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

Obituaries & funerals, 1879

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Death of Mr. Philip Dignam

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 25 June 1879 · page 2

DEATH OF MR. PHILIP DIGNAM.—One by one the old residents of Goulburn are passing away. The friends of Mr. Philip Dignam will learn with deep regret of his death, which took place on Monday…

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Death of Mr. Fuljames

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Saturday 28 June 1879 · page 4

WE are sorry to have to report the death of Mr. John Fuljames, which took place at his residence, Clifford-street, to-day about 11 a.m. Mr. Fuljames was an old resident in…

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Death of Mr. S. F. Gibson

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Thursday 3 July 1879 · page 4

IT is with deep regret that we have to record the death of Mr. Septimus F. Gibson, which took place at his residence, Kenmore, about half-past three o’clock yesterday morning…

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Death of the Last Flying Fox

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Saturday 5 July 1879 · page 5

ONE of these troublesome creatures has escaped the gun during the season, and has till lately existed on quinces that were injured by frost till that source failed. Latterly it…

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The Death of the Prince Imperial. Cape Town, June 14

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 9 July 1879 · page 3

WORDS would fail me if I were to attempt to describe the profound sensation which was occasioned by the news of the death of the son of the late Emperor of the French. When the telegram was…

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The Late Mr. Richard Kenna. Bath[?]

The Burrowa News · Friday 11 July 1879 · page 3

At the Roman Catholic Cathed[?]l to-day Dr. Byrne delivered as address detailing the circumstances regarding the antagonism which had arisen…

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Death of Mr. F. M. Dates. Suspicion of Foul Play

The Burrowa News · Friday 11 July 1879 · page 4

ON Thursday morning (says the Age) the body of a man was found lying off the readway, in a gully near the Royal Park, by a carpenter named Dunn. He at once reported…

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The Late Mr. Kenna. of Bathurst

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 15 July 1879 · page 2

THE following letters passed between the late Mr. Kenna, and the Catholic Bishop of Bathurst: -- Clarevile, 4th May, 1879. "My Lord, -- I have suffered great pain of mind…

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The Late Mr. Richard Kenna and the Catholic Church

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 16 July 1879 · page 4

The circumstances connected, with the death and burial of the late Mr. Richard Kenna formed the subject of an address from the Rev. Dr. Byrne at the Cathedral…

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Death of the Prince Imperial

The Burrowa News · Friday 18 July 1879 · page 3

THE correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph, Mr. Phil. Robinson, gives the following account of the Prince's death:—The huts near which the…

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Death of the Hon. Sir E. Deasthomson, C.b., K.c.m.g

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 19 July 1879 · page 6

IT is our painful duty to record the death of one of the oldest and best of our public men, the Hon. Sir E. Deas-Thomson, C.B., K.C.M.G., at the ripe age of eighty years. His death took place about four…

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Death of Baron Rothschild

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 22 July 1879 · page 4

THE unexpected death of Baron Lionel Nathan de Rothschild, the head of the great mercantile house of N. M. Rothschild and Sons, of New Court, occourred at his residence in…

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Death of Baron Rothschild

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 23 July 1879 · page 4

Baron Lionel Nathan de Rothschild died at twenty minutes before six o'clock on June 3. He was born in 1808, and succeeded to the…

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Death of a Bushranger

The Yass Courier · Friday 25 July 1879 · page 4

"GIPSY Smith," whose name is associated with some of the most daring bushrangers in the early days of goldfields in Victoria, died in the Melbourne Hospital last week (says the Argus, of July…

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Death of Omar Kingsley

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 6 August 1879 · page 4

THE death of Omar Kingsley closes the career of one who gained a widespread reputation as Ella Zoyara. For years he appeared as an equestrienne under this title…

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Funeral Rites.—The Public School

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Saturday 16 August 1879 · page 6

THE following particulars have been supplied to us (Yass Courier) for publication from a reliable source :—Some time ago the father of an infant child that was not expected to…

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Queanbeyan News. Funeral of the Rev. Father M‘auliffe

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Thursday 11 September 1879 · page 8

THE sudden death of the pastor of St. Gregory’s Church, which was recorded in the last issue of this paper, was the cause of universal regret throughout the district, and…

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Melancholy Death of a Priest

The Burrowa News · Friday 12 September 1879 · page 2

NEWS reached Goulburn on Saturday evening last that the Rev. J. McAuliffe, Catholic clergyman of Queenbeyan, had been accidentally drowned that…

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Extraordinary Death of a Catholic Priest at Queanbeyan

The Yass Courier · Friday 12 September 1879 · page 4

NEVER, probably, was there more consternation and excitement in Quenbeyan than on Saturday evening last about six o'clock, when the groom of the Rev. James McAuliffe arrived in town with the…

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Scene at the Death Sentence of Catherine Webster

The Burrowa News · Friday 19 September 1879 · page 3

AT the trial of Catherine Webster for the murder of Mrs. Thomas, at the Central Criminal Court on Tuesday, after a verdict of guilty had been…

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