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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1881

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LOCAL & GENERAL. Death of the Rev. C. D. Newman

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 13 January 1881 · page 2

THE Rev. C. D. Newman, of The Wollombi, died on Tuesday last, at the residence of Mr. Thomas Hughes, Oakhampton, West Maitland, where he had been staying…

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The Late Mrs. J. A. Foggon

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 14 January 1881 · page 2

WE regret exceedingly to have to record the decease of the above estimable lady, wife of the Revd. J. A. Foggon, the well-known and respected Primitive Methodist…

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Death of Mr. E. E. Waters

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 17 January 1881 · page 4

THE following sketch of the life of the above gentleman, late editor of the Evening News, is abridged from that Journal of Thursday:—" It is with feelings…

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Death of a Prominent Colonist

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 19 January 1881 · page 2

ANOTHER old and respected pioneer of commercial interests has passed away from our midst. Many of the residents of the Hunter and Lower Hunter districts will…

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Sudden Death of a Dairyman

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 19 January 1881 · page 2

A MAN named Matthew Walsh, a dairyman, carrying on business at Paul-street, Randwick, near Sydney, was driving in his milk-cart along the Randwick road, in…

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A Navvy's Funeral

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 29 January 1881 · page 8

DR. GEORGE READ writing to the Tamworth News from M'Donald River, January 19, under the above heading, alludes to the Rev. John F. Hearne,…

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CABLEGRAMS. Death of Sir Henry Parker

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 7 February 1881 · page 2

LONDON, February 3.—Sir Henry Parker, the distinguished architect and author of several important works on architecture, is dead…

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Death of Mr. T. Carlyle

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 8 February 1881 · page 2

LONDON, February 4.—Thomas Carlyle is dead. [THOMAS CARLYLE, essayist biographer, was born in 1795 in Dunfrieshire. At…

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The Late Mr. Krefft

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 21 February 1881 · page 2

Mz. GERARD KREFFT, who was for many years Curator of the Australian Museum, nied on Friday night at his residence in Stanley-street, Wooloomooloo. During…

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The Late Mr. Gorard Krefft

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 7 March 1881 · page 2

THE friends of the family of the late Mr. Gerard Krefft will be glad to learn that some movement has been made in the matter of providing for it least one of the…

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Death of Sir Cracroft Wilson

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 18 March 1881 · page 3

WE learn from the New Zealand Herald that Sir Cracroft Wilson, C.B., died on March 2, at the age of 78. He arrived in New Zealand in 1858,…

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Military Funeral

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 22 March 1881 · page 2

YESTERDAY afternoon, the funeral of the unfortunate man Joseph Hands, whose sudden death from heart disease was recorded in our last issue, was buried in…

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Death of Mr. Walter W. Capper

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 24 March 1881 · page 2

SHORTLY before 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon the death of a well-known and respected resident of Newcastle, Mr. Walter W. Capper, solicitor, took a majority of…

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A Funeral

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 16 April 1881 · page 4

A FUNERAL.—A miner, working down a pit, had the misfortune to got his log broken. He was placed upon a atretcher, and those about the place, hearing of the…

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Death of an old Favourite

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 16 April 1881 · page 4

THE Merrimac Valley Visitor, published at Mowburgport, Mass., on Feb, 13, says:—"The angel of death continues busy among our citizens. We have never…

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Death of the Rev. M. Punshon

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 18 April 1881 · page 2

LONDON, April 14.—The Rev. Morley Punshon, Wesleyan minister, died to-day, aged 53. [From "Men of the Time" we learn…

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Death of the Earl of Beaconsfield

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 21 April 1881 · page 3

OUR telegraphic columns contain the intelligence of the decease of the Earl of Beaconsfield in his 77th year. The subjoined article, from the Sydney…

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(From Our Sydney Correspondent.) Death of the Earl of Beaconsfield

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 21 April 1881 · page 2

LONDON, April 14.—The Earl of Beaconsfield after a serious relapse on Monday, died on Tuesday morning, in his 77th year…

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Funeral of Rev. Morley Punshon

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 April 1881 · page 2

LONDON, April 10,—The remains of the late Rev. W. Morley Punshon, L.L.D., the eminent Wesleyan minister, were interred yesterday in the cemetery at…

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CABLEGRAMS. Funeral of the Late Earl Beaconsfield

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 28 April 1881 · page 2

LONDON, April 26.—The funeral of the late Earl Beaconsfield took place to-day, at Hughenden. Although the wishes of the deceased were that the ceremony…

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