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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1887

15 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers

The Funeral of Fred Archer

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 1 January 1887 · page 8

A GRAPHIC account of nearly four columns of the funeral of the late famous jockey Archer, appeared in the Sportsman (London), a copy of which has been handed us…

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Death of Mrs. J. A. M'Intosh

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 1 January 1887 · page 4

IT is with deep regret that we have to record the death of Mrs. J. A. M'Intosh, wife of the Principal of the Grafton Grammar School, which took place yesterday forenoon. Mrs. M'Intosh was in her…

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[?] on the Death of a Tom Cat

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 8 January 1887 · page 6

AND art thou dead, thou minstrel of the night, That nsed to wake me up in such a fright? When on the shingled roof or garden wall I heard your wild, unearthly fiendish squall,…

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Original Lines. on the Death of Mrs. M'intosh, Died December 31, 1886

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 8 January 1887 · page 6

THAT cruel woodman has again been here, And robbed our forest of a noble tree, And every dryad in the midst of glee Stops, and lets fall a bitter, scalding tear…

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Origninal Lines. on the Death of William Taylor. Died January 28Th, 1887

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 12 February 1887 · page 6

MOURN, mourn, all ye who own the hearts of men; "A noble spirit from your midst has gone. Gone, to that home whence none return again; Gone and left all forsaken and alone…

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Death of Cardinal Jacobini

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 5 March 1887 · page 8

A CABLEGRAM dated London, February 28, announces the death at Rome of Cardinal Jacobini, the Papal Secretary of State. His Eminence was born at Albano, 1832…

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Death of Mr. R. L. Murray

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 15 March 1887 · page 2

We exceedingly regret to have to chronicle the death in Sydney of Mr. R. L. Murray, formerly member for Inverell, a gentleman who took a deep interest in the welfare of the Northern…

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Death of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 19 March 1887 · page 2

As announced in our issue of Saturday, the Rev. Mr. Beecher, who had been in an unconscious state since Saturday last, owing to an apoplectic fit, died at the ago of 7…

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Death of Mr. Horace Dean

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 10 May 1887 · page 2

mR. HORACE DEAN, the principal of Messrs. H. Dean and Co., died on Sunday last, after a short illness resulting from the infirmities of age. Mr. Dean purchased the store business of Mr. Thomas…

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Death of a Notable Colonist

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 17 May 1887 · page 3

THE Perth Inquirer of the 20th ultimo records the death of a notable West Australian colonist, Captain M. S. Smith, lately Commissioner of Police in that colony. Captain Smith formely held a commission…

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Death of a Famous Conjuror

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 26 July 1887 · page 4

PROFESSOR HERRMANN, the "Prince of Conjurors," as he called himself, died on June 8 at Car[?]sbad, after a short illness, at the age of 72. The Vienna correspondent of the…

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Death of Mr. Timothy Morrissey

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 16 August 1887 · page 2

WE regret to have to intimate the death of Mr. Timothy Morrissey, of the Viotoria hotel, which took place on Saturday, and the news we are sure will be heard with sorrow by a large number of…

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Death of Dr. Purdie

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 22 October 1887 · page 4

IT is with much regret that we have to chronicle the death, since our last issue, of our oldest resident medical practitioner—Dr. Robert Purdie, a name associated with Grafton for upwards of a…

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Death of a Popular Highland Chieftain

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 5 November 1887 · page 3

THE sudden death of Lord Lovat has excited much sorrow throughout the Highlands (says a London exchange) as he was one of the best known and most popular of the…

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Death of Mr. W. Attwater, sen

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 10 December 1887 · page 4

IN Tuesday's issue we referred to the illness of Mr. W. Attwater. At that time we did not think his end was so very near, but he had been gradually sinking, and passed away on Tuesday foronoon…

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