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Hunter Valley · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1856

4 stories in Hunter Valley's papers

Death of Sir Charles Hotham, Governor of Victoria

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 5 January 1856 · page 2

Yesterday, we received information of the death, after a short illness, of Sir Charles Hotham, Governor of Victoria. The following is the acoount given by the Argus, of January…

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Funeral of the Late Governor. (From the Argus, Jan. 5.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 12 January 1856 · page 2

The mortal remains of his Excellenoy Sir Charles Hotham, Governor in Ohief of this colony, were yesterday interred in the New Cemetery, in the presence of an immense…

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Sydney News Death of Rear-admiral King, F.R.S., F.L.S., M.L.C. (From the Empire, February 27.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 1 March 1856 · page 7

Universally throughout Australia, the announcement of the sudden death of Phil[?]p Parker King, Rear-Admiral of the Blue, but more generally known as Captain King,…

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Poetry. Lines Written on the Death of T. J. Wilmshur[?]t, (Late of Maitland.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 13 May 1856 · page 4

He bad[?] ad[?]e[?] to the home of his youth, The friends he loved so well, And to Australia's sunny clime. With strangers came to dwell…

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