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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1880

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Dreadful Death of a Gateshead Tourist

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 17 September 1880 · page 3

ALL old English pedestrians who have "done" on foot the English Lakes will read with regret the following sad mishap:—"Great consternation was…

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CABLEGRAMS. Obituary

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 21 September 1880 · page 2

LONDON, September 18.—The death of the Right Hon. Sir Fitzroy Kelly, Lord Chief Baron of the Court of Exchequer, aged 84, is announced…

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Suspicious Death of a Child. Coroner's Inquest

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 22 September 1880 · page 2

YESTERDAY afternoon the District Coroner, Mr. C. B. Ranclaud, held an inquest at the Naval Brigade Hotel on the body of a female infant, name unknown, then laying…

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Singular Death of a Young Girl

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 September 1880 · page 4

On Monday, July 31, Dr. Diplock concluded the inquiry touching the death of Kato Julian Lyall, twenty-one years of age, who resided at 12,…

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Death of G. F. Grace

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 September 1880 · page 4

LONDON, September 23.—Mr. G. F. Grace, the well-known cricketer, died to-day (Thursday)…

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The Funeral

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 1 October 1880 · page 3

The deceased, who was greatly respected in Newcastle, was a member of the Volunteer Artillery and Order of Oddfellows. His remains were interred in the…

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The Late Mrs. S. Holt

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 4 October 1880 · page 3

MANY will be grieved to hear that one of our oldest residents, Mrs. Samuel Holt, relict of the late Captain Holt, for very many years captain of the Newcastle…

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(From Our Sydney Correspondent.) Death of an Eminent Musician

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 7 October 1880 · page 2

LONDON, October 5.—The eminent musician and composer, Jacques Offenbach, is dead. He was 61 years of age…

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Death of an Old Resident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 9 October 1880 · page 5

ANOTHER of the earliest inhabitants of this city passed away on the 7th inst, in the person of Mrs. Mary Porteous Howden, a well-known resident of…

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The Death of Captain Edmondson

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 9 October 1880 · page 4

SYDNEY, Friday.—At a committee meeting of the National Shipwreck Relief Society, an application for relief for the widow and family of the late Captain…

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CABLEGRAMS. Offenbach's Funeral

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 11 October 1880 · page 2

LONDON, October 7.—The funeral of the late, M. Offenbach, the distinguished opera bouffe composer took place to-day, at Paris, and was very largely attended…

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A Mother's Awful Crime. Morphia Administered to Herself and Nine Children—the Father's Dreadful Discovery—death of the Perpetrator and Three of the Little Ones

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 11 October 1880 · page 3

AMERICUS, Ga., August 5th, 1880.—Webster County, twenty miles west of this place, and the scene of the hanging of Miss Susan Eberhart (white), in…

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Death of Sir William Linton

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 October 1880 · page 2

LONDON, October 11.—The death is announced of Sir William Linton, K.C.B, M.D., one of the honorary physicians to Queen…

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Death of an Old Sydney Resident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 October 1880 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Mr. William Camb, twenty-two years superintendent of No. 2 Volunteer Fire Brigade, and well known as a hotelkeeper, died at noon…

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Death of a Sub-Collector of Customs

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 October 1880 · page 2

MORPETH, Wednesday.—Mr. Thomas Trimble, Sub-collector of Customs here, died this evening, after a short illness…

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The Late Mr. Camb

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 16 October 1880 · page 4

SYDNEY, Friday.—The funeral of the late Mr. Camb, to-day, was largely attended. It was accompanied by a procession with two bands, and the members of…

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Death of an Aged Colonist

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 19 October 1880 · page 2

A CORRESPONDENT sends the Singleton Argus a biographical notice of an old lady who has narrowly escaped being included in the list of centenarians. Mrs. Ann…

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Obituary

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 October 1880 · page 2

LONDON, October 20.—The death is announced of the Right Hon. Alfred Henry Thesige, Lord Chief Justice of Appeal, aged 42…

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Suspicious Death of Albanians

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 25 October 1880 · page 2

CONSTANTINOPLE, October 21.—Intelligence has been received from Dulcigno announcing that four Albanian chiefs died suddenly, and at nearly the same…

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Sudden Death of a Woman

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 26 October 1880 · page 2

YESTERDAY morning another case of sudden death occurred in Newcastle, making the third within the past week or so. The victim in this instance was a woman,…

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