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Murray · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1886

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Death of Count Von Beust. Vienna, October 25

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 29 October 1886 · page 18

The death is announced, at the age of 77, of Count Frederick Ferdinand von Beust, formerly Austrian ambassador to Great Britain…

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Death of Mr. Samuel Morley

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 5 November 1886 · page 26

Mr. Samuel Morley died at his residence, 34, Grosvenor-street, London, on September 5. His illness commenced at Easter, and arose from a severe cold contracted in the early part…

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Telegrams. Death of Sir James Martin. a Great Man Gone. Sydney, November. 5

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 5 November 1886 · page 3

Sir James Martin, Chief Justice of New South Wales died last night. The death of the Chief Justice was caused by overwork…

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Death of Sir James Martin

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 12 November 1886 · page 25

Sir James Martin, the Chief Justice of New South Wales, died at half-past 11 p.m. on the 4th inst. He had been indisposed for a few days only, and it was not generally known…

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The Mysterious Death of a Woman at Clarendon

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 19 November 1886 · page 25

The investigations of the police into the circumstances of the death of the woman Julia Currie, whose body was found last week lying by the road at Clarendon, near Ballarat, lead…

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Death of M. Paul Bert. Paris, November 11

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 19 November 1886 · page 18

The death is announced, at the age of 53 years, of M. Paul Bert, the well-known physiologist, and Governor of the French possessions in Anam and Tonquin…

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Death of Ex-president Arthur. London, November 19

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 26 November 1886 · page 18

The death is announced of Mr. Chester Allan Arthur, ex-president of the United States, aged 56…

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The Funeral

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 30 November 1886 · page 4

I was walking in Sarannah, past a church decayed and dim, When there slowly through the window came a plaintive hymn;…

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Death of Mrs. Girling

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 3 December 1886 · page 11

Mrs. Girling, the mother of the English Shakers, and their chief priestess, whose firm belief and constant teaching was that she would “ never die,” expired at Hordle…

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Death of an Arctic Explorer

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 3 December 1886 · page 11

Bear-Admiral Bedford Clapperton Trevelyan Pim died at Deal lately in his 61st He was born in 1826, and entered the Royal Navy in 1842. In 1845 he was…

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The Late Mr. F. W. Reed

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 17 December 1886 · page 2

The town can hardly to paid to have yet recovered from the shock received by the sudden death of our popular solicitor, Mr. F. W. Reed, Much as we have been accustomed to surprises of late, the death, by a…

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Sketcher. Death Customs of the Indians

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 21 December 1886 · page 2

We have observed the care with which the Otoe and Missouri Indians preserve body from being touched by the earth the Co-manches of Indian territory go to the…

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