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Sydney · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1863

158 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 8

Obituary

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 19 March 1863 · page 5

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

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Obituary

Sydney Mail · Saturday 21 March 1863 · page 4
Also in Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Chronicle

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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Funeral of Commodore Burnett

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 21 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 · Tuesday 24 March 1863 · page 4

OUR lesses by death during the year which has just closed have been remarkably few, though some men of mark have fallen both in this country and abroad. Of the latter Count Nesselrode has gone at last. Our own great loss in the…

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Funeral of the Late Mr. Richard Green, the Great Ship Owner (From the Morning Advertiser, January 26.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 27 March 1863 · page 6

THE mortal remains of this much-lamented gentleman were, on Saturday consigned to their final resting place in the vault of his late father, in the burial ground attached to Trinity Chapel, East India Road…

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Obituary

Sydney Mail · Saturday 28 March 1863 · page 8

OUR losses by death during the year which has just closed have been remarkably few, though some men of mark have fallen both in this country and abroad. Of the latter Court Messelrode has gone at last. Our own great loss in the…

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Funeral of the Late Archbishop of Paris

Sydney Mail · Saturday 28 March 1863 · page 5

The magnificent military funeral of the late Archbishop of Paris, which has given so much pleasurable excitement to the spectacle-loving population of this metropolis has formed the leading event of the past week. After being…

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Aquatics. Death of Mr Richard Green, the Eminent Ship Owner and Yachtsman, of Black Wall

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Chronicle · Saturday 28 March 1863 · page 4

The Yachting community, as well as the world at large, have sustained a grievous loss in the death of the above honoured and respected gentleman, who died at Hanover-terrace, Regent's-park, on Saturday last, in his…

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Death of Walsh, Gardiner's Groom

Freeman's Journal · Wednesday 1 April 1863 · page 5

Considerable mis-apprehensions having been expressed in public as to the manner and cause of this boy's death, we have felt it our duty to make inquiries into the matter, and the result of those…

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Obituary

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 April 1863 · page 5
Also in Empire

Earl Comelehau, Sir J. Cotton, Sir H. Lushington, Archdeacon Drury, Bishop [?] Gibraltar, Bishop of Quebec, Chief Justice of Demarara, Admiral Temple, Admiral Wivell,…

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Death of the Marquis of Lansdowne. (From the Daily Telegraph, February 2.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 20 April 1863 · page 3

THE Most Noble Henry, Marquis of Lansdowne, K.G., expired at six o'clock on Saturday evening, at his seat, Bowood, Wilts. The deceased nobleman's illness dated from the 21st…

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Death of John Patrick Somers

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 25 April 1863 · page 1

John Patrick Somers, one of the last, if not the very last, of a peculiar and remarkable race of men. of which he may bo said to have been the "type," has passed away after a long and painful illness…

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Death of James Dickson, Esq., M.p

Empire · Wednesday 29 April 1863 · page 4

THE tidings will be received with great and univercal regret that Mr. James D[?]rson, member of the Legislative Assembly for East Maitland, died last evening, at his residence,…

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The Death of a Pope. (From Roba di Roma. By W. W. Story)

Empire · Wednesday 29 April 1863 · page 2

THE ceremonies which take place on the death of a pope are somewhat carious, and deserve mention. As soon as he has breathed his last, the cardinal camerlingo in his paonazsso robes,…

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Funeral of the Late Mr. James Dickson

Empire · Friday 1 May 1863 · page 5

THE rematas, of Mr, James Dickson were brought down yesterday afternoon from his residence Holmwood, Newtown, to the Hunter River New Steam Navigation Company's Wharf, and carried on board the city of…

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The Late Mr. Dickson. To the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 1 May 1863 · page 5

SIR,—I have to request the favour of your allowing me an opportunity to correct an impression which may have been made with regard to the professional attendance of my lamented friend the late Mr…

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Death of the Marquis of Landsdowne

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 2 May 1863 · page 6

This venerable and esteemed Whig nobleman died on Saturday, at his country seat of Bowood, and by his death one of the few links that connect the present generation with the great names of…

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Death of the Marquis of Lansdowne

Empire · Saturday 2 May 1863 · page 3

THIS venerable nobleman and estimable man died on the 31st, at his seat, Bowood, in Wiltshire. The deceased nobleman had been ill a little better than a week. On Wednesday the 21st, he fell as he was walking on the…

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