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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1885

12 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers

Death of Bishop Quinn. Sydney, Friday Night

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 17 January 1885 · page 5

Dr. Matthew Quinn, Bishop of Bathurst, died suddenly at 5.30 this morning, from cramps in the stomach. Although he had been in a delicate state of health for some time past, he seemed so much…

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Death of the Roman Cathelic Bishop of Bathurst

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 24 January 1885 · page 6

ROMAN Catholics throughout the colony will be pained to hear of the death of the Right Rev. Dr. Matthew Quinn, Bishop of Bathurst, who died on Friday morning. The Roman Catholic clergy of the…

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Death of the oldest Australian Native

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 23 May 1885 · page 8

WE (Bathurst Times) learn that Mrs Morgan, sen. (old "Germany Morgan," as she was familiarly called by her friends), died at the residence of her daughter-in-law (Mrs. W. Morgun), Pitt-street,…

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Funeral of a Member of the N. S. W. Contingent. Sydney

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 27 June 1885 · page 5

THE funeral of Private R. Perry, a member of the N. S. W. Contingent, who died at the quarantine station, took place this afternoon. The weather being clear, immense crowds turned out, the fair…

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The Late Mr Benjamin James

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 18 July 1885 · page 8

AMONG our obituary notices yesterday mornning was the well known name of Mr Benjamin James, who died after a painful illness at the age of 69. Mr James had been in failing…

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Death of Sir George W. Allen. Sydney

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 25 July 1885 · page 5

Sir George Wigram Allen died this morning. His death was quite unexpected; in fact few persons knew that the gentleman was [?]ling, as Sir George was in town on Thursday, as usual, attending…

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The Death of Prince Frederick Charles

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 11 August 1885 · page 4

REFERRING to the death of the " Rel Prince," the TIMES says:—The event has taken Germany by surprise, for Prince Frederick Charles was but 57 years of age, was a…

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Death of Mr L. [?]. L[?]wen[?]

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 25 August 1885 · page 2

ANOTHER old identity in the person of MR. Louis S. L[?]wenthal, died on Saturday last, after a long and trying illness. Mr L[?]wenthal was the oldest resident business man in Grafton, having carried…

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Original Lin[?]. to Mr. and Mrs. T. H. [?] on the Death of Their First-born

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 19 September 1885 · page 6

Your beautiful boy in the comet[?] sleeping So dear to your hearts in sorrow still weeping. Was ta'en by the Father whose foreknowledge knows That sorrow and sadness in life's stream ever flows…

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The Late Mr Melmoth Hah

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 10 October 1885 · page 4

OUR obituary notice of to-day contains the name of Mr Melmoth Hall, who, at one time, held a very prominent position in the community. When the Colonial Sugar Company commenced operations at…

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Nicholson's Funeral

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 24 October 1885 · page 8

Donald Nicholson was buried yesterday in the Melbourne [?]metery. The procession was over a mile long. From Richmond the streets were lined, aud the traffic was stopped in Swanston-street,…

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Death of Sharon

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 29 December 1885 · page 4

THE San Francisco papers give the following accounts of the last moments of ex-Senator William Sharon, defendant in the celebrated divorce case of Sarah Althea Hill v. Sharon,…

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