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

Obituaries & funerals, 1862

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

Death of Benjamin Caunt, the Exchampion

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 8 January 1862 · page 4

On September 10, Mr. Benjamin Caunt, of the Coach and Horses, St. Martin's-lane, was found dead in his bed. For some time past to has been in bail health…

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Local and Provincial. Death of Prince Albert

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 1 March 1862 · page 2

ON Thursday a telegram was received by Mr. Nixon, the acting station-master, conveying the melancholy intelligence of the death of his Royal Highness Prince Albert, which occurred at Windsor on the…

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Important English News. Death of the Prince Consort Preparations for War with America. [The following was issued from this office on Thursday afternoon] :--

The Yass Courier · Saturday 1 March 1862 · page 2

Important English news via Mauritius, to 26th December. Prince Albert died on the 14th December…

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Funeral of Prince Albert

The Yass Courier · Wednesday 12 March 1862 · page 4

No vulgar po[?]p and vain parade was to be lavished upon one who, by the highest intellectual gifts of mind, cultivated to the highest degree by unbounded…

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Select Poetry. the Death of Prince Albert

The Yass Courier · Wednesday 12 March 1862 · page 4

How should the Princes die? With red spur deep in maddening charger's flauk. Leading the rush that cleaves the focman's…

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British and Foreign Extracts Appalling Colliery Accident.--death of Two Hundred and Fifteen Persons

The Yass Courier · Saturday 22 March 1862 · page 4

WHILE all cheerful English households have been adding to their cheerfulness by heaping up the fires that make a pleasant contrast to the cold outside, a…

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Original Poetry. Death of O'hara Burke

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 31 May 1862 · page 4

A wall resounds along Australia's shore, Her hero's dead; her hero is no more. Not one of deeds, when blood and sorrow weep, When war horse neighs and rifled cannons sweep;…

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Alleged Death of Dr. Livingstone

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 2 August 1862 · page 4

The vague report which appeared in the papers a few days since, to the effect that Dr. Livingstone, the famous African explorer, was dead, appears to be more or less founded on…

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Original Poetry. Lines on the Death of a Young Lady

The Yass Courier · Saturday 6 September 1862 · page 4

IN the deep night, a sound was beard, An awful voice, yet sweet; It called a noble soul from earth, Tine Bridegroom's smile to meet…

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Funeral Services. To the Editor of the Yass Courier

The Yass Courier · Wednesday 29 October 1862 · page 3

SIR, -- In common with many of my followtownsmen, I followed the remains of the late Mr. M'Bean to the Church of England cemetery on Sunday last, and there witnessed…

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Later News From America. Repulse of the Confederates. Death of General Meagher, of the Irish Brigade. Sydney, Tuesday, 9 p.m

The Yass Courier · Wednesday 26 November 1862 · page 2

We have news, via California, from Maryland and Virginia to the 27th-September. The report of the repulse of the Confederates is fully confirmed. They…

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Death of Lady Montefiore

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 20 December 1862 · page 3

THE members of the Jewish community will regret to hear of the death of this accomplished and benevolent lady, which sad cent, took place on the 24th September last, Now Year's Eve, at her residence in…

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Contradiction of the Reported Death of Thomas Francis Meagher

The Yass Courier · Saturday 20 December 1862 · page 3

THE praise of the intrepidity of General Meagher's illustrious Irish Brigade, and its noble chief, resounds throughout the land. The journals echo [?] is. A very handsome…

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