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

Obituaries & funerals, 1887

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The Death of M. Katkoff

The Burrowa News · Friday 19 August 1887 · page 4

THE career of the remarkable man whose death at Moscow has been announced, strikingly illustrates the anomalies of Russian autocracy. M Katkoff had no…

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Death of Mrs. McBEAN, SENR

The Yass Courier · Friday 19 August 1887 · page 2

WE have to chronicle in this issue the death of another very old and much esteemed resident, in the person of Mrs. McBean, relict of Mr. Alexander McBean, formerly of Bowspring, near…

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Obituary

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 25 August 1887 · page 2

We report to record the [?] of Sergeant [?] Eccertic, which [?] place [?] Mr residence in B[?]-street on Tuesday evening [?], at the age of fifty-one years. The de[?]…

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Death of Sergeant Emerton

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 25 August 1887 · page 4

RESIDENTS of Goulburn will learn with regret of the death of Sergeant Emerton, which took place at a quarter to six o'clock on Tuesday evening last. Sergeant Emerton arrived in the…

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Funeral of Superintendent Morisset

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 27 August 1887 · page 4

ACCORDING to request the Bishop of Goulburn will conduct the whole of the funeral service at the burial of the late Mr. Morisset in the Church of England cemetery on Sunday afternoon at…

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Death of Superintendent Morisset

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 27 August 1887 · page 4
Also in Goulburn Evening Penny Post

DEATH OF SUPERINTENDENT MORISSET.—For some time past the state of health of Mr. Edric N. V. Morisset, superintendent of police for the southern district, has been a source of anxiety to his friends…

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The Death of Superintendent Morisset

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 27 August 1887 · page 4

A BATHURST telegram to the Daily Telegraph says:—The death of Superintendent Morisset has caused great regret here. He was stationed at Bathurst…

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Death of Superintendent D. S. Hicks

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 27 August 1887 · page 4

MR. D. S. HICKS, superintendent of schools in the Bathurst district, died at Orange on Friday, the cause of death being pulmonary disease. Mr. Hicks owed…

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Death of a Famous Lady Sculptor.—A Romantic Story

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 27 August 1887 · page 4

A Lady contributor in Melbourne sends us (Daily Telegraph) the following:—" It is not generally known that there dwelt in East Melbourne during the past six years…

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The Late Mr. Hicks

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 30 August 1887 · page 2

THE late Mr. David Seth Hicks, of the Education Department, was born in England on December 5, 1845, and on coming out to these colonies received his first appointment on April…

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Death of a Famous Lady Sculptor

Goulburn Herald · Tuesday 30 August 1887 · page 2

A lady contributor in Melbourne sends the Daily Telegraph the following:—"It is not generally known that there dwelt in East Melbourne during the past six…

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Death of a Good Man

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 2 September 1887 · page 3

MR. E. V. MORISSET, superintendent of police at Goulburn and deputy-Inspector-General, died at 4 o'clock last Friday morning. Deceased was about 57 years…

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Death of a Famous Lady Sculptor

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 2 September 1887 · page 4

A LADY contributor in Melbourne sends the following to the Daily Telegraph: -- "It is not generally known that there dwelt in East Melbourne during the…

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Death of a Novelist. LONDON, Sept. 2

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 6 September 1887 · page 4

The death is announced of Emma Jane Worboise, the novelist…

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Death of an Old Resident

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 16 September 1887 · page 3

ON last Wednesday week Mr. Patrick Dooley, an old and much respected resident of this district, breathed his last. He came to Pejar about twenty-six or…

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Death of the Hon. S. H. Terry

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 22 September 1887 · page 2

THE death of the Hen. Samuel Henry Terry, M.L.C., took place at his residence at Ashfield at a late hour on Tuesday night. Mr. Terry was a native of the colony, and for nearly a quarter…

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Death of Robert McDowell

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 23 September 1887 · page 2

THE unfortunate man McDowell, whom it is alleged was violently assaulted by Anthony McMahon in Crookwell on the 2nd instant, died on last Saturday…

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Obituary

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 24 September 1887 · page 4

It is with regret that we record the death of Mrs. Martin, wife of the Rev. George Martin of Stanmore (lately minister of the Wesleyan church, Goulburn), which occurred at Stanmore…

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Death of Mrs. Martin

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 24 September 1887 · page 4

THE news of the death of the wife of the Rev. George Martin, Wesleyan Minister, will be received with regret by a large section of the Goulburn public. The deceased lady had suffered…

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