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

Obituaries & funerals, 1893

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Funeral of the Victim

The Yass Courier · Thursday 9 November 1893 · page 3

Forbes, Tuesday.--The remains of the youth, Frederick Peasley, who was fatally stabbed on Sunday night, were interred in the Forbes cemetery this morning. The funeral…

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The Death of Sir Andrew Clark London, Nov. 6

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 9 November 1893 · page 4

Sir Andrew Clark, Bart., M D., F.R.S., the eminent , physician who was a sized with a stroke of physician, died to-day, aged 67…

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Obituary

Goulburn Herald · Friday 10 November 1893 · page 2

WE regret to announce the death, at her residence, Bondi, of Mrs. Schefield, widow of the late Rev. William Schefield, Wesleyan minister. Mrs. Schefield, who was in her…

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Obituary

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 11 November 1893 · page 4

IT is with feelings of the deepest regret I have to record the deaths of Mrs. David and Mrs. Robert Woods, both of whom died in great agony from acute bronchitis supervening on an attack of measles…

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Obituary

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 14 November 1893 · page 2

MRS. MAY, an old resident of Goulburn, died at her residence, off Bradley-street, on Saturday afternoon last, from lung disease, from which she had suffered for many months. Deceased, who was…

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Telegrams. Sydney, Wednesday, 3 p.m. Death of Alderman Playfair

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 15 November 1893 · page 3

ALDERMAN THOMAS PLAYFAIR, ex-mayor of Sydney and ex-member of parliament, died this morning from rheumatic gout, aged sixty-two. The deceased had been ailing for…

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Death of a Prominent Sydney Man

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 16 November 1893 · page 2

ALDERMAN THOMAS PLAYFAIR, of Sydney, died on Wednesday morning. Mr. Playfair was a native of Essex, England, and was born in 1831. As a lad young Playfair was sent to sea and was shipped on…

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Obituary

Goulburn Herald · Friday 17 November 1893 · page 2

THE Hon. John Dongiss Young M.L.C. and alderman of the Sydney city council, died suddenly st his residence, Dowling-street, Moore Park, yesterday st the age of fifty-one…

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Death of the Bishop of Perth

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 18 November 1893 · page 4

PERTH, Thursday—The Right Rev. Dr. Parry, Bishop of Perth, died at his residence, Bunbury, early this morning. The cause of death was pneumonia. [The Right Rev. Henry Hutton Parry…

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Death of the Late Sydney City Solicitor

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 18 November 1893 · page 2

MR. GEORGE MERRIMAN late City Solicitor, died at Camden House, Milson's Point, on Friday night. The deceased was a native of Sydney. His father was no alderman and Mayor of the city of Sydney…

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Death of the Hon. J. D. Young, M.L.C.

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 18 November 1893 · page 6

THE Hon. John Douglas Young, M.L.C., died at his residence, Dowling-street, Moore Park, on Wednesday. The deceased gentleman had been ailing for some months, but during the past week…

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The Death of Mr. Tritton

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 21 November 1893 · page 2

ON Monday afternoon the Deputy Sydney Coroner (Mr. W. T. Pinhey, J P) held an inquest at Burwood respecting the death of Mr. James Lambert Tritton, a surveyor, who was killed on the railway…

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The Late Mr. Tritton

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 22 November 1893 · page 2

ON Monday afternoon Mr. Pinhey, deputy city coroner, Sydney, held an inquest at Burwood regarding the death of Mr. John Lambert Tritton, surveyor, who was killed on…

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Strange Death of a Goulburn Selector

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 30 November 1893 · page 2

SHORTLY after 10 o'clock on Wednesday morning a man died under somewhat peculiar circumstances in Robinson's Baths, Woolloomooloo Bay. Mr. Vipond, the proprietor, states that about 1 o'clock…

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The Robbery in the Western Mail Train. Death of the Victim This Morning. Sydney, Monday, 2.30 p.m

Goulburn Herald · Monday 4 December 1893 · page 2

AH CHOY, the Chinaman who was recently robbed and assaulted in a railway carriage died at Wellington this morning…

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The Recent Train Outrage.—Death of Ah Choy

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 5 December 1893 · page 2

Wellington, Monday.—The Chinaman Ah Choy, who, it is alleged, was assaulted and robbed last Monday night in the western mail train, died at 10 o'clock this morning from the injuries he received…

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Death of an Eminent Scientist

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 6 December 1893 · page 3

THE death is announced from London of Professor John Tyndall, the eminent scientist aged 73…

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Telegrams. the Death of Professor Tyndall. an Overdose of Chloral. London

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 6 December 1893 · page 3

IT has transpired that the death of Professor Tyndall was due to an overdose of Chloral…

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Death of Professor Tyndall. London, Dec. 5

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 7 December 1893 · page 4

The death is announced of Professor John Tyndall, F.R.S., the eminent scientist; aged 73. [John Tyndall was born about 1820 in the village of Leighlinbridge, near Carlow, in Ireland, which…

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Death of the Marquis De Rays. London, Dec 5

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 7 December 1893 · page 4

The death is announced of the Marquis do Rays, the organiser and commander of the ill-fated French expedition which attempted to colonise the Island of New Ireland, in the Pacific, in 1880 and…

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