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Hunter Valley · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1863

16 stories in Hunter Valley's papers

Dr. Livingstone on the Death of His Wife

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 10 January 1863 · page 7

At a late meeting of the Boyal Society, Dr. Norton Shaw, Secretary to the lloyal Geographical Society, road an interesting and touching letter from Dr. Livingstone, of which the…

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Obituary

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 15 January 1863 · page 2

General Jervis, Admiral Rattray, Mr. Willcox, M.P., Dr. John Bell, Marquis of Breadalbane, Baroness of Sufford, Sir Robert Shef[?]eld, Bart, Thomas Mills, M.P., Chancellor Bird, Farquharson of Invercola, and the…

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The Funeral of Burke and Wills. (Abridged from the Argus.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 31 January 1863 · page 5

The mortal remains of Robert O'Hara Burke and William John Wills, the Victorian explorers, were conveyed to their last resting place yesterday. With all honour, the people…

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Obituary

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 17 February 1863 · page 2

James Sheridan Knowles, Sir Graham Hammond, Admiral of the Fleet; Miss Pardoo, Lord Monson, Earl of Gifford, Mr. Deeds, M. P., Admiral Sullivan, Sir Michael Br[?] and Sir Duncan M'Dougall…

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Obituary

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 16 April 1863 · page 2

Earl Cottenham, Captain Gladstone, M.P., and Daniel Whittle Harvey, Chief Commissioner of City Police…

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The Late Mr. Peter Clarke. Public Meeting. (From our Murrurundi Correspondent.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 28 April 1863 · page 2

A public meeting, agreeable to notice by advertisement, was this day held in the Court-house, Murrurundi, and numerously attended for the purpose of taking the necessary steps for erecting an obelisk to the memory…

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Maitland Mercury. Thursday, April 30, 1863. the Late Mr. James Dickson

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 30 April 1863 · page 2

IT is with sincere regret that we have to record the death of the late representative of East Maitland in the Legislative Assembly—Mr. James Dickson—whose loss will be felt far and…

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Obituary

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 14 May 1863 · page 2

Mr. Gully, late member for Pontefract; Sir Jobn Robinson, Chief Justice of Upper Canada; Daniel Whittle Harvey, obief commissioner of the oity police; "Viscountess Gongh Lady Westbury. Sir Tatton Stykes;…

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Obituary

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 19 May 1863 · page 2

SIR TATTON SYKES.—The death of this venerable baronet occured at Sledmere-castle, near Malton, on March 21st, from an atack of bronchitis. Sir Tatton had reached the ripe age of ninty-one. As a perfect example of the "old English…

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Death of General Jackson. (From the Times, May 26.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 21 July 1863 · page 2

The Confederate laurels won on the field of Chancellorsville must be twined with the cypress. Probably no disaster of the war will have carried such grief to Southern hearts as the death of General Jackson, who has…

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Poetry. on the Death of General "Stonewall" Jackson

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 1 August 1863 · page 6

And thou are gone I thou brave and earnest man, With laurels fresh, new-wreathed around thy brow: More than an army to the cause you served, Will it maintain its brilliant prestige now?…

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The Death of Sir Culling Eardley by Re-vaccination. (To the Editor of the Daily News.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 6 August 1863 · page 3

SIR—The death of Sir Culling [?]rdly trom re-vaccination opens up an important question, namely, the propriety of the practice of reva[?]nation. My belief is that revaccination is an injury. It is an absurdity that…

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Telegraphic Intelligence. (From the Herald and Empire.) Capture of Eight Bushrangers, and Death of Lowry

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 1 September 1863 · page 2

Goulburn, Sunday Evening.—On Saturday morning, at seven o'clock, senior sergeant Stephenson, of Goulburn, with trooper Godfrey, and detectives Saunderson and Camphin, went to Vardy's public-house, Crooksvale, 45…

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Death of Field Marshal Lord Clyde, G.C.B., K.S.I. (From the Home News, Aug. 26.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 24 October 1863 · page 3

After a lingering illness, Lord Clyde expired on the morning of the 14th of August, at the house of his friend, General Eyre, at Chatham. For more than half a century he had served his…

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The Bushrangers. [By Electric Telegraph.] Attack on Goimbla Station. Diabolical Incendiarism. Death of O'meally and Inquest on the Body. Heroism of Mr. and Mrs. Campbell. (from the Farbes Correspondent of the Sydney Morning Herald.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 24 November 1863 · page 3

Sunday, 10 p.m.—On the night of Thursday, the 19th instant, the station of Mr. David Henry Campbell, known as Goimbla, and distant about thirty-two miles from Forbes, was attacked by the three bushrangers, Gilbert, O'M[?]ally,…

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Death of Mr. C. J. Fairfax

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 31 December 1863 · page 2

The S. M. Herald of the 29th says:—We have this morning to announce the death of Mr. Charles John Fairfax, one of the proprietors of this journal. In a world of bereavement and mortality, we have no right to obtrude…

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