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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1886

175 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 7 of 9

The Wallsend Funeral Train

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 31 August 1886 · page 5

AFTER repeated requests to the Government the inhabitants of Wallsend have succeeded in attaining the running of a funeral train to and from Sandgate…

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Death of an Old Colonist

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 1 September 1886 · page 3

MR. R. Y. COUSINS, J.P., died at his residence, Bishop's Court, Bathurst, on Friday. In the death of Mr. Cousins that district has lost one of its oldest…

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Cablegrams. London, Sunday. Obituary

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 1 September 1886 · page 5

The death is announced of Lord Henry Gordon Lennox…

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Obituary

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 4 September 1886 · page 5

Mr. Thos. Walker, of Concord, died yesterday aged 83…

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Death of Mr. Robey

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 7 September 1886 · page 5

Mr. Robey, solicitor, died to-day…

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Death of Dr. Lacey

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 7 September 1886 · page 5

Dr. Lacey, of Kiama, has been found dead on the public road. It is supposed he fell from his horse in an apopletic fit…

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Sudden Death of an Equestrienne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 September 1886 · page 5

Miss Ryan, whilst riding Buttercup in the Ladies' Hack Trial at Wagga Show, was unseated and killed on the spot…

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Death of a Very Old Victorian

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 September 1886 · page 10

MR. WILLIAM WITTON, known as "Father" Witton, who was one of the most prominent figures in connection with the recent Wesleyan Jubilee…

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The Late Mr. Angus Mackay

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 13 September 1886 · page 8

THE will of the late Mr. Angus Mackay, newspaper proprietor, for many years a representative of Sandhurst in the Legislative Assembly of…

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Obituary

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 13 September 1886 · page 5

The death is announced of Sister Mary Joseph, a highly-respected nun, at North Shore…

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Death of Mr. Frank Towers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 13 September 1886 · page 8

THE death in India of Mr. Frank Towers, the actor manager, is announced. Mr. Towers was well known in Australia, and especially in…

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Obituary

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 14 September 1886 · page 5

The death is announced at the age, of 86, of Samuel Morley, late M.P. for Bristol…

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Obituary

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 14 September 1886 · page 5

Mr. James Skinner, for many years a shipping clerk in the employ of Messrs. Montefore, Joseph and. Co., and latterly of the firm of Skinner and…

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Death of Mr. Shepherd Smith

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 14 September 1886 · page 5

Mr. Shepherd Smith, general manager of the Bank of New South Wales, died this afternoon…

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Funeral of Major-general Reilly

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 16 September 1886 · page 3

ON July 31 the remains of Major-General William Edmund Moyses Reilly, C.B., who died suddenly on board. Her Majesty's ship Mistletoe…

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Death of Captain M'lean

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 17 September 1886 · page 4

Another well-known shipping identity has passed over to the great majority in the person of Captain J. M'Lean, whose demise took place at his residence, Redfern, Sydney,…

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Obituary

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 18 September 1886 · page 5

The Hon. Jas. Byrnes died to-day at his residence at Parramatta, aged 83 years…

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Obituary

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 21 September 1886 · page 5

Mr. Frederick Darval is dead…

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Obituary

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 21 September 1886 · page 5

The Rev. Colin Stuart, 83 years of age, Presbyterian minister, died yesterday…

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Western Australia. Albany, Tuesday. Death of Mr. Anthony Hordern

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 22 September 1886 · page 5

Mr. Anthony Hordern died on board the steamer Carthage on the passage to Sydney from brain fever, the effects of a sunstroke received in the Red Sea…

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