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

Obituaries & funerals, 1875

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

Death of Mr. James Miller

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 20 January 1875 · page 3

Information was received in town yesterday to the effect that Mr. Miller, who for many years carried on business herons a tinsmith, has boon drowned in the Parramatta River…

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Death of a Centenarian

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 13 February 1875 · page 7

The Melbourne Argus states that Mrs. McCarthy died at Back Creek, near Sandhurst, on the [?]0th ultimo, at the age of a hundred and…

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Death of Mr. John Morrice

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 24 February 1875 · page 2

Our obituary to-day contains a notice of the death of Mr. John Morrice of Glenrook, which took place at 10.30 a.m. on Saturday last in his sixty-fourth year. This…

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Death of the Hon. W. M. ARNOLD. (From S. M. Herald.)

Goulburn Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Thursday 4 March 1875 · page 4

OUR readers will learn with feelings of regret of the untimely death by drowning of the Hon. W. M. Arnold, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of the colony of New South Wales. The particulars…

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Death of the Hon. W. M. Arnold

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 6 March 1875 · page 2
Also in The Burrowa News

OUR readers will learn, with feelings of regret, of the untimely death by drowning of the Hon. W. M. Arnold, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of the colony of New South Wales…

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Death of Commodore Nutt

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 20 March 1875 · page 7

Those who remember the visit of Tom Thumb and Commodore Nutt, with Mrs. Tom Thumb and Miss Minnie Warren, to Sydney, will…

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Melancholy Death of a Survivor of the Battle of Waterloo at Talbragar

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 21 April 1875 · page 3

On Monday- morning last a coroner's inquest was held at the, Talbragar Inn, ,by, Dr. W. H. Tibbits, coroner for the district, on view, of the body of an old man .named John Pollen, then…

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Death of the Irish Giant

The Burrowa News · Saturday 22 May 1875 · page 4

JAMES Murphy, jun., known as the Irish. Giant, died in Baltimore' early on Friday morning of consumption. Mr. Murphy was born in Waterford, Ireland, was ,thirty-three years of age. [?]…

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Death of a Lady Miser

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 29 May 1875 · page 2

DEATH OF A LADY MISER.—An independent maiden lady, named Eilzabeth Scott, died suddenly the other day. It appeared that the deceased, who was seventy-two…

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Death of John Mitchel. Dublin, March 20

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 29 May 1875 · page 4

JOHN MITCHEL died this morning at eight o’clock, at Dromalane, near Newry, where he had been for only a few days. This is the last item of startling intelligence…

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Lines Written on the Death of Mrs. John McBEAN and Child

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 8 June 1875 · page 3

An angel from the "higher fields" came down, To choose a bloom from out these fens of ours, To wreath among those fair Elysian flowers, Which form the grandeur of Immanuel's crown…

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Death of John Mitchel

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 9 June 1875 · page 4

Dublin, March 29.—John Mitchel died this morning, at eight o'clock, at Dromalane, near Newry, Where he had been for only a few days. This…

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Death of General Sir James Hope Grant, G.c.b

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 12 June 1875 · page 2

ONE if the gallantest soldiers and modestest of Christian gentlemen of this our time went out from among us last evening when there closed in death the eyes of the grey old chief…

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Death of the Oldest Cricketer

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 16 June 1875 · page 4

THE death is announced of Mr. Edward Hayward Budd, one of the oldest cricketers, at the age of 90, who shared with Lord Frederick Beauclerk and Mr. William Ward…

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Death of the Beautiful Princess

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 23 June 1875 · page 4

Rome, says a letter to the Echo, has been much moved by the death of Princess Torlonia, once the most beautiful woman in Rome, and the sad sufferer, for nearly twenty…

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Death of Lady Franklin. New York, June 19

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 28 July 1875 · page 3

PHILIP P. Harris, of this city, received this morning the following telegram from Cyrus W. Field, dated Liverpool, June 19th:—“I am just off in the Bothnia. Lady Franklin is…

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Funeral of the Late Commodore Good Enough and the Two Sea-men of H.M.S. PEARL (Abridged from the Evening News.)

Goulburn Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Thursday 26 August 1875 · page 2

ON Tuesday afternoon was witnessed on of the most solemn and impressive sights ever seen in this colony, when the remains of Commodore Good-enough, late of H.M.S. Pearl, and Commander of…

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Funeral of Commodore Goodenough and Seamen Rayner and Smale

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 28 August 1875 · page 3

THE funeral of Commodore Goodenough, whose timely death has been heard of with such profound regret, and has created such a feeling of sorrow throughout the community, together with the funeral…

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Funeral of Lady Franklin

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 2 October 1875 · page 7

YESTERDAY the body of Lady Franklin was buried in peace, after a quietly active life, cheerful even in its sadness, and prolonged without overstepping the natural limit of…

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