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Illawarra · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1871

16 stories in Illawarra's papers

Obituary

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 20 January 1871 · page 4

Thomas Thornton, aged 70 leaving £20,00,000 sterling; Hon. Rev. Leland Noel, aged 73; widow of Ettrick Shepherd, Archdeacon Hale, Lard Byron, Professor Barker…

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Obituary

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 21 February 1871 · page 4

Lord Hotham Macdonnall; Dumas, sen.; Thomas Brassey, sen.; Ritchie, manager of the Scotsman; Glover, the song writer; Wilson, chairman of the Anti-Corn Law Leage; Dr…

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The Remarkable LIfe and Tragic Death of General Prim

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 11 April 1871 · page 4

The hand of the assassin has just robbed Spain of an ennobled soldier, whose biography was fuller of picturesque and romantic incident than Defoe's" Memoirs of Cavalier," or Scott's Legend…

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Illawarra Mercury · Friday 14 April 1871 · page 4

T. W Robertson, dramatist; Sidenbottom, M. P.; Applegarth, the inventor of the seampress; Greenwood, solicitor to the Treasury; George Ticknor, of New York; Baron Estros,…

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Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 16 May 1871 · page 4

Sir Archibald Edmonstone, Dr Campbell Mackinnon, hospital inspector; Lord Hastings, General Beckwith, Sir Baldwin Leighton, Sir H. Freeling; Professor M' Gill, of St. Andrew's…

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Illawarra Mercury · Friday 9 June 1871 · page 4

Sir William Magnay, Edward Howes, M.P.; George Warriene, Instructor of Cookery to the British Army; Burns, a Roman Catholic publisher; Thomas Agnew, a picture dea[?]ear…

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Illawarra Mercury · Friday 7 July 1871 · page 4

Sir John Herschell, who was interred in Westminister Abbey; Thalberg, the pianist; Auber, the composer; Deschamps, the French poet; Mason, Confederate envoy; Rev. T. Lynch…

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Illawarra Mercury · Friday 29 September 1871 · page 4

Denn Maunsell, rupture of blood vessel; Sir T. Dyke Aeland, Captain Stanhope, Colonel Boyer, Staff Surgeon Brady, and Southey's daughter (Edith Mary, wife of Rev. J. W…

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Death of Walter Montgomery

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 13 October 1871 · page 4

A feeling of general sorrow, we are sure, will be experienced at the sad news of the death, by suicide, of Walter Montgomery. The announcement comes among the later of the English…

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Illawarra Mercury · Friday 27 October 1871 · page 4

Paul De Koch, French novelist; Giles Holder, Russian merchant; Lady Dundas, Henry Black book, publisher; Colonel Wright, C.B.; two brothers Russell, M. P..; Justice Peace, of…

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Original Poetry. on the Death of a Friend

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 9 November 1871 · page 4

ANOTHER one has left this world, From all its cares and sorrows free— A noble man, whose generous heart Was never closed to charity…

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Illawarra Mercury · Friday 1 December 1871 · page 4

Duchess of Sir Albans, aged 22 ; Dr Mortimer; Head Master of the City of Melbourne school ; Sir Alexander Cock burn Campbell ; R. Bentley, publisher ; G. A. Hamilton, ex-Secretary of the…

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Death of a Hero Fireman

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 7 December 1871 · page 4

Between 2 and 3 o'clock a.m. on October 7 a fire was discovered on the premises of Mr. Brown, chemist, Gray's Inn-lane, Holborn. In a few minutes a…

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The Late Mr. R. B. Fry, of Kiama

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 8 December 1871 · page 2

The following, from the 'Independent,' of yesterday, may be read with interest by many of our raiders, in addition to the excellent report of the inquest published in our last issue from our…

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Obituary

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 21 December 1871 · page 2

MOST of our readers will, perhaps, before the publication of our present issue, have heard of the death of the Rev. George Mackie, the news of which melancholy event…

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Death of an Aeronaut

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 21 December 1871 · page 4

DEATH OF AN AERONAUT.—A despatch dated Louisville, October 2nd, says:—Last Saturday evening, near Paoli, Orange county Ind, Professor Wilbur made…

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