNATIONAL LIBRARY OF AUSTRALIA · Adv · Home · About · Site news · Statistics · Tags · Help · Forum · Contact us · Login · Newspapers: · Browse · Examiner (Launceston, Tas. : 1900 - 1954) · Wed 11 Jan 1922 · Page 6 · Caught in a Cutter Article text Fix this text View0text corrections for this article View all articles on this pagePrevious articleNext articleWhy are there text errors?Caught in a Cutter•PRINTER BADLY INJURED.HOBART, Tuesday.Alfred Sargison, a printer's cutter, wasengaged at his worlc in one of the southern printing offices this morning, whenFix this texthis left arm was caught in part of themachinery. Upon removal to the General Kosptal, Dr, V. K. Ratten ascertainedthat ho was suffering from a compoundfracture and dislocation of the leftelbow, and that the muscles and nerveshad been severed. On enquiry late thlBevening Dr. Ratten expreseed the opinionthat there were high hopes that the uamftn'H arm .would be saved, WORKED 50 YEARSAT "THE MERCURY"WHEN Mr. A. R. Sargison finishes work forthe day ort Monday he will have com-pleted 50 years' continuous service on the staffof "The Mercury."Mo*. "Sargison, wno lives inRunnymede St., Battery Pt.,is 64, and has been with "TheMercury" since January 19,1903, when he started as anapprentice bookbinder.A fier serving his time as abookbinder's apprentice, Mr.Sargison worked in the maI chine room until 1922,. wheni he almost lost his left armI in an accident there.' After he recovered he assumI ed charge of the paper store in1922, and has been there since.Mr. Sargison, who is married,and has two married daughters,was a keen amateur runner andyachtsman."I've given up, most of myinterest in those* sports now,and I've been working on flhetotalisator for -nearly 40 years,"he said.In recent years Mr. Sargi-son has bècome a keen dogbreeder and has specialised inbreeding .West Highland.White terriers.Fix this text"I'm looking forward to moreyears working for "The Mer-cury," he said yesterday."I've seen many changes sinceI've been there and I hope lobe there while I'm still fit," headded.

  
  

• Sources

  [S370259668] Ancestry Family Trees, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.), Ancestry Family Tree. [S377960433] Ancestry.com, Tasmania, Australia, Index to Marriage Notices in The Mercury, 1854-1962, (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.). [S375278840] Ancestry.com, Australia, Birth Index, 1788-1922, (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.). [S376626784] Ancestry.com, Australia, Marriage Index, 1788-1950, (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.).