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

Obituaries & funerals, 1895

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Death of Jessie Nicolls

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 25 September 1895 · page 2

THE inquest on the body of Jessie Nicolls was resumed last Wednesday morning. Herbert May was examined at great length. He said he knew that the…

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Death of an Old Resident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 26 September 1895 · page 2

AN old resident of Goulburn in the person of Mr. Richard Peard died on Tuesday evening. Deceased was 85 years of age, and arrived in this colony in 1836 with the 28th Regiment, of which he was a…

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Obituary

The Yass Courier · Friday 27 September 1895 · page 2

An old man named Samuel Smithers was found dead in his bed by Mr. Davis at Yaumburra on Thursday morning. The old man was 80 years of age and was kept by Mr. James Duff and Mr…

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Death of Ex-judge Deffell. London, Sept. 23

The Yass Courier · Friday 27 September 1895 · page 2

The death is announced of Ex-Judge George Hibbert Deffell, formerly of the Supreme Court Bench of New South Wales…

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Death of a Child

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 28 September 1895 · page 4

YESTERDAY morning it was reported to the authorities that a little girl, aged 7 years, daughter of Mr. Samuel Hockey, of Nerrimunga, Shoalhaven River, had died suddenly the previous day. One of…

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Death of Mr. Reuben Hall

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 28 September 1895 · page 2

ONE of the prominent members of the Wesleyan connection, Mr. Reuben Hall, died very suddenly in the train on Friday. Mr. Ball was proceeding from Ashfield, and was engaged in a conversation…

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Sudden Death of a Child

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 28 September 1895 · page 4

ON Thursday afternoon a girl named Isabella Laverty, aged 9 years and 11 months, died suddenly at her father's residence, Ifield. In the absence of the coroner, Mr. Caswell, P.M., held a…

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Death of Mr. J. M. Toohey, Ex-M.P

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 28 September 1895 · page 2

GREAT surprise and regret were expressed in commercial and sporting circles in Sydney on Friday when it became known that Mr. James Matthew Toohey, the junior partner in the well-known…

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Peculiar Death of a Man

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 1 October 1895 · page 2

ON Monday a man named James Richardson Witting, 48, a grocer and butcher, residing in Marrickville-road, Marrickville, was found dead in the kitchen of his residence. From information…

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Death of M. Pasteur. London, Sept. 29

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 1 October 1895 · page 4

THE death is announced from Paris of M. Louis Pasteur, the eminent bacteriologist and scientist, aged 73 years. The cause of death was paralysis…

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Magisterial Inquiry into the Death of an Infant

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 1 October 1895 · page 2

THIS morning the Coroner commenced an inquiry at the Builders' Arms touching the death of a male infant, illegitimate child of Susan Shadlow, living at the corner of Grafton and Sterne streets. The…

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Obituary

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 2 October 1895 · page 3

IT is our sad duty to record the death of Mr. Richard Peard, of Goulburn, which took place on the 21th ultimo. Deceased was one of the oldest residents in the…

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Death of an Old Lady

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 2 October 1895 · page 2

MRS. ALDERRY of Kenmore, aged seventy, died somewhat unexpectedly last night from senile decay. As no doctor had been her recently the death was reported to the coroner,…

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Death of Mrs. W. Dwyer

Goulburn Herald · Monday 7 October 1895 · page 3

A TELEGRAM was received in Goulburn this morning from Sydney to the effect that Mrs. W. Dwyer, wife of Mr. W. Dwyer, inspector of schools, late of Goulburn, had died…

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Sudden Death of a Police Magistrate

Goulburn Herald · Monday 7 October 1895 · page 3

MOREE, Saturday.—Mr. Donald Edward Troughton, police magistrate of Moree, had been missing since Friday night. Search was made without success, and then the…

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Death of Mrs. W. Dwyer

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 8 October 1895 · page 2

NEWS was received from Sydney on Monday morning of the sudden death of Mrs. V. Dwyer, wife of Mr. "W. Dwyer, school inspector, formerly of Goulburn. Mrs. Dwyer took ill about a week…

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Death of Mr. Solomon Emanuel

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 8 October 1895 · page 2

THE death is announced at the Australia Hotel, Sydney, on Friday last, of Mr. Solomon Emanuel at the age of 62. The late Mr. Emanuel was well known in Goulburn. He was the proprietor of the…

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Sudden Death of a Police-Magistrate

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 8 October 1895 · page 4

MOREE, Saturday.—Mr. Donald Edward Troughton, Police-Magistrate, has died suddenly. He had been missing since Friday night at 7 o'clock. His office door at the Police Court was locked, and search…

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Death of Mr. E. D. Troughton

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 9 October 1895 · page 2

MOREE, Tuesday.—At the inquest on the body of Mr. Trough on Police Magistrate, it was shown that death resulted from the use of church hudrate, which deceased was in the…

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The Late Mrs. David Denny the Coroner's Inquest on the Exhumed Body

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 10 October 1895 · page 2

THE adjourned inquest on the exhumed body of Catherine Denny was continued at the court-house this (Thursday) morning before Mr. H. O'Brien, coroner. Messrs. Davidson and Betts watched the…

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