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Hunter Valley · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1889

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Death of a Journalist

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 18 September 1889 · page 2

Mr J. M. Lynch, for many years connected with the press of Sydney and Victoria, died to-day…

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Mysterious Death of a Tourist in Scotland

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 18 September 1889 · page 2

THE body of Mr E. R. Rose, of London, was found at Arran on August 4 under mysterious circumstances. It would seem that Mr Rose, while spending his…

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Child Burned to Death. Explosion of a Kerosene Lamp

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 18 September 1889 · page 2

A LITTLE girl named Ellen Alice May Pannell, aged 7 years, was burned almost to a cinder in a fire which destroyed a weatherboard cottage at…

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Mysterious Death of a Tourist

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 19 September 1889 · page 3

Mr. E. R. Rose, of London, was found at Arran on August 4 under mysterious Circumstances. It would seem that Mr. Rose, while spending his holidays in Scotland, had on July 12 casually made the…

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Death of Mr Hooker, Junr

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 25 September 1889 · page 2

GENERAL regret was expressed in town on Saturday when it became known that David John Hooker, a promising son of Mr David Hooker, of John-street, had…

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Death of Wilkie Collins. [By Cable.] London

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 25 September 1889 · page 2

THE death is announced of Wilkie Collins, the celebrated novelist, at the age of 65. [Mr Collins was born in 1824, and was the…

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Death of the Queen of Tonga

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 26 September 1889 · page 4

The Tonga correspondent of the New Zealand Herald writes on September 12:—"The land is again in a state of mourning on account of the death of Queen Charlotte, who died on Sunday,…

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Death of a Noted Cricketer

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 1 October 1889 · page 3

The death, through misadventure, is announced of Mr. C. A. Absolom, a well-known figure in the cricket world. He was a member of the Cambridge University eleven in 1866, 1867, 1868, and 1869…

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Obituary

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 2 October 1889 · page 2

General Faidherbe, distinguished French soldier, who played a prominent part in the Franco-Prussian war, occupying the position of commander of the…

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The Late Mr D. Berry. Munificient Bequests

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 2 October 1889 · page 4

THE funeral of the late Mr D. Berry took place at Berry on Friday, and was attended by a vast concourse of people It was -estimated that over 2000 persons…

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Death of Mr. W. R. Hawkins, late of Laguna. (From our Mount View Correspondent.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 3 October 1889 · page 4

Mr. William Rudland Hawkins, one of the oldest and most highly respected residents of the Wollombi district, expired early on Sunday morning, Sept. 22, at Wattagon, at the residence of his son, with…

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Excessive Use of Tobacco. Death of a Boy

Singleton Argus · Saturday 5 October 1889 · page 1

ALBURY, Thursday.—The death of a boy, 10 years of ago, is reported from Corows, from congestion of the lungs, said to have been accelerated through…

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Death of Mr. Anthony Brough, Mayor of Hay. (Riverine Grasier, Oct. 5.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 10 October 1889 · page 3

Few events have so shocked our little community as the death of our popular and genial townsman, Mr. Anthony Brough, the news of which was received in town on Wednesday morninglast. Those…

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Death of Mr. George Cohen, J.P. (Tamworth News of Tuesday.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 24 October 1889 · page 4

It is with feelings of deep sorrow that we find ourselves called upon to record the death of Mr. George Cohen J.P., well-known in the north and north-western districts through long personal…

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Death of Mr Westgarth

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 30 October 1889 · page 2

Mr William Westgarth, the well-known anglo Australian financier, died suddenly to-day…

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Death of a Miser at Maitland

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 30 October 1889 · page 3

AN old woman named Margaret Collins was found dead in her house, where she had been living in Smyth's-lane, West Maitland, on Saturday morning. She was discovered in a…

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Death of an Infant

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 6 November 1889 · page 4

A MAGISTERIAL inquiry held on the Ist November instant at the Isle River, near Gundy, before W. F. Parker, P.M., touching the death of Alfred James Rose, aged one…

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Death of the Rev. A. J. Hitchcock

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 6 November 1889 · page 2

REGBET WAS expressed right throughout the district when it became known on Saturday that the Rev. Alfred Jerred Hitchcock, Curate of All Saints' Parish, had died early…

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