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

Obituaries & funerals, 1885

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Death of Mr. R. Benson

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 13 January 1885 · page 2

MR. Benson, who some years ago carried on business here as a tailor, and who afterwards went into business in Parramatta, died at that place on Saturday morning from acute rheumatism after an…

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Sudden Death of Dr. Quinn, R. C. Bishop of Bathurst

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 17 January 1885 · page 4

THE Right Rev. Dr. Quinn, Roman Catholic Bishop of Bathurst, died suddenly on Friday at Bathurst. On Thursday he was quite well, and was in retreat with a number of priests at St…

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Death of the Right Rev. Dr. Quinn

Southern Argus · Tuesday 20 January 1885 · page 2

Saturday's Sydney Herald says:—Roman Catholies throughout the colony will be pained to hear of the death of the Right Rev. Dr. Mathew Quian, Bishop of Bathurst, who died yesterday morning…

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Death of Dr. Quinn, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Bathurst

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 20 January 1885 · page 2

ON Friday morning last we received a telegram from Bathurst stating that Dr. Mathew Quinn, Roman Catholic Bishop of Bathurst, died suddenly that morning at the close of the annual…

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Death of Bishop Quinn

The Burrowa News · Friday 23 January 1885 · page 2

BATHURST was thrown into a slate of great excitement on Friday by the instellig[?]nce that Right Rev. Dr. Quinn. Roman Catholic Bishop of Goulburn, had…

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Death of Col. Fred Burnaby

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 24 January 1885 · page 4

A NOTABLE man has gone over to the majority in the person of Colonel Burnaby, who has fallen in the Soudan, slain by an Arab spear. Of colossal stature,…

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Death of Baron O'hagan

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 7 February 1885 · page 6

London, February 2.—The death is announced of Baron O'Hagan, formerly Lord High Chancellor of Ireland, [The deceased was…

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The Death of General Gordon

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 12 February 1885 · page 2

Further particulars with regard to Genera Gordon's fate state that the garrison at Khartoum under Gordon's immediate command were decoyed to Omdurman on the opposite bank of the Nile in…

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Special Telegrams. [Greville's Telegram Company.] the Death of General Gordon. London

The Yass Courier · Friday 13 February 1885 · page 2

A party of refugees from Khartoum have reached the British line and confirm the reports of the death of General Gordon. They state Faragh Pasha opened the gates of the…

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Shocking Death of an Infant

Southern Argus · Saturday 14 February 1885 · page 2
Also in Goulburn Evening Penny Post

A frightful occurrence happened on Thursday, morning, at a place three miles from Raymond Terrace. A little child about eight months old, belonging to people named Dann, was eaten to…

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Death of General Gordon. London

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 14 February 1885 · page 3

News has been received that General Gordon was killed whilst leaving his house. Wednesday. The garrison of Khartoum, under the…

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Death of Mr. J. K. Heydon

Southern Argus · Tuesday 17 February 1885 · page 2

Says the Freeman's Journal:—Mr. Jabez King Heydon, upon whose honoured age time stole with lingering gentleness, breathed his last on Tuesday in his peaceful home at Villa Marin, having…

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The Late Mr. E. P. S. Sturt

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 19 February 1885 · page 4

RECENT cablegrams contain the news of the death of Mr. E. P. S. Start at Port Said, while on his way back to Melbourne, where for a quarter of a century he held the…

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The Late Mr.e. P. S. Sturt

The Burrowa News · Friday 20 February 1885 · page 3

THE following biographical sketch of the late Mr.E.P.S. sturt, for some years Commisioner for Crown Lands in New South Wales, and of late years police magi…

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Death of a Miser

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 21 February 1885 · page 3

On Saturday last (says the Yass Courier) death relieved Richard Gollop, a well-known local identity, of a miserable and miserly existence. Gollop was always noted for his…

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The Death-roll of Notabilities for 1881

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 21 February 1885 · page 2

THE death-roll of the year embraces many famous and remarkable names, though none, perhaps, of such eminence as to signalise an irreparable loss or a national disaster. The…

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Death of Judge Hargrave

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 26 February 1885 · page 2

WE have to announce the death (bays the S. M. Herald of Wednesday) of Mr. J. F. Hargrave, ex-Judge of the Supreme Court, his demise having taken place on Tuesday at his residence, Rushcutter…

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Death of an Old Colonist

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 5 March 1885 · page 4

On the 5th of January last, at his residence, Kensington, London, passed away, in his seventy-seventh year, Thomas Dyer Edwards, once merchant in Sydney in…

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Death of Mr. Benjamin Weeks

The Burrowa News · Friday 6 March 1885 · page 2

AN inquest wu held on Saturday afternoon at 3.30 p.m. before Dr. Beattie the Coroner, upon the body of Benjamin Weeks, who was supposed to have met…

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