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

Obituaries & funerals, 1897

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Death of a Child

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 23 February 1897 · page 2

MR. H. O' BRIEN, coroner, held an enquiry at Eastgrove this (Tuesday) morning into the circumstances surrounding the death of a child named Mary Rachael Watson, which died before medical…

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Sudden Death of Mr. Thomas Marsden

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 23 February 1897 · page 4

WE are sure it will be with deep regret that the residents of Goulburn and district, and more particularly those of long standing, will learn of the sudden death of Mr. Thomas Marsden. He fell…

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Obituary

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 24 February 1897 · page 2

A RESIDENT of this district for fifty years, Mr. Alexander McDonald of Middle Arm, farmer, died at 5.30 yesterday afternoon at the age of seventy-seven. Deceased, who had been…

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Death of an Old Resident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 25 February 1897 · page 4

THE death of Mr. Alexander MCDonald, of Middle Arm, was reported to the coroner on Tuesday evening. Mr. McDonald was one of the oldest residents in the district, having lives at Middle…

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Death of a Sister of Mercy

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 25 February 1897 · page 2

SISTER Mary Frances Xavier Clune, sister of Rev. Father Clune, late of the Goulburn parish, died at the Bourke-street Convent of Mercy this morning at half-past 1 o'clock. She had been ailing for…

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Death of a Sister of Mercy

Goulburn Herald · Friday 26 February 1897 · page 5

WE deeply regret to record the death at the convent at the age of twenty-five at 1.30 a.m. yesterday of Sister Mary Frances Xavier Clune, sister of Brother Francis Xavier Clune of the…

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Death of an ex-Goulburn Resident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 27 February 1897 · page 2

THE death is reported of the Rev. John Ayling, Presbyterian minister at Pitt Town, while on a visit to his brother at Invercargill (N.Z.) for the benefit of his health. The rev. gentleman was a resident…

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Death of Miss Fanny Marshall

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 2 March 1897 · page 2

Miss Marshall, daughter of Mr. Alex. Marshall of Murrumbateman, died, in the Yass Hospital on Friday morning last, at the age of 34 years. The deceased has been bad for…

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Death of Dr. Davidson

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 3 March 1897 · page 2

THOSE of our readers who remember Dr. Davidson, formerly of Goulburn, will regret to hear that he died on Monday at Annaudale, Sydney, aged fifty-six. The doctor took ill…

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Death of Dr. Davidson

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 4 March 1897 · page 2

THE death is announced of Dr. Davidson, formerly of Goulburn. The doctor took ill some months ago at Levuka, Fiji, and returned home in a hopeless condition. He died on Monday last at Annandale,…

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Death of a Woman

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 4 March 1897 · page 2

THE Sydney Coroner on Wednesday held an inquest, which had been adjourned from 27th February, on the body of a married woman named Eleanor Frances Pass, who died suddenly on the…

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Sudden Death of Mr. T. Marsden

The Burrowa News · Friday 5 March 1897 · page 2

GREAT REGRET is expressed at the death of Mr. Thomas Marsden, which occurred suddenly on Saturday about 10.30 p.m. Mr. Marsden and Messrs. G. Gillespie…

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Death of Miss Mary Websier

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 9 March 1897 · page 2

THE sad news readied Yass on Wednesday last that Miss Mary Webster, third daughter of Mr. David Webster, of Murrumbateman, had died that morning. At first the news was…

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Death of an Unknown

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 11 March 1897 · page 4

MR. J. E. BOWEEN hold an inquest at Auburn on Monday, touching the death of a man whose name is unknown. The man died in St. Joseph's Hospital on the previous night. He had been…

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Death of a Young Man

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 11 March 1897 · page 2

MR.CHARLES MOORE, second son of Mr. John Moore, of Carrick, died in the hospital on Wednesday afternoon from Bright's disease. About three weeks ago he came to Goulburn suffering from…

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Roman Catholic. Death of the Rev. Dr. Sheridan

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 17 March 1897 · page 2

THE Very Rev. Dean Sheridan D.D. V.G. O.S.B. died on Monday afternoon at his residence, North Shore. He had been ailing for four months, and had been attended in his…

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Death of an Old Resident

The Yass Courier · Friday 19 March 1897 · page 2

ON Tuesday last, Mrs. Obadiah Lewis, one of the oldest residents of the district, passed away at the age of 85 years. Mrs. Lewis came, to Yass with her first husband, whose…

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Death of Canon Kemmis

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 25 March 1897 · page 2

By the death of Canon Kemmis, which took place on Wednesday, there has been removed from the ranks of the local clergy of the Church of England one of her foremost man. Canon Kemmis…

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Death of Martini

Goulburn Herald · Monday 29 March 1897 · page 4

M. FREDERICK MARTINI, the inventor of the Martini rifle, has died at his home at the canton of Thurgau, at the age of sixty-four. The deceased…

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Obituary

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 30 March 1897 · page 2

THE remains of the late Mrs. Lucy Collett, a widow, who died at her late residence, Goldsmith-street, on Friday last, were interred in the Church of England cemetery on Sunday afternoon…

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