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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Obituaries & funerals
23 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 1 of 2
THE brig Wolverine, from Bird Island, brought the news of a horrible massacre perpetrated by the natives of Howe's Islands upon the captain, officers, and crew of the brig. James Birney, of Sydney. The supposed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE death is recorded in a late 'Telegraph' (Brisbane) of the Rev. Theophilus Pugh, a Wesley an minister, aged seventy-three years. The deceased gentleman was the father of Mr. T. P…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The San Francisco papers announce the death of William Barry, the comedian, so well known in California. The veteran actor who was over 60 years of age, died, it is said,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE recent agitation for a reform in the mode of conducting the last offices of respect for departed friends appeals to have resulted in, at all events, a partial change of sentiment on this question, judging from…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ANOTHER old and useful colonist has passed away, Mr Thomas Barker, who expired at his residence, Maryland, near Bringelly, on Friday morning, at nine o'clock. For some time his…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE following has been translated from a French journal by a correspondent of the 'Talbot Leader': 'Paris, November 8th:—A remarkable funeral took place the other day…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE following was communicated to the 'Evening News,' of Tuesday last:--"On Monday morning, a few spiritualists and their friends met at different points, to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Cooktown Herald, March 31st says,— Yesterday, departed from our midst one of the pioneer prospectors of the Palmer River gold-fields—John F. Jessop, the reputed…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →ON February 20th Mr. Joseph Love, one Bf the most extensive colliery owners in the county of Durham, died at his residence, Bear Durham, at the advanced age of 80…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →GENERAL, regret will be awakened by the announcement of the decease of Mr. Robert Stewart, of Sydney, formerly one of the representatives of East Sydney in the Legislative…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MR. William Bassett Christian, a brother of Mr J. B. Christian, of Liverpool Plains, and proprietor of Tenterfield station, Tenterfield, New England, passed through Murrurundi on…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Inverell Times, July 17th, says:—There are few people any length of time in the district who did not know the late Mr Donald M'L[?]n; and we are sure there is not one…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MR.Edward John Hawksley, who died (after a long and painful illness) on the 2nd of July, at his residence in South Levuka, on the island of Oval[?], Fiji, was born at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →(OUR cablegram announced the death of Andrew Johnson, ex-president of the United States, who succeeded President Lincoln. Johnson was born on December 29, 1808, in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →WE regret to announce the death, by a horrible fate, of Mr Michael Henry, a gentleman wellknown in the Jewish community, to which he belonged, for personal devotion to charitable…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →IN our last issue we gave the particulars as received by telegram of the death of Commodore Goodenough. The following brief notice is taken from the Herald…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THIS gentleman, who died in New Zealand about the commencement of last month, may still be [?]ld in remembrance by many of the old colonists of New South Wales. He ca[?] out to Sydney with his r[?]giment,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →PROBABLY no horse was ever more generally known than the celebrated horse Cruiser, imported from England in 1861 by John S. Rarey, whose system of horse taming was for some time the sensation in England…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A 'Government Gazette' EXTRAORDINARY has been issued, announcing the death, in England, of Sir Charles Cowper, the Agent-General of this Colony…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WITH regret we have to record the death of Mr. Howard Reed, which took place at Bowral on Saturday last. Mr. Reed's name was known all over the colony in connexion with his labours for the…
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