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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1804

6 stories in Sydney's papers

Accidents

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Sunday 15 January 1804 · page 2

On Friday tbe 6[?]h instant, an Inspection was h[?]ld on the body of Ann May, wife of Lawrence May of Hawkesbury, who died suddenly, and, as the Coroner's Verdict d[?]clared,…

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Accidents

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Sunday 3 June 1804 · page 2

On Thursday forenoon, Thomas Radford, overseer of Government Blacksmiths, died (suddenly. He had some time before laboured under a consumptive…

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Fatal Accident

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Sunday 23 September 1804 · page 2

On Monday last an infant of Sarab Pearce, in the Brickfield's experienced a fate the most dif[?]ressing that can possibly be imagined. The mother on returning home…

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Accidents

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Sunday 11 November 1804 · page 3

On Friday a fine and beautiful boy, about six years of age, had nearly lost his life in the following dreadful manner:—A girl taking a pistol in her hand, crammed many…

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From the accidents to which mariners, and man of the inhabitants of this colony are by their ordinary pursuits exposed, we beg leave to lay open the following Directions for the Treatment of Persons Apparently Drowned

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Sunday 9 December 1804 · page 2

"It is very evident there is no employment whatever in life so liable to this accident, as sea-faring people, and those employed on rivers about the ships; I therefore…

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Accident

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Sunday 9 December 1804 · page 2

On Tuesday last a shocking accident happened at the yard of Isaac Nicholls, near the Hospital Wharf, by which William Collins, a labouring servant of the Crown, was…

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