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Sydney · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1856

69 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 4

Death of Admiral Bruat

Empire · Tuesday 4 March 1856 · page 5

It appears that the gallant Admiral was carried off by an attack of gout, when the French squadron under his command was off Messina…

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Death of Admiral Brouat

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 March 1856 · page 7

It appears that the gallant Admiral was carried off by an an attack of gout, when the French squadron under his command was off Messina…

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Death of Admiral Bruat

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 8 March 1856 · page 4

It appears that the gallant Admiral was carried off by an attack of gout, when the French squadron under his command was off Messina. From Constantinople the 26th of November we…

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Death of Admiral Brou[?]at

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 8 March 1856 · page 1

It appears that the gallant Admiral was carried off by an atack of gout, when the French squadron under his command was off Messina…

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Death of Daniel Powell, Esq. of Liverpool

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 8 March 1856 · page 4

The intelligence of the death of the above well-known gentleman reached this city on Saturday evening, and has shed a gloom over the mercantile community here, as it will in every part of…

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Poet's Corner. Napoleon on the Death of Duroc

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 15 March 1856 · page 4

Thou who movest through the tent lights, Like a cloud among the stars, "With the flags about thee streaming Like the shadows of red Mars…

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Death of Mr. Rogers

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 12 April 1856 · page 6
Also in Freeman's Journal

In more than fulness of years Samuel Rogers has departed from the scene of an existence more than ordinarily dressed with the favours of fortune and the charms of life. But a few years more and he would have been a centenarian. As it…

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Death of Samuel Rogers. (Frow the Morning Chronicle, 10th Dec.)

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 12 April 1856 · page 1

In more than the fulness of years Samuel Rogers has departed from the scene of an existence more than ordinarily blessed with the favors of fortune and the charms of life. But a…

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The Obituary of 1855. (From the Patriot, January 4.)

Empire · Saturday 12 April 1856 · page 3

The obituary of the your 1855 is remarkable for the number of persons of respectable standing who have been removed from their respective spheres, rather than for their individual eminence. At the head of these…

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Highly Interesting From the Arctic Regions. the Death of Sir John Franklin and His Party Ascertained—the Report of Dr. Rae Confirmed. (From the St. Paul (Minnesota) Democrat, December 12.)

Empire · Tuesday 15 April 1856 · page 3

We enjoyed the pleasure, yesterday, the 11th instant, of a lengthened conversation with Mr. James Green Stewart, a chief trader of the Hudson's Bay Company, and loarned from him interesting facts concerning an…

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Death of the Right Honorable Henry Goulburn, M.P. (From the Times, January 14.)

Empire · Saturday 19 April 1856 · page 2

We deeply regret to announce the demise of the Right Honorable Henry Goulburn, M.P. for the University of Cambridge. The right honorable gentleman expired at three o'clock on Saturday morning, at…

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Mr. Cobden's Funeral Oration. (From the Press, January 12.)

Empire · Thursday 24 April 1856 · page 2

As a damned poet always appeals to posterity, so Mr. Cobden sinking as a politician, pretends to the office of a prophet. When a talkative tribune turns pamphleteer, we may be sure that the platform is breaking under his…

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An Ocean Funeral

The Australian Band of Hope Review, and Children's Friend · Saturday 10 May 1856 · page 3

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France. Death of Sceur Rosalie

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 7 June 1856 · page 4

This wonderful person expired on the 7th, in the house of the Sisters of Charity, in the Rue de l'Epee de Bois. She was burn in the commune of Lancran, in…

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Death of a New Zealand Chief. (From the New Zealander, 21st May.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 12 June 1856 · page 3

It becomes our painful duty to record the sudden death of the celebrated chief Noble Ngakuku Panakareno His illness was occasioned by swimming across a river with a horse twice in one day, and remaining…

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Death of Mr. Jeffreys.—verdict of Wilful Murder Against His Wife. (From the Argust, 9th June.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 13 June 1856 · page 2

UPON the resignation by Mr. Kerr of his office of Town Clerk, the duties of the position temporarily devolved upon Mr. John Jeffreys, the chief clerk in the department. A few days, however,…

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Death of Thomas Attwood, the "Founder of the Political Unions."

Empire · Thursday 26 June 1856 · page 5

Mr. THOMAS ATTWOOD, formerly M.P. for Birmingham, died on the 6th of March, at Great Malvern, in his seventy-second year. The Derbyshire Courier thus speaks of his death:—…

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Death of Dr. Alick Osborne

Empire · Saturday 5 July 1856 · page 1

By the recent mail, the friends of Dr. Alick Osborne received intelligence of the death of that gentleman, which took place in Omagh, Ireland, on the 12th of March…

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Death of Dr. Alick Osborne

Empire · Saturday 5 July 1856 · page 4

By the recent mail, the friends of Dr. Alick Osborne received intelligence of the death of that gentleman, which took place in Omagh, Ireland, on the 12th of March…

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