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Obituaries & funerals, 1886

10 stories in South Coast's papers

Death of Vanderbilt

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Thursday 28 January 1886 · page 4

NEW York, December 1. William H. Vanderbilt is dead. Without a mometent's warning the message came for him and he was no more. The gilt iron cross over the…

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Death of Richard III

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Thursday 18 March 1886 · page 2

RICHARD out down all before him in his fury, and there no larger remained a single fighting man between these rivals for a crown, when Hubert, springing unexpectedly from…

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The Maitland Poisoning Case. Death of Mrs. Burton

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 7 April 1886 · page 2

THE City Coroner, Mr. H. Sheill, J.P., held an inquest at H. M. S. Gaol, Darlinghurst, on Saturday morning, touching the death of Mary Ann Burton, who expired in the gaol hospital…

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The Late Mr. Richard Gold[?]

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 14 April 1886 · page 2

A TELEGRAM from Melbourne to the Echo on Friday last says:— The news of the coath of Richard Goldsbrough which occurred yesterday afternoon was received with general and deep…

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Death of Mr. W. Harahan

The Broughton Creek Register, and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 5 June 1886 · page 3

FOLLOWING closely, upon the death of Mr. John Harahan; senr, came the mournful intelligence of the death of his son William, who passed over to the great majority on…

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Death of Mr. Hugh Colley

The Broughton Creek Register, and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 19 June 1886 · page 3

THE mortal remains of the oldest representative of one of the oldest families who settled in this district, Mr. Hugli Colley, were interred, in the public cemetery Porter’s…

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Funeral of the late Dr. Lacey

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 8 September 1886 · page 2

YESTERDAY morning the vessels in the basin Garde's arrival the flags of the Illawarra were at once hoisted to the same position…

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Death of Sir James Martin

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 10 November 1886 · page 2

THE distinguished Australian who passed away from us last Thursday night was a man of whom this contingent may well be proud. Though born in Ireland (in May 1820) the whole of his…

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Original Poetry. On the Death of a Favourite Child Little Mary

Moruya Examiner · Saturday 13 November 1886 · page 2

Oh, sweet be thy sleep in the dark silent grave My dear little Mary for ever. God to this earth once an angel he gave His will was again for to sever…

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Obituary

The Broughton Creek Register, and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 18 December 1886 · page 3

ANOTHER, of the proper a[?] of our district has paid the debt of nature, at the ripe age of [?]. The late Mr. Joseph Pike, whose death, through de[?] of nature, took pl[?] a…

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