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Sydney · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1850

55 stories in Sydney's papers · page 3 of 3

Death of Sir Robert Peel. (From the Times, July 4.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 19 October 1850 · page 4

IT is impossible to exaggerate the feelings of profound emotion with which the mournful intelligence of the death of Sir Robert Peel was received yesterday in every circle of the…

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Death of Sir Robert Peel

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 24 October 1850 · page 11

It is impossible to exaggerate the feelings of profound emotion with which the mournful intelligence of the death of Sir Robert Peel was received yesterday in every circle of the metropolis…

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Death of New Zealand Chiefs. (From the Maori Messenger, August 29.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 24 October 1850 · page 2

DEATH of late has been committing sad havoc with the native race. Within one short month, four names of no inconsiderable note have been blotted from the book of life. Foremost…

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Death of Sir Robert Peel

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 26 October 1850 · page 9

This eminent statesman met with a fatal accident on the 29th June, having been thrown from his horse, on Constitution Hill. The circumstances as recorded in the TIMES of the 1st July, are as…

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Death of the Duke of Cambridge. (From the London Evening Sun. July 9.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 30 October 1850 · page 3

HER Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester arrived at Cambridge-house at half-past eight o'clock yesterday morning, to learn the state of her royal brother…

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THE Sydney Morning Herald. Thursday, October 31, 1850. "Sworn to no Master, of no Sect am I." Death of President Taylor

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 31 October 1850 · page 2

We received yesterday, via California, news from the United States to the 11th July. We have with much regret to…

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English Extracts. Funeral of the Late Sir Robert Peel, Bart., M.p

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 14 November 1850 · page 2

THE interment of the remains of the above distinguished statesman took place at Drayton [?] Tuesday, and until the tomb was closed upon him the same unfeigned feeling of regret…

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STANZAS. Written on the death of an Irish Emigrant Girl at sea

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 21 November 1850 · page 4

Weep for the dead! let the mourning wail Break soft o'er the sun-lit wave; Let the sighs ye waft on the passing gale Fall light on her billowy grave…

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English News. Funeral of the Duke of Cambridge

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 22 November 1850 · page 3

THE interment of the late Duke of Cambridge took plaoe on Tuesday, July 16, at Kew Church. At half-past five in the morning, two…

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English News. Death of the Ex-king Louis Philippe

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 16 December 1850 · page 2

KING LOUIS PHILIPPE died on Monday morning, the 26th of August, at Claremont. The King had been made aware of his approaching dissolution early on the approaching…

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Funeral of Louis Philippe

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 24 December 1850 · page 4

THE funeral of Louis Philippe, the ex-King of the French, took place on Monday. The remains of the ex-Monarch were deposited in a vault beneath a private Roman Catholic chapel…

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Death of Lieutenant Gale

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 26 December 1850 · page 3

The Courrier de la Gironde of Wednesday gives the following details of the death of Lieutenant Gale:— "Mr. Gale, who ascended from Vincennes…

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Funeral of Louis Philippe

Empire · Saturday 28 December 1850 · page 4

The funeral of Louis Phillippe, the ex-King of the French, took place on Monday. The remains of the ex-Monareh were deposited in a vault beneath a private Roman Catholic Chapel at…

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 28 December 1850 · page 5

GENTLEMEN,—I received the enclosed letter from W. Herapath, Esq., of Bristol, and if you think it right that the same should be published in your paper, it is at your service…

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 31 December 1850 · page 2

GENTLEMEN,—I shall feel obliged by your allowing inscrtion to the following remarks upon Mr. Herapath's letter to Mr. Taylor, published in your issue of to-day, relating solely…

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