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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1880

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Death of Mr. F. W. Cane

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 30 October 1880 · page 5

ON Wednesday night last the hand of grim sergeant Death laid low, after a painfully short illness, another well-known and esteemed late resident of Newcastle…

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TELEGRAMS. Death of Sir Redmond Barry

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 24 November 1880 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Sir Redmond Barry died this morning, at Melbourne…

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Death of Sir Redmond Barry

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

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—Sir Redmond Barry died this morning. He had been suffering for some time from diabetes, and about ten days since a carbuncle formed…

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Sentence to Death of William Herbert

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 27 November 1880 · page 4

LONDON, November 25.—William Herbert, of Footscray, near Melbourne, who murdered his sister-in-law whilst on a visit to England, has been sentenced to…

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Death of Mr. Tyerman

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 30 November 1880 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday.—Mr. Tyerman, the Free-thought lecturer, died yesterday, at his residence, Woolloomooloo, aged forty-two…

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Death of Mr. W. L. Lyster

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 30 November 1880 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Monday.—The announcement of the death of Mr. W. L. Lyster on Saturday, at Melbourne, has caused the Opera Company here not to open for the…

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Death of Mr. Lackey

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 1 December 1880 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Mr. Lackey, father of the Hon. John Lackey, died to-day, aged seventy-nine, after a four months' illness…

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Death of the Rev. R. Rogers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 3 December 1880 · page 2

PROBABLY no greater feeling of regret could have been felt in almost every circle than that which was experienced yesterday when it became known that the Rev…

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Funeral of the Late Rev. R. Rogers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 4 December 1880 · page 5

THE funeral of the late Reverend Richard Rogers, Congregational minister, took place yesterday afternoon, at the Presbyterian Burial Ground, Cottage Bridge…

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Death of Mr. James Punch

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 December 1880 · page 2

IN the death of the well-known Mr. James Punch—or as he was so widely recognized plain "Jim Punch"—the colonial public have lost one of its…

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Death of Mr. James Punch

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 December 1880 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Mr. James Punch died to day at half-past 12 o'clock. Later.—The cause of Mr. James Punch's death was constipation of the bowels. He…

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Death of Captain Coombes

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 December 1880 · page 2

THE flags of the shipping in harbour and on the various mercantile houses throughout the city were yesterday flown at half-mast in memory of an old and esteemed…

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Mr Punch's Funeral

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 10 December 1880 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thursday.—Mr. Jas. Punch's funeral to-day was very lengthy. Over a hundred and forty vehicles, taking twenty minutes in passing, followed…

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The late Mr. Peabody's Bequest

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 17 December 1880 · page 4

MANY of our readers will doubtless read the following particulars with satisfaction, showing what good a man can do with his money before and…

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Death of Mrs. B. Chapman

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 20 December 1880 · page 2

OUR readers will regret to hear that the above lady (wife of our respected Mayor, S. Chapman, Esq.) passed away from our midst yesterday evening, about 6 o'clock…

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The Late Mrs. Chapman

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

THE funeral of the above lady took place yesterday afternoon. The cortege, which was very lengthy indeed, left the Mayor's residence in Church-street at five o'clock,…

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Death of a Horse from Snake Bite

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 December 1880 · page 5

ON Thursday morning a horse, the property of Mr. Thomas Turner, was killed near Adamstown by being bitten in the flank by a snake. It appears that Messrs…

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Obituary

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 28 December 1880 · page 2

LONDON, December 23.—The death is announced of George Ellot (Mrs, G. H. Lewes), the well known authoress of "The Mill on the Floss,', "Adam Bede,"…

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Death of Mr. Joseph Mochi

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 29 December 1880 · page 2

LONDON, December 26.—Mr. Joseph Meohi, the agriculturist, aged seventy- eight, is dead…

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TELEGRAMS. Death of Mr. Norton, P.M.

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 29 December 1880 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Mr. Norton, late Police Magistrate at Dubbo, died suddenly yesterday morning. The bullet was found embedded two inches in the brain…

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