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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1872

8 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers

Arrival of the San Francisco Mail Alarming Illness of the Prince of Wales. Death of Lord Chesterfield. Political Demonstration at Birmingham. SYDNEY. Saturday 9.40 p.m

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 18 January 1872 · page 3

THE Nebraska has arrived with European telegraphic intelligence to December 12. The Prince of Wales was dangerously…

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Death of the Prince's Groom

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 7 March 1872 · page 4

BY some strange unexplained coincidence a groom of the Prince of Wales, Charles Blagg, a lad of only 20 years, has also, been prostrated by typhoid fever at…

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Death of Massarti, the Lion Tamer. Horrible Scene

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 21 March 1872 · page 3

A correspondent of the Sheffield Independent gives the following harrowing details of the shocking death of Massarti, the lion tamer, at Mander's Circus, in…

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Original Poetry. on the Death of Patrick Sheridan. Died April 11Th, 1872

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 18 April 1872 · page 4

HIS spirit now hath fled away, And he's escaped from sin and pain; To realms of bliss beyond the sky Where him we hope to meet again…

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Sad Death of a Mother and Child

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 25 April 1872 · page 2

A SHORT time back we published an account from the Brisbane Colonist of the death of a woman named Spendlove and her child, which was stated as having been caused by…

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Arrival of the Suez Mail. Extraordinary Rise in Wool. Great Commercial Excitement. Death of W. C. Wentworth. Destructive Earthquakes. Scene in the House of Commons. (Through Greville's Telegram Company) Sydney. Saturday, 4.25 p.m

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 9 May 1872 · page 2

THE English mail is at Adelaide. W. C. Wentworth is dead; his body is to be brought to Vaucluse, New South Wales…

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Death of the Paris Headsman. Paris, March 31

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 13 June 1872 · page 4

Monsier de Paris is dead. I do not speak of the Prince who takes his title from the French capital, but of that sinister personage, who according to Joseph…

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Funeral of Major Fitzsimons

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 10 October 1872 · page 3

THE remains of the lamented Major Arther Frederick Fitzsimons. New South Wales. Infantry, Major of Brigade, were inteered at Randwick on Saturday last, with military…

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