The Death of Napier
Lying on his plain camp-bed in his Hall at Oatlands, with the torn colours of the twenty-second regiment waving over his head, the bravest General in the British…
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Obituaries & funerals, 1854
53 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 3
Death of the Very Rev. Barnard O'neil
O.S.A.—On last Saturday morning, at the Augustinian Convent, Brunswick-street, Cork, the Very Rev. Bernard O'Neil, O.S.A. departed this life, after a tedious illness. Known and esteemed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Original Correspondence. Awful Death of a Scion of a Noble House in Sydney. To the Editor of the People's Advocate
SIR, -- It must be pleasant to every lover of his kind to observe how much the great Freedom family have improved in their conduct and reputation of late years: this is true, at least of that branch of the family called Civil Freedom, the cognomen being derived…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Death of a Liverpool Prize Fighter:—inquest, and Verdict of Manslaughter
A prize-fight for £30 a-side took place between two members of the pugilistic art, named Rory Gill and Nod Donuelly. They hired a steamer and went to Hibre Island, but the police were on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Death of the Rev. William Jay
We have to announce the death of the Rev. William Jay, an[?]ent disse[?]ing minister, long known in this city and throughout the country as a powerful preacher, and [?] and successful…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Death of Lord Plunkett. Dublin, January, 5th
Lord Plunkett is no more. He expired yesterday at his residence, Old Connaught, where for several years he lived in the most complete seclusion; dead to all the strifes of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Late Mr. Baillie's Will. To the Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald
SIR,—In a report of the proceedings of the annual Synod of the Presbyterian Church, published in your issue of Friday, a paragraph appears most gratuitously and deeply offensive to a large proportion of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Death of Mr. Wilbrahman Bell
It is with much pain that we have this morning to record the death of Mr. Edward Wilbraham Bell, a gentleman well-known to many of our readers, from his connection with the Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Late Mr. Edward Wilbraham Bell
It is with the deepest regret we announce the death of Mr. Edward Wilbraham Bell, a gentleman very generally known in connection with the metropolitan press. Mr. Bell died at his house, in Woolloomooloo-street, at [?] very early hour on Tuesday morning…
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IT is our melancholy province to record the decease of the above-named gentleman, to whose literary abilities and irreproachable character, the high position he for the last three years…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Death of Doctor Cuthill. Coroner's Inquest
An inquiry was held on Tuesday last, at the Wellington Inn. George-street South, before a Coroner's Jury, touching the death of Doctor Alexander Cuthill, who was shot on the Cook's…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Death of Field-marshal Viscount Beresford. (From the Times, January 10.)
On Sunday evening last, at Bedgebury park, near Gou[?]hurst, died General Viscount Beresford G.C.B, G.C.[?] It is generally supposed that this distinguished…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Death of the Right Rev. Charles Henry Davis. Roman Catholic Bishop of Maitland
We have to announce this morning that, notwithstanding the iavoruable change mentioned in yesterday's issue, the illness from which the above-named Prelate bad been recently suffering…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Solemn Obsequies and Funeral of the Bishop
ON Thursday the remains of the lamented Bishop—arrayed in the Episcopal Vestments, with the Mitre, Ring and Pectoral Cross, as ordered in the Rubrics of the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Death of the Right Rev. Dr. Davis, Bishop Coadjutor
IT is our sad and painful duty to record the Death of this estimable and indefatigable Prelate, which took place on last Wednesday at half-past three o'clock p.m., at St…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Death of the Right Reverend Dr. Davis, Bishop of Maitland
A deep gloom and sadness has overspread the Catholic community, in consequence of the unexpected demise of the Right Rev Dr. Davis, Bishop of Maitland The Right Rev. Charles Henry Davis, Prelate of the Roman…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Funeral of Bishop Davis
NOTWITHSTANDING the early hour—half-past seven o'clock appointed for the funeral—we anticipated, in our last number, that the attendance would be amply sufficient to testify the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Funeral of the Late Dr. Davis
On Saturday morning the remains of the Right Rev. C. H. Davis, late Bishop of Maitland, and Bishop-coidjutor of the Archbishoprie of Sydney, were conveyed from St. Mary's Cathedral, where…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Death of the Marquis of Londonderry
DEATH has removed another of the few remaining men whose lives illustrate the most brilliant epoch of our history. On Thursday last the Marquis of Londonderry, who had only recently recovered from the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Funeral of the Right Reverend Dr. Davis
At half-past seven o'clock on last Saturday morning, the 20th instant, the clergy and laity assembled at St. Mary's Cathedral, it being the appointed hour for the funeral of the late respected prelate…
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