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Sydney · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1845

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

Death of the Reverend Sydney Smith. (From the Times.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 8 July 1845 · page 3

To give some account of the life, character, and writings of the witty and accomplished Canon of St. Pauls, is a melancholy, though not ungrateful task. The close of such a life forms…

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Death of the Earl of Mornington. (From the Standard, February 24.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 8 July 1845 · page 3

WE have the melancholy duty to announce the demise of the Earl of Mornington, who, we regret to hear, expired at half-past nine o'clock on Saturday night, at his mansion in…

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Select Poetry the Sailor's Funeral

The Sentinel · Wednesday 9 July 1845 · page 4

She rocked upon the heavy sea--a melancholy wreck. The winds amid her lonely sail--the waters on her deck Her lordly masts were broken down ; the pine trees tall and fair,…

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Death of the Rev. Mr. Dunphy

Morning Chronicle · Saturday 26 July 1845 · page 2

It is with feelings of extreme regret that we have to announce the premature and awfully sudden death by drowning, of the Rev. James Dunphy, which melancholy event occurred on Friday, the…

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Military Flogging at the Royal Barrack, Rumoured Death of the Victim

Morning Chronicle · Saturday 16 August 1845 · page 4

Considerable sensation prevailed in the neighbourhood of the Royal Barrack, and indeed in all other portions of the city yesterday, in consequence of a rumour that prevailed relative to the death of an…

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Death of Thos, J. Mulvany, Esq., R. H. A.

Morning Chronicle · Wednesday 27 August 1845 · page 4

It will be bitter tidings to a large class of our readers that this accomplished and amiable man is dead. His frank and genial nature made him "troops of friends ;" and his temperament was so…

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Select Poetry. the Old Man's Funeral

The Australian · Thursday 18 September 1845 · page 4

I saw an aged man upon his bier, His hair was thin and white, and on his brow A record of the cares of many a year; Cares that were ended and forgotten now…

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Death of Sir Philip Calderwood Henderson Durham

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 15 October 1845 · page 3

One of the most distinguished ornaments of the British Navy, Sir Philip Charles Calderwood Henderson Durham, expired at Naples on the 2nd April, in the 83rd year of his age…

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Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures. Mr. Caudle Has Again Stayed Out Late. Mrs. Caudle, at First Injured and Indignant, Melts

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 31 October 1845 · page 3

PERHAPS, MR. CAUDLE, you'll tell me where this is to end! Though, goodness known, I needn't ask that. The end is plain enough. Out—out—out! Every night—every night!…

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Death of Viscount Canterbury

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 December 1845 · page 3

LORD CANTERBURY died on Mondny afternoon at the residence of his son, in Southwick Crescent, of an attack of apoplexy. Although he was in the 66th year of his age, he seemed to…

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Death of Viscount Canterbury

The Weekly Register of Politics, Facts and General Literature · Saturday 6 December 1845 · page 274

LORD CANTERBURY died on Monday afternoon, at the residence of his son, in Southwick Crescent, of an attack of apoplexy. Although he was in the 66th year of his age,…

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The Life, Public Services, and Death of General Jackson

Morning Chronicle · Saturday 6 December 1845 · page 4

The death of General Jackson, has, as a matter of course, directed public attention, in a very marked and general manner, to his eminent services as a military hero and statesman…

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A Tiger Hunt—death of a Native

Morning Chronicle · Saturday 13 December 1845 · page 4

Little do European sportsmen know—whose sport is confined to shooting partridges, pheasants, or grouse, or hunting the timid hare, the shrewd fox, and swift deer—the perils attendant on the chase of…

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Death of Earl Grey

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 16 December 1845 · page 3

THE death of this aged peer took place on Thursday evening, July 17, at the family residence, Howick Hall, Northumberland, where he had been staying for the last few months…

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The Late Mr. Charles Smith

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 20 December 1845 · page 2

THE near approach of the festive season, so dear to Englishmen with its accompanying sports and amusements, in whatever quarter of the globe they may be located,…

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Port Phillip. Atrocious Ruffianism of a Captain and Mate, and Miserable Death of Three Seamen

The Star · Saturday 27 December 1845 · page 2
Also in The Cumberland Times and Western Advertiser

The late Port Phillip papers present, in an examination before the Police Court, at Melbourne, of Robert North Beavais, master, and William Dobson, mate, of the barque Kestrel, recently arrived there,…

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A Tiger Hunt—death of a Native

The Australian · Tuesday 30 December 1845 · page 28

Little do European sportsmen know—whose sport is confined to shooting partridges, pheasants, or grouse, or hunting the timid hare, the shrewd fox, and swift deer—the perils attendant on the chase of the royal tiger, the…

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