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Sydney · Obituaries & funerals
16 stories in Sydney's papers
IT is our painful duty to announce the death of the noble Marquis. This melancholy event took place at his Lordship's residence, Kingston-house, Brompton,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →We sincerely regret to announce, that the Right Honourable Sir William Rac, Bart expired yesterday afternoon at St. Catherine's his country seat, in the vicinity of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Well, as I said before," continued Barney O'Bother to his wife, who was seated by his side, over a skillet of potatoes, immediately above which hung a red herring, they both appeared to devour in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →And art thou gone, dear child—so early gone But a few yesterdays, and thou wert flush As sirs disporting the green mountains on, As verdure sprinkled by the fountain's gush:…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tears, Tears, gush on, sigh follow sigh: God thy degrees are just! But is't a dream, or did she die? Check not my grief, weep, weep, I must…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →I SAW thee in the ball-room move with stately step and air. And midst the young and beautiful thou stoodst the brightest there;…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tears, tears, gush on, sight follow sigh; God, thy decrees are just! But is't a dream, or did she die? Check not my grief, weep, weep I must…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Who shall dare pride themselves on health and youth, Or boast of charms which death may scare [?]ay Go, ponder o'er her fate, and let sad truth Recall the beauteous form of yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →This melancholy event, which has been anticipated some time, we regret to state, took place this morning. His Lordship expired at twenty minutes before nine…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ALLAN CUNNINGHAM.--It is with extreme regret that we have to announce the death of Allan Cunningham, so well known as the friend of Sir Francis Chantrey, and better still, for his own poetical and prose…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →We lament to state that the injuries inflicted upon Mr. Drummond by the assassin, apparently without aim or object, unless in mistake for another, have terminated in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Thursday having been appointed for the interment of the remains of his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, thousands of persons were seen wending their way through the city, towards Kensington,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →General—J. M. Kerr, Macsmor, North Wales. Lieutenant-General—P. Philpot, Colonel of the 8th Dragoons, Kensington…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. WINDEYER presented a petition from a number of persons who were sufferers by the default of the it late Mr. Macquoid, Sheriff of New South Wales. The petitioners set forth that Mr. Macquoid was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Our present number records the decease, in a good old age, of Thomas Wilson, Esq., the venerable Treasurer of Highbury College; an Institution with which his name has been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →We can hardly tell how to express the feelings of dismay and sorrow with which, only—two or three hours after the dismal tidings have reached us; we sit down to write these almost shocking words—…
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