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Hunter Valley · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1883

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Sudden Death of a Young Girl

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 4 October 1883 · page 4

A young girl, named Mary Ann Cook, aged seventeen years, died in circumstances of a very melancholy character about midnight on Tuesday, at the residence of Mr. Alick…

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The Death and Funeral of Archbishop Vaughan

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 6 October 1883 · page 6

The death of the late Archbishop Vaugh[?]n is referred to as fallows by the Argus' London correspondent, writing on August 24:—"A painful sensation was created amongst the Roman Catholic…

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Humour. Chiffons From Paris. (Translated From Le [?]) Funeral Oration

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 10 October 1883 · page 4

"Gentlemen, he whom we are bearing to his last r[?]ting-place was not, perhaps, a great man, nor a superior man, nor a man of great talent, nor even what we might [?]…

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Return of a New Guinea Expedition. Death of Professor Denton. (By Telegraph to Herald.) Cooktown

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 16 October 1883 · page 7

The schooner Ellangowan has arrived from Port Moresby, bringing back Captain William Armit, F.L.S., and Mr. Irving, both ill with fever. Captain Armit, the special…

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The Death of Professor Denton

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 18 October 1883 · page 2

The following particulars of the death of Professor Denton at New Guinea have been received by the Argus from the correspondent of that journal, telegraphed from Cooktown:…

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The Death-Roll of the Falls of Niagara

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 23 October 1883 · page 7

The melancholy death of Captain Webb has led to the publication in one of the New York journals of a record of the most memorable incidents and disasters connected with…

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Death of an Old Bathurst Resident. (From the Bathurst Times, Oct. 22.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 25 October 1883 · page 6

The death is just announced of Mrs. George Ranken at the age of 87. She died last Saturday. Mrs. Ranken was the widow of one of the earliest colonists, and had resided…

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Death of the Hon. R. S. Anderson. (From the Herald's Correspondent.) Melbourne

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 1 November 1883 · page 3

The Hon. R. S. Anderson, Minister of Justice, died this evening. He was born in 1821, in a village near Coleraine, Ireland. After completing his school course, he went to Trinity College, Dublin, and was…

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Death of the Very Rev. Dr. Bermingham. (From the Freeman's Journal.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 6 November 1883 · page 7

The latest calamity that has fallen on the [?]tholic people of this colony is the death, [?] away in England, of one who laboured [?] a weary year in this land of ours. We…

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Brother Gardner's Funeral Oration

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 21 November 1883 · page 4

"IT again becomes my painful dooty to announce the fack dat death has invaded our ranks," said the president as the fast notes of the triangle died away…

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Death of Marwood the Hangman

Singleton Argus · Saturday 15 December 1883 · page 1

A SHORT account of the career of Mawood may be of interest.-The Linola cobbler, who has for the last twev[?]e years performed the office of…

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