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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1903

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Death of an Old Age Pensioners

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 16 September 1903 · page 3

THE police have received information to the effect that an old man named Harvey, aged 70, and an old age pensioner, died at Genrie at 6 p.m. on Monday. Harvey, who had…

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Found Dead. i Death of a,n Old Identity

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 16 September 1903 · page 3

A. Kis named John Wilion, an old identity of Dubbo, was found dead at his home, Serleier-atreet, Dubbo, last Saturday morning, It appeara the deoeased had been, in…

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Obituary

The Wellington Times · Thursday 17 September 1903 · page 4

On September 14, William Smith Harvey, aged 74 years, died at Geurie from senile decay, and was buried in the Presbyterian cemetery at Geurie the following day…

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Death of the Hon Duncan Gillies. Ex-Premier and present Speaker of the Assembly

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 19 September 1903 · page 3

MR. DUNCAN GILLIES, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, died at Melbourne on Saturday He went to his bath at half-past 9. At 10 o'clock he was found there in an insensible…

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OBITUARY. Adelaide

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 23 September 1903 · page 3

Mr. John Henderson, resident secretary of the Colonial Mutual Fire Insurance Company, died Suddenly in the street in Adelaide yesterday…

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Magisterial Inquiry. Death of an Old Identity

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 23 September 1903 · page 3

A well known identity--Reubon Shropshire--who for several years has led a semi-vagrant life near the town, was last Wednesday found dead in a small house in Baltge-street, in which he…

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Death of a Nonagenarian

The Wellington Times · Thursday 24 September 1903 · page 4

The death occurred yesterday, at the residence of his daughter (Mrs. Long), Percy-street, of Thomas Jarvis, aged 93 years and 6 months, due to senile decay. The old…

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Death of Mr. R. Hubbard

The Wellington Times · Thursday 24 September 1903 · page 4

The death occurred at his residence, Mount Pleasant, near Euchareena, on Monday last, of Mr. Robert Hubbard, aged 70, diabetes being the fatal illness. The late…

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Death of an Acrobat

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 26 September 1903 · page 5

Archibald Moratto, one of the Moratto Bros., acrobats, has died at Newcastle from injuries received through falling from a horizontal bar, while performing in Fitzgerald Bros.' circus…

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Death of "Jack" Delaney. An Inter-State Rider

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 3 October 1903 · page 4

News was received in Dubbo on Thursday last of the death of the well-known jockey, Jack Delaney. Deceased was born in Dubbo, and resided here for a number of years. He then…

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Obituary. Mrs. Mary Casey

The Bligh Watchman and Coonabarabran Gazette · Tuesday 6 October 1903 · page 2

There passed away last Saturday morning One of the remaining links of the past and the present in the person of Mrs. Casey, or as she was generally known as…

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Obituary

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 7 October 1903 · page 2

AN old resident of some sixty years standing in the Tara[?] district, in the person of Mr. Wilson M.'Cauley, J.P., of S[?]dmouth Valley, passed over to the great majority…

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Fatal Accident. Death of Mr. James Gannon

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 7 October 1903 · page 2

THE town was shocked on Monday last by receipt of the news that Mr. James Gannon, for so many years Associated with the railway service on the Great Western line, had been the…

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Death of Driver Gannon. A. Sad Fatality

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 7 October 1903 · page 3

MUCH sympathy was expressed in Dubbo on Monday, when it became known that Mr. James Gannon, driver of the western mail train, bad been killed…

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Varieties. a Curious Funeral

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 10 October 1903 · page 3

AGIPSY funeral held in an Alark[?] village shows how tenacio[?]ly the tribes still cling to pang custo[?]s. The corpse was [?]uded…

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Inanity into the Death of James Gannon

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 14 October 1903 · page 5

AN inquiry into the death of the late Mr. James Go[?] was held before Mr. Co[?] at Nyagan on Tuesday, when the following evidence was taken:--…

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Death of Mb. W. Curnow

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 16 October 1903 · page 2

William Curnow, ex-editor of the SYDNEY MORNING HERALD, is dead, aged 71 years…

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OBITUARY. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 17 October 1903 · page 3

Mr. Alexander Bruce, for many years Chief Inspector of Stock, died yesterday at the age of 76…

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Death of Rev. John Clifton. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 17 October 1903 · page 3

The Rev. John Clifton, a well-known Methodist minister, died yesterday, at the age of 68 years. He had a record of 41 years' service in the various circuits of the…

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Death of Mr. M. J. Ryan. A Respected Resident of other days

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 21 October 1903 · page 3

THE town heard with regret of the decease, on Monday last, of Mr. Martin J. Ryan, for upwards of thirty years a well known and respected resident of Dubbo, and brother of the…

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