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Obituaries & funerals, 1849

20 stories in Sydney's papers

Sudden Death of Lord G. BENTINCK. (From Bell's Messenger, September 23.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 13 January 1849 · page 3

IT is our most painful duty to record the fact, that this distinguished man has been, with awful suddenness, removed from this world…

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Death of Lord George Bentinck

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 18 January 1849 · page 3

THE inquisition was held on Saturday, at Welbeck Abbey, before Mr. Faulkner, the coroner for the district. The jury proceeded to view the body, which lay in the bed-room usually…

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Sudden Death of Lord G. Bentinck. (Ftom Bell's Messenger, September 23.)

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 20 January 1849 · page 1

It is our painful duty to record the fact, that this distinguished man has been, willi awful suddenness, removed from this world…

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Death of the Earl of Carlisle. (From the Morning Herald, October 9.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 25 January 1849 · page 3

WE have to record the demise of this venerable and deservedly respected nobleman. The melancholy event took place at eleven o'clock on Saturday morning, at the family seat, Castle…

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Death of Dr. Wellesley, Brother of the Duke of Wellington. Durham, Saturday, October 21

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 13 February 1849 · page 2

THIS morning, about nine o clock, the Hon. and Rev. Gerald Valerian AVellcriey, D.D., expired at his house in the College. The hon and rev. gentleman had for some time past been…

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The Late Mr. Kennedy's Expedition

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 10 March 1849 · page 6

IT is with the most extreme regret that we have to announce the failure of the expedition fitted out under this enterprising gentleman, together with the death of the gallant leader and all his party except three…

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Exploratory Expedition Under the Late Mr. Kennedy. (From Yesterday's Government Gazette.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 March 1849 · page 6

COLONIAL Secretary's Office, Sydney, 9th March, 1849.—It is with the utmost regret, that the Government has to announce an official confirmation of the melancholy accounts…

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Works from the Press. Poems on the Death of Mr.kennedy [Published in S. M. HERALD.]

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 17 March 1849 · page 3

IT is not often that we are called upon to criticise colonial poetical effusions, their appearance being of very rare occurrence. In times not long since the genius of a Halloran, a Harpur,…

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Poems on the Death of Mr. Kennedy

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 24 March 1849 · page 9

IT is not often that we are called upon to criticise colonial poetical effusions, their appearance being of very rare occurrence. In times not long since the genius of a Halloran, a Harpur, and a Parkes, would "spring from…

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Death of Viscount Melbourne. (From the Times, December 25.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 6 April 1849 · page 4

WE received at a late hour last night, by electric telegraph, the intelligence of Lord Melbourne's death. For more than seven years the deceased peer was first Lord of the…

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Death of Sir John Barrow Bart., L.L.D., F.R.S. (From the United Service Gazette.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 6 April 1849 · page 3

IT is with great regret that we announce the death of the late venerable Second Secretary to the Admiralty, Sir John Barrow, Bart., which took place on Thursday, at his residence,…

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Death of the Earl of Auckland. (From the Morning Chronicle, January 2.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 22 May 1849 · page 3

WE have to record the death of the Earl of Auckland, which, like some other similar occurrences of late, took place suddenly. The Earl, although a man advanced in years, was…

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Death of the King of Holland. (From the Tones, March 20.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 9 July 1849 · page 3

THE announcement which our columns yesterday contained would at any period have attracted the interest of Europe, and is not likely to be less significant at a crisis of…

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The Late Mr. Kennedy

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 21 July 1849 · page 2

MR. DARVALL'S motion on Tuesday, to the effect, that "an address be presented to his Excellency the Governor, praying that he would be pleased to place on the…

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Obituary

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 28 July 1849 · page 2

"At Parramatta, on Sunday morning, the 22nd of July, 1849, aged 69, Major George Pitt D'Arcy, formerly of the 39th Regiment of Foot; a brave and gallant soldier. Major…

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The Late Mr. Kennedy

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 31 July 1849 · page 2

"The spot whera be (Jackey Jackey) burled Mr. Kennedy had become covered with water."—Maitland Mercury. Copied into the Sydney Morning Herald, of 27th June, 1819…

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The Death of Solly Reubens

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 25 August 1849 · page 2

It is our unpleasant task to record the death of this member of the P. R., which took place on Thursday, under the circumstances detailed in the following evidence, taken at the inquest held…

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Original Poetry on the Death of His Excellency James K. Polk, Ex-president of the United States

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 3 November 1849 · page 9

"A nation is suddenly called upon to mourn the loss of one, the recollection of whose long set vices in its councils will be for ever inscribed on the tablets of history."--PRESIDENT TAYLOR. When the brow of the statesman lies shrouded in gloom…

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English News. Death of Mehemet All (From the Times' Correspondent.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 December 1849 · page 3

ALEXANDRIA, AUGUST 9.—His Highness Mehemet Ali Pasha died at Alexandria on the 2nd instant, and on the following day his body was taken up to Cairo, whero he was buried on…

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The Ring. Awfully Sudden Death of Jemmy Robinson, the Pugilist

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 8 December 1849 · page 1

This rising star of the pugilistic hemisphere is no more, and as his brief career held out such promise of future eminence in P. R. annals, whilst his melancholy end has cast such a sudden…

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