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Obituaries & funerals, 1881

85 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 5

Death of a Centenarian

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 3 May 1881 · page 2

THE Daily Telegraph of Saturday says: "A centenarian named John Robertson died in Sydney early yesterday morning at the remarkably advanced age of 102…

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Death of Count Arnim

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 23 May 1881 · page 2

LONDON, May 20.—Count Arnim, the celebrated Prussian diplomatist, who in 1870 was sentenced to five years' penal servitude for writing a treasonable…

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Death of Dr. Schulzen

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 27 May 1881 · page 2

THE Mercury says:—The friends of Dr. Schulzen; of Branxton, will learn with regret of that gentleman's death, which took place, at his residence in the early…

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Masonic Funeral of a Minstrel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 27 May 1881 · page 2

THE funeral of the late James Woodford Mills, of the Mastodon Minstrels (says the D. Telegraph of the 24th inst), took place with full Masonic honours on Saturday…

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Death of the Hon. T. W. Smart

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 30 May 1881 · page 2

THE Hon. Thomas Ware Smart, of Mona, Darling Point, died at his late residence at 4 o'clock on Saturday morning. He twice occupied the position of Colonial…

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Death of Ouida

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 3 June 1881 · page 4

THE following particulars respecting the above distinguished novelist is contributed by Mr. Marens Clarke, to the Melbourne Leader:—A telegram, the…

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Death of M. Littre

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 6 June 1881 · page 2

LONDON, June 3.—The death is announced of M. Littre, the celebrated French publicist and philologist. He was eighty years of age, and was the author…

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Death of Edward Rout

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 17 June 1881 · page 2

Edward Rout, the carpenter, at No. 4 Surry Hills, died this afternoon, from small pox. The city is in a most excited state, and…

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Death of an Old Dubbo Hand

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 23 June 1881 · page 2

ON Monday morning, Mr. W. B. Skinner one of the oldest residents of the Dubbo and Wellington district, died at his daughter's residence, Dubbo. "Watty,"…

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Death of Dr. Johnson

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 1 July 1881 · page 2

A CORRESPONDENT of the Maitland Mercury writes:—"Dr. W. H. Johnson, of Copeland, died very suddenly on Thursday last, of inflammation of the lunge. As no…

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Latest from the Quarantine Station. Death of Mrs. Hughes's Child

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 4 July 1881 · page 3

MRS. HUGHES'S child, which was suffering from small-pox, died at the Quarantine Station on Saturday morning, at 11 o'clock. The child was only six months…

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Death of Mr. Walter McGill

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 5 July 1881 · page 2

OUR telegraphic columns record the death in Sydney of an old and well-esteemed resident of the Hunter River district, Mr. Walter McGill. The deceased gentleman,…

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Death of the Superioress, Dominican Convent

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 13 July 1881 · page 2

IT is with regret we have to chronicle the demise of the respected Superioress of the Dominican Convent of this city. This melancholy event took place at the…

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Sudden Death of the Rev. James Bonthorne

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

THE Mercury of Saturday says: "We regret to be called on to announce the unexpected demise of the Rev. James Bonthorne, Minister of St. Stephen's…

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Death of Dean Stanley

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

LONDON, July 19.—Dean Stanley is dead from erysipelas…

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Death of an Old Colonist

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

THE old land-marks of Campbelltown are fast passing away, and within the last year King Death has summoned many of those whose tales of the early days of this place…

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The Death of Sultan Abduz Aziz

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 July 1881 · page 2

IT is stated in the English papers that since the arrival of Midhat Pasha at Constantinople he has been undergoing examination for complicity in the…

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Death of Captain Collins

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 25 July 1881 · page 2

SHORTLY before 5 p.m. yesterday the hand of Death laid low still another of the old identities of early New South Wales pioneering, in the person of…

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Death of an Adult from Messles

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 25 July 1881 · page 2

THE Riverine Grazier relates the circumstances attending a death from measles. One of the strongest men in the district, Mr. Patrick Keefe, who was used to…

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LOCAL & GENERAL. The Late Mr. J. K. O'Meagher

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 26 July 1881 · page 2

OUR telegraphic columns today contain a notice of the death of Mr. John Kingsmill O'Meagher, solicitor, of Grafton, which took place yesterday. The…

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