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

Obituaries & funerals, 1869

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

Death of a Child From Burning

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 6 January 1869 · page 4

On Thursday last a little girl of Mr. William Hush's, of Eastfield, near Charleyong, met her death by burning. The deceased, who was two years and nine months…

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Funeral of the Rev. W. Ross

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 23 January 1869 · page 4

THE funeral of this much respected gentleman took place on Thursday, and the unusually large attendance evinced most unmistakably the high estimation in which he was held by his fellow-townsmen. The…

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Death of A. Hamilton, Esq

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 10 February 1869 · page 4

On Sunday last, the 31st of January, Mr. Alexander Hamilton, of Woolway, at the age of 53 years, breathed his last at his residence. On Monday morning the sad…

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Death of the Duke of Brabant

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 24 March 1869 · page 4

His Royal Highness the Princes Royal died on the morning of January 22. The young Duke of Brabant had a presentiment for several days that his end was…

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Local & General News. Death of Mr Miles Murphy

The Yass Courier · Friday 9 April 1869 · page 2

IN our obituary on the 8th of February last appeared a notice of the death of Mrs Murphy, which event took place at her residence at Murrumburrah: and in…

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Death of O'hara Burke

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 14 April 1869 · page 4

[We have been requested to re-publish the following lines which first appeared in the columns of this journal some years back.] A wail resounds along Australia's shore,…

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News by Telegraph. Sydney, this day. Death of Mr. J. H. PLUNKETT

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 11 May 1869 · page 2

Great floods on Saturday and Sunday have damaged the railway near Goulburn, and may postpone the opening. Great damage has occurred from the same…

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Death of Dr. Bratty

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 15 May 1869 · page 3

We learn that Dr. Beatty, late of Grenfell but who has lately been following the practice of his profession on No. 8 section of the great western railway, was found dead in bed…

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After a Funeral. An hour to die, A week to lie

The Yass Courier · Friday 4 June 1869 · page 4

And they lay in its coffer the worn robe by; The robe of the flesh, all frayed and torn With the wear of the world and its many a thorn. Dreary the change…

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Local & General News. Death of Mr. Cornelius O'brien

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 6 July 1869 · page 2

IT is our painful duty to announce the death of Mr. Cornelius O'Brien, which took place at Bendinine, a few miles from Yass, on…

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Death of Mr. Cornelius O'brien

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 10 July 1869 · page 3

IT is our painful duty to announce the death of Mr. Cornelius O'Brien, which took place at Bendinine a few miles from Yass, on Sunday morning east, at the ripe age of seventy-three-years. By his decease a…

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Death of Mentschikoff

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 24 July 1869 · page 4

Prince Mentschikoff, who played so important a part in the events of 1853, has just died at St. Petersburg. He was a descendant of the Mentschikoff who, from a…

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Strange Death of a Surgeon

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 24 July 1869 · page 4

An extraordinary and fatal accident recently happened at Retford, Notts, to Mr. Henry Hutchinson, a veterinary surgeon. He was playing with two of his children,…

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Death of Mr. Moss Marks—magisterial Inquiry

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 7 August 1869 · page 4

ON Thursday afternoon an inquiry was held into the cause of death of Mr. Moss Marks, J.P. The inquiry was commenced at Thomas's Family Hotel, Auburn-street, Goulburn, and was subsequently…

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Shooting and Death of the Supposed Bushrangeruth Erford

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 18 September 1869 · page 2

ABOUT 12 o’clock on Sunday last, a man. rode up to Beauvois’s Hotel, dismounted and entered the house. After looking around the bar he went into the dining room…

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Sad Death of a Young Lady

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 13 November 1869 · page 2

On Tuesday a melancholy event took place at the Mumbles, Swansea, by which the daughter of the Rev. J. R. Colston was…

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The Late Mr. Peabody

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 25 December 1869 · page 8

GEORGE PEABODY, a descendant of the pilgrim fathers, of a family formerly settled in Leicestershire, was born at Danvers, Massachusetts, U.S., February 18, 1795. His…

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Obituary of Eminent Persons

The Yass Courier · Friday 31 December 1869 · page 4

GEORGE PEABODY, a descendant of the Pilgrim Fathers, of a family formerly settled in Leicestershire, was born at Danvers, Massachusetts, U.S., 18th February, 1795. His…

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