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Accidents, 1847

4 stories in Hunter Valley's papers

British Extracts. Frightful Accident on the Shrewsbury and Chester Railway. (From the Shipping Gazette, May 2[?].)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Wednesday 6 October 1847 · page 4

CHESTER, MONDAY NIGHT.—An accident of a most dreadful and alarming description has this evening happened on the above railway, by which a considerable number of lives…

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Most Melancholy Accident.— Death of Lady Mary Fitz Roy and Lieutenant C. C. MASTERS, A.D.C. (From the Sdyney Morning Herald, Dec. 7.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 11 December 1847 · page 4

IT is this morning our painful duty to record the particulars of one of the most distressing accidents that ever occurred in this colony—an accident by which His Excellency the Governor…

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The Late Melancholy Accident at Parramatta. [From the Sydney Morning Herald, Dec. 9.]

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 11 December 1847 · page 2

THERE was very little business done in Sydney yesterday, the distressing event of the previous day, the particulars of which were recorded in yesterday's Herald, having absorbed the entire…

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The Late Melancholy Accident at Parramatta

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Wednesday 15 December 1847 · page 4

The funeral of the late Lady Mary Fitz Roy and Lieut. Master took place at Parramatta [?] Thursday last, and was attended by a very large number of persons. In Sydney…

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