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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1868

23 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 2

Death of Major Crummer, Late of the 28th REGIMENT

The Newcastle Chronicle · Wednesday 8 January 1868 · page 4

From Port Macquarie we learn the death of Major J. H. Crummer, late Police Magistrate of that place, and on the passing away of, perhaps, the latest survivor in this colony of "those…

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Death of Mr. W. Irwin From Exhaustion

The Newcastle Chronicle · Wednesday 15 January 1868 · page 3

A correspondent at the Narran river, writing on the 1st January, furnishes the Mercury of yesterday with the following account of the sad death of Mr. William Irwin, an old and respected…

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Letters to the Editor. the Late Mr. Adamson. To the Editor of the Newcastle Chronicle

The Newcastle Chronicle · Wednesday 5 February 1868 · page 3

Sir—Your Wallsend correspondent, writing on the fatal accident at Lambton colliery, January 4th, goes on to show, beyond all doubt, that the late William Adamson was an ignorant man on religious subjects. Now, sir, it is a truth…

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Obituary

The Newcastle Chronicle · Wednesday 12 February 1868 · page 4

Mr. Melvyn Prower, Archdeacon [?] Colonel Lowther, M.P.; Mr. Charles Gray, [?]Archibald Philureto, Wm. Edmund [?] Mr. Penaseet, Professor Canbery, M.P.; and [?]…

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Obituary

The Newcastle Chronicle · Saturday 15 February 1868 · page 3

Right Hon. Sir George Clerk, and Professor Daubeney…

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Arrival of the English Mail Via Suez. Important News. No More Fenian Outrages. Fenian Plot Disclosed. Suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act in Ireland. Death of Charles Kean. Terrific Gales and Loss of Life. Frightful Railway Accident, [?] Special Constables Sworn In

The Newcastle Chronicle · Wednesday 18 March 1868 · page 3

[We received the following important telegram from our Sydney telegraphic agents yesterday evening, but owing to a great pressure of business in the preparation of a heavy mail supplement-alluded to elsewhere..we were unable to…

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Obituary

The Newcastle Chronicle · Saturday 16 May 1868 · page 4

Lady Harriet Corry, wife of Right Hon. H. Corry, of the Admiralty; Lord Wensleydale; ex King of bavaria, Baron Bentinck, Earl Roseberry; Lord Byron, cousin of the poets…

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Shocking Death of a Mer

The Newcastle Chronicle · Saturday 30 May 1868 · page 2

For some years past an elderly from named Jape Thomas, widow of a [?] the Royal Navy, occupied a cottag[?] Hill, near Stedham, a village about the…

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Punishments in the Navy. Death of a Sailor From Gagging. From the Times, March 24, House of Commons, March 26

The Newcastle Chronicle · Saturday 30 May 1868 · page 2

Mr. Sergeant Gaselee asked the first Lord, of the Admiralty whether it was true that a seaman on board the Favourite died under the operation of flogging; and whether it was…

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Sudden Death of Mr. Ryan Brenan

The Newcastle Chronicle · Saturday 13 June 1868 · page 2

We regret to have to mention the sudden death of this gentleman. He has lately resided at Cohen's Hotel, Wynyard-square. It appears that, yesterday morning, a servant girl…

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Latest from the United Sates and Europe. Further Potsponement of the Impeachment Decision. Death of Lord Brougham. Riots in England, Great Animosity Against the Catholics

The Newcastle Chronicle · Thursday 2 July 1868 · page 4

By the steamship Pelayo, from Havana, we have received a copy of the Kingston Jamaica Gleaner, of the l5th instant, containing special telegrams from the United States to the…

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Death of the Rev. Roderick M'leod, Op Skye

The Newcastle Chronicle · Saturday 4 July 1868 · page 1

The last mail from the mother country has brought the mournful intelligence of the death of the Rev. Roderick Maclood, Free church Minister of Snizort, Island of Skye, r…

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Obituary

The Newcastle Chronicle · Tuesday 7 July 1868 · page 2

Lord Brougham, Commander Pollard, Bishop of Hereford, Rev. Dr. Slatter, Lord Calthorpe, Lord Forbes, Dowager Lady Wentlock,…

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The Burke and Hare Atrocities. Death of the Last Surviving Participator in Thier Crimes. From the [?]land Mercury, August 13

The Newcastle Chronicle · Tuesday 18 August 1868 · page 3

The last participator iu those atrocious murders committed in the metropolis of Scotland forty years ago, and which sent a thrill of horror throughout the civilised world, has just…

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Death of Archdeacon M'encroe

The Newcastle Chronicle · Thursday 27 August 1868 · page 2

On Saturday evening the sorrowful tidings were spread through the metropolis that the Vonerable archdeacon M'Eneroe had departed this life. In the early part of the week the…

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Funeral Of. Archdeacon M'encroe. .-

The Newcastle Chronicle · Saturday 29 August 1868 · page 2

Yesterday, the buriai of Archdeacon John M'Encroe took place, and. was attended by a vast concourse of persons, many thousands having.also assembled, as spectators, in the…

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Original Poetry. on the Death of an Infant

The Newcastle Chronicle · Tuesday 1 September 1868 · page 4

Wee pretty floweret, Thou wert early plucked to bloom In the eternal Paradise, Where winter sheds no gloom…

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Obituary

The Newcastle Chronicle · Thursday 1 October 1868 · page 4

Jaceb Orinman Cooke, editor of the [?] Review General Win[?] Dr. A.P. Saunders, the Dean of Peterbarough; thaddues Stephens Duke of Devenshire,…

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Bewt Poetry. the Death of the Savan

The Newcastle Chronicle · Saturday 24 October 1868 · page 4

It floated down on tha ailent atrcam- It flouted down to die! Tbat kingly bird, with tbe (unset gleam Upon it* inowy brent. It lett 1U lone*, and iti early haunt*. That it might droop atone, And ihndder'd not at a doom that daunt* Kren immortal man…

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Death of Constable M'CABE.—The Bourke

The Newcastle Chronicle · Thursday 19 November 1868 · page 3

correspondent of the Dubbo Dispatch writes :- "It regrets me to have to apprise you of the death of M'Cabe. The poor fellow expired at Shearer's on the 1st instant, I understand that…

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