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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1878

18 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers

Obituary Notices

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 16 January 1878 · page 1

DEATH has been busy of late in our midst. It has been our melancholy task to record already several cases in which the fell destroyer has…

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English and Foreign Extracts. Death of the King of Italy

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 16 January 1878 · page 1

IT will be seen by reference to our telegraphic columns that the death is announced of Victor Emmanuel, King of Italy. The following memoir is…

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Obituary

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 16 February 1878 · page 2

On Saturday last, as intimated in our Wednesday's issue, Mrs Fane DeSalis, wife of the Hon. L Fano De Salis, M.L.C., departed this life, at Cuppacumbalong. The deceased…

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The Death of Pius IX

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 16 February 1878 · page 4

THE death of Pius IX., which is announced in our telegraphic columns this morning, will not take the world by surprise. For months past the…

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OBITUARY. Rev. Arthur Douglass, B.A.

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 6 March 1878 · page 1

THE Illawarrd Mercury thus notices the demise of the Rev. Arthur Douglas B. A., formerly assistant minister and locum tenens of the Rev. A. D. Soares here. We quite…

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Death of Mr Hugh Vallance

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 16 March 1878 · page 2

WE regret to announce the death of the above gentlemen, at his residence, Lower Gundaroo, on Thursday. The deceased had been suffering from dysentry, and was found…

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Sad Death of a Devoted Wife

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 16 March 1878 · page 3

On the 1st of March the Queensland Executive Council released from penal servitude, Frank Sydney Bowerman, who, nine years ago, was…

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Death of Mr T. S. Mort

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 15 May 1878 · page 1

ON Thursday afternoon an announcement was made in Sydney, which must be regarded in all parts of Australia with great regret. Mr Thomas Suteliffe Mort, after a severe…

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Death of Mr Samuel Bennett

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 5 June 1878 · page 2

OUR readers will sympathise with the sorrow in which the work of this day is carried on, when they learn that Mr Samuel Bennett, the…

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The Death of Earl Russell

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 8 June 1878 · page 4

A TELEGRAM which arrived at an early hour on Tuesday morning intimates that Earl Russell, the celebrated ex-minister and statesman, is dead. Previous telegrams…

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Mrs. Rolfe's Funeral

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 3 July 1878 · page 2

One of the most numerous gatherings that has been seen in his district, assembled last Sunday afternoon to pay the last tribute of respect to the mortal remains of the late…

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Death of Dr Lang

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 10 August 1878 · page 2

The Rev. Dr Lang, D.D., died on Wednesday night after a few days' illness. Respecting the sad event, the Evening News of Thursday says:—We regret to have to…

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Death and Funeral of the Great Scottish Giant

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 24 August 1878 · page 1

MR. WILLIAM CAMPBELL, landlord of the Duke of Wellington public-house, High Bridge, Newcastle, and widely known as the Scottish Giaut died at that…

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Death of Dr Hayley

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 11 September 1878 · page 2

QUITE a painful surprise was universally felt in this town and district on Saturday last on receipt of the sad and unexpected news of our old and…

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Obituary

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 14 September 1878 · page 4

IT is our mournful task to record the demise of Dr. Hayley. At the time we last wrote, but faint hopes of his recovery could be entertained, and the worst apprehensions were verified when the deceased…

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Death of Rev. W. Ridley, M.A.

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 2 October 1878 · page 2

Very early on last Friday morning another of the links in that chain which binds the past with the present of Sydney was snapped asunder. We refer to the…

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The Late Mr. W. S. Chauncy

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 12 October 1878 · page 4

THE ceremony of unveiling the monument erected to the memory of the late Mr. Chauney, superintendent of roads in this district, by the officers, contractors, and workmen employed under him, took…

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Death of Mr T. McAuliffe of Jeir

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 30 November 1878 · page 2

Mr Thomas McAuliffe of Jeir, for many years a resident of the Queanbeyan district father of Mrs M[?]rgaret Lee and Mr F. McAuliffe, blacksmith, died suddenly at his…

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