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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1897

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Local News. Obituary. the Late Mr. John Morrison

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 30 July 1897 · page 2

A correspondent sends us the following fuller obituary notice as an addendum to the notice already given in these columns. Writing from Bulgs Creek, under date 28…

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Death of Mr Arthur Webster

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 11 August 1897 · page 2

News reached Yass on Monday morning (gays the Tribune) of the death of Mr Arthur Webster, who for many years managed Bloomfield and Deringullen for the late Dr…

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The Death of Sir Charles Lilley

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 24 August 1897 · page 2

THE death of Sir Charles Lilley, though not altogether unexpected, has occasioned wide-spread…

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Awfully Sudden Death of Mrs. J. L. King

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 31 August 1897 · page 3

MRS. KING, wife of the Police magistrate, died suddenly on Friday night at Orange. She was dancing in the Oddfellow's Hall, where a Cinderella…

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Latest Telegrams. Death of Windeyer

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 15 September 1897 · page 2

Sydney, Tuesday, 10 40 a.m.—A cable has just been received announcing the death of ex-Judge Windeyer…

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Local News. Death of Mrs. Barber

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 28 September 1897 · page 2

ON Friday night, at about eight o'clock, after a lingering illness from consumption, Mrs. Barber, relict of Mr. W. J. Barber, formerly storekeeper in Queanbeyan, died…

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Death of Mrs. Barber

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 29 September 1897 · page 2

At 3 a.m. on Saturday Mrs Barber died from an attack of consumption. For some weeks there had been little hope of her recovery, although death came sooner than…

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Death of Constable Morrow

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 5 October 1897 · page 3

Constable Morrow, tho viotim of the brutal assault at Circular Quay yesterday, died this morning. llis alleged assailant is in custody…

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Death of Constable Murrow

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 9 October 1897 · page 3

The inquest on the death of Constable Murrow was held on Thursday and the jury returned a verdit of wilful munder against Conway, the man. under arrest. When…

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Death of Rev. T. Symonds

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 12 October 1897 · page 2

NEWS was received in town this morning of the death, at 7.30 a.m. on Sunday last, at Abbotsford, Victoria, where he was the incumbent of the parish, of the Rev. Thos…

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Death of Mr. Joseph Mitchell

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 27 October 1897 · page 2

Mr. Joseph Mitchell, whose serious illness was recently reported, died on Friday night at eight o'clock. Dr. Maurice O'Connor, of Sydney, and Dr Cumming, of Woonoona,…

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Death of Henry George

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 2 November 1897 · page 2

THE death of Henry George, which was announced by cable on Saturday, removes a remarkable fig-…

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The Late Mrs. Brennan

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 13 November 1897 · page 2

It is with extreme record that we record the death of Mrs. M. Brennan, wife of Superintendent Brennan, formerly of Queanbeyan, which took place at her residence, "The…

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Death of Miss Byrne

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 16 November 1897 · page 2

YESTERDAY, at the advanced age of 87, another old Queanbeyan resident passed away in the person of Miss Byrne, sister of the late Mr. Martin Byrne, sen., and aunt…

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Death of a Porter

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 26 November 1897 · page 2

MR. THOMAS WINSOR, baggage porter on the Couma railway line, died at his residence, Faithfull and Verner streets, Goulburn, on Monday. At 7.40 a.m. he…

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Death of Prospectors. from Exposures

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 30 November 1897 · page 3

Two members of a prospecting party at Arthur Range, Tasmania, succumbed to exhaustion consequent upon the severe…

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Death of Prospectors

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 1 December 1897 · page 2

Sydney, Tuesday—Ten days ago a party of prospectors started for Arthur Range, Tasmania., Two of them who have returned have reported that Sydney and Arthur…

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Awfully Sudden Death of the Mayor

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 24 December 1897 · page 2

THE community was started from its ordinary quietude on Wednesday morning by the news that Mr. Edwin Henry Land, Mayor of Queanbeyan, had that…

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