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Sydney · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1863

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Obituary

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 12 January 1863 · page 1

General Jervis, Admiral Rattray, Mr. Willcox, M.P., Dr. John Bell, Marquis of Breadalbane, Baroness of Stafford, Sir Robert Sheffield, Bart., Thomas Mills, M.P., Chancellor Bird,…

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Obituary

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 13 January 1863 · page 5

General Jervis, Admiral Rattray, Mr. Willcox, M.P., Dr. John Bell, Marquis of Breadalbane, Baroness of Stafford, Sir Robert Sheffield, Bart., Thomas Mills, M.P., Chancellor Bird,…

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The Burke and Wills Funeral Demonstration in Victoria. to the Editor of the Empire

Empire · Tuesday 13 January 1863 · page 3

SIR.—As in consequence of being obliged to proceed to a distant part of the interior next week. I shall not be present at the Landsborough demonstration of Friday next, which I should otherwise have been if in life and…

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Obituary

Freeman's Journal · Wednesday 14 January 1863 · page 4

General Jervis, Admiral Rattray, Mr. Willcox M.P., Dr. John Bell, Marquis of Breadalbane, Baroness of Stafford, Sir Robert Sheffield, Bart., Thomas Mills. M. P., Chancellor Bird…

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MELBOURNE. Wednesday, January 21. the Funeral of R. O'hara Burke, and W. [?] J. Wills, the Late Ex[?]lore[?]s of the Australian Continent

Empire · Friday 23 January 1863 · page 4

The remains of Robert O'Hara Burke and William John Wills, the late explorers, were this day interred in the vault prepared in the block of ground given by the trustees of the Melbourne Cemetery for the…

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The Funeral of Burke and Wills. (From the Argus of Thursday.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 26 January 1863 · page 5

THE mortal remains of Robert O'Hara Bur[?]e and William John Wills, the Victorian explorers, were [?]veyed to their last resting place yesterday. With all honour the people of Victoria have interred their first heroes. The procession…

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The Death of Cornelius Boyd—public Meetings

Freeman's Journal · Wednesday 28 January 1863 · page 5

A public meeting was held at the Court House, on Thursday evening, "to consider the verdict in the late Coronet's inquest on Cornelius Boyd." The body of the court was crowded…

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A Word on Coffins and Funeral Customs

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 29 January 1863 · page 3

The different customs—perhaps we might be justified in calling them fashions—which have prevailedat different periods, and among various nations, in the choice and preparation of the body's last abode, form…

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The Funeral of Burke and Wills

Sydney Mail · Saturday 31 January 1863 · page 6

THE mortal remains of Robert O'Hara Burke and William John Wills, the Victorian explorers, were conveyed to their last resting place yesterday. With all honour the people of Victoria save interred their first heroes. The procession…

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Funeral Honours. by an Eye-witness. "But [?] knows the fate of his bones, or how often he is to be buried."—Sir Thomas Browne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 12 February 1863 · page 5

THOSE who are old enough to remember the foneral of Lord Nelson inform us that when the slow procession moved along the streets of mourning old London, preceded and attended…

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Obituary

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 13 February 1863 · page 5

James Sheridan Knowles, Sir Graham Hammond, Admiral of the Fleet; Miss Pardoe, Lord Monson, Earl of Gifford, Mr. Deeds, M.P., Admiral Sullivan, Sir Michael Bruce, and Sir…

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Obituary

Sydney Mail · Saturday 14 February 1863 · page 4

James Sheridan Knowles, Sir Graham Hammond, Admiral of the Fleet; Miss Pardoe, Lord Monson, Earl of Gifford, Mr. Deeds, M.P., Admiral Sullivan, Sir Michael Bruce, and Sir…

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Death of Sir Timothy O'brien, Bart

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 21 February 1863 · page 2

With feelings of sincere regret we have to record the removal from amongst us of one of the last of those men who, amid the earlier struggles for civil and religious freedom in this country…

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Death of Mr Gratwicke. (From the Era, December 14.)

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Chronicle · Saturday 21 February 1863 · page 2

We announce with deep regret the death of the abovenamed gentleman, which occurred at Ham, near Arundel, on Friday week last, in the sixty-eighth year of his age. For sonie weeks he had been suffering from an…

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The Late Mr. Beresford Hudson. Inquest Oh the Body

Sydney Mail · Saturday 28 February 1863 · page 3

ON the 20th instant, the coroner (Dr. R. C. Knaggs), held as inquest at the Prince of Wales Hotel, Hunter-street, Newcastle, on the body of Mr. Beresford Nixon Hudson, when the following evidence was…

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Death of the Rev, Ronald Rankin

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 28 February 1863 · page 3

On Saturday, the 14th inst., this much beloved and, honoured servant of God expired, after a brief attack of dysentery, at his residence, Little River. During the last two years his health…

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Funeral of Commodore Burnett

Empire · Tuesday 10 March 1863 · page 8
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

We intimated in our issue of yesterday that the remains of this unfortunate gentl[?]man had arrived in town that morning at 1 a.m. They were conveyed under esport of a subsitern's guard of the 40th R[?]giment, to…

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Funeral of Commodore Burnett

Sydney Mail · Saturday 14 March 1863 · page 7

Yesterday afternoon the remains of Commodore Burnett, C.B., were deposited in their last resting-place at the Church of England burial-ground. Every preparation had been made to do fitting honour to the memory and to the…

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Obituary

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 18 March 1863 · page 1

The Governor of Mauritius, Sir W. Stevenson; Mr. Richard Green, of Blackwall, shipowner; ex Justice Crampton, Sir Duncan Cameron, Mr. Charles Dance, Admiral Temple,…

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