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Hunter Valley · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1875

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Obituary

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 29 June 1875 · page 4

Sir Joseph Hawley, turfite; Captain Harding Brown, R.A., run over by a tram while returning from Sandown Park races; Lord Tredegar; Lord Alfred Hervey; Winwood Reade, African traveller,…

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Obituary

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 24 July 1875 · page 2

Archdeacon Sinclair, aged 78; Lord Mackenzie, Judge of Edinburgh Court of Session; Mr. R. Dudley Baxter, solicitor and statistical writer; Hon. John Crawford, Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario; ex…

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Death of Lady Franklin. London, July 20

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 27 July 1875 · page 2

The name of Lady Franklin appears in the obituary…

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Death of Lady Franklin. London, July 20

The Singleton Argus and Upper Hunter General Advocate · Wednesday 28 July 1875 · page 3

The name of Lady Franklin appears in the obituary…

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District News. [From Our Various Correspondents.] Paterson. Death of Dr. John Hector, of Gresford

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 3 August 1875 · page 3

It is with extreme regret that we have to-day to announce the death of Dr. John Hector which melancholy event took place at Dungog, at four o'clock a.m. on the morning of the 29th July. The…

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S[?] Death of Mr. C. O'Sullivan, at Hinton. Coroner's Inquest

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 5 August 1875 · page 3

The coroner, Mr. T. W. Pearse, J.P., held an inquest at the Victoria Hotel, Hinton, on Tuesday afternoon, August 3, on the body of Mr. Cornelius O'Sullivan, Public, school teacher of that town, who died…

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OBITUARY. London, August 3.I

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 7 August 1875 · page 2

Andrew Johnson, ex President of the United States of America…

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Attack Upon Commodore Goodenough's Party, by Solomon Islanders. Death of the Commodore and Two Seamen. [By Electric Telegraph From the A. A. Press.] Sydney. Monday afternoon

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 24 August 1875 · page 3

The man-of-war Pearl arrived in Sydney harbour this morning, with the following account of an attack by islanders upon Commodore Goodenough, which resulted in his death. The Pearl has returned…

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Commodore Goodenough's Funeral

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 26 August 1875 · page 3

Commodore Gobdendugh and the two dead seamen of the Pearl were buried yesterday. The public offices, the banks, and the principal merchants closed at noon. Thousands of persons assembled at…

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Death of Commodore Goodenough. Attack by Natives of Santa Cruz. Two Seamen of H.M.S. Pearl Fatally Wounded. (S. M. Herald of Tuesday.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 26 August 1875 · page 2

It is with much sorrow that we announce the death of this distinguished naval officer, who was mortally wounded on the 12th instant, at the Island of Santa Cruz, one of a group of islands north of the…

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The Funeral

The Singleton Argus and Upper Hunter General Advocate · Saturday 28 August 1875 · page 4

The remains of the late Commodore Goodenough were interred in the North Shore cemetery on Tuesday afternoon with naval honours, in the presence of…

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Death of Commodore Good enough

The Singleton Argus and Upper Hunter General Advocate · Saturday 28 August 1875 · page 4

We have received from our Sydney correspondent the following account, furnished to him by one of the officers of the Pearl, the murder of…

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Saturday, August 28, 1875. Death of Commodore Goodenough

The Singleton Argus and Upper Hunter General Advocate · Saturday 28 August 1875 · page 2

THE sad intelligence brought by H.M.S. Pearl of the murderous attack made upon COMMODORE GOODEN[?] at the island of Santa Cruz, has cast a…

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Death of an Infant. Coroner's Inquest

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 9 September 1875 · page 2

An inquest was held at Hodgson's Royal Hotel, West Maitland, on Monday evening, before the coroner, Mr. T. W. Pearse, and a jury of twelve, on the body of Ernest Simpson, a child five months old,…

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Death, of Dr. Dowe. (From the Tamworth News, Sept. 10.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 14 September 1875 · page 2

We do not remember, during a somewhat lengthened experience in Tamworth, a more profound sensation having been created consequent on the death of a prominent member of the community,…

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A Chinese Funeral

The Singleton Argus and Upper Hunter General Advocate · Wednesday 15 September 1875 · page 3

The Grey River Argus given the following account of a Chinese funeral at Greymouth, which took place recently. The person interred was a poor fellow named Yung Lum…

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Death of Dr. Dowe

The Singleton Argus and Upper Hunter General Advocate · Wednesday 15 September 1875 · page 2

We do not remember, daring a somewhat lengthened experience in Tamworth, a more profound sensation having been created consequent on the death of a prominent…

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OBITUARY. London, September 25

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 30 September 1875 · page 2

Lady Darling, relict of Sir Charles H. Darling, late Governor of Victoria; Lady Don, widow of Sir William H. Dou, who died in Hobart Town in 1862…

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Obituary

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 7 October 1875 · page 2

Sergeant Major C. Johnson, Bengal Regiment; Major G. D. Parsons, Bengal Cavalry; Lady Colbestoe; Mr.Dunbar, M.P.; Mr.J. B. Caldbeck (late P. and 0. agent), Singapore; Mr. W. A. M. Gordon of…

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The Death of "Cruiser," one of Rarey's Earliest Subjects

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 7 October 1875 · page 2

Probably no horse was ever more generally known than the celebrated horse Cruiser, imported from England in 1861 by John S. Rarey, whose system of horse taming was for some time the sensation in…

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