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Murray · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1864

8 stories in Murray's papers

Death of Mr. Thackeray

Pastoral Times and Echuca and Moama Chronicle · Saturday 27 February 1864 · page 4

SUDDENLY one of our greatest literary men has departed. Never more shall the fine head of Mr. Thackeray, with its mass of silvery hair, be seen towering among us. It was but…

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The Funeral of Mr. Thackeray-

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 26 March 1864 · page 4

Kensal-green Cemetery, henceforth to be a shrine for pilgrims from all parts of the world, received its last and most illustrious tenant on Wednesday, December 30, 1803. The day…

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The Mysterious Life and Death of Kaspar Hauser

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 30 April 1864 · page 4

Like the “ Man in the Iron Mask,” the identity of the unfortunate Kaspar Hauser, the foundling of Nuremberg, has formed the subject of much curious speculation. To the…

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Obituary

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 11 June 1864 · page 2

On Saturday last news was received by his Worship the Mayor of Albury, of the decease, in Sydney, of his father, Samuel North, Esq., Water Police Magistrate, and who for some months, in fact since…

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Death. of Mr. Frederic Mate

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 13 August 1864 · page 3

An announcement appeared in Our list of the death at the early age of-nineteen years, of Mr. Frederio Mate, third son of Mr. T. H. Mate, M.L.A. Mr. Mate was a native of the colony, being born at his…

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Death of Senior Sergeant Smyth

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 1 October 1864 · page 2

Bushranging has another victim this week, and another murder is added to the list of the crimes of the crimes of Morgan and crow. On a peaceful Sunday evening not a month since a murderous, and, at the same time…

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Shocking Death of Captain Speke, the African Traveller

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Wednesday 23 November 1864 · page 2

Captain Speke, the celebrated African explorer, while shooting on Thursday, 15th September, near Corsham, Wiltshire, with his relative, Mr. Fuller, of Neston Park, shoe himself…

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Shocking Death of Captain Speke, the African Traveller

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 26 November 1864 · page 4

Captain Speke, the celebrated African explorer, while shooting on Thursday, 15th September, near Corsham, Wiltshire, with his relative, Mr. Fuller, of Neston Park, shot…

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