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Sydney · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1863

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The Late Mr. E. K. Silvester

Sydney Mail · Saturday 12 December 1863 · page 1

ON Tuesday morning, the 9th instant, at about half-past 1 o'clock, Mr. Edward Kennedy Silvester—a literateur of well-known talent, for many years connected with the newspaper press of this colony—expired, after a severe…

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The Late Mr E. K. SILVESTER. To the Editors of Bell's Life in Sydney

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Chronicle · Saturday 12 December 1863 · page 3

GENTLEMEN,—In the issue of the S. M. Herald of this day's date, recording the demise of the late Mr Silvester, it is stated that the lamented and talented gentleman wrote the beautiful lines, "The Death of…

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Death of Captains Mercer and Phelps. The following appeared in a second edition of the N.Z. Herald, issued at 2 p.m. of the 25th: "Drury, 1.15 p.m

Sydney Mail · Saturday 12 December 1863 · page 6

"Captain [?], Royal Artillery, and captain Phelps, 2 B. 14th Regiment, died this morning at Queen's Redoubt. "The bodies arrived in an ambulance cart at Drury at…

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Obituary

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 14 December 1863 · page 5

[?]bishop Whately, Alderman Humphery, [?]on Carton, Lord Sinclair, Sir W. Bellairs, [?] Trollope, John Sheepshanks, Esq.,; Mr. [?]gton, M.P.; Sir Ralph Anstruther, Mr…

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Obituary

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 15 December 1863 · page 2
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Archbishop Whately, Alderman Humphery, Canon Carton, Lord Sinclair, Sir, W. Bellairs, Mrs. Trollope, John Sheepshanks, Esq.,; Mr. Langton, M.P.; Sir Ralph Anstruther, Mr…

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Obituary

Freeman's Journal · Wednesday 16 December 1863 · page 5

Archbishop Whately, Alderman Humphery, Canon Carton, Lord Sinclair, Sir W. Bellairs, Mrs. Trollope, John Sheepshanks, Esq.,; Mr. Langton, M.P.; Sir Ralph Anstruther, Mr. Hope…

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Death of an Irish Patriot

Freeman's Journal · Wednesday 16 December 1863 · page 1

September 4, in the 76th year of his age, at Paintstown House, in the comity of Kildare, Gerald Aylmer, Esq., the last surviving member of an ancient and most respectable family, one…

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Obituary

Sydney Mail · Saturday 19 December 1863 · page 5

Archbishop Whately, Alderman Humphery, Canon Carton, Lord Sinclair, Sir W. Bellairs, Mrs. Trollope, John Sheepshanks, Esq.,; Mr. Langton, M.P.; Sir Ralph Anstruther, Mr…

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Funeral of Lord Lyndhurst

Empire · Saturday 19 December 1863 · page 2

On Satardey morning, at half-past 9'clock the remains of the vercerable Lord Lymdhurst were removed from his mansion in Georage-street,Hanover-square,and deposited without ostentaion and with very little…

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The Late Mr. B. K. Silvester

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 21 December 1863 · page 8

ON Wednesday, the 10th instant, at about half-past one o'clock. Mr. Kdward Kennedy Silvester — a literateur of well-known talent, for many years connected with the newspaper press of this colony-expired, after a severe…

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Death of Captains Mercer and Phelps

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 21 December 1863 · page 11

The following appeared in a second edition of the N. Z. Herald, issued at 2 p.m. of the 25th:— [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH] "Drury, 1.15 p.m…

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Death of Indian Warrior

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Chronicle · Saturday 26 December 1863 · page 2

This horse the property of Mr Rawdon Greone, o Woodlands, died there on Friday afternoon last. Mr Vincent, the veterinary surgeon, made a post mortem examination, and found that death had been occasioned…

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Death of Father Faber

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 26 December 1863 · page 2

This news will strike many Irish hearts as that of the loss of a dear friend. Even hostile English papers speak kindly of him. "Dr. Faber," says the Globe, "was one of the most…

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Death of Mr Joseph Weld

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Chronicle · Saturday 26 December 1863 · page 4

We have this week to record the decease of that venerable yachtsman Mr Joseph Weld, the senior member of the Royal Yacht Squadron, which event took place on Tuesday, Oct 20. The deceased for nearly half a…

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Death of Mrs. Trollope

Empire · Tuesday 29 December 1863 · page 5

THE death, after a lingering illness, at Florence, of Frances Trollope, one of the most gifted and accomplished women of the day, is announced. Mrs. Trollope, who had ceased to exercise her pen for years past, and…

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Death of Mr., Charles.j. Fairfax

Empire · Tuesday 29 December 1863 · page 5

IN our issue of yesterday we briefly noticed the occurrence of a very serious accident which had happened to Mr. Charles J. Fairfax, one of the proprietors of the Sydney Morning Herald. It is now our…

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Funeral of the Late Mr. Charles John Fairfax

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 30 December 1863 · page 4

THE remains of the late Mr. Charles John Fairfax were interred yesterday afternoon in the Congregational burial ground, Devonshire-street. The attendance on the sad occasion was extremely…

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Funeral of the Late Charles John Fairfax, Esq

Empire · Wednesday 30 December 1863 · page 5

YESTERDAY afternoon the funeral of this lamented gentleman took place. At half-past two o'clock the employee, and other persons connected in various ways with the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper, assembled…

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