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

Obituaries & funerals, 1884

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Queanbeyan. Death of Mr. Peter Naylor

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 22 January 1884 · page 4

WE regreat to have to record the demise of Mr. Peter Naylor, son., of Urila, in this district, which sad event took place at his residence on Tuesday last at noon. The deceased gentleman has been…

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Death of Lady Cowper. a Page From the Early History of New South Wales

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 5 February 1884 · page 4

A FEW incidents in the life of the late Lady Cowper, widow of Sir Charles Cowper, and of Sir Charles, as well as some information about the district in…

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Death of an Old Colonist

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 14 February 1884 · page 2

THE sudden death of one our oldest colonists. Mr. Edward O'Brien, is reported in the S. M. Herald of Monday last. The deceased gentleman was born in India in the…

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Death of an Old Colonist

Southern Argus · Saturday 16 February 1884 · page 5

THE sudden death of one of our oldest colonists. Mr. Edward O'Brien, is reported in the S. M. Herald of Monday last. The deceased gentleman was bron in India in the year 1816, and arrived in this colony in…

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The Late Mr. Milner-gibson

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 1 March 1884 · page 2

A recent cablegram announced the death of the Right Hon. Thomas Milner-Gibsen. He was in his seventy-eighth year. According…

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Death of the Rev. Charles Bad- Ham, D.d

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 1 March 1884 · page 3

Thursday’s Echo says,—It is our melancholy duty to announce the death of the Reverend Dr. Radham, which took place between 10 and 11 o’clock last night, at the University, after a…

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Death of William Walsh

Goulburn Herald · Tuesday 4 March 1884 · page 3

It will be seen by a telegram elsewhere that Master William Welsh, one of the passengers injured in the recent coach accident near Queanboyan, died from the effects of…

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Death of the Oldest Resident of Goulburn

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 11 March 1884 · page 2

THIS morning, between ten and eleven o'clock, Mrs. Jane Steer, the oldest resident of this city, passed away to her last home. She was eighty-three years of age, and had she lived a few weeks longer…

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Death of an Old Resident

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 13 March 1884 · page 2

On Tuesday morning last Mrs. Jane Steer, generally known as the oldest resident of Goulburn, died at her house in Mulwarree-street, after a short illness, at the age…

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Death of Everett

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 18 March 1884 · page 2

THE unfortunate man Benjamin Everett, who shot himself in the grounds of the Goulburn hospital at dusk last Wednesday, expired in the institution at one a.m. this morning. He never regained…

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Death of Mr. Henry Baker

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 29 March 1884 · page 7

WE (Bathurst Times) regret to hear of the death, at New York, of Mr. Henry Baker, who a short time ago was a resident of Bathurst, engaged in teaching music. Mr…

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Death of the Duke of Albany

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 1 April 1884 · page 2
Also in The Yass Courier

IN a Government Gazette extraordinary, published on Monday, the following notification appears:— "In consequence of the :demise on the 28th instant of his Royal Highness Prince Leopold, Duke of…

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Death of the Duke of Albany. London, March 28

Goulburn Herald · Tuesday 1 April 1884 · page 3
Also in Southern Argus

His Royal Highness Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, died suddenly at Cannes to-day, aged thirty. His health, although never robust, had not been by any means sufficiently impaired to cause particular…

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Death of the Duke of Albany. London, March 21

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 1 April 1884 · page 4

His Royal Highness Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, died suddenly at Cannes to-day, aged 30. His health though never robust, had not been by any means sufficiently never impaired to cause particular…

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Later Particulars of the Death of Prince Leopold. LONDON, March 20

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 1 April 1884 · page 2

FURTHER particulars are to hand concerning the death of the Duke of Albany. It appears that the Duke slipped upon the stairs of the Nautical Club at Cannes, and sustained an injury to his knee. He…

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The Late Mrs. Fitzgibbon. [To the Editor Southern Argus.]

Southern Argus · Thursday 3 April 1884 · page 2

SIR.—There was a great mistake in the Goulburn papers on 22nd March containing an account of the death of my late beloved wife. It was true she had lost her sight, but she was not bedridden or helpless,…

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Death of the Vice Emperor

The Burrowa News · Friday 4 April 1884 · page 4

THE death of M. Roucher is an event in the political history of France, It brings to a close the Napoleonic legend, so far as the career of the men of the Second…

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The Late Mrs. Fitzgibbon

Southern Argus · Saturday 5 April 1884 · page 2

The inquiry into the cause of death of Mrs. Fitzgibbon, of Tarlo, was held last Saturday before the coroner, Mr. Betts. The deceased, it appeared, resided with her husband and their grand-daughter,…

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