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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1900

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Death of a Victorian Officer

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 31 March 1900 · page 5

LONDON, Friday.—Captain Hopkins, of the Victorians, died of fever at Naauwpoort…

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General Joubert's Remains. a Private Funeral

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 31 March 1900 · page 5

LONDON, Friday.—The remains of General Joubert are lying in state. He desired a private funeral, without military display, and to be interred an…

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Death of Mr. Archibald Forbes

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 2 April 1900 · page 5

LONDON, Saturday.—The death is announced of Mr. Archibald Forbes, the distinguished war correspondent. Born in Scotland in 1838, he studied…

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Death of Joubert. Cable From the Queen

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 2 April 1900 · page 5

LONDON, Friday.—The Queen has cabled to Lord Roberts to convey her condolence to Mrs. Joubert, with her assurance that she regarded her…

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Death of Dr. Mivart

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 4 April 1900 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.—The death is announced, at the age of 63, of Mr. St. George Mivart, M.D., the eminent biologist, who was recently cut off from the…

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Death of Mr. Wm. Kelso, Senr

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 4 April 1900 · page 7

The sporting community will regret to hear of the death of Mr. Wm. Kelso, senr., which sad event took place at Mosman on Monday afternoon. The deceased…

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Funeral of Joubert. Address by Kruger

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 6 April 1900 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday.—At General Joubert's funeral at Rustfonetein, President Kruger delivered an address, in the course of which he attributed the…

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Death of Captain Douglas

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 7 April 1900 · page 4

Captain Douglas, commander of the barque Lanarkshire, died suddenly on board the vessel about 9 o'clock last night. It appears the deceased gentleman suffered from heart disease, and had been ailing…

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Funeral of Captain Douglas

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 9 April 1900 · page 5

The remains of the late Captain Douglas, of the barque Lanarkshire, were laid to rest in the Sandgate Cemetery on Saturday afternoon. The body was brought down to…

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Death of Two Australians

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 9 April 1900 · page 5

LONDON, Saturday.—Captain Hall Owen, of the Victorian Medical Corps, died of enteric at Chieveley on Thursday Trooper Marsden, of the South…

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Death of a Dutch Attache

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 16 April 1900 · page 5

LONDON, Friday.—Captain Nix, a Dutch military attache, was wounded and captured during the fighting which look place at Bloemfontein waterworks…

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Wallsend and Plattsburg Eisteddfod. the Chief Choral Competition Postponed Owing to the Death of Mr. Bevan

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 16 April 1900 · page 3

The twelfth annual Eisteddfod held under the auspices of the Wallsend and Plattsburg Musical and Literary Society was resumed on Saturday afternoon, and…

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Death of a New Zealander

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 17 April 1900 · page 5

LONDON, Sunday.—Trooper Robert Morris, of the New Zealand Rough-riders, had died of enteric fever at East London, Cape Colony…

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Hamilton. the Late Mr. G. W. Donald

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 April 1900 · page 5

On Sunday afternoon, in the Presbyterian Cemetery at Rookwood, was interred all that was mortal of the late Mr. G. W. Donald. The Rev. Mr. Legate, minister of…

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Death of a Notorious Usurer

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 April 1900 · page 11

A Press Association Birmingham correspondent telegraphs that the death is announced there of Isaac Gordon, the notorious money-lender, who, under numerous…

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Death of a Circassian Nobleman

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 23 April 1900 · page 5

LONDON, Friday.—Prince Morgapf, a Circassian nobleman, was killed at Boshof at the same time as Colonel Villebois de Mareuil, the French…

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The Death of a Wharf Labourer. Inquest and Verdict

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 24 April 1900 · page 7

The District Coroner, Mr. G. C. Martin, held an inquest yesterday morning at Ralph's Family Hotel on the body of James M'Cann, who died in the Newcastle…

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Death of the Duke of Argyle

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 25 April 1900 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday.—The death is announced of the Duke of Argyll, aged 77. He is succeeded by his eldest son, the Marquis of Lorne, husband of her…

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The Accident on the Namoi. Funeral of the Late James Cullen

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 25 April 1900 · page 5

The funeral of the late Mr. James Cullen, who died at the Newcastle Hospital on Monday afternoon from the effects of injuries received by falling down the hold of the…

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Death of Edgar's Murderer

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 27 April 1900 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday.—The Transvaal policeman, Jones, who shot Mr. Edgar, a British subject, at Johannesburg, and who was acquitted when…

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