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Obituaries & funerals, 1897

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DEATH Of an Ex Governor

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 5 May 1897 · page 2

Sir William Robinson, Bart, late Governor of South Australia, has died from an affection of the throat…

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Death of Mrs. Thomas Henderson

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 11 May 1897 · page 3

ON Friday evening last while Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Henderson were proceeding across their yard to the fowl-house, on domestic errand bent, Mr. Henderson was…

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The Late Mr. John Gorman, Mulwala

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 14 May 1897 · page 25

Mr. Gorman was not very old as he was only about 66 years when he was taken away the other day from his sorrowing friends and acquaintances. Fortune gives every one a…

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Funeral of the Victims. London, May 9

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 14 May 1897 · page 27

The funeral of the victims by the disastrous fire which occurred in a bazaar held in Paris for charitable purposes on Tuesday last took place in the French capital to-day…

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Death of the Duc D'aumale. London, May 7

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 14 May 1897 · page 26

The Due d'Aumale, a member of the House of Orleans-Bourbon, and uncle of the Duchesse d'Alencon, who met her death by being so dreadfully burnt in the…

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Sudden Death of Sir Wm. Clarke in Collins Street. Cause--heart Failure

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 18 May 1897 · page 3

THE Hon. Sir William J. Clarke, Bart., M.L.C., died suddenly in Collins street on Saturday morning from what is believed to have been heart failure. Sir William…

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Death of Sir William J. Clarke

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 19 May 1897 · page 2

Few more painful occurrences have happened in public or private life in Victoria than the fearfully sudden death on Saturday morning of Sir William John Clark, who…

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A Semi-military Funeral

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 21 May 1897 · page 27

On Tuesday the remains of the late Sir William J. Clarke were interred in the Melbourne General Cemetery, amid widespread manifestations of grief and of regret for the…

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Death of Mr. A. Mack

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 21 May 1897 · page 28

The Dubbo Dispatch says:—"The awfully sudden death of Albert Mack came as a terrible shock. Many of us, who had seen him in town on the previous day…

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Death of Sir William Clarke. a Painfully Sudden End

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 21 May 1897 · page 27

Few more painful occurrences have happened in public or private life in Victoria than the fearfully sudden death on Saturday morning of Sir William John Clarke, who…

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Death of Sir William Clarke

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 22 May 1897 · page 2

A painful shock was received on Saturday last in Melbourne and throughout the colony wherever Sir William Clarke was known when it was reported that he bad suddenly expired whilst walking in…

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Death of Mr. Thomas Leetham, Senr

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 22 May 1897 · page 2

We regret to announce the death of Mr Thomas Leetham, Senr., of Hill Plain. For a considerable time past Mr Leetham has been in a precarious state of health and although be sturdily fought…

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Death of a Well-known Farmer

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 28 May 1897 · page 29

On Sunday morning Mr. "William Ripper, a well-known farmer and grazer, of Myra, near Mathoura, was found drowned in a well on the homestead. On…

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Sad Death of a Girl

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Saturday 29 May 1897 · page 2

AN inquest was held on Monday at Whitton before the Coroner for Narandera as to the death of a girl named Harriet Maria Finley, who had died there on Sunday in child bed…

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Death of a Famous Surgeon

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 2 June 1897 · page 4

The Lancet save that Dr Maison-neuve, one of the most, illustrious surgeons of the century, has recently died, aged 87, at his Chateau of…

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Death of an Old Colonist

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 June 1897 · page 28

Mrs. Elizabeth Caddy, relict of the late James Caddy, of Morpeth, died on Tuesday, May 25, at the residence of her son Thomas, 51 Nickson-street, Surrey Hills…

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Tragic Court Scene. Sudden Death of a Prosecutor

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 June 1897 · page 37

The Richmond Court was the scene of a shocking tragedy on Wednesday. Messrs. Tatnall, Hartnell, Gleadell, and Asher, justices of the peace, wera on the Bench, and…

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Death of Mr. John Valentine

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 11 June 1897 · page 27

Mr. John Valentine, for the last two years minister of the Berrigan Presbyterian Church, died at Egan Creek, Yerong, the residence of Mr. S. Stiles, on Friday…

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The Late Mr. R. B. Sheridan

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 June 1897 · page 28

A well-known Queensland politician died last week at Manly, in the person of Richard Bingham Sheridan, for many years one of the most prominent men in…

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