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Sydney · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1850

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The Adjourned Inquest Upon the Exhumed Remains of the Late Mrs. Clarkson. Saturday, April 6

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 13 April 1850 · page 1

The Coroner and Jury re-assembled at one o'clock on Saturday, in the Polico-Court, when the prisoners being placed in the dock, the enquiry was proceeded with…

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Funeral of the Late Captain Moriarty. (From the Hobart Town Advertiser, April 2.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 16 April 1850 · page 2

ON Saturday morning the remains of the above lamented gentleman were conveyed to their last resting place, in the presence of an immense concourse of spectators. S me time before the…

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Funeral of the Late Captain Moriarty

The Shipping Gazette and Sydney General Trade List · Saturday 20 April 1850 · page 114

ON Saturday morning the remains of the above lamented gentleman were conveyed to their last resting place, in the presence of an immense concourse of spectators. Some time before the…

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Domestic Intelligence. the Late Mrs. Clarkson

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 21 May 1850 · page 3

THE gentlemen who had been entrusted with the task of analyzing such portions of Mrs. Clarkson's remains as were detached from the body at the time of its second exhumation, were…

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The Late Mrs. Clarkson

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 25 May 1850 · page 1

THE result of the further analysis of the remains of the late Mrs. Clarkson was made public on Monday last, by evidence taken before E. D. Day, at the…

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The Late President Polk. (From the American Obituary for 1849.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 28 May 1850 · page 3

JAMES KNOX POLK, who died June 15, of last year, the eleventh President of the United States, was the eldest of ten children, and was born on the 2nd of November, 1795, in…

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Dreadful Death of Lieut. Breen and Ten Seamen of the Ganges

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 15 June 1850 · page 9

Accounts have been received from Greece announcing the most appalling deaths of Lieutenant Michael Breen and ten men of the Ganges, 84, at Salamis Bay. Lieutenant Breen (who was promoted…

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Dreadful Death of Lieutenant Breen and Ten Seamen of the Ganges

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 21 June 1850 · page 3

ACCOUNTS have been received from Greece announcing the most appalling deaths of Lieutenant Michael Breen and ten men of the Ganges, 84, at Salamis Bay. Lieutenant…

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Dreadful Death of Lieutenant Breen and Ten Seamen of the Ganges

The Shipping Gazette and Sydney General Trade List · Saturday 22 June 1850 · page 171

Accounts have been received from Greece announcing the most appalling deaths of Lieutenant Michael Breen and ten men of the Ganges, 84, at Salamis Bay. Lieutenant…

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A Funeral, After Sir John Moore's. (From Punch.)

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 29 June 1850 · page 3

Not a mute one word at the funeral spoke I'll away, to the pothouse we hurried, Not a boarer discharged his ribald joke O'er the grave where our "party" we buried…

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Original Correspondence. the Late Mrs. Clarkson. To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 27 July 1850 · page 3

GENTLEMEN,—A period of more than three months has now elapsed since a coroner's jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against Mary Anne Clarkson, at the inquest on the…

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The Late Mrs. Clarkson. To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 1 August 1850 · page 3

GENTLEMEN,—As the opportunity was not afforded me of rescuing my character from the aspersions cast upon it by Mr. a'Beckett, (the case not having come to trial), I had been…

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English Obituary

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 3 August 1850 · page 1

DEATH OF THE DEAN OF SALISBURY.—The Very Rev. Francis Lear, DD. expired at the Deanery, in the Close, Satisbury, at a late hour on Saturday evening. He was appointed to the…

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Inquest on the Death of Mrs. Maria Aspinall

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 10 August 1850 · page 3

This inquest having occasioned great interest, in consequence of the conflicting opinions of the medical gentleman engaged in the case, and the serious questions arising from it, we have endeavoured to abridge a portion of the evidence, which from its delicate nature…

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The Late Mr. Lucas and Dr Lang. To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 16 August 1850 · page 2

GENTLEMEN,—I observe a statement in your paper of to-day, reported to have been made by Mr. Murray in the Legislative Council, respecting the late Mr. Lucas, of Ipswich, and…

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English Extracts. Death of the Poet Laureate

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 31 August 1850 · page 6

ON Tuesday, the 23rd April, about the hour of noon, Mr. Wordsworth died at his house Rydal Mount, near Ambleside. He was very well, and vigorous for his age, during the last…

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Obituary

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 10 October 1850 · page 10

WE have this week to record the lamented death of Mother Mary Scholastica Gregory of the Holy Order of St. Benedict, sister of the Very Rev. the Vicar-General, which…

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The Death of a Patriot

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 10 October 1850 · page 2

Most painful ana unexpected news has just reached us from the South. One of the most gifted of the young patriot priests who came into public life at the Secession, and to sustain the struggling…

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Death of Dr. Sinnott of Wexford

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 10 October 1850 · page 4

With feelings of the most sincere regret we have to announce the demise of the Very Rev. Dr. Sinnott, which took place on Monday, at St. Peter's College, Wexford. It…

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Death of Sir Robert Peel

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 14 October 1850 · page 2

We have with much regret to announce that as the North Esk was leaving Hobart Town, the Nile, convict ship, arrived, bringing intelligence of the…

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