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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1900

243 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 13

Death of a Great Artist

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 28 April 1900 · page 5

The death of Mr. Lockhart, the eminent academician, is important, for it was he produced those splendid pictures of the Queen's Jubilee celebration in Westminster…

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Death of Mr. Terence O'brien

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 1 May 1900 · page 8

The death is announced of Mr. Terence O'Brien, of Bishop's Bridge, one of the most respected residents of the Maitland district. He had been in illhealth for many months,…

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Death of Mrs. W. Grieve

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 2 May 1900 · page 5

In connection with the death of Mrs. Grieve, says the North Ipswich "Times," (Q.), we have been furnished with the following particulars:—" Eliza Henderson,…

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Death of Munkacsy

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 3 May 1900 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday.—The death is announced of the renowned Hungerian painter, Munkaesy, whose best known work is the celebrated picture "Christ…

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A Sydney Letter Public Men Who Kick Over the Traces.—professor Anderson Stuart on the Plague.—the Proposed Wharf Resumptions.—why "Wexford-street?"—the Chief Justice and His 70th Birthday.—the Late Mr. J. H. Rainford. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 4 May 1900 · page 3

We're improving—backwards. In the council there has been an exchange of "liars," with lurid adjectives to give some force, and a scuffle, a la Foley's Hall. At…

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Death of Mrs. C. P. Thomas

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 5 May 1900 · page 8

The death is announced at Quirindi of Mrs. Thomas, wife of Mr. C. P. Thomas, solicitor, formerly of West Maitland and of Stroud. The deceased lady was the second…

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Death of Australians

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 7 May 1900 · page 5

LONDON, Saturday.—Private Seely, of the Victorian Mounter Rifles, died from enteric fever at Bloemfontein; and Gunner W. Edwards, of the…

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Wickham. Funeral of the Late Mr. Carl Wilson

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 9 May 1900 · page 7

The remains of the late Mr. Carl O. Wilson, who died in the Newcastle Hospital on Monday from typhoid, were laid to rest in the Church of England Cemetery yesterday…

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Maitland District Sad Death of a Railway Employee

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 11 May 1900 · page 8

Mr. Percy Bruderlin, a Singleton railway employee, died yesterday morning in Singleton Hospital of injuries received on Thursday last while engaged in shunting…

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Death of Count Benedetti

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 14 May 1900 · page 3

Count Benedetti, formerly French Ambassador at Berlin, died at Paris on March 28th. The name of Count Benedetti will be remembered in connection with the outbreak of…

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Adamstown. Funeral

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 16 May 1900 · page 8

The funeral of the young man, Mr. George White, who died on Monday morning from typhoid fever, took place yesterday afternoon, and was attended by a large and…

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Death of Tom Hearne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 16 May 1900 · page 5

LONDON, Monday Afternoon.—The death is announced of the well-known cricketer, Tom Hearne…

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Death of Mr. James Aitken, of Glasgow

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 17 May 1900 · page 4

The death is announced of Mr. James Aitken, one of the founders of the well-known Glasgow firm of shipowners Aitken and I [?]burn, managers of the Loch line of sailing ships, which carry on an…

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Death of H. H. Spooner. an Australian War Correspondent

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 17 May 1900 · page 5

The proprietors of the "Evening News" and "Town and Country Journal" have received a cable from their Capetown agent announcing the death…

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Death of Ex-inspector Thorpe. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 18 May 1900 · page 5

Ex-inspector Thorpe died yesterday at his late residence, Petersham, at the age of 70 years. He Joined the police force of the colony under the old system on July 8,…

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Death of the Grand Vizier of Morocco. Serious Trouble Feared

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 21 May 1900 · page 5

LONDON, Saturday.—The death of the Grand Vizier of Morocco is considered likely to precipitate serious trouble among the Moors in Morocco…

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The Death of the French Strategist

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 26 May 1900 · page 11

A London correspondent writes :—The death of Colonel Villebois de Mareuil, who was killed on the 5th April, by the fragment of a shell, near Boshof, has caused a…

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District News. West Wallsend. Death of an Old Resident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 26 May 1900 · page 8

On Tuesday last Mrs. Nanny Hoskin, wife of Mr. W. Hoskin, a very old resident of West Wallsend, passed over to the great majority, after a short illness of only two…

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Death of Mrs. W. H. Smith

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 28 May 1900 · page 8

Mrs. W. H. Smith, president of the Maitland Benevolent Home committee, died on Saturday morning. The immediate cause of death was shock to the system resulting…

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Maitland District Death of Mrs. Grace

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 29 May 1900 · page 8

Mrs. Jane Grace, a very old resident of the Maitland district, died yesterday morning, after a long illness. The deceased had been suffering for months from catarrh and…

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