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Hunter Valley · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1861

14 stories in Hunter Valley's papers

Obituary

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 15 January 1861 · page 2

Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Maodonald. Sir Charles Napier, Bishop of Worcester, Mr. Butt, Q.C., Dowager Empress of Russia…

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Obituary

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 16 February 1861 · page 2

Duke of Norfolk, Chevalier Bringen, Earl of Aberdeen, Marquis Dalhousie, Professor Robinson, Lord Rossmore, Sir George Carroll, Earl of Maxborough, and the Dowager Queen of Sweden, widow of Bernadotte…

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Prussia. Death of King Frederick Iv

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 19 March 1861 · page 2

The King died on the morning of 2nd January, at Sans-souci. His Majesty's illness had long been of a hopeless character. The King of Prussia, in a recent interview with the generals of his army, bids them prepare for a coming struggle, as the aspect of…

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Poetry. to a Mother, on the Death of Her Son

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 30 March 1861 · page 6

Oh mother! weeping for thy son; Restrain the angutsh of thy heart, For his is how the better part, And we should say— God's will be done!"…

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Maitland Mercury. Tuesday, May 14, 1861. Sudden Death of the Council

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 14 May 1861 · page 2

As we were able in our last to briefly inform our readers, from telegraphic intelligence, the Legislative Council has put a sudden termination to its labours, and its life, or rather the…

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[From Our Own Files, to 26Th March.] Death of Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 16 May 1861 · page 2

We have to announoe the death of the Duchess of Kent. The mournful event occurred shortly before ten o'clock on the morning of Saturday, March 16. During the week her royal highness had been in a…

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Death of Mr. Christopher Cooper

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 8 June 1861 · page 2

Many of our readers will regret to hear that our old and respected fellow-townsman, Mr. Christopher Cooper, saddler, of East Maitland, died early yesterday morning, of the wound he inflicted on himself on Tuesday evening,…

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Obituary

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 11 June 1861 · page 2

Major-General Gibson, General Vernon. Lady Jane P[?]l, Lady Charlotte Le Bury, Thomas Flower Ellis…

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Foreign Intelligence. Death of the Sultan

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 13 August 1861 · page 2

The death of the Sultan was last night announced by Lord John Russell in the House of Commons. His Majesty Abdul Medjid died yesterday morning, 25th June, in the [?]9th year of his age. His eldest son, Sultan Mourad, will be twenty-one…

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Death of "Alice Hawthorn."

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 17 August 1861 · page 7

We have to record the death of this celebrated mare, which took place at the Croft Stud Farm, near Darlington, on Saturday, the 20th instant. She has long been a great sufferer from an abscess on the adder, which…

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Italy. Death of Count Cavour

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 17 August 1861 · page 6

The death of Count Cavour overshadows all ordinary European intelligence this month. His complaint was called in the telegrams a mild form of typhus, but it appears to have been typhoid fever. In accordance with…

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Succes[?] and Death of Burke, the Explorer. (From a Telegram in yesterday's Empire.) Melbourn[?], Saturday Evening

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 5 November 1861 · page 2

Mr. Brahe, of Howitt's searching expedition, has just reached Sandhurst with the following melancholy intelligence:- "The only survivor of Burke's explor[?]g party is King, who has been discovered with a tribe of natives. He reports that…

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Poetry. Lines Suggested by the Death of Burke, the Explorer

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 23 November 1861 · page 9

Can I attempt, who needs no nobler song, A humble tribute to thy memory's shrine Of one whose name shall ever rank among The first great heroes of Australian time…

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China. Death of the Emperor. (From the Empire of Wednesday.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 23 November 1861 · page 3

Our dates from Hongkong are to the 11th September. The most important news is that the Emperor of China died on the 22nd August last. The following brief notice of the event is from the North China Herald Extra of the…

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