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Obituaries & funerals, 1876

18 stories in Riverina's papers

The Death of Mrs. Childers (Home News.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Wednesday 9 February 1876 · page 4

The very sad and sudden death of Mrs. Childers is an event which will be heard with as much regret in the colonies as in this country. The…

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Death of Mr. Justice Cheeke

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 18 March 1876 · page 3

WE regret to have to record the death of Mr. Judge Cheeke, one of the Puisne Judges of the Supreme Court. The deceased gentleman (says the Herald) only returned from Europe,…

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The Late Mr. Flannery, Inspector of Schools. (To the Editor of the Advertiser.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Wednesday 22 March 1876 · page 3

SIR,—I am aware that as a crass the schoolmaster of this distict are not by any means rich still I am satisfied that the generality of them are in positions of fair…

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The Late Mr. R. M. Isaacs. (S. M. Herald.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 1 April 1876 · page 4

Very many of our readers will have noticed with regret that Mr. R. M. Isaacs, formerly Solicitor-General of this colony, expired at his residence, Darlinghurst, on…

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Death of Gladiateur

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 8 April 1876 · page 6

A LONDON telegram to the New York Herald dated January 27th announced the death of the famous [?] Court Lagrange as sole…

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Gundagai Local News. Death of Mrs Pilkington Under Suspicious Circumstances

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 14 April 1876 · page 2

LATE on Saturday evening the police received information that Mrs Pilkington, an old and well-known resident of Spring Flat, near Gundagai, had been found lying dead in…

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Funeral Rites

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 15 April 1876 · page 6

Much scandal has been created at Oxford by the refusal of the curate of St. Thomas’s parish to allow a corpse (a female) to be interred or brought into…

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Lady Augusta Stanley. the Funeral Ceremony

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 20 May 1876 · page 7

THE scene in Westminster Abbey when on Thursday last week, Lady Augusta Stanley was born to her grave, was one of the few which leave a district and…

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Lady Augusta Stanley.— the Funeral Ceremony

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 27 May 1876 · page 8

THE .scene in Westminster Abbey when, on Thursday, March 19th, Lady Augusta Stanley was borne to her grave, was one of the few which leave a distinct and life-long…

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Death of Mr. William Rutledge of Farnham. (From the Melbourne Argus.)

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 10 June 1876 · page 5

BY the death of Mr. William Rutledge of Farnham, the intelligence of which we received on Friday by telegraph from Warrnambool, the colony of Victoria has lost…

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The Death of Emma Bennett

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 8 July 1876 · page 4

As an instance of inhumanity, we published a short time since some particulars of the death of a woman while she was being convoyed to the Sale Hospital on horseback, and…

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The Late Mr. Thos. Laidlaw of Yass

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 22 July 1876 · page 4

THE following reference (which we take from the Yass Courier) to the late Mr. Laidlaw, appears in the eloquent address delivered by the Rev. Father…

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Death of Georges Sand

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 29 July 1876 · page 5

A CABLE dispatch announces the death of Madame Amandine Lucile Aurora Dudevant, a French literary lady of great ability as a dramatist and novelist —better known under…

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“The Conversion, Last Days, and Death of Daniel Boon.”

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 5 August 1876 · page 2

As the letter of the Wagga correspondent of the Freeman’s Journal has been once or twice referred to, and has probably only been seen by a very small minority of the residents,…

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Dr. Bermingham Upon the Boon Funeral

Wagga Wagga Express · Wednesday 9 August 1876 · page 2

WE republish from the W. W. Advertiser the following remarkable letter from Dr. Bermingham upon the subject of the execution and the funeral of the criminal Daniel…

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Curious Funeral Rites in Little Russia

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 23 September 1876 · page 4

Now that funeral reform as one of the questions of the day—a question brulante, it may be called in some quarters—no little interest attaches to an account…

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Adelong Local News. the Funeral of the Late Mr. Charles Shaw, of Adelong

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 13 October 1876 · page 3

It is at all times a painful duty to chronicle the departure of an old and respected townsman, cut off by the unwavering hand of death, and perhaps, there are few amongst our mining…

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