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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1870

9 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers

The Death of the Bushranger Ward, Alias Thunderbolt

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 2 June 1870 · page 3

BY the courtesy of the Inspector-General of Police, we are enabled to publish the following telegram from Armidale, giving an account of the inquest held upon the body of…

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Death of Thunderbolt

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 9 June 1870 · page 3

FREDK. WARD, alias Thunderbolt, is dead. The circumstance which led to the result I will, as far as I can, briefly relate. On Wednesday, 25th May, about 2 o'clock,…

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Sad Death of Lady Lopes

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 16 June 1870 · page 1

A VERY sad death from burning occurred at Frome on March 26th. Lady Lopes, the mother of Sir Massey Lopes, Bart., M.P., for South Devon, and Mr Henry Charles…

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Obituary

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 11 August 1870 · page 4

Sir James Clark, physician to the Queen; Lord Arthur Clinton, son of the Duke of Newcastle; Professor Syme, Prince Jerome Bonaparte, Sir Archibald…

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Funeral at Sea

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 1 September 1870 · page 1

The Angel of Death passed over the ship As she sailed for the Southern main, And strewd his wreaths of amaranth O'er the children's bed of pain…

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A Gallon of Wine Per Day, and the Death of the Toper

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 27 October 1870 · page 4

AN inquest was held on last Saturday forenoon by Dr Blake the district coroner, and a jury, touching the death on that morning of a man named Thomas…

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Reported Death of Prince Frederic Charles

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 19 November 1870 · page 1

TOURS, October 11.—The journals publish the news of the death of Prince Frederic Charles…

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Reported Death of Prince Frederic Charles

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 24 November 1870 · page 4

TOURS, October 11.—The journals publish the news of the death of Prince Frederic Charles…

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Arrival of the California Mail. News from the Seat of War. More Fighting. The Prussians still Successful Paris declared Impregnable. Rumoured Death of Prince Charles Frederick. Bismark desires Peace. Spanish Republicans joining the French. England and other Powers still Neutral. Age Office Thursday 1 p.m

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 24 November 1870 · page 4

IT will be seen by referring to the news by the last mail that the items of news furnished below, give only eight days' later news from the seat of war, our last…

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