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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1878

55 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 3

LAMBTON. Death of an Old Resi[?]

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 1 January 1878 · page 2

I AM sorry to have to report the demise[?] Mr. Edmund Doherty, who departed the life on the afternoon of Monday. Deceased was 60 years of age, and has been…

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Death of Victor Emmanuel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 12 January 1878 · page 4

OUR telegraphic intelligence info [?] of the demise of this illustrious personage, his death having taken place at Rome, on the 10th instant, at the age…

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The Late Mr. J. R. Knaggs

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 16 January 1878 · page 2

IT is our melancholy duty to record the demise of the above well known and much—I ked resident. Mr. Knaggs, son of the late esteemed Dr. R. C. Knaggs, was…

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Death of the Rev. Dr. Cameron

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 16 January 1878 · page 3

DR. CAMERON, one of the ablest ministers of the Presbyterian Church of Victoria, died at his residence, on the Esplanade, St. Kilda, on the evening…

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Funeral Horses

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 17 January 1878 · page 3

AT the last Durham miners' demonstration, the Hebburu C[?]ll[?]ery band engaged themselves to play for the Thornley men. They hired a double horse brake to take…

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Death of an Old Resident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 30 January 1878 · page 2

WE regret to announce the death of an old and highly-respected resident of this city, Mrs. Hogue, whose death took place at her residence, Pacific-street, on the morning of Saturday last,…

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Death of his Holiness the Pope

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 12 February 1878 · page 2

FOLLOWING soon after the death of VICTOR EMMANUAL (who did so much for the sake of Italian unity), we have now to record the demise of POPE PIUS,…

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CABLEGRAMS Foreign War Vessels at Constantinople. Turks Evacuating Varna Armistice Terminable on the 12th Russians Occupied Checkmedji. English Money Market is Easy. Death of the Pope. The Pope Died at three o'clock at the Vatican. LONDON. Monday, recd. 6.15 p.m. February 9

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 12 February 1878 · page 2

VOTE of credit was carried by 295 against 96. Many Liberals abstained from voting. Immense concourse assembled outside…

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Death of the Bishopof Mela esia's Wife

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 February 1878 · page 4

INTELLIGENCE has been received at Auckland of the death of Mrs. Selwyn, wife of the Bishop of Melanesia, at St. Barnabas, Norfolk Island, on the 30th, of fever following the birth of a…

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Death of a Journalist

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 3 April 1878 · page 2

By a telegram to the Tamworth News we learn that Frank Newton, Esq., proprietor of the Inverel Despatch, died early on Sunday morning, after a severe illness, extending over three years…

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TELEGRAMS. The Garrison for Newcastle Leave Sydney on Wednesday. The Forthcoming Exhibition. Chancellorship of the University. Death of Judge Fellows. Wrecks and Loss of Life. The Ship Matterhorn and Barque Carleton Lost. The Captain and Fifteen of the Crew Drowned. Four Men Lost in the Attempt to Save Life. SYDNEY. Recd. Monday, 5.26 p.m

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 9 April 1878 · page 2

To-day, Colonel Scratchley minutely inspected the batteries for the defence of Port Jackson, and an order to remedy the defects noticed by Sir William Jervois…

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Death of Dr Hoffmaun

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 27 April 1878 · page 5

DURING the stay of the Japanese man-of war in Sydney harbour, whose approaching departure is notice in our telegraphic columns, both men and officers have made themselves general favourites,…

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Death of an Old Resident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 May 1878 · page 2

WE are sorry to learn that Mrs. Wallace, relict of the late Mr. Samuel Wallace, for many years governor of the gaol in East Maitland, and mother of our worthy mayor, died on Saturday last…

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Death of the Hon. T. S. Mort

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 10 May 1878 · page 2

OUR readers will learn, with regret, by our telegram, that this most estimable citizen, whose name has for years been associated with every public and progressive movement in the colony,…

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Death of a Noted Colliery Manager

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 May 1878 · page 2

FROM the (Mcrthyr Express) of 16th Feb, WE eclipse the following report of the death of Mr. George Brown (who was father of Mrs. Shipton of Jesmond…

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Death of Mr. Stephen Scholey, M.L.A.

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 14 May 1878 · page 2

THIS gentleman, who has been suffering from a painful illness for a considerable time past, died at his residence, East Maitland, yesterday morning, at about six o'clock. Mr. Scholey was…

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Death of Sir F. H. GOLDSMID London, May 3

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 14 May 1878 · page 2

Sir F. H. Goldsmid, Bart, one of the members for Reading, was killed to nigh in a railway accident at Waterloo station…

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OBITUARY. Earl Russell

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 June 1878 · page 4

THE death of the great English ex-Minister and statesman, Earl Russell, whose name for half a century past has been familiar as a household word to all Englishmen, was not altogether an…

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Death of a Racehorse

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 5 June 1878 · page 3

YESTERDAY afternoon Mr. W. A. Spark's race horse Nix was killed at the Newcastle rae-course under the following circumstances:—The boy who was riding her, known as Jimmy, had Just…

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Death of Mr. Samuel Bennett

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 5 June 1878 · page 2

NOT long ago the ranks of the commercial and mere [?] world suffered a severe loss through the departure of the Hon. T. S. Mort. Sow another public…

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