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

Obituaries & funerals, 1885

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

The Death of Colonel Stewart

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Tuesday 17 March 1885 · page 3

The following particulars of the murder of Colonel Stewart, who was with Gordon in Khartoum, are taken from telegrams to the San Francisco papers dated Korti, Feb. 5—…

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Country Intelligence. Carcoar. the Late Mr. North, P.M.

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Tuesday 17 March 1885 · page 2

A very neat stone • monument has been placed over the remains of the late Mr. E. J. O. North, Police Magistrate, in St. Paul's Church Burial Ground, Carcoar. A large…

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Death of a Temperance Veteran

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 4 April 1885 · page 4

THE death is announced of Mr. John King, the last survivor of the "Seven men of Preston." Mr. King (says an English Paper) was in his 99th year, and he died…

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The Late Mrs. Marsden. Special Services at St. Barnabas', Milltown

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 11 July 1885 · page 2

THE friends of the late Mrs. Marsden, mother of Rev. S. E. Marsdon, D.D., Bishop of Bathurst, in and about Milltown determined to show their appreciation of the interest she always…

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Death of the Queen of Hawaii

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 25 July 1885 · page 4

News has boon recently received of the death, on April 25, of Emma, Queen Dowager of Hawaii. The late Queen was of high Hawaiian blood on her father's…

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The Late Mr. Chas. Whalan

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 15 August 1885 · page 2

ALTHOUGH for some years past the subject of this notice took but little part in public affairs, low men were more widely known in the district or more generally respected. Born in Sydney…

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The Late Captain Curtis. Military Funeral

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 12 September 1885 · page 2

On Thursday afternoon last the Bathurst public witnessed a sight seldom seem in the City of tho Plains, that of a military funeral. Since the formation of the Volunteer Corps in…

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Death of a Bailief

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 17 October 1885 · page 2

A second inquest was held the same day, touching the death of Thomas Carr.—Senior-constable Wright, of Mitchell, deposed that about 10.30 o'clock on the evening of the 13th…

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