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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1883

98 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 5

Sudden Death of an Infant

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 17 September 1883 · page 2

THE Coroner (Mr. C. B. Ranclaud) held an inquest on Saturday, at Bunn's Northumberland Hotel, Lambton, on the body of an infant named George Probert, aged five…

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Death of a Woman from Exposure

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 17 September 1883 · page 2

BEECHWORTH, Saturday.—The weather was terribly cold here on Wednesday night, and about midnight an unprecedentedly heavy fall of snow took place, with fatal…

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The South Yarra Fatality. Funeral of the Victims

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 17 September 1883 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Saturday.—The funeral of the five children of Mr. Nash, who were burnt to death in his house at South Yarra, took place yesterday. It was conducted…

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Death of an Old Identity

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 18 September 1883 · page 3

YESTERDAY afternoon a largely attended burial took place at the Wallsend Cemetery, the deceased being a very old resident, and one widely known in connection with…

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Death of Mr. R. G. Massie

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 19 September 1883 · page 2

Mr. ROBERT GEORGE MASSIE, Whose death occurred at Hunter's Hill on Thursday, was a s[?]ion of a highly respectable Cheshire family, where the eldest brother still holds the family estate. He was born in 1815,…

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TELEGRAMS. Horrible Death of a Child

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 28 September 1883 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thursday.—A child twenty months old was suffocated through falling down a watercloset at ultimo. The accident occurred last night, and the body of…

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Death of Dr. Short

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 9 October 1883 · page 2

LONDON, Sunday.—The right Rev. Dr. Short, first Bishop of Adelaide, is dead. He was eighty years of age…

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Death of Professor Denton

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 15 October 1883 · page 2

BRISBANE, Saturday.—Messrs. Armir, Loftus, and Irving, and two sons of Professor Denton, have arrived at Cooktown from New Guinea. Mr. Armit reports that…

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Death of a Singer

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 16 October 1883 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday.—Charles Lascelles, the well-known opera singer, died at Maritzburg six weeks ago…

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Intercolonial Telegrams. Death of a Racehorse

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 October 1883 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—The racehorse Artful Joe has died from the effects of a fall received whilst jumping in the Caulfield Steeplechase…

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TELEGRAMS. Death of an Old Resident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 24 October 1883 · page 2

BATHURST, Tuesday.—News has been received of the death at Melbourne yesterday of Mrs. George Ranken, for sixty years a resident of Bathurst…

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Death of a Cricketer.[?]

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 October 1883 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—George Coulthard, cricketer and footballer, died at Melbourne yesterday…

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Funeral of Captain Webb

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 26 October 1883 · page 3

AN American paper, in giving an account of the burial of the late Captain Webb, says:—"Half-way between Niagara Falls and Suspension Bridge, well back in the…

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Sudden Death of a Bank Manager

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 27 October 1883 · page 4

KEMPSEY, Friday.—Mr. W. Fitzstubbs, manager for the Bank of New South Wales at Wabra station, died yesterday morning very suddenly, fifteen minutes after he was taken ill…

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Death of a Novelist

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 29 October 1883 · page 2

LONDON, Friday.—Captain Mayne Reid the celebrated novelist, is dead. He was 65 years of age…

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Intercolonial Telegrams. Death of the Hon. R. S. Anderson

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 29 October 1883 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Saturday.—The Hon. R. S. Anderson, Minister of Justice, died yesterday evening. He was born in 1821, in a, village scar Coleraine, Ireland, educated at…

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Death of Captain Zouch

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 30 October 1883 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday.—Captain Zouch, Superintendent of Police at Goulburn, has died after a fortnight's illness…

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Death of a Dwarf

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 31 October 1883 · page 2

TEMORA, Tuesday.—Dominic Sonsee, the well-known dwarf, who was thirty-three years of age, and in height two feet, died here suddenly yesterday…

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Death of a Brood Mare

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 2 November 1883 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Thursday.—The brood mare Mis chief, dam of First King, Petrea, &c., died whils fealing…

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Reported Death of De Brazza

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 2 November 1883 · page 2

PARIS, Wednesday,—It is reported that De Brazza, the French explorer, has been killed in Africa, in a fight with natives…

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