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

Obituaries & funerals, 1888

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Death of Sir Robert Wisdom

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 17 March 1888 · page 4

WE regret to announce the death of Sir Robert Wisdom, K.C.M.G., which took place at his residence, No. 7, Domain-terrace about 6 o'clock on Friday evening. Sir Robert Wisdom…

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Obituary. LONDON, March 16

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 20 March 1888 · page 4

The death is announced of M. Lazare Hippolyte Carnot, politician and author, and the father of M. Sadi-Carnot, President of the French Republic…

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Death of Sir Robert Widsom

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 21 March 1888 · page 4

WE (‘ Telegraph ’) regret to have to announce the death of Sir Robert Wisdom, Q.C., which took place at his city residence, on Friday evening last, about 6 o’clock Sir Robert…

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Death of Sir Robert Wisdom

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 23 March 1888 · page 2
Also in The Burrowa News

SIR ROBERT WISDOM died at his lodgings in the Domain-terrace at half-past 6 on Sunday night. His end was not unexpected. The deceased gentleman had taken an active part in the…

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Funeral of the Late Emperor of Germany

The Burrowa News · Friday 23 March 1888 · page 3

The funeral of the late Emperor of Germany took place to-day. The weather was bleak and choerless. The route from the Cathedral to the…

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The Late Mr. Samuel Rawcliffe

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 24 March 1888 · page 4

AT a meeting of the Eastgrove C. E. School-room Committee held last night, the Rev. A. T. Puddicombe being in the chair, a resolution was unanimously adopted expressive of the high…

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The Late Mr. S. Rawcliffe

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 29 March 1888 · page 2

WE are pleased to notice that a movement is on foot amongst the late Mr. Rawcliffe's fellow-workmen to raise funds on behalf of his widow and orphans, as the following notice, which is…

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News by Cable. Death of the Sultan of Zanzibar. LONDON, March 27

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 31 March 1888 · page 4

The death is announced of the Sultan of Zanzibar…

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Sudden Death of an Old Gouburn resident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 5 April 1888 · page 4

NEWCASTLE, Monday.—Mr. H. S. Hawkins, of Balmain, died suddenly from heart disease at Waratah on Saturday evening. The deceased gentlemen was spending the Easter holidays…

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Death of Mr. Michael Tully

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 10 April 1888 · page 2

THE many friends of Mr. Michael Tully will regret to hear of his sudden death, which took place at the Hibernian Hotel on Saturday morning last. The deceased gentleman was one of…

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Obituary

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 13 April 1888 · page 2

WE regret to record the demise of Mr. Michael Tully, grazier of Wheeo, which took place in Goulburn at an early hour on Saturday morning last. The deceased recently visited…

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Death of an old Crookwell Resident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 14 April 1888 · page 3

ON Monday last there passed away at Crookwell in the person of Mrs. Mary Stephenson one who must be regarded as almost an historical character—certainly as far as Crookwell was…

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Obituary

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 17 April 1888 · page 2

THE death of Mrs. Firkins, late Miss Lansdowne, whose death appears in our columns, will be read with great surprise and regret by many of our readers. She was only married on the 7th…

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Death of Mr. Lee

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 20 April 1888 · page 2

MOST sincere regret was felt and expressed in sporting circles on Tuesday upon the announcement of the death of Mr. Edward Lee, who passed over to the great majority on Monday…

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Death of Mr. Edward Lee

The Burrowa News · Friday 20 April 1888 · page 3

INTELLILGENCE has been received of the death of Mr. Edward Lee in Melbourne, whither the deceased gentleman had gone on account of his failing health…

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Death of Mrs. Cox

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 21 April 1888 · page 3

THE death of Mrs. Cox, widow of the late Hon. Edward Cox, of Fernhill, is announced, at the mature ago of 83 years. Mrs. Cox was born in 1806 at Bristowe-terrace, Greenwich, near…

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Death of the Mayor. an Apoplectic Seizure

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 21 April 1888 · page 4

SHORTLY before 1 o'clock this afternoon the town was startled by a rumour which spread with amazing rapidity to the effect that the Mayor, Mr. Francis Tait, had dropped dead…

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The Late Mr. Edward Lee

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 24 April 1888 · page 4

"WILL HONEYCOMB" writing in last Friday's Dubbo Dispatch on the death of Mr. Edward Lee, says that many will regret to hear of the death of Mr. Edward Lee. He was…

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Death of Mr. Francis Tait

Goulburn Herald · Tuesday 24 April 1888 · page 2

ONE of those sudden and unexpected fatalities which from time to time remind us of the frail tenure of life occurred on Saturday morning last, when Mr. Francis Tait, mayor of Goulburn, was…

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