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Hunter Valley · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1868

16 stories in Hunter Valley's papers

Death of Major Crummer, Late of the 28Th Regiment. (From Friday's Herald.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 7 January 1868 · page 2

From Port Macquarie we learn the death of Major James Henry Grammer, late Police Magistrate of that place; and on the passing away of perhaps the latest survivor in this colony of "those that fought at Waterloo,"…

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Obituary

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 14 January 1868 · page 2

Lord Wrottesley, the ominent astronomer; Earl Moray; Edwrd James M.P., Q.C.; Countess Flahault; Deuchatel, the French statesman; Marshal O'Donnell…

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Death of Mr. W. Irwin From Exhaustion

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 14 January 1868 · page 3

A correspondent, dating from the Narran River annary 1st, supplies as with the following account of [?] sad death of our old fellow townsman, Mr. William [?], who was much respected here…

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The Panama Mail. Fenian Outrages. Clerkenwell Gaol Blown Up. Funeral Processions Stopped. Troops Under Arms

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 4 February 1868 · page 2

On Friday evening the mail steamer Ruahine, from Panama, arrived at Sydney, bringing news to the 16th December from New York, and from Europe to the 15th. The account of the Fenian outrages in a telegraphic…

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Obituary

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 13 February 1868 · page 2

Mr. Melvyn Prower, Archdeacon Greenall, Colonel Lowther, M.P., Mr. Charles Gray, Rev. Archibald Philareto, William Edmund Molyneaux, Mr. Peuaseet, Professor Canberry, M.P., Mr. E. Charles…

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Obituary

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 15 February 1868 · page 2

Right Hon. Sir George Clerk, and Professor Daubeney…

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Suspicious Death of a Woman

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 15 February 1868 · page 4

Great excitement prevails at Scarborough in consequence of the apprehension of a Dutch fisherman on a charge of murdering a woman, Sarah Ann Bulmer, with whom he lodged. The…

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The Maitland Mercury. Thursday, April 23, 1868. the Death of O'farrell

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 23 April 1868 · page 2

THE law has been allowed to take its course, and the sentence of death has been executod upon the man who, a few short weeks back, deliberately attempted to take the life of another, and…

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The Rival Snake Charmers. Death of Mr. Drummond From the Bite of a Tiger Snake. (From Tuesday's Evening News.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 7 May 1868 · page 4

The lamentable death of Mr. Drummond, the Police Magistrate of Daylesford, mentioned in our Melbourne telegram, forcibly recalls to mind the history of Mr Underwood, the original compounder of snake antidotes;…

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The Monument on Warland's Range, Erected by Subscription, to the Memory of the Late Mr. Peter Clark. (To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 23 June 1868 · page 3

SIR—Will you allow me space in the Mercury's columns to say a few words relative to the state of the monument on Warland's Range, in order that those persons who were appointed a sub-committee to keep the monument…

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Death of Lord Brougham

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 2 July 1868 · page 2

Telegraph advices, via the Cuba cable, announce the death of the venorable English statesman Lord Brougham. From our files received by the last New York steamar we hea[?]d that Lord Brongbam was at Cannes on the 21st…

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A Gorgeous Funeral

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 4 July 1868 · page 8

The funeral, of King Ludwig of Bavaria is quite an epoch in the history of undertaking. The body was embalmed on Sudnay, March 1, the process taking seven hours. On Wednesday…

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Death of Dr. Bland. (From the S. M. Herald of Wednesday.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 25 July 1868 · page 2

Dr. William Bland, one of the few remaining old colonists, passed away yesterday morning, at ten minutes to one o'clock. The deceased gentleman had been ailing for some time, but was…

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Obituary

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 6 August 1868 · page 2

Sir H. Stalfold, Sir John Liddle, G. B. Bruce, Prebendary Randolph, Hon. and Rev. F. Baring, Sir James Brooke (the Rajah of Sarawak), the Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot…

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Death of Archdeacon M'encroe. (From the Herald of Monday.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 27 August 1868 · page 2

Another link between the present generation and the earlier days of this country has just given way, having been sundered by the decease of an aged Roman Catholic clergyman, whose name will long be honourably…

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Death of Senior-constable M'cabe. (From our own Correspondent.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 19 November 1868 · page 2

Over every grave, even though tenanted by guilt and shame; the human heart yearns, in love or in forgiveness, to breathe a solemn requiescat,—how much more, then, over the grave of one who forfeited his life, with an…

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