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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1886

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Funeral of the Late Mr. A. H. W. Senior

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 7 January 1886 · page 2

MR. A. HASTINGS W SENIOR, who met his death by the capsizing of a boat in the harbor, on Friday was one of the most valued members of the Geographical Society's Expedition, and…

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Suspicious Death of an Infant at Petersham. Coroner's Inquest.—extraordinary Revelations

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 4 February 1886 · page 2

ON Saturday morning the City Coroner (Mr. H. Shiell, J.P.) commenced an inquiry at the South Sydney Morgue, Belmore-road, touching the death of Ursula Margaret O’Sullivan…

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The Death of Mrs. Anderson Stuart. Coroner's Inquest

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 9 March 1886 · page 2

ON Friday morning the City Coroner (Mr. H. Shiell, J.P.), resumed and concluded the inquiry at No. 12, Toxteth-road, Globe Point, under the circumstance attending the death of…

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Obituary

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 20 May 1886 · page 2

THE late Mr. WILLIAM PLUMMER, whose sad death (fully reported in another column) occurred on Tuesday morning, was a young man of such promise and talent, of such exemplary…

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Local Intelligence The Good Templars and the Late Mr. Plummer

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 29 May 1886 · page 2

BY a resolution adopted at a recent meeting of the Dauntless Lodge, 271, I. O. G.T., Queanbeyan, the following letter of sympathy and condolence was ordered to be…

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The Late Mr. James Larmer

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 10 June 1886 · page 2

THE Death is reported, on Saturday last, of Mr. James Larmer, J.P., of Braidwood. The deceased gentleman was one of the oldest surveyors in the colony,…

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Death of Mr. Samuel Walker

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 10 June 1886 · page 2

INTELLIGENCE was received on Monday Last by Mr. Josiah H. W. Walker, storekeeper, of this town, of the death, in California, of his father, Mr. Samuel…

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Death of Archbishop Goold. MELBOURNE

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 15 June 1886 · page 2

Dr. James Alpius Goold, for 38 years Roman Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne, died somewhat suddenly this morning at his residence Brighton, of…

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Cable Intelligence. Death of Sir Alexander Stuart. London, June 16

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 19 June 1886 · page 2

SIR Alexander Stuart had been ill for a fortnight, and was attended by Drs. Broadbent and Whitcombe. He was conscious throughout, but at 10 o'clock in…

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Death of Mr. W. J. Barber

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 22 July 1886 · page 2

YESTERDAY morning, about two o'clock, this gentleman, who, during a residence in Queanbeyan extending over many years, had endeared himself to all classes…

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Funeral of the Late Mr. W. J. Barber

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 24 July 1886 · page 2

THE remains of the above lamented gentleman, whose death we recorded in our last issue, were interred on Thursday afternoon. The mournful cortege moved…

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Death of Mr. H. J. Wainwright

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 27 July 1886 · page 2

WE have to record the demise, on Saturday last, at the Queanbeyan Hospital, of Mr. Humphrey John Wainwright of Majura. The deceased, who had passed the…

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Shocking Death of a Child

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 29 July 1886 · page 3

The Kilmore correspondent of the Melbourne Age states that the search for the little girl named Collins, daughter of a selector at Glenarous, about 10 miles from…

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Lonely Death of a Gold-digger

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 7 September 1886 · page 3

A gentleman who returned to Sydney this week from Western Australia gives us some particulars in connection with the recent discovery of a dead body on the…

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Death of Mr. J. J. M. Wright, J.P.

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 9 September 1886 · page 2

SURPRISE and regret were generally felt in Queanbeyan on Tuesday evening last at the announcement of the death of Mr. John James Morton Wright, J.P.,…

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Funeral of the late J. J. M. Wright

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 11 September 1886 · page 2

THE remains of the late Mr. J. J. Morton Wright, J.P., whose early demise we chronicled in our last impression, were interred on Thursday in the church of…

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The Late Mr. Anthony Hordern

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 28 September 1886 · page 1

WITH regard to the late Mr. Anthony Hordern, we lean that he was born in Russel-street, Melbourne, and came to Sydney with his parents…

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Death of a Well-known Painter

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 28 September 1886 · page 2

The death is annonunced of Thomas Webster, the well-known painter, at the age of 87…

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The Late Mr. John Cartwright, J.P.

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 14 October 1886 · page 2

THIS gentleman, whose death was chronicled in our last issue, was an old resident of the district, having for many years past engaged in pastoral pursuits…

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Sudden Death of Mr. Kinlayside, of Canberra

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 16 October 1886 · page 2

IN our last issue we alluded to the number of old residents lately called from amongst us—four deaths in four consecutive days in different parts of the district…

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