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Obituaries & funerals, 1852

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Death of Lord John Hay

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Monday 5 January 1852 · page 12

We have to announce with regret the death Of Rear-Admiral Lord John Hay, C.B., at Devonport on Tuesday. His Lordship had for long been in a very precarious state of health, but in the…

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Obituary of Eminent Persons Recently Deceased. (From the Illustrated London News, September 20.) the Earl of Donoughmore

Empire · Saturday 10 January 1852 · page 4

The Right Hon. John Hely Hutchinson, third Earl of Donoughmore, Viscount Suirdale and Baron Donoughmore, of Knocklofty, in the peerage of Ireland,…

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English News. Obituary of Eminent Persons Recently Deceased. (From the Illustrated London News, October 4.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 26 January 1852 · page 3

LORD CALTHORPE.—George Gough Calithorpe, third Baron Calthorpe, of Calthorpe, in the county of Norfolk, and a Baronet, was the second son of Sir…

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English Extracts. Obituary of Eminent Persons Recently Deceased. (From the Illustrated London News, October 11.) Prince William, of Prussia

Empire · Tuesday 10 February 1852 · page 3

Prince Frederick-William-Charles of Prussia was the son of Fredeerick William [?]., the brother of Frederick William III., and the uncle of the present Frederick William [V., all Kings of…

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Death of the Duchess of Angouleme

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 19 February 1852 · page 7

"We have just witnessed a painful and sublime spectacle.—the calm, courageous, resigned, and Christian, end of a great and holy life, rendered venerable by 60 years…

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Arrivals From California—the Return Visit—the Late Mr. Longmore, M.l.c

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 26 February 1852 · page 8

AMIDST the excitement that prevailed during the last eagerly contested election for Sydney, and the numerous public meetings to which it gave rise, various addresses were…

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English Extracts. Death of the King of Hanover. (From the Times, November 20.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 2 March 1852 · page 2

AT a quarter before 7 o'clock in the morning of Mondiy, November 17th, the long life of Ernest, King of Hanover, was brought to a close…

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Death of the King of Hanover. (Abridged from the Times, November 20)

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 6 March 1852 · page 3

At a quarler before 7 o clock in the morning of Monday, November 17th, the long life of Ernest, King of Hanover, was brought to a close…

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Original Poetry. On the death of the much lamented Patrick Hill, Esq., Colonial Surgeon

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 18 March 1852 · page 2

A deep-deep gloom hath spread around, And many a tear of grief is shed By those who know and felt the worth Of him now numbered with the dead…

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Death of the King of Hanover. (Abridged from the Times, November 20)

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 20 March 1852 · page 3

At a quarter before 7 o'clock in the morning of Monday, November 17th, the long life of Ernest, King of Hanover, was brought to a close…

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Death of the King of Hanover. (From the British Banner, Nov. 26.)

Empire · Monday 22 March 1852 · page 3

The death of Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover, took place yesterday week, in his Palace at Herrenhansen, in the 82nd year of his age, and the 14th of his reign…

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The Late Mr. Sconcf

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 1 April 1852 · page 10

We have this week the sad duty of recording the decease of Mr. Sconce. He had suffered from an attack of nervous fever some two months ago, brought on, as it is believed, by too intense…

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The Late Mr. Sconce

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 8 April 1852 · page 9

SEVERAL Catholics in Sydney having expressed a wish and readiness to contribute towards the erection of a MONUMENT to the memory of this worthy and exemplary…

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IRELAND. (From Correspondent to the Times, December 17.) Death of the P[?]ovost of Trinity College

Empire · Friday 9 April 1852 · page 4

I forwarded yesterday evening, by the telegraph, a brief account of the sudden death of the Rev. Dr. Sadleir, Provost of Trinity College. The melancholy event…

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English Extracts. Death of J. M. W. Turner, Esq., R.A. (From the Times, December 23.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 19 April 1852 · page 3

THE fine arts in this country have not produced a more remarkable man than Joseph Mallord William Turner, whose death it was yesterday our duty to record; and although it…

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Death of Edward Woolley, at Long Creek. (From the Bathurst Free Press, April 24.)

Empire · Thursday 29 April 1852 · page 3

In our issue of the 10th instant, under the head of "Manslaughter, or something like it," we published the particulars of the death of Edward Woolley, at Long Creek, as related by a…

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Original Poetry. on the Death of a Favourite Child

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 8 May 1852 · page 8

Thou art gone my dear, my lovely one, To where there shines an eternal sun ; Where many like thee have already gone, Where trouble and grief are quite unknown…

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The Late Mr. Hastings Elwin

Empire · Wednesday 16 June 1852 · page 3

This gentleman, who expired on Monday evening, at his residence in Charlotte place, was one whose career through life had been distinguished by public services of no common order; and as…

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Singular Death of a Jockey

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 19 June 1852 · page 1

The extraordinary circumstances connected with the death of John Edwards, the well-known horse trainer and jockey, better known upon the Turf as "Pigeon," has given rise to a coroner's…

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Death of the Most Rev. Dr. Murray

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 1 July 1852 · page 8

WE regret to find, from the Dublin correspondent of The Times, that the venerable Catholic Archbishop of Dublin departed this life some time in the month of…

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