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Sydney · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1846

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

Death of an Irish Exile

Sydney Chronicle · Saturday 19 September 1846 · page 1

Died, at Tours, on the 5th March 1846, Hugh Ware, colonel in the service of France. He was born in 1774, near Rathcoffy, country of Kildare, Ireland, and was one of those designed Mr. Lord…

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Literature. the Death of Mary

The Citizen · Saturday 26 September 1846 · page 5

[The following beautiful little Elegy is from the pen of the late Rev. Charles Wolfe, author of the well-known Stanzas entitled "The Burial of Sir John Moore."]…

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Interior of Africa. Death of Mungo Park

Sydney Chronicle · Wednesday 14 October 1846 · page 4

By the kindness of a friend resident in this town, we have been enabled to present to our readers the following particulars relating to the. death of Mungo Park, the great African traveller, extracted from a…

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Lines on the Death of Mr. T. Simes, Comedian

The Citizen · Saturday 24 October 1846 · page 7

To-night the star of merriment hath set That lit the Sydney boards so long-- To-night the vot'ries of the Drama yet Are crowding to its shrine--a throng…

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Death of Chief Justice Sir N. Conyngham Tindal. (From the Morning Chronicle, July 8.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 18 November 1846 · page 1

IT is with feelings of deep regret that we announce the death of this amiable and much respected judge. The melancholy event took place on Monday evening, at…

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Spectator's Library. on the Death of a Friend

The Spectator · Saturday 21 November 1846 · page 513

"Another, and another, still succeeds!" And one by one are from us called away, Friends--valued, loved, and cherished many a day, For noble-thoughts and honorable deeds…

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Death of His Holiness Gregory Xvi

Sydney Chronicle · Wednesday 2 December 1846 · page 4

On Thursday, the 14th of June, between the hours of nine and ten o'clock in the morning, the Sovereign Pontiff of the Catholic Church breathed his last. He was in his eighty-first year, and, with the…

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The Bararous Punishment of Death—execution of Rice, Hayes, and Fogarty—popular Excitement— Funeral Processions of the Convits

Sydney Chronicle · Wednesday 2 December 1846 · page 4

It is quite impossible that we can adequately describe the sensation of disgust and horror, not unmixed with a deep, wide-spread sympathy of the convicts, which have manifested their existence for…

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