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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1865

10 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers

The Late Fatal Yacht Accident. Recovery of the Body, and Funeral of Mr Freeman with Military Honours

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Thursday 5 January 1865 · page 3

EVER since the sad disaster which took place on Monday last in our harbour, senior-sergeants Cowell and Ferris, with the relatives of the unfortunate young men, have been indefatigable in their exertions…

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Horrible Death of Three Gold-diggers From Thirst

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Thursday 12 January 1865 · page 2

WE have today to perform the melancholy duty of recording the sacrifice of three more victims to auri sacra fames. Sergeant Gallagher brought information to town on Saturday evening of a man who…

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Death of Morgan the Bushranger. Albury, Sunday evening

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Thursday 20 April 1865 · page 3

THE notorious bushranger, Morgan, was shot this morning at Peechelba station, twenty miles from Wangaratta, and four from the Murray river, by a man…

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Latest English News. Death of Cardinal Wiseman

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Thursday 27 April 1865 · page 3

THE long illness of his eminence Cardinal Wiseman has at length reached a fatal termination. He died on February 15th, at the comparatively early age of sixty-two…

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Death of Ben Hall. Further Particulars. Forbes, Saturday, May 6th, 9 a.m

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Thursday 11 May 1865 · page 2

BEN HALL was shot yesterday; his body was brought here in the middle of the night, and now lies at the police barracks. The police magistrate will hold an inquiry over him this morning…

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Arrival of the English Mail at Adelaide. Assassination of President Lincoln. The Assassin Shot Dead. Attempted Assassination of Mr Seward and his Son. Termination of the War in America. Flourishing State of the Revenue of Great Britain. Death of the Heir to the Russian Throne. Suicide of Admiral Fitzroy. Assassination of the Russian Secretary of Legation at Paris. AGE Office, Saturday morning

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Thursday 29 June 1865 · page 4

THE following despatch, announcing the arrival of the Salsette, with the European mails for April, was…

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Funeral Oration on the Late President Lincoln

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Thursday 20 July 1865 · page 4

YESTERDAY afternoon, in the Prince of Wales Theatre, and in the presence of between five and six thousand people, the Rev W. Taylor (of California) delivered a…

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The Flight and Death of the Assassin

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Thursday 27 July 1865 · page 4

The energy displayed by the authorities in the pursuit of the murderer was speedily rewarded by success. Within twelve days of the murder, Booth, and Harrold, an…

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Death of Mr. D. H. Deniehy

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Thursday 2 November 1865 · page 2

MR DANIEL HENRY DENIEHY, one of the most accomplished and gifted men New South Wales has yet produced, has passed from amongst us. Endowed with…

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Arrival of the English Mail at Adelaide. Death of Lord Palmerston. Cholera in Spain, France, and England. Famine at Bengal. Insurrection in Jamaica

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Thursday 21 December 1865 · page 4

THE English mail arrived at Adelaide at half-past seven last night. The slowness of the steamer was the cause of detention on this occasion…

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