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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1900

125 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 3 of 7

Death of a Great Artist

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 1 May 1900 · page 4

The death of Mr. Lockhart the minent academician, is important, for it was he who produced those splendid picture of the Queen's Jubilee celebration in Wesminster…

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Death of an old Resident

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 15 May 1900 · page 2

ON Saturday Mr. John Westmann, better known as James Patterson, aged 77 years, died in the hospital at Maclean from an internal ailment. He had been ill for some weeks but it was only…

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Death of Mrs. Jas. Watson

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 15 May 1900 · page 3

Mrs. WATSON wife of Mr. James Watson, of Tyndale, died yesterday. Deceased, who had reached the age of 67 years, had not been in good health for some time past, but it was only a few…

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Death of Professor Pepper. Illusions Past and Present

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 15 May 1900 · page 3

In the death of Professor Pepper, at his residence in Colworth-road, Leytonstone, there passes away a personage who may be rightly looked…

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A Ballarat Funeral

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 18 May 1900 · page 4

Some strange, wild funerals used to drift into Ballarat from mad, Irish, agricultural localities surrounding that town in years agone. On one occasion tho people in Bridge-street, and the…

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Death of a Correspondent. [By Telegraph] . Sydney, Wednesday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 18 May 1900 · page 3

NEWS has been received of the death in South Africa of Mr H. Spooner, war correspondent of the EVENING NEWS. No intimation is to hand of the manner…

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Death of a War Correspondent

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 19 May 1900 · page 4

There was a considerable shock in journalistic circles in Sydney this morning when it was announced that Mr. H. H. Spooner bad succumbed to enteric fever at Bloemfontein. Mr. Spooner was the son…

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Obituary

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 29 May 1900 · page 2

ON Sunday last Mrs. Shaw, of Woodford Island, relict of the late Mr, John Shaw, breathed her last after a long illness from consumption. The deceased lady was 54 years of…

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The Late Mr A. H. Jacob

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 1 June 1900 · page 2

Mr. ARCHIBALD HAMILTON JACOB, M.L.C. died at his residence, Ashfield; at 6 o'clock on Monday morning. Tho deceased was Chairman of the Committees of the Council, and 15 times was…

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Death of Mr John McFarlane

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 8 June 1900 · page 2

MR. JOHN MCFARLANE, of Woodford Dalo, died on Monday evening, after a long illness from cancer—an aliment which has of late carried off several residents of Woodford Dale. Deceased…

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Death of Mrs. Gladstone. London

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 18 June 1900 · page 3

Mrs Gladstone is dead. The remains of the deceased lady will be interred in Westminster Abbey…

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Death of Mr. J. Stirling

The Clarence River Advocate · Tuesday 19 June 1900 · page 2

MR. JOHN STIRLING, of Chatsworth, dropped suddenly dead at the N.C.S.N. Co's wharf at Maclean yesterday morning. He had been in failing health for some time past and was…

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Death of an Australian Lieutenant

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 26 June 1900 · page 5

News comes from South Africa of the death of Lieutenant Drage, who was killed in one of the " affairs" near Pretoria on the 12th…

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Death of a French Prince

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 29 June 1900 · page 6

THE death was annonnced last week of the Prince de Joinville, at the age of 82 years. Francois Ferdinand Philippe Joinville was a son of the leta Louts Philippe, King of the French…

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PERSONAL. The Late Mr, Douglas M'Kenzie

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 2 July 1900 · page 2

THE death on Saturday morning of Mr. Douglas M'Kenzie removes from our midst a prominent figure in local matters. It has been the lot of few men to suffer as he has suffered, and to…

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The Late Mr. W. Roberts

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 6 July 1900 · page 2

Mr. Wm. Roberts, solicitor, of Sydney, aged 70, died at ids residence, Ferabank, near Bowral, on Sunday afternoon, after a short illness from a stroke of apoplexy…

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Personal. the Late Mr. E. Creer

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 6 July 1900 · page 2

RESIDENTS throughout the district sustained a painful shock when it became known that Mr. E. Creer, of Bicon-street, had succumbed to an apoplectic seizure on Monday…

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Death of Mr. Edward Creer

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 7 July 1900 · page 2

No little surprise was manifested in the city on Tuesday morning at the announcement of the death of Mr. Edward Greer, an old resident of Grafton, and widely known throughout the district…

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The Late Mr. H. F. Lucke

The Clarence River Advocate · Friday 13 July 1900 · page 2

THE finding of the magisterial inquiry into the cause of the death of the late Mr. Henrich F. Lucke, of Lawrence, was that death had been caused by choking with a piece of meat…

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A Highland Funeral. an Impressive Scene

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 16 July 1900 · page 4

WITH the pomp aud circumstance befitting a distinguished British nobleman and Scottish chieftain, and yet with the austere and quiet dignity…

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