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

Obituaries & funerals, 1888

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Death of Mr. Francis Tait

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 24 April 1888 · page 2

SINCE our last issue we have been able to obtain some further particulars with reference to the awfully sudden death of Mr. Francis Tait, J. P., Mayor of this city, which took place at his…

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Death of Mr. George W. Booth

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 24 April 1888 · page 4

ON Sunday morning week, Mr. George Booth, son of Mrs. Booth at Gundaroo, passed over to the great majority. The circumstances of his death are of a sad nature for the reason…

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Death of the Mayor of Goulburn. an Apoplectic Seizure. (From the Penny Post.)

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 24 April 1888 · page 2

SHORTLY before one o'clock on last Saturday afternoon the town was startled by a rumour, which spread with amazing rapidity, to the effect that the Mayor, Mr. Francis Tate, had dropped dead…

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Funeral of the Late Mr. Tait

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 26 April 1888 · page 2

THE funeral of the late Mr. Francis Tait, Mayor of Goulburn, who died at his residence Ravensworth on Saturday last, took place on Tuesday morning. The cortege left Ravensworth shortly after ten…

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Obituary

The Yass Courier · Friday 27 April 1888 · page 2

WE regret having to announce the death of Mr. W. H. Alliband, railway station master at Gunning, which sad event occurred at his brother's residence at Redfern on last Monday night. The…

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Death of Mr. Francis Tait

The Burrowa News · Friday 27 April 1888 · page 2

SHORTLY before 1 o'clock on Saturday afternoon the people of Goulburn were startled by a rumour, which spread with amazing rapidity, that the Mayor, Mr…

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Death of Mr. Francis Tuft

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 27 April 1888 · page 2

ALL Goulburn was startled on Saturday by a report that Mr. F. Tait, Mayor of Goulburn, had succumbed to an apoplectic stroke. It appears that Mr. Tait had not been well on…

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Death of Mr. John Harper

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 1 May 1888 · page 2

IT is with feelings of the most poignant grief, that we have to inform our readers that our much respected townsman, Mr. John Harper, passed away at his residence O'Connell town,…

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Death of Mr. John Harper

The Yass Courier · Friday 4 May 1888 · page 2

BY the untimely death of John Harper, which occurred at his residence, Polding-street on Monday evening last, at five o'clock, the Yass Plains District suffers the loss of one…

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Death of Lady Parker. LONDON, May 5

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 8 May 1888 · page 4

The death is announced of Lady Parker, daughter of Mr. John Macarthur, of Camden Park and Parramatta, New South Wales. She married in 1843 Sir Henry Watson Parker,…

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The Death of the Woman Clarke at Demondrille

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 16 May 1888 · page 3

AN inquest was held on Friday at the courthouse, Murrumburrah, before Mr. Coroner Barnes and a jury of twelve, on the body of Mrs. Clarke, who was killed by the paper train at Demondrille…

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Obituary

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 17 May 1888 · page 2

THE death of Thomas German Reed is announced as having occurred lately at his residence, St. Croix, Upper East Sheen, Surrey, in his 71st year. In early life he married an…

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Death of Mr. John Tait

Crookwell Gazette · Friday 25 May 1888 · page 2

The sporting community received a severe shock at about noon on Monday, when it became known that Mr. John Tait, the well-known racing man, had died suddenly. The…

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Death of a Centenarian

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 29 May 1888 · page 2

We (Manaro Mercury) have to record the death of Mrs. Dawson, senior, mother of Mr. Robert Dawson, late Police Magistrate of Cooma. Mrs. Dawson came to Cooma very many years…

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The Reported Death of Jones the Cricketer

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 12 June 1888 · page 2

WE (S. M. Herald) have received a cablegram to the effect that Mr. Samuel Jones, one of the members of the Australian cricket team at present in England, has been suffering from…

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Special Telegrams. Death of One of the Australian Eleven. London, Sunday, June 10

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 12 June 1888 · page 2

Sam Jones, one of the Australian cricketers, died to-day from rheumatic fever. Paris, Sunday, June 10. The Grand Prize of Paris was won by…

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Death of Mrs. Mackinnon

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 13 June 1888 · page 2

ONE of..the saddest events which it has fallen to one task to record occurred on Saturday Vast; in the death of the wife of our respected junior member, Mr. J. A. Mackinnon. On the 29th…

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Death of Sir Duncan Cameron. LONDON, June 12

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 14 June 1888 · page 4

The death is announced of General Sir Duncan Alexander Cameron, G.C.B…

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News by Cable. Obituary. LONDON, June 10

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 14 June 1888 · page 4

THE death is announced of Colonel Robert King-Harman…

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Death of the Emperor of Germany. London, June 14, 7.55 P.M.

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 16 June 1888 · page 4

THE latest bulletin states that inflammation of the lungs has set in. The Emperor is conscious, and is suffering no pain…

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