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Obituaries & funerals, 1839

14 stories in Sydney's papers

The Late Mrs Fishman

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Friday 22 February 1839 · page 2

Mrs Eleanor Ash, or Sydney, has called on us and Rates, she is the mother of the later Mrs Fishman who died suddenly in the Watch-house at Parramatta, on Thursday the 14th instant, as reported in…

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The late Mrs. Fishburn, Wife to a Farmer of Concord. To the Editor of The Australian

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Monday 1 April 1839 · page 3

Sir.—much dissatisfaction ban frequently been caused here by the arbitrary. and sometimes brutal sondnet of many members of our police force. it is certainly not…

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The Late Mr. E. J. Keith

The Colonist · Wednesday 17 April 1839 · page 2

THIS gentleman, who practised for many years as an attorney in the Supreme Court of this colony, and who, it will be remembered, died an awfully sudden death on Her Majesty's…

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Death of the Earl of Norbury

The Sydney Herald · Wednesday 15 May 1839 · page 2

The assassins of this nobleman, to whom all men of all parties render the praise of an inoffensive, amiable, benevolent, and useful man, have been but too successful. The noble carl expired on…

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Endeavour to Account for the Death of I. E. L.

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Monday 20 May 1839 · page 2

The fatal phial found in the hand, or, as another account states, near the person of the deceased, has, we understand, been sent or brought over to this country. Who wrote the label on that phial, and furnished its fatal…

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Extract. Poetry. Death of Lel

The Sydney Herald · Friday 14 June 1839 · page 4

With what interest will the following beautiful Poem be read! It is from the New Monthly for January:- THE POLAR STAR…

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Select Potery. the Soldier's Funeral

The Australian · Saturday 22 June 1839 · page 4

Hark to the roll of the muffled drum! Hark to the bugle's blast! They tell that the soldier's wars are done— That this march is the soldier's last…

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The Death of Mr Richard Roberts

The Australian · Thursday 27 June 1839 · page 2

IS an event of a very great, of sudden, of exciting, but of abiding interest. We have also, in alluding to this very occurrence, to prefer a…

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Death of Gede

Australasian Chronicle · Tuesday 20 August 1839 · page 4

This learned and venerable Monk, though his last illness was severe, spent the evening of his death in translating the Gospel of St. John into the Saxon language for the use of his…

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Death of the Standard

Australasian Chronicle · Tuesday 1 October 1839 · page 1

We regret to announce the demise of this celebrated lusus naturæ. He had been a miserable abortion from his birth, and being considered a sort of monster. was…

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India News. Death of Runjeet Singh. Head Quarters, Meerut, 10th July, 1839. General Order by the Right Honorable the Governor General of India

The Sydney Herald · Wednesday 13 November 1839 · page 2

Political Department, Simla, the 4th July, 1839.—The Right Honorable the Governor General having this day received from the Officiating Political Agent at Loodianah, official…

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Death of the Very Rev. Dr. Burke

Australasian Chronicle · Friday 15 November 1839 · page 1

GRAHAM'S TOWN, APRIL 11, 1839:—Died, on the night of Monday, the 8th instant, at his residence in Beaufort-street, Hill-street, the Very Rev. Dr. Burke the recently appointed…

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Extracts. Funeral of the Late Lady Flora Hastings

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Wednesday 4 December 1839 · page 2

The remains of this much lamented lady were removed at an early hour yesterday morning from Buckingham Palace, on board the Royal William steam-ship for the purpose of being conveyed to…

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Sonnet on the Death of a Lady

The Australian · Saturday 7 December 1839 · page 4

Within a dell, one Spring, my boyhood knew A silver rill, which played through clustering ranks Of white-leafed flowers, that thickly fringed its banks; And near I often strayed, entranced to view…

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