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Obituaries & funerals, 1861

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Obituary

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 14 January 1861 · page 5
Also in Empire

The Earl of Dundonald, Sir Charles Napier, Earl of Cawdor, Earl Manners[?] General Lygon, Bishop of Worcester, Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Macdonald, Mr. Butt,…

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Obituary

Freeman's Journal · Wednesday 16 January 1861 · page 3

The Earl of Dumlonald, Sir Charles Napier, Earl of Cawdor, Earl Manners, General Lygon, Bishop of Worcester, Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Macdonald, Mr. Butt, Q.C., Mr. Butterworth, and the…

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Death of Sir Charles Napier

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 28 January 1861 · page 8

THE group of illustrious men who came into the world in the same decade with the French revolution is fast dying out. The survivors of that epoch are now more than threescore and ten years of age, and…

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Death of Sir Charles Napier

Sydney Mail · Saturday 2 February 1861 · page 7

THE group of illustrious men who came into me world in the same decade with the French revolution is fast dying out. The survivors of that epoch are now more than threescore and ten yean of age, and…

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Death of Captain King, of the Militia

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 19 February 1861 · page 13

The Herald of same date says:—A deep sensation of grief and indigration has been aroused in the whole population by the death of Captain W. C. King, of the Militia, who was yesterday shot in many places by a party of natives skulking about his farm at…

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Death of the Grandmother of the Sherwoods

Freeman's Journal · Wednesday 20 February 1861 · page 2

Mrs. Blake, the Grandmother of the Sherwoods, two children who were, it is alleged, taken away in Galway some months ago, has died in the Four Courts' Marshalsea, to which…

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Mr. A. B. Denis in Q.c. and the Late Mr. F. Dent

Empire · Thursday 21 February 1861 · page 8

EXTRAORDINARY WILL CASE.—A singular will case, in which Mrs. Elizabeth Dent, mother of the late well-known clockmaker, was plaintiff, and Mr. Edmund Backett Denison, Q C, the designer of "Big Ben," the…

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Death of Captain King of the Militia

Sydney Mail · Saturday 23 February 1861 · page 3

The Herald of same date says;— A deep sensation of grief and [?] ation has been [?] in the whole population by the death of [?] W.C.King, of the [?] who was yesterday shot in [?] places by a party of natives skulking about his farm at…

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Death of the Albury Separation Cry. (From the Albury Banner, February 20.)

Empire · Tuesday 26 February 1861 · page 2

The adjourned meeting on this subject was held at the Exchange Hotel, on Saturday evening last. The attendance was hardly so numerous as on the former occasion…

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Death of Miranda the Bank Swindler

Freeman's Journal · Wednesday 6 March 1861 · page 2

—The Melbourne Herald says:—Information reached this colony by the last mail that the notorious Miranda, whose enormous forgeries on the Australian Joint Stock in Sydney must be fresh in…

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Prussia. Death of King Frederick Iv

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 16 March 1861 · page 1

The King died on the morning of 2nd January, at Sanssouci. His Majesty's illness had long been of a hopeless character. The King of Prussia, in a recent interview with the…

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Prussia. Death of King Frederick Iv

Empire · Monday 18 March 1861 · page 8
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

The King died on the morning of 2nd January, at Sans[?]souci. His Majesty's illness had long been of a hopeless character., The King of Prussia, in a recent interview with the…

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Prussia. Death of King Frederick Iv

Freeman's Journal · Wednesday 20 March 1861 · page 1

The King died on the morning of the 2nd January, at Sans-souci. His Majesty's illness had long been of a hopeless character. The King of Prussia, in a recent interview with the…

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Funeral of T. B. M'manus

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 23 March 1861 · page 6

The funeral of the late Terence Bellew M'Manus took place from St. Mary's Cathedral Wednesday afternoon. The body was removes from the Hospital of the Sisters of Mercy at [?]…

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Death of Terence Bellew M'manus

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 23 March 1861 · page 6

"Some on the shores of distant lands Their weary hearts have laid." Terence Bellew M'Manus died in this city (San Francisco,) on Tuesday (15th January)…

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Death of the Right Rev. Dr. Briggs

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 23 March 1861 · page 3

It has pleased God, says the Tablet of the 12th January, within the last few days, to take unto himself one whom the Catholics of England have long reverenced and loved, and whose memory will long…

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Death of James Edward O'donohoe

Freeman's Journal · Wednesday 27 March 1861 · page 6

With sincere regret we (Nation) have to announce to his numerous friends and compatriots in this country, and in America, the death, on Thursday (January 10th), at his residence…

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The Randwick Training Ground And Death of " Harkaway." To the Editors of Bell's Life in Sudney

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Chronicle · Saturday 30 March 1861 · page 2

GENTLEMAN —Having observed in the last of your valuable journal a paragraph in which it is statod that tho rncohorso "Harkaway''died from over work, I beg loavo lo present tho facts of tho case to your…

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