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Sydney · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1838

16 stories in Sydney's papers

The Late Mr. Bull

The Colonist · Saturday 6 January 1838 · page 3

CERTAIN warm friends of this gentleman, on earning that his accomplished widow and her two fine children are expected shortly to return to England, have expressed their desire to afford…

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Death of Sir John Jeffcott

The Colonist · Saturday 20 January 1838 · page 3

THE following is an extract from a letter lately received from South Australia, confirmatory of the melancholy intelligence of the death of Sir John Jeffcott, the Judge, and Captain…

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LINES Addressed to Mr. N. L. Kentish, on the death of his infant Son.--By a Friend

The Sydney Times · Saturday 20 January 1838 · page 4

O! Death, stern conqueror, impartial foe, Thou lay'st the poorest, and the richest low; Who can escape the keenness of thy dart--The still small shaft which slops the throbbing heart?…

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LINES Addressed to Mr N. L. Kentish, on the death of his infant Son. -- By a Friend

The Sydney Times · Saturday 20 January 1838 · page 4

O! Death, stern conqueror, impartial toe, Thou lay'st the poorest, and the richest low; Who can escape the keenness of thy dart -- The still small shaft which stops the throbbing heart?…

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Original Poetry. Lines on the Death of an Infant. [At the request of the writer, we transcribe the following lines from the columns of a contemporary.]

The Colonist · Wednesday 31 January 1838 · page 4

O! DEATH, stern conqueror, impartial foe, Thou lay'st the poorest, and the richest low; Who can escpae, the keenness of thy dart—The still small shaft which stops the throbbing heart!…

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Death of John M'crie, Esquire, Rector of the Glasgow Normal Seminary

The Colonist · Saturday 10 February 1838 · page 3

ALL our Scottish readers, and all, indeed, who are interested in the cause of education, will regret to hear of the much lamented death of Mr. John M'Crie, Member of the Glasgow…

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Original Poetry. on the Death of an Infant

The Colonist · Wednesday 21 February 1838 · page 4

THE purple cloud which round the morning star A moment linger'd now has died afar;—The dew that glisten'd on the flower has fled;—The rose-bud, bow'd its young and innocent head…

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Extracts. Death of Mr. Broughton, of the 2Nd Life Guards

The Sydney Herald · Monday 26 February 1838 · page 2

Sir,—In turning over some files of your interesting paper, with which I often amuse my leisure, I found an article (in the paper of the 8th) under the above…

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Funeral of the late Mr. George Howell Jun., of Parramatta, Miller

The Sydney Monitor · Wednesday 7 March 1838 · page 2

The funeral of Mr. George Howell jun., took place on Sunday at Parramatta. He was buried with masonic honours; about fifty of that society, and two hundred…

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Original Poetry. Thoughts on the Unhappy decease of the late Mrs. C—, who destroyed herself by poison on the Evening of Friday, December 29, 1837

The Colonist · Saturday 17 March 1838 · page 4

IN life I knew thee not, nor sought, but now Thou art a being of another sphere—Thy shadow deepens o'er my mortal brow, Thy awful end draws forth a pitying tear—…

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Original Poetry. on the Death of Fidele

The Colonist · Saturday 4 August 1838 · page 5

No more at blushing morn to rise, Nor greet a master's loving eyes, Beneath the sod, corrupting, lies, My poor Fidele!…

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Quarterly Naval Obituary

The Australian · Tuesday 14 August 1838 · page 4

Flug-Officers—Vice-Admiral Hon. Philip Wodehouse, Vice-Admiral Richard Worsley, Rear-Admiral Rob. retired: Vice-Admiral Richard H…

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Vox Populi—Vox Del. Death of the Transportation Committee

The Australian · Tuesday 9 October 1838 · page 2

WHEN we mentioned this hateful name in our last number, we did not think that it would, of necessity, be so soon repeated. We have already given "a…

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Vox Populi—Vox Del. Newspapers—the Epidemic—the Medical Profession—chateaubriand—death of Great Men—miscellaneous Remarks

The Australian · Tuesday 4 December 1838 · page 2

THE close of our first Parliamentary Session in the GIPPITR Viceroyalty—The Adjournment of our Courts of Law—and a paucity of "remarkable…

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LINES On the death of my Infant

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 8 December 1838 · page 3

Is there a peace surpassing human thought? A [?]ush that owns no parting thr[?]b between— Extreme in all things, and surpassed by nought— My infant's parting breath bespoke serene…

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Literature and Science. the Death of Yamma-gil-git. an Aboriginal Sketch

The Colonist · Saturday 8 December 1838 · page 4

AMONG the many natives who occasionally frequented Port Macquarie, and in whom I took a more than ordinary interest, was a man from Trial Bay, named Yamma-gil-git—a name,…

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