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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1885

220 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 11 of 11

The Funeral

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 23 November 1885 · page 2

The high esteem in which the late Dr. A. Nash was held by all classes of the community, was shown by the immense cortege which followed his remains to their last…

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Telegrams. New South Wales. Sydney, Wednesday. Death of Dr. Cecil Morgan

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 26 November 1885 · page 5

Dr. Cecil Morgan died yesterday…

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MADRID, Wednesday. Death of King Alfonso

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 27 November 1885 · page 3

King Alfonso died to-day of dysentery…

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Obituary

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 30 November 1885 · page 3

Mr. Thomas A. Hendricks, who in November last was elected Vice-President of the United States, is dead…

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King Alfonso's Funeral

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 30 November 1885 · page 3

It is expected that the Prince of Wales will attend the funeral of King Alfonso…

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Cablegrams. Madrid, Thursday. Death of Marshall Serrano

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 30 November 1885 · page 3

The death is announced of Marshall Serrano, in his 75th year…

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LONDON, Sunday. Obituary

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 1 December 1885 · page 4

The death of the Duke of Somerset is announced at the age of 81. [His race Edward Adolplius St. Maur, K.G., eldest son of the eleventh…

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Death of the King of Spain

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 3 December 1885 · page 7

THE Kings of Spain, Alfonso, son of the ex-queen Isabella, died on the 25th ult. Born on the 28th November, 1857, this young gentleman, who would have attained his…

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Telegrams. New South Wales. Sydney, Thursday. Death of Sir Peter Scratchley

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 4 December 1885 · page 3

Sir Peter Scratchley after an illness of ten days through jungle fever died on board the steamer Governor Blackall while between Cooktown and Townsville,…

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Obituary

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 5 December 1885 · page 5

Mr. Samuel Kippax, well-known in the city, has died of a paralytic stroke…

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Death of an Infant

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 5 December 1885 · page 5

A child, not quite two years of age, has poi[?]ed herself by taking a drink of carbolic acid from some bottles while playing…

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Obituary

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 8 December 1885 · page 5

Mr. J. B. Were, consul of Melbourne died on Saturday night, aged seventy-six…

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Obituary

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 9 December 1885 · page 3

The Rev. J. Birkford, of the Wesleyan Church, has died from paralysis…

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New York, Wednesday. Death of Vanderbilt

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 11 December 1885 · page 3

The death is announced of Vanderbilt, the American millionaire…

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Military Funeral

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 14 December 1885 · page 3

PERHAPS the largest military funeral that has ever been witnessed in the Northern district took place on Saturday, when the remains of the late Henry Smethurst, of…

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Obituary

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 15 December 1885 · page 5

The Rev. Dean Forde has died at St. Vincent's Hospital…

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Death of 300 Sheep

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 16 December 1885 · page 2

Three hundred sheep, travelling from Dubbo to Albury, died at the Government dam at Wallacetown, from eating a poisonous weed…

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OBITUARY. The late Dr. Cecil Morgan

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 22 December 1885 · page 5

THE medical profession in New South Wales has sustained another heavy loss in the death of Dr. Cecil Morgan, which took place on 24th November, at his brother's…

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Obituary

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 23 December 1885 · page 2

Mr. James M'Govern a resident of Goulburn for 45 years, died suddenly yesterday…

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Obituary

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 29 December 1885 · page 3

Dr. Beresford, Archbishop of Armagh, is dead…

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