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Sydney · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1842

26 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 2

NEW [?] (From the Auckland Times.) Death of Governor, Hobson

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 26 October 1842 · page 4

IT is our painful duty to announce the death of his Excellency, Captain William Hobson, the first British Governor of the Islands of New Zealand. This event took…

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Death of Dr. Arnold, of Rugby

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 November 1842 · page 3

WE announce, with sincere regret, the death of the Rev. Thomas Arnold, D.D., head master of Rugby school, which took place at Rugby, on Sunday morning last, after a few…

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Death of the Duke of Orleans

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 18 November 1842 · page 3
Also in The Australian

WE take the following from the afternoon edition of the Galignani's Messenger of Wednesday:- "At the moment of going to press, we learn…

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Funeral of the Duke of Orleans

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 7 December 1842 · page 3

THE remains of the Duke of Orleans were removed in grand procession on Saturday, July 31, from the Chapel of the Palace of Neailly to the Cathedral of Notre Dame…

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Select Poetry. on the Death of the Duke of Orleans

Australasian Chronicle · Tuesday 27 December 1842 · page 4

Twelve years—and yet it seems but yesterday!—Since I beheld young Orleans, at the side Of his great father, up the crowded way In triumph ride!…

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