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

Obituaries & funerals, 1864

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

Death of Mr. H. Godfrey

The Yass Courier · Wednesday 2 March 1864 · page 2

IT is with deep regret we to-day record the death of Mr. Henry Godfrey, who for the last nine or ten years was one of our leading storekeepers, and probably the most enterprising…

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The Late Mr. District Court Judge Callaghan. To the Editor of the Herald and Chronicle

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 4 May 1864 · page 3

Sir—There is, it appears, a very general feeling prevailing in the several districts in which Judge Callaghan held his courts, to erect to his memory tablets, on account of the respect in which he was…

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Death of the Very Rev. Archpriest Therry

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 28 May 1864 · page 4

THE following account of the death and labours of his venerable priest, to whom the Catholics of this colony are so largely indebted, is taken from Thursday's Empire. Our contemporary has fallen…

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Lines Written on the Death of Richard Writing, Occasioned by a Fall From His Horse, 13Th May, 1864

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 28 May 1864 · page 4

ARISE my Muse, attune thy plaintive lyre; Serious the theme, and the occasion sad: With loftiest thoughts my vision now inspire A theme, more solemn seldom have we had…

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Melancholy and Untimely Death of Mr. James Kirwan

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 29 June 1864 · page 2

THE most painful duty that has over fallen to our lot to perform is that of recording an event which will long remain impressed on the minds of all the respectable residents of Manaro,—an event which…

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Death of the Rev. M. A. Corish, O.s.b

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 6 July 1864 · page 3

IT is with sorrow we announce the death of Father Corish, which took place at Deanery at two o'clock on Thursday. Although but a short time in Bathurst, his gentle, mild, and kind demeanour…

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Monday on the Death of the Late Rev. Archpriest John Joseph Therry

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 23 July 1864 · page 2

The summer waves upon a western shore Pause without sound, beneath the parting day;— Altho' amidst the wild Atlantic's roar They held, unstayed, their proud majestic way,…

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The Death of Mr. Kirwan

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 10 August 1864 · page 2

THE hearing of the inquiry into the charge against Sergeant O'Donoghue, was resumed at the Cooma police court on Monday the 1st instant, as mentioned in our last. The following is the Monaro Mercury's…

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Death of William Smith O'brien

The Yass Courier · Saturday 20 August 1864 · page 2

MR. WILLIAM SMITH O'BRIEN died at Bangor, North Wales, on the 16th of June. He was the second son of the lute Sir Edward O'Brien, Bart., of Dromsland, county Clare, and brother to Lord…

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Obituary. William Smith O'brien

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 20 August 1864 · page 8

A BRAVE, generous, and honourable man— full of noble, knightly impulses and instincts blended with Quixotic foibles and weaknesses, and a tendency to many crotchets,…

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Death of the Duke of Newcastle

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 21 December 1864 · page 4

THE protracted and sovere illness under which his Grace the Duke of Newcastle has been labouring has at last had a sudden and fatal tormination. The noble duke expired…

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