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Obituaries & funerals, 1897

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Death of Mr. T. Mooney. Coroner's Inquiry

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

MR. A. D. BAD[?]ERY, J. P., coroner, conducted an inquiry on Saturday morning last into the cause of the sudden death of Mr. Thomas Mooney, senior, which took place the previous morning at the…

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The Death of Sir Wm. Jervois. a Strange Circumstance

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 25 September 1897 · page 3

LONDON, August 20.—The death of Sir W. Jervois was the result of a carriage accident very similar to that which laid him up in South Australia somo years ago. The General was stopping with…

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The Death-bed of a Profligate King

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 29 September 1897 · page 2

In the "Memoirs of the Courts of Europe," by Mr. Henry Swinburne, there is a gruphie account of the death of King Louis XV. The monarch died of smallpox, and the manner in…

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Death of Mr. Ernest Ward

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 6 October 1897 · page 4

IT is with the sincerest grief that we have to record in this issue the death of one of the earliest settlers in Bowral, viz., Mr. James Ernest Ward, second son of Mr…

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Death of a Famous Pioneer. Played Poker for an Island

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 6 October 1897 · page 2

There died the other day at his home in Red Lake Falls a man who was thoroughly identified with the early history of Minnesota. This man was Pierre Bollineau, the offspring of a French…

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Funeral of Mr. Ernest Ward

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 9 October 1897 · page 2

IN our last issue we recorded the death of one of our earliest settlers in Bowral, viz., Mr. James Ernest Ward, second son of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Ward, of Railway…

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Death of Cows table Fleming

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 13 October 1897 · page 4

IN our last issue we referred to Constable Fleming having been seriously injured at Boggabri by a horse pawing him in the stomach. It is our painful duty now to record the Constable's death through…

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Death of Constable Fleming

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 16 October 1897 · page 2

In our last issue we referred to Constable Fleming having been seriously injured at Boggabri by a horse pawing him in the stomach. It is our painful duty now to record the Constable's death through the…

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Obituary

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 23 October 1897 · page 2

Just before going to press last night, we received the sad news that Mr. George Bonnett, in the employ of Mr. T. Loveridge, was killed, through falling off the…

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Death of Mr. Joseph Mitchell

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 27 October 1897 · page 4

MR. JOSEPH MITCHELL died at his residence, Milton House, Bellambi, shortly before 8 o'clock on Friday night. It had been known for somctime that the end was near, and he was surrounded by…

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Obituary. a Double Bereavement

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 3 November 1897 · page 4

WE beg to tender our deep sympathy to both Mr. and Mrs. C. Waters of "Glenmore House," Bowral, in their recent sad bereavement, by which each has lost a…

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The Late Mr. Joseph Mitchell. a Tribute of Respect

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 10 November 1897 · page 4

No soldier of fortune was he, but a man possessed of a force, in character which left its mark on everything he touched. What he effected depended upon himself. He put his whole self into all that he did,…

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Death of a Rush Poet

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 20 November 1897 · page 2

MR. PHILLIP D. LORIMER, well known in New South Wales, Victoria, and Queen, land, as the "Australian Bush Poet," has ended his days in the Rook wood…

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Rehearsing His Funeral

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 24 November 1897 · page 2

An eccentric old fellow in France has recently held a re[?]rsal of his funeral while yet in the land of the living. For the past year gravedigge[?] and [?] had been engaged in…

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Obituary

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 29 December 1897 · page 4

IT is with regret that we have to record the death of Mrs. Rotton, beloved wife of Mr. H. O. Rotten, of Bowral. The deceased died at the residence of her father, W. R. Antill, Esq., " Abbotsford,'' Picton,…

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