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Murray · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1875

14 stories in Murray's papers

Death of the Rev. Principal Fairbairn

The Riverine Grazier · Wednesday 6 January 1875 · page 4

Principal Fairbairn is dead. He died at his residence, 13 Elmbank Crescent, having, expired suddenly in bed on Thursday, near midnight, sometime after he and Mrs…

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Death of Mr. George Dunmore Lang. (From the Gulgong Argus.)

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 30 January 1875 · page 4

One is gone from among us leaving a vacancy in the ranks of his brother-men which cannot easily be filled. The cold shadows of death have closed over a genial heart and…

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Obituary

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 13 March 1875 · page 20
Also in The Pastoral Times

Vice-admiral Harding, formerly commanding on Australian station; Dr. M‘Donald, Professor of St. Andrew’s University; Major Cumming Bruce, aged 84; Colonel Milward,…

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The Gothenburg Obituary. (From the South Australian Advertiser)

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 27 March 1875 · page 4

We have now to reckon up our losses, and a mournful catalogue they present. First in position and influence was Mr. Justice Wearing, a gentleman who had been connected…

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The Death of Mr. Bryce Silarpe, From Snake-ride, at Wentworth. (Communicated.)

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 27 March 1875 · page 3

[We regret that the following did not reach us in time for our last issue] :— There has been no event that has transpired in this district within my knowledge that has created…

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Obituary

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 10 April 1875 · page 19

The Earl of Harborough; Mr. John Gray, Q.C., solicitor to the Treasury; Dr. Hoppus, Professor at the University of London; the Countess of Carnarvon, after childbirth, aged 40; Dr. Leahy,…

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Obituary

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 5 June 1875 · page 20

Mr Edgar Quinet, the historian and philosophical Radical, whose funeral at Mont Parnesse Cemetery was attended by 30,000 persons; the second Lord Wastbury, aged 45; Sir Rowland…

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The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 28 August 1875 · page 20

Viscount Molesworth, aged eighty-eight; Earl Charleville ; Dr. Oswald Bell, Professor of St Andrew’s University; Alderman Watkin, ex-mayor of Manchester ; General Riddell, Captain…

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A Few Words From the Late Mr. Oliver Cromwell

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 15 October 1875 · page 4

AT the request of our own imported medium we obtained an interview the other [?] with the shade of the Protector, when the following…

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Death of Sir Charles Cowper

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 30 October 1875 · page 20

Few men have played a more prominent part in what may be termed the later history of New South Wales than Sir Charles Cowper, the intelligence of whose death in London was received by…

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By Electric Telegraph. Melbourne Death of Sir Charles Cowper

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 30 October 1875 · page 2

LONDON, October 21.—Sir Charles Cowper, Agent-General of New South Wales, died this day. DENILIQUIN POLICE COURT…

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The Late Mr. John Mathewson. to the Editor of the Riverine Grazier

The Riverine Grazier · Wednesday 3 November 1875 · page 2

Sir,—Had John Mathewson, who was drowned at Wagga recently, died twelve years ago he would have been mourned by a whole colony (Queensland). In 1862 he was one of the few pushing spirits in the young…

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Obituary

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 18 December 1875 · page 21

Dr. Forbes, Bishop of Brechin, and disciple of Dr. Pusey ; the Rev. J. Woodward, Dean of Down ; Charles Turner, M.P. for South-west Lancashire ; Alderman John Paterson ; Harvey…

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