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If you have an obituary for any Jacomb/ Jacombs/ Jacombe/ Jacom/Jacomb-Hood which you would like to contribute I would be very pleased to include the details here (subject to copyrights).

Current obituaries:

• Councillor Bernadette Stamatov (née Jacomb), 1969-2005
• Rev. Robert Jacomb, c.1752-1833

Councillor Bernadette Stamatov (née Jacomb), 1969-2005
(Written and contributed by Monica H. Jacomb (hhogan@bigpond.net.au), 2007.)

COUNCILLOR BERNADETTE STAMATOV (née JACOMB).
19.3.1969-29.11.2005.

Mary Bernadette Stamatov (always called Bernadette) had only moved to the little Victorian (Australian) town of Clunes, two years previously where she owned an alternative therapy business, when the locals asked her to stand against the Mayor in 25th November 2005 elections for Hepburn Shire. When the poll was read on the Saturday afternoon, many were not surprised that she had romped in. On Monday she happily attended the Town Hall at Daylesford to finalise arrangements for her swearing in. This was never to take place as Bernadette collapsed and died as she was getting up next morning. She was only 36. St Patrick's Cathedral Ballarart was filled to capacity for her Requiem Mass and she was taken back for burial in the Clunes lawn cemetery.

After completing her secondary education, Bernadette worked at a travel resort and then became a very proficient Personal Assistant firstly on the waterfront and then in IT. She leaves behind husband Chris, children Liam, Chloe and little Kayla. Also mourning her are her father Brian and wife Veroi, mother Monica, and brothers William and Brendan.

Hepburn Shire has honoured Bernadette by placing her name on the Honour Board of Councillors housed in the Daylsford Town Hall; they have presented the family with the badge she would have worn in her new office and they graciously permitted the use of prefix "Cr" on her headstone.

Rev. Robert Jacomb, c.1752-1833
(from the January 1833 edition of The Gentleman's Magazine.)

Jan. 8. At Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, in his 80th year, universally lamented, the Rev. Robert Jacomb.

This gentleman was descended from the Rev. Thomas Jacomb, D.D. an eminent Nonconformist divine, of whom, and of his brother or other relative Samuel Jacomb, D.D. Minister of St. Mary Woolnoth in London, memoirs will be found under their birth-place, Burton-Lazars, in Nichols's History of Leicestershire, vol. I. p. 270. Mr. William Jacomb, attorney-at-law, of Laurence-Pountney-lane and Walthamstow who died Feb. 23, 1783, married Mary, younger daughter of William Snell, Esq., also of Laurence-Pountney-lane and of Walthamstow, and co-heiress to her brother William Snell, Esq., a Director of the East India Company and of the Bank of England, who died at Clapham in 1789: and descended from William first Lord Say and Sele, who died in 1662, and from Bishop William of Wykeham, the founder of Winchester School, and many other illustrious families (see the pedigree of Snell in the History of Leicestershire, vol. IV. p. 805.

The Rev. Robert Jacomb was for some years assistant to the Rev. Hugh Worthington, jun. at Salters' Hall, London; he afterwards settled with a congregation at Wellingborough; where in 1793 he published "A Letter vindicating Dissenters from the charge of Disloyalty in reply to the Rev. W. L. Fancourt Curate of Wellingborough." He afterwards became co-pastor with the Rev. Hugh Worthington, sen. at Leicester, and succeeded him in 1797. After a few years he resigned this office, and retired to Bath; but finally returned to pass the close of his life at Wellingborough.

Mr. Jacomb was twice married; firstly, to Sarah, daughter of Daniel Danvers, Esq. of Bath, who was the only child of Daniel Danvers, esq. of Liverpool, merchant, by Elizabeth, sister of John Hood, esq. of Bardon Park, Leicestershire, who married Cecilia, the elder sister and co-heiress of William Snell, esq. before mentioned, (Mrs. Elizabeth Danvers was one of the victims of the celebrated Byng's wind in 1757, being killed by the fall of a chimney at Bath.) Mrs. Sarah Jacomb died at Wellingborough, June 10, 1791, aged 28. Mr. Jacomb married secondly, Elizabeth, daughter of William and Rachel Hilhouse, of Clifton; who died at Bath Oct. 13, 1806, leaving issue two sons, Robert and Thomas.

(Source: The Gentleman's Magazine, January 1833 edition, [published February 1, 1833] (London: Printed by J.B. Nichols and Son, Cicero's Head, 25, Parliament Street, Westminister, 1833). p.183-184)