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Hunter Valley · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1896

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Sudden Death of an Actress

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 2 December 1896 · page 4

MISS SADIE MACDONALD, a prominent member of Hoyt's Company of American Actors, now appearing at Her-Majesty's Theatre, Sydney, died…

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Obituary

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 4 December 1896 · page 3

The Right Rev. Edward Wyndham Tufnell, D.D., formerly Bishop of Brisbane, is dead, aged 82…

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BRITISH & Foreign News The following extracts are taken from files by the English mail:— Death of a Clergyman in Church

Singleton Argus · Saturday 5 December 1896 · page 3

The Rev. Freeman Wilson, rector of East Horsley, Surrey, died suddenly in his parish church on Sunday morning as he was about to conduct…

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Preston's Funeral

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 9 December 1896 · page 2

The remains of Arthur T. O. Preston, one of the men foully murdered on the mountains, were interred in the Independent section of the…

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Catastrophe at Stockton Colliery. Funeral of the Victims

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 9 December 1896 · page 3

ON Saturday morning the list of those who met their deaths at the Stockton Colliery was increased by the death of another of the rescue party, Sneddon, who had been…

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To-day's Telegraph. Sydney. Death of a Prominent Clergyman

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 14 December 1896 · page 5

Tho Rev. Archibald Gilchrist, the famous Presbyterian divine, died this morning at his residence, Willoughby, after suffering some time from a complication of serious disorders. The rev. gentlemen,…

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Death of a Famous Ceicketer

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 18 December 1896 · page 3

H. H. Stephenson, the once famous 'Surrey professional arickctor, died to-day, aged 63. [Mr. Stophenson captained the first English team which visited AnBtrijJifi, that being in 1862, when the arrangements wore in the hands of Messrs. Spiors and Pond, of Melbourne, who advanced £7000 to defray expenses. The toum con­sisted of Messrs. StophonBon (E. and H.), Bennett, Caffyn, Griffith, Heiiruo, Mudie, Iddiaon, 0. Law­rence (now in Melbourne), Mortlook, and Seweil. They did not play any eleven a-side mntohos and only eleven altogether, of which they won six, loat nno nnH rlrntv fnllr.T…

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Obituary

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 December 1896 · page 4

The death occurred late on Tuesday afternoon of Mr. John Laskie, who for the past fifteen or sixteen years has been in business in West Maitland in partnership with Mr. James Buman as working…

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Electric Echoes. Sydney, Friday. Peculiar Death of an Infant

Singleton Argus · Saturday 19 December 1896 · page 4

A child named Elsie Redwood, 11½ months, residing with her parents at Forest Lodge, died in the hospital from concussion of the brain resulting from…

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Obituary

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 21 December 1896 · page 5

The death is announced of the Earl of Normanton, aged 78…

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Funeral of Colonel Stokes

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 22 December 1896 · page 5

The remains of colonel stokes were accorded a full Military and Naval funeral to-day It was largely attended and the cortege was very lengthy…

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Death of Colonel Stokes

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 23 December 1896 · page 4

ON Sunday evening Colonel Stokes was riding from Manly to Narabeen, in company with his daughter, when he fell from his bicycle. Dr. Watkins,…

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Death of the Trotter, "Tommy."

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 23 December 1896 · page 2

Mr G. H. Allan, of "Greylands." has just met with a severe loss in the shape of the well-known trotting stallion. Tommy, who had to be destroyed yesterday morn…

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Funeral of Colonel Stokes [By Telegraph.] Sydney

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 23 December 1896 · page 2

COLONAL STOKES was buried to-day with military honors in the presence of a large attendance. Thousands lined George street, along which the…

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Sudden Death of Colonel Stokes

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 26 December 1896 · page 9

We received word on Monday from our Sydney telegraphic agents stating that Colonel C. F. Stokes, commandant of the Fourth Infantry Regiment, had died suddenly while cycling with his daughter at…

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Death of Miss Jarmen

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 30 December 1896 · page 2

On Christmas night Mary Henrietta Jarman, daughter of our respected townsman, Mr R.H. Jarman, succumbed somewhat suddenly to an attack of inflammation…

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