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Obituaries & funerals, 1897

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Bowral Free Press Do as adversaries do in law: Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends. Saturday, February 13, 1897. Death of Sir John Thurston

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 13 February 1897 · page 2

WITH the death of Sir John Thurston during the voyage of the Burrumbeet from Sydney to Melbourne an able administrator has passed away. How much Great…

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The Late Mr. Carradus

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 20 March 1897 · page 3

THERE died at the Sydney Coffee Palace Hotel, Lower Domain, on March 1, Mr. W. Carradus, a well-known Sydney journalist and Press agent, who…

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Obituary

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 8 May 1897 · page 3

Our readers will remember that nearly two years ago we published in this paper an account of Mr. and Mrs. Lee's golden wedding, and now it is with a feeling of…

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Death of Mrs. Shying

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 12 May 1897 · page 4

THE residents of Bowral were astonished on Sunday morning to hear of the sudden death of Mrs. Shying of Woodbine-street, during the preceding night. The news was so unexpected that many people were…

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Obituary. Master Hugh Campbell George

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 19 May 1897 · page 4

IT is with feelings of deep regret that we have to record the death of Hugh Campbell, aged 4 1/4 years, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gavin George, of Bowral, which took…

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Obituary. Mrs. Jas. Kennedy

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 29 May 1897 · page 2

WE have quite a chapter of deaths to chronicle this issue; but that which gives us the most grief, because so thoroughly unexpected, is to inform our readers of the…

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Death of the Prince Consort

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Tuesday 22 June 1897 · page 1

At a late hour on Saturday night, December 14, 1861, the inhabitants of London were electrified by the unusual sound of the tolling of the great bell of…

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Bowral Free Press Do as adversaries do in law: Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends. Saturday, June 26, 1897. the Late Mr. Eddy

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 26 June 1897 · page 3

BY the death of the Chief Commissioner for Railways this week at Brisbane the colony has lost one of its most able and valuable public servants. Now that Mr…

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Obituary. Mr. R. J. Smith

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 30 June 1897 · page 4

IT is with feelings of deep regret that we chronicle in this issue the death of Mr. Richard John Smith, at his late residence, Belmore Park, Bowral, on Saturday…

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Death of Mr. J. W. Parker

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 14 July 1897 · page 4

A TELEGRAM was received by Mrs A. P. Duprez, of Shepherd-street, Bowral, yesterday (Tuesday) morning, briefly stating that Mr. J. W. Parker had passed…

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Death of Mrs. G. J. Covington

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 21 July 1897 · page 4

WE beg to tender our deep sympathy to Mr. G. J. Covington, watchmaker and jeweller, Bong Bong St., Bowral, in the death of his wife, Euphemia Frances. The sad event…

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The Funeral of the Lost Explorers. an Imposing Spectacle. Adelaide

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 21 July 1897 · page 4

THE funeral of the Calvert explorers this afternoon was the largest ever witnessed in Adelaide. A preliminary service was held in the Exhibition Building, where…

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Minister's Corner. 12.—Professor Drummond's Funeral

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 24 July 1897 · page 3

THIS following account, from the British Weekly, at out buloved friend's funeral, is published in this issue, as we feel sure all our readers will pursue it with sympathetic interest:—…

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Death of Mrs. Menzies

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 11 August 1897 · page 4

ON Friday evening last, at ½-past 8 o'clock, Mrs. Andrew Menzies passed away at her residence, Roberton Park, at the age of 65 years. She suffered with…

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A Cyclist's Funeral

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 18 August 1897 · page 2

A well-known Rochdale athlete, who died recently, was accorded a cyclist's funeral. The coffin was' placed upon two tandems braced together, und wheeled through the town to the…

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Death of Mrs. David Rutledge

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 18 August 1897 · page 4

It is our painful duty this issue to report the death of Mrs. Rutledge, wife of Mr. David Rutledge, of Bong Bong-Street, Bowral; which sad events took place at…

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Imposing Military Funeral

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 21 August 1897 · page 2

This is the first time in the history of "H" Co. 2nd Infantry Regt. a member in the active service list has died. A full military funeral was accorded the deceased at Bowral by his comrades in arms as…

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Death of Mrs. R. H. Roberts

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 28 August 1897 · page 2

AFTER a long illness, Mrs. Roberts, the wife of the Hon. R. H. Roberts, M.L.C., passed away at the residence of her son-in-law (Mr. H. C. Fowler), Bowral, at an early hour on…

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The Death of Sir John Moorie

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 1 September 1897 · page 2

The following account of the last moments of Moore, at Corruma, in 1809, is related by his brother, James Carrick Moore:— "Captain (now Viscount) Hardinge…

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Braemar. Death of an Infant

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 15 September 1897 · page 4

IT is with feelings of deep regreat that we chronicle in this issue the death of Josephine, the infant child of Mr. and Mrs. E. Mitchell, of Braemar. The little one was…

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