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Obituaries & funerals, 1909

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Death of A. Child. a Peculiar Case

Singleton Argus · Saturday 17 April 1909 · page 3

An infant four weeks old was found dead in its cot on Monday evening by its father, Edgar Bertram Wilson, a dentist, residing at Toorak (Melbourne) At the…

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Death of a Great Caricaturist. Ca[?]an D'ache's World[-famous Shadow Pictures

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 17 April 1909 · page 11

Caran d'Ache, the famous caricaturist, died on Thursday night, February 25, at the age of 49, in a private hospital, in Paris, a few moments after his wife had arrived in…

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Death of Mr. R. T. Keys

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 19 April 1909 · page 2

News was received in Sydney on Saturday of the death of Mr. R. T. Keys, of Bengalla, Muswellbrook, who was on a visit to Japan with his two daughters, The deceased gentleman died at Yokohama on…

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Death of the Primate. a Distinguished Career

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 19 April 1909 · page 3

The Archbishop of Sydney, Dr. Saumar[?]z Smith, died last night at three minutes to eight. His Grace passed a very restless night on Saturday, and on Sunday morning his condition was not…

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Death of Mr. R. T. Keys. Muswellbrook

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 19 April 1909 · page 3

The sad intelligence is cabled that Mr. R. T. keys died at Yokohama on Saturday. The deceased gentlemen was the second son of the late Mr. John Hudson Keys, one of the district's pioneers, and…

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The Late Mr. R. T. Keys

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 20 April 1909 · page 2

By the death of the late Mr. R. T Keys vs Muswellbrook has lost its must energetic resident mill the State a most worthy citizen. From the time he entered public…

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Death of Mrs. Millard

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 20 April 1909 · page 4

Mrs. G. Millard died on the 14th instant, 67 years (says a Sawyer's Gully correspondent). Deceased was a native of Glasgow, Scotland, and with her husband…

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Suspicious Death of a Girl

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 20 April 1909 · page 5

The girl who died in the house of Nurse Scott at leichhardt, under peculiar circumstances, was identified this morning by her perents as Elsie Star, aged 19. They could offer no…

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Death of Mr. J. K. Mackay

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 20 April 1909 · page 4

It will be learned with general regret that the death of Mr. J.K. Mackay occurred at his residence, "camgon, Dungong, last evening, after an illness extending a fortnight, at the advanced age of 80 years…

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Death of Mr. R. T. Keys

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 20 April 1909 · page 2

THE sorrowful intelligence reached Muswellbrook on Sunday last of the death at Yokahama, Japan, of Mr. R. T. Keys, of Bongalla. Word…

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Death of Mrs T. O'Brien

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 20 April 1909 · page 4

Much regret was expressed at Millier's Forest and Raymond Terrace on Saturday evening when it became known that Mrs O'Brien, relict of Mr. Thomas O'brien, who died many years back, had…

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Death of Mr R. T. Keys

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 20 April 1909 · page 2

News has been received by cable of the death of Mr Richard T. Keys at Yokohama, Japan. Mr Keys was a well-known squatter in the…

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Death of Dr. Saumarez Smith. Archbishop of Sydney

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 20 April 1909 · page 2

Dr. Saumarez Smith, Archbishop of Sydney, and Primate of Australia, died on Sunday night in a private hospital in Darlinghurst. His Grace never…

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Death of a Divine. (By Cable.) London

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 20 April 1909 · page 2

The Rev. James Harrison Rigg, the eminent Nonconformist divine, is dead. He was 88 years of age. The deceased was born in 1821, at…

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Death of the Archbishop of Sydney. Dr. Saumarez Smith

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 20 April 1909 · page 2

DR SAUMAREZ SMITH, Archbishop of Sydney, and Primate of Australia, died on Sunday night in a private hospital in Darlinghurst…

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Funeral of the Primate

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 21 April 1909 · page 5

The funeral of the late Primate took place to-day Prior to the cortege starting for the cemetery an impressive service was conducted in St. Andrew's Cathedral, which was crowded,…

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Death of Mr. R. T. Keys

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 21 April 1909 · page 2

IT is with profound regret we have to record the death of Mr. Richard T. Keys, which occurred at Yokohama, Japan, on Saturday last of malignant…

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Death of Dr. Saumarez-Smith Archbishop of Sydney

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 21 April 1909 · page 2

Dr. Saumarez Smith, Archbishop of Sydney, and Primate of Australia, died on Sunday night in a private hospital, Darlinghurst. His Grace never…

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Death of Mrs. R. T. Hills

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 22 April 1909 · page 2

The death is announced on April 21, at the residence of her son-in-law, "Gulourie," Bathurst Street, Woollabra at the advanced age of 83 years, of Mrs. Elizabeth A. Hills, widow of the late Rev…

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Death of Mr. E. F. Butler

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 22 April 1909 · page 2

The death occurred at his residence, Pitnacree-road, East Maitland, about 8 o'clock this morning of Mr. Edward Frederick Butler, an old and highly esteemed…

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