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

Obituaries & funerals, 1894

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Death of an Albury Pioneer

Goulburn Herald · Monday 1 January 1894 · page 2

ONE of the pioneers of the Albury district, Mr. R. O. Thompson, died on Friday night, aged seventy. Deceased took an active interest in public affairs in Albury for many…

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Death at Queanbeyan. Funeral on

Goulburn Herald · Monday 1 January 1894 · page 3

MR. H. HAFER, a respected resident of Queanbeyan, who had been ailing for some months, died at his residence in Macquoid-street on Thursday afternoon. Previously to…

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Death of Mr. George Harcourt. General Regret

Goulburn Herald · Monday 1 January 1894 · page 2

THE Queanbeyan Age reports that quite a gloom was cast over the Christmas festivities when on Monday evening it become generally known that Mr. George Harcourt, J.P., of…

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Death of Mr. M. W. Hillas, of Bannaby Station. a Straightgoing Sportsman

Goulburn Herald · Monday 1 January 1894 · page 3

WE regret to have to record the death of Mr. Matthew Hillas, of Bannaby, which a sad event occurred on Saturday last. Mr. Hillas was fifty-two years of age, and had been ailing for…

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Telegrams. Fatal Driving Accident. Death of Mr. G. B. Rowley. Sydney, Monday, 6.30 p.m

Goulburn Herald · Monday 1 January 1894 · page 3

MR. G. B. ROWLEY, the Secretary of the Rosehill Racing Club, was yesterday driving with a party of friends from Sydney to his residence at Parramatta, when the horse got…

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Latest Intelligence. Taralga, Saturday. Death of Mr. M. W. Hillas

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 2 January 1894 · page 3

DEATH OF MR. M. W. HILLAS. MR. M. W. HILLAS, of Bannaby station, died to-day, aged 52. He had been ailing a long time. The remains will be buried to…

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The Late Mr. James Newton

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 3 January 1894 · page 2

The news of the death of Mr. James Newton, who was the only first class passenger on the boat at the time of the wreck, was received with great regret at the Government Printing Office, where…

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Death of a Ballarat Pioneer

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 3 January 1894 · page 2

A BALLARAT telegram in the Melbourne AGE states that Mr. Charles Dyte, mining investor, and one of the oldest and best known pioneers and public men of Ballarat, died on Wednesday night…

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Telegrams. Death of Canon Simm. the Rupture of a Blood Vessel. Sydney, Wednesday, 2.45 p.m

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 3 January 1894 · page 3

CANON SIMM, of the Church of England at Raymond Terrace, died suddenly this morning from rapture of a blood vessel. He was the first chaplain to the Australian…

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Death of a Stallion

Goulburn Herald · Friday 5 January 1894 · page 2

WAXWORKS, a draught stallion owned by Mr. J. Garradd, carter in the employ of the Borough Council, died yesterday from inflammation. The loss to the owner is…

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Death of Mr. Fred Jenkins

The Yass Courier · Friday 5 January 1894 · page 2

ON Monday last quite a gloom was cast, over Yass when by a telegram in the "S. M. Herald," it was noticed that Mr. Fred Jenkins, a native of Yass, and son of Mr. Charles…

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The Death of the Duke of Argyle. Seventy One Years of Age. London

Goulburn Herald · Friday 5 January 1894 · page 5

THE death is announced of the Right Honourable George Douglas Campbell, the Duke of Argyle, at the age of seventy-one…

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Death of Waxworks

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 6 January 1894 · page 2

MR. J. GARRADD'S draught stallion Waxworks died on Thursday from inflammation. By the animal's death Mr. Garradd has suffered a heavy loss, because not only was it valuable as a sire but…

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Death of an Old Resident of Mummell

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 6 January 1894 · page 4

MRS. ANNE MCDONALD, widow of the late Mr. Alexander McDonald, died at Mummell on the last day of the old year at the age of 72 years. Mrs. McDonald had been in the colony 55 years, 45 of…

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Shocking Death of a Child

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 9 January 1894 · page 2

PICNIC, Monday.—A little child, the daughter of the Rev R Noahe, the incumbent, wee so dreadfully injured through her clothes catching fire yesterday morning that she expired in a few hours…

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Death of the Duchess of Argyll. London

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 10 January 1894 · page 4

The death is announced of the Duchess of Argyll, wife of the Duke of Argyll, aged 51. [The late Duchess of Argyll, who was the Duke’s second wife, was married in 1881…

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Double Drowing Fatality at Lismore. Death of Two Brothers. Lismore

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 10 January 1894 · page 2

A double drowning fatality occurred here this afternoon. A party of boys went bathing in Liecester Creek, above the railway bridge, including John and Donald Robertson, aged 17 and 14 respectively. As…

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Obituary

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 11 January 1894 · page 2

MR. DANIEL LACEY, son of Mrs. Lacey, of Big Hill, died in Sydney on Tuesday after a painful illness. He was suffering from a tummoron the brain, and though be received the utmost attention it was…

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Sad Death of a Child

Goulburn Herald · Friday 12 January 1894 · page 3

CLEMENT GILLESPIE, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Gillespie, died on Tuesday at the age of ton months. The child has been suffering for months, and death was due to a…

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Fatal Accident. Death of a Boy

Goulburn Herald · Friday 12 January 1894 · page 3

A BOY named Thomas Gillespie, son of Richard Gillespie, who is employed on the railway and has a selection at Jerrars, about eleven miles from Goulburn, died this…

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