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Hunter Valley · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1857

6 stories in Hunter Valley's papers

The Late Mr. Busby. (From the S. M. Herald)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 30 May 1857 · page 2

Another of our old colonists has been recently removed from our midst by the decree to which we must all sooner or later submit. At the venerable age of ninety-one, and after a…

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Poetry. Lines on the Death of Miss Agnes Christian Geddes

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 25 June 1857 · page 3

Use no sad arts, Lament not decay, Though it plough up the heart Throw sorrow away;…

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The Funeral

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 29 August 1857 · page 6

The interment of those bodies which have been recovered from the wreck of the Dunbar, took place yesterday. The public offices were all closed at two…

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Death of an Eccentric Dairymaid

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 29 August 1857 · page 7

Some excitement has been caused at Eastbourne by the sudden death, and the singular circumstances connected with it, of an old woman named Ellen…

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The Maitland Merrury. Tuesday, September 15, 1857. Death of Mr. Nichols

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 15 September 1857 · page 2

We learn, with great regret, that Mr. G. R. Nichols has sunk under the illness from which he has suffered so long, and that he died on Saturday evening…

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Funeral of the Late George Robert Nichols. (From the Herald, September 17.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 19 September 1857 · page 2

The last sole[?] which religion and civilisation render to departed friends, were yesterday paid, in all honor, in all reverence, and in all sincerity, to the late Mr. Nichols. The funeral was one of the largest…

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