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Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1939

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Obituary Mr. John Blundell

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 16 June 1939 · page 4

ANOTHER old identity of the river districts, in the person of Mr, John Blundell, passed away at his home at Lower Portland on Thursday of last week at the…

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Obituary Mr. Ronald Charles Irwin

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 23 June 1939 · page 4

SELDOM has it been our sad duty to chronicle the passing of any young man who could he as ill spared by the community in which he resided, or whose death was so…

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Obituary Mr. Albert Edward Argent

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 30 June 1939 · page 12

WHEN the sad news became generally known on Saturday last that the death had occurred in the Hawkesbury District Hospital of Mr. Albert Edward Argent, of…

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Natural Causes Death of Richmond Resident Coroner Holds Inquiry

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 30 June 1939 · page 8

THAT William Ernest Schuman, of Richmond, who collapsed while working on a farm at that centre on May 16, died from natural causes, was the finding returned by…

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Obituary Mrs. Sarah Walters

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 14 July 1939 · page 4

THE death occurred at St. Albans last Saturday of a widely-known and respected identity of the river district in the person of Mrs. Sarah Walters, wife of Mr. J. J…

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Obituary Frederica Sarah Tate

Hawkesbury Herald · Thursday 27 July 1939 · page 4

Mrs. Frederica Sarah Tate, who had resided at Kurrajong for many years, passed away at her home, "Arthona," on the 18th inst. She had…

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An Appreciation Late Mrs. Jessie Buchanan

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 28 July 1939 · page 3

Jessie Buchanan, who died at Riverstone on the 19th June, was one of the foundation members of the Queensland Country Women's Association founded at Cambooya by…

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Obituary Mrs. Mary Colless

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 28 July 1939 · page 12

THE death occurred on Monday, at the residence of her daughter, Macquarie-street, Windsor, of Mrs. Mary Colless, at the age of 83 years, the end coming after a…

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Obituary Mr. Edward James Cupitt

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 11 August 1939 · page 4

YET again it is our sad duty to chronicle the passing of another old Hawkesbury identity, in the person of Mr. Edward James Cupitt, Whose death occurred at his…

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Accidental Death Late Mrs. Helen White Coroner Warns Sulky Owner's

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 18 August 1939 · page 7

"I WISH to point out that, from the evidence before me and from my observation of the scene of the accident and examination of the motor lorry, there…

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Coronial Inquiry Death of Gordon Hunt Windsor Fatality

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 25 August 1939 · page 12

THAT before his death on May 26 Gordon Raymond Hunt, aged 16 years, of Windsor, had appeared to be depressed through not being able to obtain a position, was…

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Obituary Mr. Edwin Gurney

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 8 September 1939 · page 3

COLLAPSING while engaged on road work at Wiseman's Ferry on Thursday morning of last week, Mr. Edwin Gurney, aged 50 years, a well-known and popular…

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Obituary Mrs. Lillian Gladys Bailey

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 15 September 1939 · page 3

THERE passed away in the Hawkesbury District Hospital on Monday Mrs. Lillian Gladys Bailey, of St. Albans, at the age of 29 years. The deceased, who was the wife…

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Obituary Miss Maria Martha Dunstan

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 22 September 1939 · page 3

ON Saturday last Miss Maria Martha Dunstan, of Wilberforce, another member of that grand old Hawkesbury family whose name has become a legend in the history of…

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Obituary Mrs. Julia Ann Cartwright

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 29 September 1939 · page 3

THERE passed away at East Kurrajong on Thursday of last week yet another old and highly esteemed district resident in the person of Mrs. Julia Ann Cartwright…

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Obituary Mr. Arthur Ernest Douglass

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 13 October 1939 · page 4

THERE passed away at the Hawkesbury District Hospital late on Monday evening, under tragic circumstances, a widely popular resident of Windsor, in the person…

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Obituary Mr. S. C. Uren

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 20 October 1939 · page 10

ON Friday, 6th instant, there passed away under rather sad circumstances, at the age of 64 years, Mr. S. C. Uren, only brother of Mr, A. Uren, of Lower Portland…

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Obituary Mr. William Richard McMAHON

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 27 October 1939 · page 12

A MULTITUDE of friends throughout the entire Hawkesbury, and in many other parts of New South Wales, learned with deep and sincere regret on Monday last of…

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Obituary Mr. John Haughey

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 3 November 1939 · page 4

THERE passed away in the Hawkesbury District Hospital on Saturday last an old identity of the River districts, in the person of Mr. Jonn Haughey, of Upper…

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Obituary Mrs. Catherine Campbell

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 10 November 1939 · page 4

ONE of the most sorrowful tasks which this paper has yet been called upon to perform now falls to its lot, in recording the loss of the kindly hand which has…

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