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

Obituaries & funerals, 1887

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Death of Miss Muloch. LONDON, Oct. 14

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 18 October 1887 · page 4

The death is announced of Mrs. Craik (nee Muloch), the well-known novelist…

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Death of Lady Mary Fitzroy

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 22 October 1887 · page 2

Some discussion having arisen as to the exact position of the now historical tree against which Lady Fitzroy was thrown in the…

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Death of the Right Hon. Beresford Hope. LONDON, Oct. 20

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 22 October 1887 · page 4

The death is announced of the Right Hon Beresford-Hope, M.P., in his 68th year…

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The Late Mr. Henty

Goulburn Herald · Tuesday 25 October 1887 · page 2

THE LATE MR. HENTY.—Mr. Laws, superintendent of the Goulburn fire-brigade, from Mr. Robert Kerr, manager of the City Mutual Fire Insurance Company, under date Sydney, 20th instant :—…

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Accidental, Death of a Favorite Horse

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 27 October 1887 · page 2

Yesterday morning a, horse belonging to Mr. A. O. Moriarty, chairman of the local land board, was found dead Cowper-street. It appears that the horse was placed on Tuesday night in a paddock…

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The Death of Lady Brassey. LONDON, Oct. 29

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 1 November 1887 · page 4

A report reached London to the effect that Lady Brassey jumped overboard from the yacht Sunbeam while in a fit of temporary insanity, caused by the fever from which she was…

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Death of Sir George Macfarren. LONDON, Nov. 1

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 3 November 1887 · page 4

The death is announced of Sir George Macfarren, the eminent musical composer, in his 75th year…

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Obituary

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 4 November 1887 · page 2

IT is our painful duty to place on record the death of Mr. Charles Parker senior, one of the oldest residents in the Crookwell district. The deceased gentleman was ninety years of age…

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Death of Mr. Conolly

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 8 November 1887 · page 2

THE present year has been an eventful one in Goulburn in more respects than one. It has witnessed the death of many old residents of the city—of men who had been identified with…

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Death of Mr. William Conolly

Goulburn Herald · Tuesday 8 November 1887 · page 2

It is with extreme regret that we record the death, at the ago of sixty-six, of Mr. William Conolly of the Argyle Mills, which took place on Sunday last, at Manly,…

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Death of Jenny Lind

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 9 November 1887 · page 4

A CABLEGRAM dated London, November 2, stated that Madame Goldschmidt (Jenny Lind), the eminent vocalist, had died that day after a severe illness, aged 66 years…

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Obituary

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 10 November 1887 · page 2

The friends of Mr. Lachlan Mc Gowan, comedian, who will be remembered as a former resident of Goulburn, will regret to learn of the death of his wife, which occurred at Anokland, New…

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Funeral of Mr. W. Conolly

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 10 November 1887 · page 2

The remains of the late Mr. W. Conolly were brought to Goulburn by express train on Monday night and were deposited in st. Saviour's Schoolroom, whence the funeral…

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Death of Jenny Lind

The Yass Courier · Friday 11 November 1887 · page 4

MADAME GOLDSCHMIDT was better known by her maiden name of Jenny Lind. She was the daughter of a teacher of languages in Stockholm, in which city she was born on…

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The Late Mr. Conolly

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 15 November 1887 · page 2

THE evening service in St. Saviour's School-room on Sunday had special reference to the death of Mr. W. Conolly. The hymns sung during the evening wore specially selected, and…

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Death of Sir William Macarthur. LONDON, Nov. 15

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 19 November 1887 · page 3

Sir William M'Arthur, formerly M.P. for Lambeth, died suddenly to-day. He had been running to catch a train, and the exertion brought on an attack of heart disease, to which…

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Death of Colonel Valentine Baker. CAIRO, Nov. 17

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 22 November 1887 · page 4

News has been received of the death from fever of Colonel Valentine Baker (Baker Pasha) at Tel-el-kebir…

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Strange Death of a Boy

The Burrowa News · Friday 25 November 1887 · page 3

A BOARDED-OUT boy named James Sivret, aged 12 years, met his death in a singular manner at Mittagong on Wednesday. He was apparently in perfect health at…

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Death of the Hon. W. R. Piddington

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 26 November 1887 · page 4

WE regret to have to report that the Hon. W. R. Piddington, M.L.C., chariman of committees in the Legislative Council, died somewhat suddenly at his lodgings, Castlreagh-street,…

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Death of Lieut.-General Camble. LONDON, Nov. 21

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 26 November 1887 · page 6

The death is announced of Lieut.-General Camble, C.B…

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