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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1857

6 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers

Death of Mr. Hugh Miller

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 11 April 1857 · page 2

WE extract from the Edinburgh Witness the particulars of the melancholy event which has deprived the scientific world of one of its brightest luminaries:…

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Domestic Intelligence. Fatal Accident on the Wollondilly. Death of the Rev. Charles Marsden Betts

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 1 August 1857 · page 4

WE have the melancholy duty this day of recording the death by drowning of the Rev. Charles Marsden Betts. The lamented gentleman, in addition to assisting in the…

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The Funeral

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 29 August 1857 · page 5

The interment of those bodies that have been recovered from the wreck of the Dunbar, took place on Monday. The public offices were all closed at two o'clock, and shortly after that…

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Funeral of an Australian Princess

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 29 August 1857 · page 3

IN a letter from Vienna of the 2nd June, we read:—"The funeral convoy of the deceased Archduchess Sophia arrived last night, at ten o'clock, at the…

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British & Foreign Extracts. Death of Mr. Douglas Jerrold

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 29 August 1857 · page 2

OUR readers will join with us in sincere and heartfelt regret at the announcement of the death of Mr. Douglas Jerrold, the late talented editor of this journal…

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Funeral of Mr. Nichols

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 26 September 1857 · page 6

THE mortal remains of the late George Robert Nichols, Esq., M.P., were consigned to their final resting-place, in the old Church of England Cemetery, on Wednesday afternoon week…

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