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

Obituaries & funerals, 1899

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Obituary. London, Jan. 17

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 19 January 1899 · page 4

The death is announced of Father Chiniquy, who renounced the Roman Catholic faith, and who lectured in Australia some years ago. Mr. Pilkington, a Conservative, has been returned…

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Death of Father Chiniquy

The Burrowa News · Friday 20 January 1899 · page 3

The death it announced of "Father Chinquy," formerly Roman Catholic priest in Canada, who, becoming a Protestant, entered on an anti-papal…

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Death of Mr. F. Y. Wolseley

The Burrowa News · Friday 20 January 1899 · page 3

The death it announced of Mr. Frederick York Wolseley, the invention of the Wolseley sheep-shearing machine. The deceased gentlemen was for over 40…

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Obituary. Mr. Samuel Sidey, Ætat 69

Goulburn Herald · Friday 20 January 1899 · page 2

DIED in Goulburn hospital on Tuesday night from dropsy. He was well known in Goulburn, and had lately been caretaker of the Australian Arcade. He leaves an aged widow…

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The Late Mrs. Gibb

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 21 January 1899 · page 2

THE COOTAMUNDRA HERALD SAYS :— The death of Mrs. Gibb, the news of which reached us on Monday, was expected, as we knew her condition of health had been very critical. It came with…

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Death of [?] a Mining Millio[?] His Eight for Fo[?]

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 21 January 1899 · page 2

THERE passed away at Waverley on Tuesday morning one of the richest men in Australia, in the person of Richard Craves, mineowner and spe[?] who was by [?]…

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Death of Mrs. Hery Barer

Yass Evening Tribune · Monday 23 January 1899 · page 2

AFTER a long and pail illness Mrs. Barber, widow of the la[?]. Hen[?] Ban ber of Cooradigbee, [?] at the Royal Hotel last Saturday evening. For he last…

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Obituary. Mr. James Somerville, Ætat 23

Goulburn Herald · Monday 23 January 1899 · page 3

THE friends of the above named well-known [?] cyclist will regret. So learn that he died in Sydney [?] about six o'clock this morning. [?] be remembered that at the…

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Death of Somerville

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 24 January 1899 · page 2

THE Sydney Morning Herald the refers to the death of the unfortunate young man Somerville:— James Somerville, who fell last Thursday in a bicycle race on the Sydney Cricket Ground, died on…

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Death of Mrs. Henry Barber

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 24 January 1899 · page 2

MRS. BARBER, widow of the late Mr. Henry Barber, of Cooradigbee, died at the Royal Hotel, Yass, on Saturday afternoon last at 5 o'clock after a long illness of over 15 months…

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Death of Somerville the Cyclist

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 24 January 1899 · page 4

NEWS was received in Goulburn yesterday morning of the death of Mr. James Somerville, one of our leading local cyclists. It will be remembered that Somerville met with an accident at the electric…

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Death of an Old Dalton Resident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 24 January 1899 · page 4

OUR correspondent writes :—The many friends of Mrs. Stephen Toohey, of River Lawn, will be sorry to hear of her death, which took place at her residence on Friday after a long and painful illness…

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Death of a Well-known Settler

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 24 January 1899 · page 4

LAST week Mr. Daniel P. Mylccharane, a well-known settler, was riding after his horse, which had broken away about seven…

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Telegrams. Sydney, Monday, 1.47 p.m. Death of Somerville

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 24 January 1899 · page 4

SOMERVILL, the Goulburn cyclist, who was so severly injured at the recent electric light tournament, died this morning shortly before 9 o'clock. He had remained…

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Obituary

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 25 January 1899 · page 3

THOSE of our readers who were acgnainted with Mrs.Dennis. mother of a former Goulburn postmaster and a few years since matron of the parameters asylum for the…

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Wesleyan. Death of a Pioneer Minister

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 25 January 1899 · page 3

THE Rov.Jamord Somerville, eighty-four, one of the earlier ministers of this colony, died at Kiord, Angold-street, Burwood, on Sunday, from home infection, after a few weedks' illness…

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Obituary

Goulburn Herald · Friday 27 January 1899 · page 2

WE have to record the death at the residence of his con. Mr. J. Trompp, Oraig-street, Goulburn, of Mr. John Trompp, one of the borough council's oldest and worthiest…

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Death of a Council Employe

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 28 January 1899 · page 2

MR. JOHN TROMPP, one of the oldest employes of the Borough Council, died early on Friday morning at the residence of his son, Mr. J. Trompp, Craig-street, from congestion of the lungs and senile…

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Obituary. Mr. William Gillard, Ætat 88

Goulburn Herald · Monday 30 January 1899 · page 2

AT Pedley's gardens. Ifield, Goulburn yesterday morning between two and three o'clock Mr. William Gillard passed away peacefully from senile decay at the age of eighty-eight…

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Obituary

Crookwell Gazette · Tuesday 31 January 1899 · page 2

It is wish feelings of great regret that we chronicle the death of Mrs. Norris, wife of Mr. J. Norris, Narrawa. The deceased lady was in the prime of…

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