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Sydney · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1862

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Obituary

Empire · Saturday 15 November 1862 · page 8
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney Mail

The Countess of Essex. General Hay. Major General Beckwith. Viscount Ockham. Lieutenant-General Sir Richard Doherty. Marshal Nugent. The Earl of Harrington…

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Death of Richard Dalton Williams

Freeman's Journal · Wednesday 19 November 1862 · page 2

With deep regret we learn from the New Orleans journals that another of the "men of "48" has passed away. Richard Dalton Williams died on the 5th July, at his residence, Thibodaux…

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Life and Death Struggle of Italy

Empire · Wednesday 19 November 1862 · page 5

LAST evening, Mr. R. H. Horne delivered a most interesting lecture on this subject, in the new hall of the School of Arts, which was crowded in every past with a highly respectable audience, a large proportion of whom…

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Obituary

Sydney Mail · Saturday 22 November 1862 · page 6

THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY.—The death of this venerable prelate took place on the morning of the 6th September, at his palace of Addington. Severe illness incapacitated him for duty during the…

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Death of the Archbishop of Canterbury

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 22 November 1862 · page 10

The death of the Archbishop of Canter dry, on Saturday, at the age of eighty-two, has thrown into Lord Palmerston's hands the gift of another Anglican primacy. It is certainly a…

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Death of Lieutenant Emmet

Empire · Monday 24 November 1862 · page 2

With sincere regret, which, we are sure, will be shared by all who knew the gallant young officer, we (Irish American) record this Week the death of Lieutenant Temple Emmet, of the 88th Regiment,…

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Death of General Thomas Francis Meagher

Freeman's Journal · Wednesday 26 November 1862 · page 4

WE have received the following slip from the Editor of Mooney's Express, California, enclosed in our files, per Oregon, which arrived yesterday afternoon. The latest news…

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Fourteen Days Later American News Repulse of the Confederates from Maryland. Battle of Antietam. Death of T. F. MEAGHER. President Lincoln's Em[?]ncipation Proclamation

Empire · Wednesday 26 November 1862 · page 2

BY way of California we have telegraphic intelligence from the seat of war, in Maryland and Virginia, to the 27th September—five days later than our previous news by Reuter's…

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Obituary

Empire · Tuesday 16 December 1862 · page 2
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

Rev. Lord George Gordon, Major-General Sir John Inglis, Bishop Nassau, Jamaica; Admiral Sir James Dundas, Mr. Walker, the engineer; Sir Thomas Redington, Sir Benjamin…

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Death of Sir Benjamin Brodie

Empire · Wednesday 17 December 1862 · page 2

IN modern times it is not possible, perhaps, to name any one who has more powerfully contributed to the improvement of medical science in any of its branches, or who has more a[?]iduously euerted himself to acquire scientific…

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The Irish Brigade. Contradiction of the Reported Death of Thomas Francis Meagher

Freeman's Journal · Wednesday 17 December 1862 · page 5

The praise of the interpedity of General Meagher's illustrious Irish Brigade, and of its noble chief, resounds throughout the land. The journals echo it. A very handsome tribute to the…

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Sudden Death of Mr. John H. Wilton

Empire · Friday 19 December 1862 · page 4

CONSIDERABLE excitement was caused in certain circles yesterday, by tbe intelligence of the very sudden death of a gentleman so well known in the theatrical world. He resided at Ta[?]ersall's Hotel, Pitt-street, where an inquest…

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Sudden Death of Mr. J. H. Wilton

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 19 December 1862 · page 5

IT is with regret that we announce the sudden decease of Mr. John Hall Wilton, whose name is intimately associated with those of Mr. G. V. Brooke, Sir William Don, Mr. Barry Sullivan, and other celebrities who have come…

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Obituary

Sydney Mail · Saturday 20 December 1862 · page 7

SIR BENJAMIN BRIDGE.—In modern times it is not possible, perhaps, to name any one who has more powerfully contributed to the improvement of medical science in any of its branches, or who has more assiduously exerted…

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Sudden Death of Mr. J. H. Wilton

Sydney Mail · Saturday 20 December 1862 · page 4

IT is with regret that we announces the sudden decease of Mr. John Hall Wilton, whose name is intimately associated with whose of Mr. G.V. Brooke, Sir William Don, Mr. Barry Sullivan and other celebrities who have come…

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Awfully Sudden Death of Mr. John Hall Wilton

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Chronicle · Saturday 20 December 1862 · page 2

At an early hour on Thursday morning a rumour spread through the city that Mr. Wilton, whose name is so familiar in connection with theatrical affairs, not only throughout the colonies, but also in Europe and…

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Death of Sir Thomas N. Redington, K.c.b

Freeman's Journal · Wednesday 24 December 1862 · page 2

We have to announce the demise of Sir Thomas Nicholas Redington, K.C.B., who died after a short but severe illness at 5 o'clock on Saturday morning. He was taken, little more…

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