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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1889

262 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 9 of 14

Death of an Old Teetotaller

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 10 August 1889 · page 10

BY the death of Mr. Thomas H. Barber at his residence, Fallow field, near Manchester, on June 26, the temperance cause has lost one of its best-known leaders. Mr. Barber's…

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Death of a Prominent Marine Engineer

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 10 August 1889 · page 10

THE death is announced, at the advanced age of 86, of Mr. John Fyfe. To those colonists who remember the early progress of steam navigation in Australia the name of Mr…

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Funeral of Mr. Arthur Wylde

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 15 August 1889 · page 5

THE funeral of the late Mr. Arthur Wylde, who died on Monday from Injuries received by being thrown from his horse at Tighe's Hill on Sunday, took place yesterday. The…

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Tasmania. Sudden Death of a Billiard Marker

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 15 August 1889 · page 6

At Launceston on Monday, a billiard marker named Frederick Osborne Meyrick fell dead just after he had finished a game of billiards at the International Hotel…

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Death of an Australian Politician

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 August 1889 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday.—The death is announced of Mr. Lavington Glyde, who was a member of several of the South Australian Ministries for 1863 to 1884, being Treasurer…

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Monument to the Late Mr. Charles Harper. Erected in Bulli Cemetery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 20 August 1889 · page 8

AN imposing monument having been erected in the Church of England Cemetery at Bulli, by miners who had been in his employment, and several friends, in honour of Mr. Charles…

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Death of a Famous St. Bernard

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 22 August 1889 · page 7

"SAVE," the famous St. Bernard, the property of Mr. J. F. Smith, of Norfolk-lodge Sheffield, is dead. One of his ancestors, on both sire and dam's side, was the renowned…

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District News. New Lambton. OBITUARY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 23 August 1889 · page 7

MANY persons in the district will regret to learn of the death of Mr. John Burnley, who passed away on Thursday morning at his late residence, in New Lambton, at the age of 63…

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The Funeral

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 26 August 1889 · page 5

A large number of people attended the funeral of poor Jabez Roberts yesterday. The cortege left the late residence of the deceased at Merewether at half-past 2 for…

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The Hexham Railway Fatality. Funeral of the Victims

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 27 August 1889 · page 6

The funeral of the two young men who were accidentally killed on the railway line above Hexham last Friday night took place at the Church of England cemetery, Tarro,…

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The Schooner Geo Noble. Death of the Captain and Three of the Sailors

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 27 August 1889 · page 4

By the arrival in Sydney on Saturday of the French mail steamer Tanais from Noumea news was received from the New Hebrides. Group that the three-masted schooner…

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Reported Death of Lady Tryon

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 29 August 1889 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday.—The death is announced of Lady Tryon, wife of Admiral Sir George Tryon. LONDON, Wednesday.—The report that…

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Obituary

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 30 August 1889 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday.—The death of announced of Lord Addington, aged 84. [The Right Hon. John Gellibrand Hubbard Baron Addington was a well-known…

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Obituary

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 31 August 1889 · page 5

LONDON, Friday.—The death is announced of Charles II. Anderson, member for Elgin and Nairn. [The late Charles H. Anderson was a…

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Death of an Eminent Wesleyan Minister

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 5 September 1889 · page 2

AN eminent minister in connection with the Wesleyan Methodist Church has just passed away, after two years of patient suffering—the Rev. Thomas Llewellyn—who was…

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[Reuter's Telegrams.] Obituary

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 6 September 1889 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday.—The death is announced of Joseph F. Firth, member for Dundee…

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The Hamilton Pit Disaster. the Funeral

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 6 September 1889 · page 5

YESTERDAY afternoon the last rites were paid to the bodies that were recovered from the Hamilton Pit by the exploring party on Tuesday. The funeral of the remains of…

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Death of Carl Schneider. Inquest at the Glebe

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 6 September 1889 · page 5

AT the Glebe Hotel, yesterday, before Mr. G. Martin, J.P., District Coroner, an inquest was held upon the body of Carl Schneider, who died on Wednesday night, from the…

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Death of Captain James Foster. Another Old Identity Gone

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 6 September 1889 · page 3

IT is not long since we chronicled the death of Captain Andrew M'Intyre, the old and esteemed master of the s.s. Beeswing, and it is with deep regret that we now record the…

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Obituary

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 7 September 1889 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday—The deaths are announced of Mr. L. Blanchard, the dramatist; and of Mr. J. F. Bottomley Firth, LL.B., barrister-at-law, etc., well-known Radical…

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