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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1898

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Funeral of Sir George Grey

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 30 September 1898 · page 2

LONDON, September 27.--The funeral of Sir George Grey was very impressive in character. The cortege, which included 21…

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Death of the Registrar General

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 30 September 1898 · page 2

SOME excitement was occasioned on Tuesday afternoon at the intelligence that the Registrar-General of Titles and Examiner of Patents, Mr. Alfred…

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Death of the PREMlER of Queensland

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 30 September 1898 · page 3

BRISBANE, Wednesday.--The death of Mr. T. J. Byrnes, Premier of Queensland, caused profound grief among those closely associated with…

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Death of Premier Byrnes

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 1 October 1898 · page 2

Mr T. J. Byrnes, Premier of Queensland, died at 10 minutes to 12 on Tuesday night. The doctors state that his condition was no worse during the night than it had been…

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Death of Denmark's Queen

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 1 October 1898 · page 2

London, Thursday—The Queen of Denmark, who has been in a critical condition for some days past, died this morning…

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Death of the Premier of Queensland

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 1 October 1898 · page 2

Mr. T. J. Byrnes died early on Wednesday morning from pneumonia. The career of Mr. Byrnes showed the possession of sterling mental and moral qualities, linked with indomitable…

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Death of a Very Old Woman

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 11 November 1898 · page 3

A VERY old woman--probably the oldest in Australia--died at the Melbourne [?] Asylum on Thursday, where she had been an [?]…

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Sudden Death of Mr. G. C. K. Waldron

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 11 November 1898 · page 3

THE news of the very sudden death of Mr. Waldron, City Solicitor, has been received everywhere with expressions of regret. It appears that the [?] gentleman, in…

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Obituary

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 15 November 1898 · page 2

Mr. Peter Jobbins, one of the oldest residents of this locality, passed away at noon on Tuesday last at his residence, Back Creek. The deceased had been [?]iling for…

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The Funeral of Gordon

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 15 November 1898 · page 2

WRITING of the ma[?]tial requiem amid the [?]uins of Khartoum, G. W. Steevens says:--The steamars plugged their steady way up the full Nite. Past the northern fringe…

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Gundaroo. OBITUARY

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 16 November 1898 · page 2

One of our oldest residents, Mr P. Jobbins, died at his residence, Back Creek, last Tuesday. Peter was widely known, had a host of friends, and but few enemies—if…

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Death of Michael Gallagher

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 18 November 1898 · page 2

ON Tuesday last, at the extreme age of 93, died, at his residence, Tuggranong, Mr. Michael Gallagher, a resident of the district since 1842, and as fine an old man as…

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Death of Mr. M. Gallagher

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 19 November 1898 · page 2

On Thursday last Queanbeyan district was called upon to pay its last tribute of n respect to another and one of its most respected members, good old Michael…

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Death of a S. M.

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 19 November 1898 · page 2

Sydney, Friday.—Whittingdale Jo[?] a stipendiary magistrate, who [?] obtained leave of absence owing to ill[?] died suddenly yesterday at Albany…

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The Klondyke Goldfield. Privation and Death of Goldseekers

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 22 November 1898 · page 2

THE latest news from the Klondyke tells of an unusually rich quartz find at the head of Dominion Creek, from which so much coarse gold has been taken from the…

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Obituary. the Hon. Leopold Fane De Salis

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 22 November 1898 · page 2

DEATH has claimed another venerable victim from amongst the patriarchal residents of the Queanbeyan district, On Sunday morning [?]dings reached us of…

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Death of Mr. DeSalis

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 23 November 1898 · page 2

On Saturday evening, there died at Th[?]rwa one of the old politicians and residents of Queanbeyan, Mr Leopold Fane DeSalis, at the age of 82. Everyone in familiar with the…

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Death of Mr. James Tyson

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 7 December 1898 · page 2

Two Hun. Jas. Tyson, M.L. C , Australia's biggest squatter, died on Saturday at Cambodya, on the Darling Downs. Mr. Tyson had been asking for some weeks past, but absolutely refused to see a…

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Death of Mr. Joseph Devlin

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 9 December 1898 · page 2

MR. J. DEVLIN, who was managing his father's butchering business for many years in Tomora, died at his father's residence on Monday afternoon, after a long illness…

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Sad Death of a Demented Mother

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 20 December 1898 · page 3

MRS. M'LACHLAN, wife of a quarryman, reading in Kiama, wandered away from her home on Tuesday morning in a demented condition,…

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