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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1861

11 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers

Sudden Death of a Murderer in Bethlehem Hospital

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 16 February 1861 · page 4

On Wednesday afternoon an inquest was held by Mr. Serjeant Payne, in the board-room of Bethlehem Hospital, on the body of Anthony Abel, a criminal…

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Death of Sir Charles Napier

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 2 March 1861 · page 4

The croup of illustrious men who came into the world in the same decade with the French resolution is fast dying out. The survivors of that epoch are now more than threescore…

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Prussia. Death of King Frederick Iv

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 20 March 1861 · page 2

The King died on the moraine of the 2nd January, at Sans-souci. His Majesty's illness had long been of a hopeless character. The King of Prussia, in a recent…

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Select Poetry. on the Death of the Late Matthew S. Finley. in Memoriam

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 6 April 1861 · page 4

Finley thou'rt gone ! no more shall we behold Thy face—index of thy superior mind ; The lips, that smiled a welcome, now are cold ; But, fond remembrance thou [?] left behind…

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Shocking Death of a Drunkard

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 4 May 1861 · page 2

On yesterday (Friday,) at 3 o'clock, an inquest was held at the Black Bull Inn, on the body of John Burns, aged about 24, whose death took place at Mackett's Mill, Howick-street, under…

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Death of the Duchess of Kent

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 22 May 1861 · page 2

We regret to announce the death of her royal highness the Duchess of Kent Her royal highness had been unwell during the greater portion of the week, cancer…

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Murder of a Child and Death of the Murderess. Faversham

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 29 May 1861 · page 4

The village of Eastling, located about five miles, to the southwest of this town was thrown into a state of intense excitement, early, yesterday, morning, in…

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Funeral of Mr. H. Watt

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 3 August 1861 · page 2

Another of the few remaining colonials who form as it were, a link between the present and the put of New South Wales, was yesterday borne to the grave, into which ho lias descended, after…

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Obituary

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 14 August 1861 · page 2

Lord Abinger, Admirals Dundas, Pelham, Morrison, and Stewart, and Sir George M'Lean, Lord Campbell, and Prince Gortschakoff…

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Death of Lord Campbell

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 14 August 1861 · page 2

Prominent amongst the incidents of the week is the sudden death of Lord Chancellor Campbell; he presided in the House of Lords on Friday evening; on…

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The Death of Count Cavour

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 21 August 1861 · page 4

We are now enabled, by the receipt of correspondence, to supply some circumstances of the sad event, announced by telegraph last week. The Turin…

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