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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1893

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The Late Mr. R. A. YOUNG. Funeral at West Maitland

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 6 September 1893 · page 5

THE remains of the late Mayor of West Maitland (Mr. R. A. Young) were interred in the Wesleyan Cometery, at Oakhampton, yesterday afternoon, and such was the…

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Death of a Victorian Squatter

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 8 September 1893 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday.—Mr. Lloyd Jones, formerly a well-known Victorian squatter, is dead…

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Death of an Army Surgeon

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 September 1893 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday.—Surgeon Thomas Hearzle Parke, of the Army Medical Staff, is dead. He was in the Nile campaign for the relief of Gordon,…

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The Late Mr. R. A. Young. a Memorial to be Erected. West Maitland

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 15 September 1893 · page 5

A VERY largely-attended meeting of the residents of West Maitland was held in the Town Hall this evening for the purpose of taking steps to erect a suitable memorial to…

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The Victorian Minister for Education. Death of Mr. James Campbell. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 18 September 1893 · page 5

MR. JAMES CAMPBELL, M.P., died at half-past two yesterday morning, after a protracted and painful illness. He was Minister for Education and Commissioner for Customs…

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Death of a Canadian Statesman

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 21 September 1893 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday.—Sir Alexander Tilloch Galt, the Canadian statesman, is dead. He held different portfolios in the Administration, and from 1880…

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Death of Mrs. Henry Callen

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 September 1893 · page 5

NEWS was received in Stockton yesterday morning that Mrs. Henry Callen, the wife of Mr. Henry Callen, master and part proprietor of one of the Stockton ferry boats, had died…

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Death of an Infant

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 25 September 1893 · page 5

MR. G. C. MARTIN, the district coroner, received information on Saturday that during the previous evening or early that morning, an infant, three months old, had been…

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Death of an Infant

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 26 September 1893 · page 6

MR. G. C. MARTIN, district coroner, held a magisterial inquiry at the Hunt Club Hotel at 10 o'clock yesterday morning regarding the death of a male…

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Death of a Signal-master

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 26 September 1893 · page 4

The death is announced of Mr. Harry Gibson, signal-master at South Head, who died suddenly at his residence. South Head, on Saturday night. Deceased had been some 38 years under the Marine…

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Obituary

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 29 September 1893 · page 4

The many Newcastle friends of Captain William Campbell Curphy, who was here about two years ago in the barque Hippolyta, will regret to hear of his decease. The genial captain was as on the 2nd ultimo…

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West Maitland. Funeral

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 30 September 1893 · page 2

Andrew Carroll, a private of B (Maitland) Company Fourth Regiment, who was fatally injured on Saturday by falling from a ladder, was buried on Tuesday afternoon with full…

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Cablegrams. a Plague Ship Death of 144 Passengers From Cholera

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 30 September 1893 · page 5

ROME, Friday.—An Italian passenger steamer has arrived at Sardinia from Brazil. During the voyage an outbreak of cholera occurred, 144 deaths…

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Death of Professor Jowett

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 3 October 1893 · page 4

LONDON, Sunday.— Professor the Rev. Dr. Jowett, the well-known Greek scholar, formerly Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University, who has…

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New Lambton. Obituary

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 3 October 1893 · page 3

On Saturday morning last an old and highly respected resident of the place in the person of Mr. Hugh Armstrong, died in the Wallsend…

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Greta. Funeral

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 4 October 1893 · page 8

The remains of the wife of Mr. J. Walker, who died on Saturday last, were deposited in their last resting place on Sunday afternoon. The funeral procession started on its solemn…

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Death of an Infant

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 4 October 1893 · page 5

THE Lambton police were informed yesterday that the infant daughter of a single girl named Mary Murchie had been found dead in its bed early that morning. It is said that…

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Death of David James. the Original Perkyn Middlewick

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 4 October 1893 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday.—David James, the well-known actor, is dead. [The famous comedian, known throughout his theatrical career as David James, made…

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Death of a Police Officer

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 5 October 1893 · page 8

INFORMATION was received in the city last evening of the death of Constable Wright, of the mounted police. The deceased was appointed to Newcastle nearly four years ago,…

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Death of Sir Arthur Blackwood

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 5 October 1893 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday.—The death is announced of Sir Arthur Blackwood, the Secretary of the General Post-office…

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