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Hunter Valley · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1878

55 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 3 of 3

Death of the Rev. Wm. Ridley. (From the Evening News.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 1 October 1878 · page 3

It is little more than three months since we made the sorrowful announcement that the founder and proprietor of this journal had passed away from among us, and to-day the band…

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Funeral of a Siamese God

The Singleton Argus and Upper Hunter General Advocate · Wednesday 2 October 1878 · page 2

The Times of India recently announced the death of one of the living idols of Siam. The oldest one of the white elephants, which was horn in 1770, died…

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Death of Mr. William Andrews

The Singleton Argus and Upper Hunter General Advocate · Wednesday 2 October 1878 · page 3

WE have to announnce, With feelings of regret and sympathy for a bereaved family, the death of the genial and wellknown actor, Mr. William Andrews,…

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Death of an old shepherd. Coroners Inquest

The Singleton Argus and Upper Hunter General Advocate · Wednesday 2 October 1878 · page 2

THE coroner, Dr. Glennie, held an inquest on Saturday last at the Dwelling-house of Frederick Hadden, Ravensworth, on the body of an old shepherd…

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The Murder of Senior-Sergeant Wallings. Capture and Death of the Murderer. [Reuter's Telegram to "Mercury."]

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 8 October 1878 · page 5

The Inspector-General of Police received the following telegram this morning, from Sub-Inspector Duffy, who is at Barringun:—" George Gibson, alias Henry Wilson, who murdered Wallings, was…

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The Late Mr. Justice Keogh

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 19 October 1878 · page 14

We (Herald) have just announced in our telegraphic intelligence the death of Mr. Justice Keogh. He was one of the judges of Common Pleas in Ireland. The outbreak of his insanity is described in…

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District News. (From Various Corresponents.) Brisbane Water. Death of Mother and Child Near Womberall: Lamentable Case of Neglect, and Self-inflicted Poverty. Full Report of Inquest. (From a correspondent.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 19 October 1878 · page 15

On Saturday afternoon, the 5th of October, at three o'clock, as the police magistrate and the police were about to proceed to the scene of the wreck of the schooner "Rebecca," (then just reported in…

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Chinese Funeral at Dunedin

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 22 October 1878 · page 7

Those who witnessed the scene enacted yesterday, at the interment of a Chinese named Leong Wah, in the Southern Cemetery, must have found it difficult to realize…

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Death of Mr. Rawdon Foster Greene. (From the Queenslander.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 26 October 1878 · page 14

The intelligence of the melancholy death of Mr. Rawdon Foster Greene, whilst travelling in charge of a flock of sheep in the Gulf country, will have been received with sincere regret by many old colonists,…

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The Death of Mrs. Bravo. Was It Drunkenness or Poison?

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 21 November 1878 · page 7

Mrs. Florence Bravo died on September 17 at Lumps Villa, Southsea, where she had been residing for the past few months under the assumed name of Turner. An inquest was…

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Sudden Death of Mr. Henry Quodling

The Singleton Argus and Upper Hunter General Advocate · Wednesday 27 November 1878 · page 6

WHEN it became known on Monday morning last that Mr. Henry Quodling, Government engineer for the construction of the northern railway…

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The Death of General Sir Thos. Biddulph

The Singleton Argus and Upper Hunter General Advocate · Saturday 14 December 1878 · page 4

At Abergeldie Mains on september 28 has caused the Queen the Profonndest grief. He had been for 27 years one of the Queen's most valuable and…

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Death of the Princess Alice. (By Telegraph to the Echo.) London, Dec. 14

The Singleton Argus and Upper Hunter General Advocate · Wednesday 18 December 1878 · page 2

HER Royal Highness Princess Alice of Hesse Darmstadt died to-day at 7 a.m…

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Death of the Princess Alice. London, December 14

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 19 December 1878 · page 6

Her Royal Highness Princess Alice of Hesse Darmstadt died to-day at 7 a.m. The following is from "Dod's Peerage":— Her Royal Highness ALICE MAUD MARY, Princess…

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Select Poetry. on the Death of Her Royal Highness Princess Alice

The Singleton Argus and Upper Hunter General Advocate · Saturday 21 December 1878 · page 2

THE first link of the golden chain Death breaks—the subtle slchemist ; And voices of a weeping train, And pale lips, by bowed sorrow kissed,…

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