Death of the King of Spain
Information has reached the Foreign Office that the king of Spain died on Nov. 25. His Majesty was known to be in a consumption; but the immediate cause of death was a recurrence of dysentery,…
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Obituaries & funerals, 1886
62 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 1 of 4
Death of the Richest American
Mr. W. H. Vanderbilt, the well-known owner of the railways and speculator in stocks in the United States, died suddenly on Dec. 8. At breakfast, says a correspondent, health and spirits were better…
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The Auckland Evening Star of February 8th states that a painful feeling was occasioned on the previous day when it became known that Dr. C. H. Huxtable had been found dead at his residence,…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Sad Scene at a Funeral
THE following account of painful scene at a funeral, caused by a peculiar bungle on the part of the authorities of the cometery is given in the Melbourne…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Death of Richard III
RICHARD out down all before him in his fury, and there no longer remained a single fighting man between these rivals for a crown, when Hobert, springing unexpectedly from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Late Mr C. Womersley
The Coonamble correspondent to the Murrundi and Qurindi Times writes thus of Mr C. W. Womersley late reporter to that journal who died recently…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Death of an Explorer. (By Telegraph to the Herald.) Brisbane
William Landsborough, the veteran explorer, died to-day, at Caloundra, near Brisbane. He was the third son of the well-known naturalist, Dr. Landsborough, of Scotland. He came out to New…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →The Maitland Poisoning Case. Death of Mrs. Burton
The last incident in connexion with this case, which forms a most remarkable page in the criminal history of the colony, has closed with the decease of Mrs. Ann Burton, the elder prisoner,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Maitland Poisoning Case Death of Mrs. Burton
MR. SHIELL, the city coroner, presided at an inquest held in the Darlinghurst Gaol on Saturday on the remains of a woman named Ann Burton, who was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Death of Dr. Foord-Clark, of Tamworth. (From the Tamworth News of Tuesday.)
We very much regret to have to announce the death of Dr. H. Foord-Clark, which sad event took place yesterday afternoon, between four and five o'clock. The circumstances, so far as we have been…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Death of a Miser
AN elderly labourer has just died at Ashford, Kent, who developed throughout his life a singular propensity for saving. The name of the deceased was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Death of Richard III
Cassell's " British Battles on Land and Sea," dealing with the Battle of Bosworth Field and the death of Richard III., quotes the statement of Hume that " the intrepid tyrant, sensible now of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Remarkable Death of an Aged Clergyman
An inquest was held a few days ago at Bark[?]m, near "Workingham, Berks, on the body of the Rev. Arthur Roberts, rector of Barkham, who was found dead in the grounds…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Death of Mrs. Macpherson
We regret to record the death of Mrs. Maepherson of Cluny Macpherson, mother of the present chief, which took place in Edinburgh on March 15. The deceased was the youngest…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Late Mr Samuel Henry Horne
MR.SAMUEL HENRY HORNE, whose death we announced in our last issue, was one of the oldes residents of this town. He came to Singleton in the year 1839…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Death of a Noted Highland Minister. (Glasgow Weekly Mail.)
In the death of Dr. Thomas M'Lauchlon Scotland has lost one of her noblest sons, one of her most eminent scholars, while the Free Church has been deprived of one who for 37…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Death of a Pair of Dwarfs
For a number of years two persons have been before the public exhibiting themselves as dwarfs, both of whom have died somewhat suddenly within the past fortnight. They…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Death of Mr Hugh George
WE regret to have to record the death of one the of fore [?] newspaper men in the Colony, Mr Hugh George, late manager of the Sydney Morning Herald,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Accidental Death of a Late Resident of Singleton
AN inquiry was held by the coroner, in the Assembly Hotel, Sydney, on Saturday morning last, into the circumstances surrounding the death of a saddler…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Death of a Celebrated Jockey
Tom Chaloner, the well-known jockey and trainer, died a few days ago at Newmarket. He won the Derby for Mr. Naylor on Macaroni in 1863, and the previous year he steered Feu de Joie in the same…
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