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Sydney · Obituaries & funerals
29 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 2
THE celebrated Nathan Mayer Rothschild, supposed to have been the wealthiest individual in the world, is no more! He expired at Frankfort, on the 28th ult., after a short but painful Illness; he continued perfectly sensible…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →When we arrived in this Colony, Mr. Rose kept the Rose Inn in Castle[?]eagh st; now Sandwell's. He built those premises; and the erection of the Store,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →This day has exhibited a spectacle unequalled in the anuals of Singapore. The funeral of Chisang, a Chinese miser, who died April 2, at the ago of 73, took place at 10 A. M. As…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Not feebly did I raise my arm against the foes of Salma." "Now in my grey years will I sing the fate of the mighty of other days."…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Friday, July [?] — Hugh corrigan the policeman, was arranged for wi[?]al and corrupt perjury, on the trial of Mr. [?] at last Assizes. The prisoner was an ill-looking man, about fifty years of age, and a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WAKE, songstrees, wake! the chorus ending, For thee the brilliant throng awaits. For thee, enchantress! sweet are blending Tones that the 'raptured spirit takes,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A handsome plain Tablet has been erected in St. Andrew's Scots Church, to the memory of Mr. Richard Cuningham, Government Butanist of New South Wales, who perished on the second…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This distinguished peer died at Guernsey on Sunday, October 16, in his 8[?]th yeat, having been horn March 11, 1757. He has termina[?]ed a long and useful career, the principal part of which has…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The recent death of this eccentric gentleman—the immense wealth (nearly 2 millions) which he has left behind him—the singularity of the will be executed, bequeathing his property to parties who were in no…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"A letter from Dr. Nugent, the resident medical gentleman in attendance on Mrs O'Connell, announces the demise of that inestimable lady, at the hour of half pass…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →I KNEW her in the bloom of youth, In her beauty's proudest hours; Her heart elate with joy and truth, Pure as Spring's earliest flowers…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Daniel O'Connel is Dead [?].The reader starts, and is agitated as if by the announcement of some prodigious event.This death however, whether slow or sudden, a man of sixty, whose phy…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We regret to announce that John de Grenier de Fonblanque, Esq., died yesterday, in the 78th year of his age. This gentleman was acknowledged on all hands…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Nor a sigh, not a groan, was there uttered, As from earth he was slowly retiring, For the banner of Britain still fluttered, O'er the head of our Here expiring…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"I trembled too much even to reply [?] Instead of pausing f[?]r a few moments in town. I proceded at once to Chiswick —It was the 13th of September, the ever-lamentable 13th of September!…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On Thursday last, a Solemn High Mass was celebrated at St. Mary's Cathedral, for the ro[?] of the Soul of the late Rev. J. V. Corcoran, whose…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Thursday last a Solemn High Mass was celebrated at St. Mary's Cathedral, for the repose of the Soul of the late LRev. J. V. Corcoran, whose melancholy fate is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IN consequence of the report which arrived by the Lord William Bentinck, on Sunday, of the death of His Majesty WILLIAM IV., a meeting of the Executive…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BY the arrival of the Lord William Bentinck, certain intelligence has been received of the decease of His Most Gracious Majesty KING WILLIAM THE…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WILLIAM THE FOURTH is gathered to his is Fathers! The melancholy intelligence of His Majesty's demise has reached us by the Lord William…
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