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

Obituaries & funerals, 1879

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Death of Ex-Alderman Oatley

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Thursday 2 January 1879 · page 2

IT is with regret that we announce the somewhat sudden death of Mr. James Oatley, J.P., on Tuesday morning, at half-past -4 o’clock, at his residence Bourke-street Woolloomooloo. Lately the deceased…

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Death of Mr. F. R. Hume, J.p

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 14 January 1879 · page 2

ONE of the most upright, liberal, and warm-hearted of our neighbours passed, under most sorrowful circumstances, to his final rest last Saturday morning. We mean Mr…

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The Death of Mr. F. R. Hume.-- the Inquest

The Yass Courier · Friday 17 January 1879 · page 3

AN inquest on the body of Mr. Francis Rawdon Hume was held at Frankfield, near Gunning, on the 11th instant, before the coroner, Sir. J. F. Gray, J.P., and the following jury, namely…

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Death of Mrs. Thorn

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Saturday 25 January 1879 · page 3

YESTERDAY the slow and sombre tolling of the bell at St. Saviour’s pro-Cathedral announced the death of Mrs. Jane Thorn, who Thursday at Brisbane Grove, near…

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Death of Mrs. Z. Hawkins

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 4 February 1879 · page 4

THIS lady, who has been a resident of the Goulburn district for something like forty-seven or forty-eight years, being one of the oldest inhabitants in this city, breathed her last at her residence,…

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Cable Messages. (From the S. M. Herald’s Telegrams.) London, Feb. 4, OBITUARY.—General Pratt

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Saturday 8 February 1879 · page 9

Viscount Cranbrook, replying to a deputation to-day. promised to urge upon the Government the necessity of the gradual remission of the cotton duties in India…

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Death of a Noble Woman

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 1 March 1879 · page 4

It is with feelings of the deepest regret that we have to announce the death of one of the most estimable of those self-abnegating followers…

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Finding the Remains of the Late Mr. John Doyle

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Monday 3 March 1879 · page 2

Our readers may remember that towards the end of October last an elderly man named John Deyle left his home in Goulburn to levy an execution upon a settler said to reside at Cogenburgh…

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Death of Mr. S. Burge

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Thursday 6 March 1879 · page 6

ON Friday Mr. Samuel Burge, father of the Messrs Burge of Goulburn, died in Parramatta, after a long illness. Mr. Burge was ex-Mayor, and for many years Alderman in Parramatta. The funeral…

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Death of Mr. W. O. Windeyer

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 11 March 1879 · page 7

THE regret that we (Wagga Express) feel in announcing the death of Mr. Walter Orton Windeyer, of Wantabadgery, will be shared by everyone residing in this district. An old…

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Death of Princess Alice

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 15 March 1879 · page 4

TOUCHING INCIDENTS.—Her dometic life was one of unmixed happiness. Her husband, a man of most amiable and affectionate disposition,…

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The Reported Death of Shere Ali

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 8 April 1879 · page 4

MIRZA MAHOMED HASSAN has arrived at Cabul from Tashkend. He states that the report of the death of Shere Ali is untrue, and that it originated through the announcement of the…

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An Innocent Man Condemned to Death. Release of William Habron

The Burrowa News · Friday 16 May 1879 · page 2

IN obedience to a telegram forwarded to Portland from the Home office, on March 17, after the statement made in the House of Commons by Mr…

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Death of William Broadhead

The Burrowa News · Friday 23 May 1879 · page 4

THE once notorious William Broad-head, formerly secretary of the Sawgrinders Union at Sheffield, and the instigator of most of the trades-union…

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Death of William Broadhead

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Monday 26 May 1879 · page 4

The once notions William Broadhead, formerly secretary of the Sowginders' Union at Sheffield and the initigator of most of the…

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Death of the Hon. E. Butler, M.l.c

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 11 June 1879 · page 4

YESTERDAY morning, their Honors Judges Faucett and Sir William Manning, as well as counsel and others in attendance at the Supreme court, were greatly shocked by the sudden ant lamentable death…

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Death of the Hon. E. Butler, M[?]

The Yass Courier · Friday 13 June 1879 · page 4

LAST Monday morning, their Honors Judges Faucett and Sir William Manning, as well as counsel and others in attendance at the Supreme Court, were greatly shocked by the…

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Sodden Death of the Hon. Edward Butler, Q.c

The Burrowa News · Friday 13 June 1879 · page 3

THE Bench and the legal profession of both branches have suffered a very great loss in the death of the Hon. Edward Butler, Q.C., who on Monday…

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The Funeral of the Hon. E. Butler

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 14 June 1879 · page 3

THE funeral of the late Hon. Edward Butler, Q.C. which took place this morning, was remarkable in the highest degree ns proving the esteem and love in which the deceased gentleman was held by all classes…

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The Late Mr. Phillip Dignam

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 24 June 1879 · page 4

WE have to record the death of Mr. Phillip Dignam, at his residence, Belmore-square, which occurred yesterday about five o’clock in. the afternoon. Mr. Dignam has been for years suffering…

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