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Hunter Valley · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1896

275 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 7 of 14

Obituary

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 7 July 1896 · page 5

The death in announced of the Rev. Colmer B. Symes, B.A., Congregational minister of Leytonstone, and a member of the Lond congregational Board…

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Death of Sergeant Kerrigan

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 7 July 1896 · page 5

The death was announced to-day of Mr. Thomas Kerrigan, formerly Inspector of Police, aged 70 years. Deceased was stationed at various times at Maitland, Macleay River, Port Macquarie, and…

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Death of Ex-inspector Kerrigan. An old Police Officer. [By Telegraph.] Sydney

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 8 July 1896 · page 2

THE death is announced this morning of Mr Thomas Kerrigan, formerly Inspector of Police. He served in the Police Department many years, and…

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Death of Sir John Pender

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 9 July 1896 · page 3

The death is announced of Sir John Pender, chairman of the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company, who recently resigned his seat for Wick Burghs in House of Commons, in…

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Back to Port. Death of a Pilot. [By Telegraph.] Sydney

Singleton Argus · Saturday 11 July 1896 · page 2

THE steamer Bucephalus, bound to Calcutta, put back to port last night, the coast pilot (Captain Lowrie) having died suddenly. The deceased…

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Obituary

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 14 July 1896 · page 5

The death is announced of Professor Curtius, the eminent Greek scholar. The death is also announced of Sir Augustus Berkeley Paget, G.C.B., P.C., who was British…

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Death of Mrs Scott

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 14 July 1896 · page 2

A telegram received yesterday notified that Mrs Scott, mother of Mrs B. E. Shaw (who is the reliet of the late Rev. Canon Shaw), had died-that morning in Sydney,…

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Death of a Woman at Muswellbrook. a Chemist Charged with Performing an Illegal Operation

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 14 July 1896 · page 5

A case of the most sensational character has occurred here by the death of a woman named Emma Giblet, who came to Muswellbrook on July 2nd…

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Obituary

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 15 July 1896 · page 5

The death is announced of M. Hitrovo, formerly Russian Diplomatic Representative at Bucharest Roumania…

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Our Muswellbrook Letter. Sad Death of a Woman

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 15 July 1896 · page 2

The death of the woman Emma Giblett, under the very peculiar circumstances briefly described in yesterday's Mercury, is the most sensational occurrence yet recorded in Muswellbrook and district…

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Obituary

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 18 July 1896 · page 3

The death in announced of M. Edmond de Goncourt, the well-known French writer, aged 74…

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To-day's Telegrams. [Press Telegraph Association.] Sydney. Death of a Politician

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 25 July 1896 · page 3

The Hon. John Donaldson, M.L.A. of Queensland, died this morning…

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Obituary

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 27 July 1896 · page 5

The death in announced of M. Eugene Spuller, the French journalist, author, and statesman, at the age of 61 years. He was Minister for Foreign Affairs in 1889-90 in the Ministry of M. Tirard…

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The Peculiar Death of a Woman

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 28 July 1896 · page 5

The Coroner resumed the inquest to-day touching the death of a young woman named Mary Ann Tisdell, who died at the Prince Alfred Hospital under peculiar circumstances. James McMahon…

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Strange Death of an Old Military Man

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 29 July 1896 · page 5

Lieutenant-Colonel William Burnett, on the retired list of the Second Regiment of Infantry, and lately an official in the Postal Department, died in the hospital yesternight under somewhat…

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Death of a Young Woman. Under Peculiar Circumstances. [By Telegraph.] Sydney

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 29 July 1896 · page 3

AT the inquett to-day touching the death of the young woman named Mary Ann Tisdell, aged 18 years, who recently arrived from Forbes, and who…

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Death of an Ex-mayor. Taken Ill in Church. [By Telegraph.] Sydney

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 29 July 1896 · page 2

MR THOMAS CLARKE, ex-mayor of Mudgee, died this morning, aged 68. He was taken ill in church on Sunday night. He was one of the oldest…

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A Military Funeral

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 30 July 1896 · page 3

The remains of the late Lieutenant-Colonel. Burnett, of the retired list, were interred today with military houours…

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Peculiar Death of a Young Woman

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 1 August 1896 · page 11

A young woman, aged 18, whose name is said to be Annie Tindall, died in the Sydney Hospital under somewhat peculiar circumstances. The police state that the deceased, under the name of…

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The Dean Curse—death of Mr. F. W. Curnow

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 1 August 1896 · page 3

Mr. Frederick William Curnow, eldest son of Mr. William Curnow, editor of the Sydney Morning Herald, died this morning from pneumonia, supervening upon influenza. The news created a…

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