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Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra) · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1902

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The Funeral. London, March 27

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 5 April 1902 · page 12

It was the wish of Mr. Rhodes to be buried on the Matoppo Hills, Rhodesia. Sir J Gordon Sprigg,…

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Death of Cecil Rhodes. a Remarkable Man

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 5 April 1902 · page 2

The following extracts are from a personal sketch of Mr. Ceoil Rhodes written by Arnold White. HIS LIFE. In Mr Rhodes' ancestry of graziers is to be found…

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Death of Mr Cecil Rhodes London, March 26

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 5 April 1902 · page 12

The death is announced of Mr. Cecil Rhodes, aged 48 years. March 27…

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Telegraphic. London, Monday. Mr Rhodes' Funeral

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Wednesday 9 April 1902 · page 2

During the funeral of Mr Rhodes many touching scenes occurred in the Dutch centres through which the remains passed…

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The Late Mr. Cecil Rhodes. His Will. Enormous Bequests. A, Federated Sooth Africa. Provision for Education.the Colonies, America, and Germany Participate London, April

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 12 April 1902 · page 5

Particulars of he [?]of the late Mr Cecil Rhodes have been published. The will is dated July 1. 1899, and codicils, which relate to family and German…

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Obituary

Canowindra Star and Woodstock Recorder · Friday 18 April 1902 · page 2

We sincerely regret to record the sudden death from heart failure of Mr. Jos. Goodaere, Son., of Neville which took place on Friday week last. Mr…

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Death of Mrs T. H. West

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 19 April 1902 · page 6

Late on Tuesday afternoon the news was received here that Mrs. T. H. West had departed this life. The deceased lady was widely known and…

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Obituary

Western Champion · Friday 25 April 1902 · page 11

Last week, shortly before going to press, we briefly chronicled the sad news of the death of Mr Fred A Webb, one of our most prominent…

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Death of Miss Hyde

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 26 April 1902 · page 9

Miss Mary [?], who was reported in our last issue to lie at the hospital in a critical condition as the result of injuries received at the beginning of the week in…

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Obituary

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 10 May 1902 · page 6
Also in The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser

Our community was [?] on Saturday last when the [?] of Mr. John Muir, at the age of 67 [?] after a very brief illness [?]…

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Obituary

Canowindra Star and Woodstock Recorder · Friday 23 May 1902 · page 2

The many friends of Mr. John Caruthers, late of this district, will sincerely regret to hear of the demise of that gentleman undermost distressing…

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Obituary

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 24 May 1902 · page 2

MR. JOHN LINDSAY WAUGH, who had for some time past been suffering from diabetes, died at Berrigan on Sunday morning last. Mr. Waugh, when we first knew him in the early…

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Death of Mrs Strain

Western Champion · Friday 6 June 1902 · page 4

The evidence at the magisterial enquiry, conducted by Mr G W Seaborn J.P., coroner, on Thursday, 29th ult., whose sad death was reported in our…

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Death of Mrs McWilliam

Western Champion · Friday 6 June 1902 · page 11

The inquiry into the circumstances connected with the above sad event (which is fully reported on page 15) was adjourned, for the purpose of…

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Obituary

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 7 June 1902 · page 2

MR. H. J. DOHERTY, late of Harefield, near Arramagong, died in St. Vincent's Hospital, on Sunday last. Deceased had, for years, been in delicate health, but struggled bravely on in the…

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Obituary

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Friday 20 June 1902 · page 2

A girl named netty Wykes, aged 17, daughter of Mrs. Wykes, of Tichbourne, died at the local Hospital last Friday evening from typhoid. The young lady had only…

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Death of Mrs. Ousby, Sen

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 21 June 1902 · page 6

Mrs. Mary Ousby died at the residec[?] of her daughter (Mrs. Alfred West) about 10 o’clock on Thursday night The deceased lady had retired to rest [?]…

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Death of Dean Cowper the Oldest Australian

Forbes Times · Saturday 21 June 1902 · page 8

SYDNEY’S first Dean, the Venerable Archdeacon William Macquarie Cowper, died-shortly before midnight on Saturday, passing away in his sleep. For the past two months Dean Cowper’s life had…

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Death of Mr. A. Dubois. Another Victim to the Drought

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Friday 27 June 1902 · page 5

QUITE a gloom was cast over the town on Thursday evening on receipt of the news that so well-known and generally esteemed a townsman as Mr. Arthur Dubois was no…

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