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

Obituaries & funerals, 1874

26 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 1 of 2

Death of Mr. J. F. Martley

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 3 January 1874 · page 3

THE sudden death of Mr. J. F. Martley, the well-known barrister of Sandhurst, and the painful circumstances by which it was attended, are thus reported by the Advertiser…

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The Late Mr. John West

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 14 January 1874 · page 4

A CORRESPONDENT signing himself Truth and Justice sent us some weeks past the following notice of the late Rev. John West, but we were unable to insert it sooner…

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Death of a Buckley-coady Claimant

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 31 January 1874 · page 4

[?] telegraphic despatches we referred to the fact that Mr. Daly, a nephew or presumed nephew of the late Mr. Patrick Buckley Coady, had died very suddenly…

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Death of Mr. G. S. Elliot

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 7 February 1874 · page 6

IT is our painful and unexpected duty to record the demise of the above gentleman, whose accident by being thrown from his buggy was reported in our last…

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Death of the Siamese Twins

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 18 March 1874 · page 4

THE Siamese twins, Chang and Eng, died at their residence in Mount Airy, Surrey county, N.C., on Saturday morning, January 19th. Chang was paralysed last fall,…

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Death of Dr. Livingstone

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 11 April 1874 · page 2

THE news of the death of Dr. Livingstone has caused a feeling of deep regret. The first intimation of the sad event was received in London on Jan. 26, in a telegram from Aden,…

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Death of an Old Journalist

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 11 April 1874 · page 8

In one of the late English obituaries is recorded the death of Mr. Nathan Cohen, editor and proprietor of the Brighton Guardian. Mr…

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Death of William Roohan the Mailman

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 15 April 1874 · page 4

DEATH, who is no respecter of persons, has at length pa[?] his claim for the body of the iron-con[?]ned, plucky, and veteran old mail-contractor for many years familiarly known in these parts as…

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Livingstone's Funeral

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 21 April 1874 · page 2

The remains of the rate Dr. Livingstone, the celebrated African explorer, were interred with great pomp in Westminster Abbey. The Queen sent a wreath to decorate the…

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The Death of the Boar

The Yass Courier · Friday 22 May 1874 · page 4

Seeing where the green ooze of a sun-struck marsh Shook with a thousand reeds untunable, And in their moist and multitudinous flower Slept no soft sleep, with violent visions fed,…

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Death of David Frederich Strauss

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 27 May 1874 · page 4

A telegram which we received last night, announces that Dr. David Frederich Strauss, the author of the Life of Jesus, died on Sunday morning at Ludwigsburg, in…

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Death of a Woman Miser

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 6 June 1874 · page 6

Early on Sunday morning Margaret Fitzsimmons, an Irishwoman, sixty years old, died in Bellevue hospital, having been taken thither the night before from the yorkville…

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Death of a Lunatic in the Bathurst Gaol

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 13 June 1874 · page 3

—A most melancholy case formed the subject of investigation before the coroner on Tuesday in the gaol. It seems a man named William Farley was admitted into the gaol on the 24th of last month,…

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Original Poetry. the Death of Livingstone

The Yass Courier · Friday 26 June 1874 · page 4

(He had been ill with chronic dysentery for several months past, and, although well supplied with stores and medicines, he seems to have had a presentiment that the attack would prove fatal. He rode a donkey, but was subsequently carried, and…

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Ralph the Bailiff. Charier I. the Funeral of the Elder Son

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 30 June 1874 · page 4

A DRIZZLING rain tell upon the long grass and the moss-grown tombstones of the churchyard of Olney, a village in Lincolnshire. Every now and then, beaten down by this…

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Death of Mr. Jones

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 22 July 1874 · page 2

DEATH OF MR. JONES.—Our obituary to-day records the death of Mr. William Jones, formerly proprietor of this paper. Mr. Jones was a very old colonist. On his arrival in Sydney many years ago…

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Shocking Death of an Old Man

The Yass Courier · Friday 31 July 1874 · page 2

AN inquest was held yesterday, at noon, by the district coroner (Dr. Blake), at the White Swan Inn, Yass, to inquire into the circumstances of the death of an old man, name unknown. The…

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Obituary

The Burrowa News · Saturday 1 August 1874 · page 2

The remains of the oldest resident of this town will be interred in the Catholic Cemetery, at noon to-day, when it is expected that a large attendance of friends will…

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Death of the "Flying Man."

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 29 August 1874 · page 2

IT was announced yesterday that at half-past seven p.m. M. de Groof, the "flying man," would repent at the Cremorne-gardens "his astounding performance of flying through…

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The Funeral

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 9 September 1874 · page 2

The body of the lamented Mr. R. B. Blatchford was taken from his late residence in Clifford-street [?] at three o' clock on Monday, and brought to the Wesleyan Church. Woilst it was being…

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