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

Obituaries & funerals, 1898

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Death of Harkaway

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 24 March 1898 · page 4

OUR Dulton correspondent writes:—Many of your [?] will be sorry to bear of the death of the favourite hunter Harkaway. His owner, Mr. A. Taorne, reached Gunning on his…

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Death of a Nun

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 24 March 1898 · page 2

SISTER MARY BORROMEO, one of the sisters attached to the Beurke-street convent, died at the convent between I end 2 o'clock to-day from a lung complaint. She had been ill for some time. Her…

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Death of Colonel Dyer. London, March 21

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 24 March 1898 · page 4

Colonel Dyer, the well-known engineer and president of the Federation of Employers in the engineering trade, was found dead in his bed this morning. Colonel Dyer took a prominent part in the recent…

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Reported Death of a Man

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 26 March 1898 · page 2

THIS afternoon a fettler from Carrick reported to the police that he had been informed by another person that a man was lying on the Sydney Road, near the Carrick road junction, with his throat cut…

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Death of a Sister of Mercy

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 26 March 1898 · page 2

THE burial ceremonies in connection with the death of the late Sister Mary Borromeo (Walsh), who died at the Convent of Mercy on Thursday afternoon, were held on Friday morning. The…

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Obituary

Goulburn Herald · Monday 28 March 1898 · page 2

YESTERDAY afternoon about two o'clock in Argyle-street, Goulburn, died Mrs. Harriett Williams, aged sixty-one, wife of mr. James Vincent williams, formely of Boro, hire…

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Roman Catholic. Death of a Sister of Mercy

Goulburn Herald · Monday 28 March 1898 · page 2

THE burial ceremonies in connection with the death of the late Sister Mary Burromoo (Walsh), who did at the convent of Mercy on Thursday afternoon, were held on Friday morning…

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Death of Mrs. Lambert

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 29 March 1898 · page 4

MRS. MARY LAMBEET, wife of Mr. Allan Lambert, of Goulburn, died at her residence. Clinton-street, yesterday afternoon, at the age of 70 years. Deceased had been suffering from…

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Death of Mr. E. Chisholm

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 29 March 1898 · page 4

MR. E. CHISHOLM, of Sydney, fourth son of the late Hon. James Chisholm, and brother of Messrs. A. B., A. S, C. K, William, and Walter Chisholm, of this district, died in Melbourne yesterday…

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Death of the Stallion Revenge

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 29 March 1898 · page 2

ON Friday last Mr. T. Johnson of Spring Flat Murrumbidgee, suffered a severe loss by the death of his blood stallion Revenge, Revenge was by Tacticion and was bred by the late…

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Death of Mrs. J. V. Williams

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 29 March 1898 · page 4

Mrs. Williams, wife of Mr. J. V. Williams, late of Boro, died at her residence, Ifield, on Sunday last at about midday. The cause of death was diabetes, and deceased bad been a sufferer for some…

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Death of James Payn. London, March 26

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 29 March 1898 · page 4

The death is announced of James Payn, the well-known novelist and litterateur, in his 68th year…

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Death of Mrs. Parnell. London, March 28

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 29 March 1898 · page 2

Mrs. Parnell, the mother of the late Mr. C. S. Parnell, has died at Avondale, the birthplace of Mr. Parnell, in Wicklow, Ireland, from the effects of severe burns accidentally received…

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Death of Thomas Walsh

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 5 April 1898 · page 2

A VERY old resident of Yass district in the person of Thomas Walsh, died in the Yass Hospital, on Sunday morning at 7 o'clock, Walsh has been a resident of Yass and district…

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Death of an Old Resident

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 6 April 1898 · page 2

MR. PHILIP CAHILL, eighty-one, an old resident of this district died at his residence, Run of Water, this morning from senile decay and dropsy. No doctor bad seen him for two…

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Death of Arthur Orton. LONDON, Friday Night

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 6 April 1898 · page 2

The death is announced of Arthur Orton, the notorious Tichborne claimant. Arthur Orton was the man who mode the cause celebre of the century. The Tichborne…

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Obituary

Goulburn Herald · Friday 8 April 1898 · page 2

THE death from pneumonia after two days' illness is announced of Mr. Alfred Angel of Muswellbrook, chemist and druggist, formerly dispenser to Messrs…

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Death of Arthur Orton

The Burrowa News · Friday 8 April 1898 · page 3

The death is announced of Arthur Orton, the notorious claimant to the Tichborne estates, at the age of 64…

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Death of Mr. A. Angel

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 9 April 1898 · page 2

THE friends of Mr. A. Angel, formerly dispenser to Messrs. Hollis and Co., Auburn-street, will regret to hear of his death, which took place at Muswellbrook from pneumonia, after two days' illness…

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Funeral of the Tichborne Claimant. London, April 7

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 9 April 1898 · page 4

The funeral of the late Arthur Orton, the Tichborne claimant, took place yesterday, the body being interred in Paddington Cemetery. H.M.S. Penguin, one of the vessels on the…

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