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Hunter Valley · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1899

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The Late Mr. Gladstone

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 30 January 1899 · page 3

Mr. John Morley, M.P., will receive £10,000 for his work on "The Life of Gladstone."…

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Death of a Jockey

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 1 February 1899 · page 3

The jockey David Cook, the victim of Saturday's accident at Randwick during the matting of the Anniversary Handicap, succumbed to his injuries this morning. Deceased, who was twenty-three…

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Death of a Foundling

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 1 February 1899 · page 3

On the Droning of the 18th instant a postman named Patrick Hardman discovered a male child about 6 months old lying in the tram waiting room at Kensington near Randwick Hardman…

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Latest Cable News. Obituary

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 1 February 1899 · page 3

Clare Ford, late ambassador…

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The Late Mr. Tyson's Estate

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 2 February 1899 · page 2

Some of the heirs of the late Mr. James Tyson have disapproved of the resolutions arrived at during a meeting held at the A.J.S. Bank, Sydney, and the advice and ruling at the Law Courts have…

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Sudden Death at a Funeral

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 2 February 1899 · page 3

The Rev. Dr. Berry, the well known Congregational minister, of Wolverhampton, while officiating at a funeral at Bilston, in Staffordshire, dropped dead as he was in the act of praying at…

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Death of Clare Ford. LONDON

Singleton Argus · Thursday 2 February 1899 · page 3

The death is announced of the Bight Hon. Sir Frances Clare Ford, late Turkish Ambassador to Italy…

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Death of a Jockey. [By Telegraph.] Sydney

Singleton Argus · Thursday 2 February 1899 · page 2

The Jockey, D. Cook, who was injured at the Randwick Races on Saturday, never regained consciousness, and died at the hospital this morning. At…

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Wilful Murder. Death of an Abandoned Infant. [By Telegraph.] Sydney

Singleton Argus · Thursday 2 February 1899 · page 2

At the inquest on the death of the six months old infant , found crying under a seat in a train waiting-shed at Kensington a few weeke ago, the jury…

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Death of Stud Horses

Singleton Argus · Saturday 4 February 1899 · page 2

During the past few days two valuables stud horses have died in this district from causes not easy to understand. In the loss of that well-known draught stallion,…

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Death of Mr W. Johnson

Singleton Argus · Saturday 4 February 1899 · page 2

Mr William Johnson, of Glendon Brook, wee sencerely regret to say, died on Thursday, and was buried yesterday in the Church of England cemetery. The deceased,…

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The Coach Fatality. Death of Mr Pattinson

Singleton Argus · Saturday 4 February 1899 · page 6

MR G. PATTINSON, the passenger who was injured in the coach accident on Tuesday, died the next day. The two doctors at Kew, successfully set the…

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Death of a Foundling. a Verdict of Murder Returned

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 February 1899 · page 7

On the evening of the 18th instant a postman named Patrick Hardman discovered a male child, about 6 months old lying in the tram waiting-room at Kensington, near Randwick. Hardman…

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Death of a Prisoner

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 6 February 1899 · page 3

Sylvester Symons, a prisoner undergoing a sentence in Baloela Goal, died rather suddenly this morning, it is supposed from heart disease…

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Death of Mr. John Cooper

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 8 February 1899 · page 2

ON Sunday afternoon last Mr. John Cooper, step-father of Mrs. Fuller, licensee of the Prince of Wales Hotel, Sydney-street, passed…

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Death of a Noted Pastoralist

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 9 February 1899 · page 3

David McCaughey, owner of Coree station, one of the largest sheep breeders in the colony died this morning after a very short illness. He was apparently in good health a few days ago when passing…

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Death of Count Caprivi. LONDON

Singleton Argus · Thursday 9 February 1899 · page 3

The death is announced of Count Caprivi, who succeeded Prince Bismarek as Chancellor of the German Empire, and who resigned in October,…

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Death of an Old Resident

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 11 February 1899 · page 2

From Wallabadah comes the news of the death of Mr. B. Jenkins, a resident of that district for the past 35 years. Mr. Jenkins had been seriously ill for some time past, and…

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