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Hunter Valley · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1849

5 stories in Hunter Valley's papers

Death of Lord George Bentinck. [From Bell's Life in London, September 24.]

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 20 January 1849 · page 1

In our second page we have alluded to this melancholy event, as sudden as it is afflicting. The intelligence first reached London by means of the electric telegraph on Friday, and was…

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The Late Mr. Kennedy. [From the Sydney Morning Herald, March 7.]

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 10 March 1849 · page 4

A judicial investigation into the circumstances attendant on the death of the brave but unfortunate Mr. Kennedy, and those who perished in his ill-fated expedition to explore the interior of tropical Australia, took…

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Verses on the Death of Mr. E. B. Kennedy

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 24 March 1849 · page 4

There is a time when grief is such That tears will scarcely flow, We mourn, alas! we mourn so much, And thus I feel 'tis now…

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Death of Lord Melbourne. [From the Liverpool Albion, November 27.]

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Wednesday 11 April 1849 · page 4

Intelligence reached London on Friday night of the death of Lord Melbourne. His lordship expired at ten minutes past six o'clock on Friday evening, at Brocket-hall, Herts, and was…

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Death of Mr. Charles Buller. [From the Times. 30th November.]

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Wednesday 2 May 1849 · page 3

It is not often that in the daily records of mortality which mark in these columns the ever-ebbing tide of human life, we have to announce an event more painful to a large circle…

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