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

Obituaries & funerals, 1896

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Death of Mrs. Ormerod

Goulburn Herald · Monday 20 January 1896 · page 2

OUR readers will regret to hear of the death of Mrs. Margaret Anne Ormerod, an old and highly respected resident of this city. The deceased wan relict of the late Mr. J. H…

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Cable News. Death of a French Statesman. London, Jan. 19

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 21 January 1896 · page 2

The death is announced of M. Floquet, the French statesman and ex-President of the Chamber of Deputies, in his 68th year…

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Death of Mr. Dulhunty

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 22 January 1896 · page 2

IT is with deep regret that we record the death of Mr. A. M. Dulhunty, the popular auctioneer of Queanbeyan. The sad event took place at Dodsworth on Monday…

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Cable News. Death of Prince Henry of Battenberg. London, Jan. 22

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 23 January 1896 · page 2

The Standard has just received a telegraphic. despatch announcing that Prince Henry of Battenberg, who contracted fever while accompanying the British expedition to Ashantee, is dead…

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Obituary

Goulburn Herald · Friday 24 January 1896 · page 3

THE Braidwood Dispatch states that Mr. Peter Stewart of Tomboyne a resident of the district for nearly sixty years, died on Monday at the advanced age of seventy-five…

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The Late Mr. G. C. Tompson

Goulburn Herald · Friday 24 January 1896 · page 3

Mr. G. C. Tompson who died at Kallara Bent Hotel, in the far west, on Tuesday from heat-apoplexy while on his way to Wilcannia and Broken Hill on land board business,…

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Death of an Old Australian Prima Donna

The Burrowa News · Friday 24 January 1896 · page 1

Lucy Escott, the prima donna of the, first operatic company brought to Australia by the late W. S. Lyster, died in Paris in November last .The…

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Death of Jumbo

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 25 January 1896 · page 4

A GREAT loss was sustained at the Zoological Gradens last week in the death of the big elephant, Jumbo When the society was inaugurated, Mr. Catlett, the secretary, wrote to the King of Siam,…

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Death of Mr. T. Busbridge

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 25 January 1896 · page 2

MANY of our readers wilt regret to learn of the death of Mr. T. Busbridge, tobacconist and hairdresser, of Goulburn, Deceased suffered from a weak heart, which affected the liver and other…

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Death of Mr. T. Busbridge

Goulburn Herald · Monday 27 January 1896 · page 2

IT is with much regret that we have to record the death of Mr. Thomas Busbridge of the firm of Busbridge Brotkers, hairdressers and tobacconists, Mechanics' Institute…

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Funeral

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 28 January 1896 · page 2

THE remains of the late Mr. Thomas Busbridge were interred on Sunday last in Kenmore cemetery. About a hundred members of the Star of the South Lodge of Oddfellows walked in front of the hearse,…

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Death of Sir Frederick Leighton. London, Jan. 26

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 28 January 1896 · page 3

The death is announced of Sir Frederick Leighton, Bart, R.A., President of the Royal Academy, in his 66th year. Sir Frederick, who had been in failing health for…

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Death of Mr. Angus Cameron, M.L.A.

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 28 January 1896 · page 3

MR. ANGUS CAMERON, M.L.A., died between 3 and 4 o'clock on Sunday afternoon, at his residence, Tannahill, Brae-street, Waverley. On Friday morning Mr. Cameron became unwell, but it was…

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Death of Mr N P Nielsen

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 29 January 1896 · page 2

ON Friday last one of the [?] of Young in the person of Mr. N. P. Nielson, serviced the call which none can dis[?]ey. The deceased gentleman was in his usual health on…

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Death of Mr Angus Cameron, M.P

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 29 January 1896 · page 2

MR Argus Cameron. M.P. for Waverley, died at his resptener. “T[?]hill.” B[?] Waverly. on Saturday afternoon. the cause of death being [?] heat. Mr. Cameron…

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Death of an Old Identity

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 1 February 1896 · page 2

MR. GEORGE EVANS, perhaps the oldest inhabitant of Goulburn, died at his residence, Victoria-street, this morning. He was born in Spitalfields, London, on June 29, 1814, and was thus nearly 82 years of…

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Death of the Right Hon. H. C. E. Childers. London, Jan. 29

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 1 February 1896 · page 6

The death is announced of the Right Hon. H. C. E. Childers, F.R.S., aged 69. Death was the result of an attack of congestion of the lungs…

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Obituary

Goulburn Herald · Monday 3 February 1896 · page 2

AT eight o'clock on Saturday morning at his residence Victoria-street Goulburn, died Mr. George Evans one of the oldest inhabitants of this city and district in his eighty-second…

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Death of a Miser. London, Feb. 2

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 4 February 1896 · page 3

A man who had led a miserable existence in Paris died suddenly yesterday. When his house was searched it was discovered that the deceased had property and money to the extent of £80,000…

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A London Mystery. the Death of Abbe Segui. Conviction of Robello. London, January 30

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 4 February 1896 · page 2

On October 7, 1894, a man supposed to be named Louis Caceres, a Catholic priest, was found dead in a restaurant in Soho, London. The body was hanging by a silk handkerchief to a…

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