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Sydney · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1862

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The Late Mr.dodsworth

Freeman's Journal · Wednesday 19 March 1862 · page 6

The funeral of the late Mr. Dodsworth, whose death we announced last week, took place on Tuesday. The body was taken to the Church of the Society of Jesus in Farm-street on Monday evening…

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Poet's Corner. Death of Prince Albert

Freeman's Journal · Wednesday 19 March 1862 · page 6

How should the Princes die? With red spur deep in maddening charger's flank, Leading the rush that cleaves the foerman's rank, And shouting, sometimes, famous battle cry…

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Funeral Sermons on the Prince Consort. (From the Saturday Review, January 11.)

Empire · Wednesday 19 March 1862 · page 6

IN some remarks which lately appeared in the Saturday Review on srmon-making, the first, second, and third secrets of pulpit success were set down as consisting in self-forgetfulness…

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The Parisian Press Upon the Death of Princes Albert

Empire · Thursday 20 March 1862 · page 5

THE Moniteur speaks in the following words of Prince Albert's death:—"This mournful event, this fate so sudden and so premature, must plunge into the deepest grief the [?]gust Queen of Great Britain, the Royal…

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Death of the Rev. Principal Cunningham. (From the Scotsman.)

Empire · Thursday 20 March 1862 · page 8

IT is with deep regret that we have to announce the death at an ea[?]y hour this (Saturday) morning of the Rev. Dr. Cunningham, Principal of the Free College. As formerly mentioned, the reverend…

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The Funeral

Sydney Mail · Saturday 22 March 1862 · page 6

On Monday, the 23rd of December, with little of the pomp and pageantry of a State ceremonial, but with every outward mark of respect, and with all the solemnity which befitted his high station and his…

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Death of Prince Albert

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 22 March 1862 · page 7

Postponement of meeting of Catholics called by His Grace the Archbishop to be held in the Cathedral on the 27th ultimo. About half past seven his Grace entered the…

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Death of Edward Clements, Esq

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 22 March 1862 · page 2

Another of the "old guard" has passed away. Edward Clements, so long and so closely connected with O'Gonnell in all his agitations, and so long known in connection with the Dublin…

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Death of the Earl of Yarborough

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 22 March 1862 · page 2

After a prolonged illness the Earl of Yarborough died at Brighton late on Tuesday evening. Since Saturday' he had been in a very precarions condition, and in consequence of his illness Lord…

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Illness and Death of the Prince Consort

Sydney Mail · Saturday 22 March 1862 · page 6

THE mournful intelligence of the death of his Royal Highness the Prince Contort was thus announced in a "London Gazette " extraordinary published on Sunday, December 15 :—…

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The Obituary of the Past Tear

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 22 March 1862 · page 2

Death has made great havoc this year within the limits both of our political interests and sympathies, and of our own realm. Besides four Sovereigns there have been deaths in several…

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Appalling Colliery Accident. Death of Two Hundred and Fifteen Persons

Sydney Mail · Saturday 22 March 1862 · page 7

WHILE all cheerful English households have been adding to their cheerfulness by heaping up the fires that make a pleasant contrast to the cold outside, a terrible tragedy has occurred in one of the great…

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Anthem on Occasion of the Death of His Royal Highness the Prince Consort. by Newman Hall, L.l B.

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 22 March 1862 · page 4

GOD save our gracious Queen! Long live cour noble Queen! God save the Queen! Lord heal her bleeding heart,…

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The Obituary of 1861. (From the Home News, January 27.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 24 March 1862 · page 3

IN the obituary of the last year have been recorded the deaths of more than an average number of members of royal houses. The Sultan and the Emperor of China, the King of Prussia, the Empress Dowager of Russia, and the…

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Saturday, December 21. Death of H. R. H. the Prince Consort

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 26 March 1862 · page 2

This sudden and wholly unexpected event took place at ten minutes to eleven o'clock on last Saturday night, in the presence of her Majesty the Queen, the Prince of Wales, the Princesses Alice and Helena, and before midnight the…

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Death of Sir William Don. (From the Hobart Town Mercury, March 20.)

Empire · Monday 31 March 1862 · page 4

IT is our painful task to announce the untimely death [?] Sir Willion Don, Bart., who expired at Webb's Hotel shortly after two o'clock yesterday mornin: Sir William left Melbourne in very bad health on a…

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Receipt of the News of the Death of His Father, by Prince. Leopold

Freeman's Journal · Wednesday 2 April 1862 · page 3

"The news of the death of Prince Albert reached the young Pirnce Leopold, bis son, in the midst of circumstances so melancholy and sad that they could not fail to increase the…

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Funeral of Sir Willian Don

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Chronicle · Saturday 5 April 1862 · page 2

The remains of this gentleman were interred in St. David's Cemetery at an early hour on Saturday morning. The procession formed at Webb's Hotel whore Sir William Don expired, and after the service in the Cathedral,…

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The Portfolio. Lines on the Death of the Prince Consort

Sydney Mail · Saturday 12 April 1862 · page 6

O, widowed Queen, most royal in thy woe, Thy sorrowing image checks our festive glee; We hush the song—forbid the wine-cup flow, And, sably clad, would sit in dust with Thee!…

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The Bishop of Oxford and the Death of the Prince Consort. (From the Inquirer.)

Empire · Monday 14 April 1862 · page 8

We have a few plain words to say respecting another of those painful exhibitions that have so frequently led us to doubt lately whether Bishops are not becoming as much nuisance as they have for some years been a hindrance…

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