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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1880

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Extraordinary Revelations. Suspicious Death of Two Children

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 1 March 1880 · page 3

ABOUT 4 o'clock on Wednesday morning last a Mrs. Emily Thompson, residing at 128, Gloucester-street, was delivered of twins. The Children were quite healthy…

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The Late Mrs. George Darrell

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 3 March 1880 · page 2

GEORGE DARRELL, the popular tragedian, has had erected over his wife's remains, in the Melbourne Cemetery, an elegant tombstone, bearing the following…

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Father and Daughter. a Lovely Young Lady Crazed by the Death of Her Lover, Kills Her Father and Herself

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 6 March 1880 · page 2

SYRACUSE, N. Y., JAN 3, 1880.—The most terrible tragedy that has ever happened in this region, occurred at the village of Lyons, the county…

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Death of Captain H. B. Moulton

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 9 March 1880 · page 2

THE sad intelligence of the death by drowning of Captain H. B. Moulton, of this port, was received yesterday by telegram from Port Pirie by Messrs. Stokes…

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Death of Mr. William Clarke, Hydraulic Engineer

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 12 March 1880 · page 2

English papers announce the death of Mr. William Clarke, Hydraulic Engineer, who lately visited the colony…

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Poetry. Lines on the Death of Mrs. Euphemia Wagden

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 March 1880 · page 2

Beloved wife of Joseph Wagden, who departed this life on the 26th of November, 1879; aged 63 years GONE TO BE WITH JESUS…

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Death of Mrs. H. Chapman

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 March 1880 · page 2

WE regret to record the somewhat untimely death of Mrs. Henry Chapman, the wife of the eldest son of Mr. Samuel Chapman, Mayor of this city. The…

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Death of Mr. D. Baillie

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 March 1880 · page 2

Mr. D. Baillie, the well known Government contractor, died at Wilcannia yesterday, after a short illness…

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Death of an Old Resident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 27 March 1880 · page 5

MANY of the public of Newcastle will learn with much regret the death of an old and esteemed resident, Mr. Thomas Hale. The deceased gentleman was a dweller…

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Death of a Racehorse

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 3 April 1880 · page 4

MR. WALTER REYNOLDS, of Tocal, Paterson, has sustained a heavy loss, through the death of the racing mare Ion, who was struck by lightning in the stable last…

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Sad Death of Mr. Neil Aird

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 7 April 1880 · page 2

THE Mercury of yesterday states: Mr. Neil Aird, who was admitted into the Maitland Hospital as a private patient about a month since, suffering from the…

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Reported Death of Mahommed Jan CALCUTTA, April 4

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 7 April 1880 · page 2

Intelligence from Cabul states that reports are current that Mahommed Jan has been killed…

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The Reported Death of Mahomed Jan. CALCUTTA, April 6

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 9 April 1880 · page 2

From telegrams received to-day from Cabul it appears that the news of Mahomed Jan's death, received on the 4th instant, is incorrect, and the report…

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Death of Lord Hampton

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 13 April 1880 · page 2

The death is announced of Lord Hampton, formerly Secretary of State for War and Secretary of State for the Colonies in the Derby Administration. He was…

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Death of Mr. J. J. Bartlett, the Actor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 16 April 1880 · page 2

THE Daily Telegraph, in referring to the above, says:—" The death of Mr. J. J. Bartlett, the well-known actor, which [?] place in Tuesday last at Surry Hills,…

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Funeral of Mr. Bartlett

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 April 1880 · page 4

THE funeral of the well-known actor, James J. Bartlett, took place on Thursday morning. Owing to the early hour but a limited number of his professional…

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Death of Dr. Keneally

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 19 April 1880 · page 2

Dr. Keneally, who defended the claimant in the famous Tichborne case, is dead. He represented Stoke in the last Parliament, but was defeated at the general…

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Death of the Hon. G. W. Lord, M.L.C.

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 12 May 1880 · page 2

OUR readers will hear with regret of the death of the Hon. G. W. Lord, M.L.C., which occurred at his residence, Darlinghurst-road, at 11 o'clock last evening,…

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Funeral of the late Mr. George Gore

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 15 May 1880 · page 5

THE funeral of the above deceased young man, whose lamp of life was so suddenly extinguished by the fatal railway mishap of the previous day, took place at…

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Death of Captain Boyton

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 15 May 1880 · page 2

Intelligence has reached London that Captain Boyton, whose aquatic performances, in a swimming dress of his own invention, in…

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