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Obituaries & funerals, 1868

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Death of Archdeacon M'encroe

Illustrated Sydney News · Friday 4 September 1868 · page 1

ON the 22nd ult., a rumour was current through the city that the Rev. Archdeacon M'Encroe, the oldest colonial dignitary of the Roman Catholic Church, was dangerously ill. Two days previously he had an attack of influenza, but was not considered…

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Death of the Last Survivor of the Burke and Hare Atrocities

Illustrated Sydney News · Friday 4 September 1868 · page 8

IN the annals of crime there is no blacker page than that which records the atrocities of the gang whose murders in Edinburgh. some forty years ago created such horror…

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Funeral of the Late Archdeacon M'encroe.—requiem Mass and Dirge in St. Mary's Temporary Cathed[?]

Illustrated Sydney News · Friday 4 September 1868 · page 4

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The Late Mr. George Cox

Sydney Mail · Saturday 5 September 1868 · page 3

ON Monday, the 24th August, the mortal remains of Mr. George Cox, of Winbourne, were laid in the family vault in Mulgoa churchyard. The burial service was read by the Bishop of Sydney, assisted by the Rev. J. R…

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Irish Intelligence. Death of Archdeacon Walsh

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 5 September 1868 · page 6

The Very Rev. Archdeacon Walsh, P.P., Lady's Island, departed this life early on Monday morning. The announcement of his death was received throughout the…

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Spirit of the Dress. Death of a Good Irishman

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 5 September 1868 · page 12

Just as we went to press last week the sad intimation reached us that Joseph Darby had departed this life. To-day it becomes our duty to record, in connection therewith, one of the…

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Death of Samuel Lover

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 7 September 1868 · page 6

The death is announced, in the 71st year of his age, of Samuel Lover, the eminent and popular nevelist and poet. Mr. Lover died at Jersey, on Monday, July 6th. He was born in Dublin in 1797. He was the son of a member of…

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Death of Samuel Lover

Sydney Mail · Saturday 12 September 1868 · page 11

The death is announced, in the 71st year of his age, of Samuel Lover, the eminent and popular novelist and poet. Mr. Lover died at Jersey, on Monday, July 6th. He was born in Dublin in 1797. He was the son of a member of…

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Demonstration at the Funeral of an Alleged Fenian

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 26 September 1868 · page 6

"Saunders" correspondent writing from Limerick on Monday, gives the following, description of the remarkable funeral witnessed on Sunday last in the city of the…

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Sudden Death of a Clerical Author

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 2 October 1868 · page 6

ON Monday, July 27, an inquest was held at Stambourne, a large village in the lower part of Essex, on the body of the Rev. J. Forster, the rector of the parish, and the author of the "Churchman's Guide," the "Gospel…

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Death of Lieutenant Meade

Empire · Saturday 3 October 1868 · page 3

The death of Lieutenant the Hon. Herb'rt George Philip Aleade, youngest son of the [?] william and his wife, the late Lady Elizabeth Herbert.second daughter of George Augustus, 11th Earl of Pembroke,…

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Sudden Death of a Clerical Author

Sydney Mail · Saturday 3 October 1868 · page 13

ON Monday, July 27, an inquest was held at Stambourne, a large village in the lower part of Essex, on the body of the Rev. J. Forster, the rector of the parish, and the author of the "Churchman's Guide," the "Gospel…

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Death of Mr. Thaddeus Stevens. (From the Times.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 8 October 1868 · page 2

A TELEGRAM from America announces that the wellknown American party leader, Thaddeus Stevens, is dead. The death of this veteran politician, for he had passed the three score years and ten allotted to…

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Death of Very Rev. Dean Walsh, Late of Goulburn, N.s.w

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 10 October 1868 · page 15

It is our painful duty to announce the death of a truly zealous minister of God's Holy Church, and missionary in a distant country in the person of the Very Rev. Dean Walsh, son to the late Mr…

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The Mormons. Address of [?]Gham Young at the Funeral of [?] C. Kimball

Empire · Friday 16 October 1868 · page 4

Heber C. Kimball, the Marmon Elder, was burled in Salt Lake City on June 24th. After funera orations by various Mormon Elders, Brigham Young arose, and spoke as follows:-…

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Obituary Notice

Sydney Punch · Saturday 24 October 1868 · page 4

On Saturday last, from a stoppage of circulation, Miss Protectionist, of Park-street. She has been in a weak and declining state for some little time, and, it is thought, that the sudden downfall of the Ministry has acted upon her nervous system. In her support of the…

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Obituary

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 28 October 1868 · page 5

The Bishop of Peterborough, Earl of Abergavenny, Lord Howard De Walden, Generals Cockburn and Mackenzie, Seigeant Goulburn, Lord Normanton, Lord Ashburton, Dean…

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Death of " Jacob Omnium."

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 29 October 1868 · page 3

A remarkable man has died (says the Home News) Mr. Matthew J. Higgins, better known to the reading world as J. O. (Jacob Omnium). Mr. Higgins, once one of the finest-looking men in the army, and to the last…

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Death of the Bishop of Peterborough

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 29 October 1868 · page 3

The Bishop of Peterborough died at a quarter before 11 on Friday morning, 21st August. The late Bishop was the son of Mr. Francis Jeune, of Jersey, and was born in 1806. He was educated at Pembroke College, Oxford,…

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Obituary

Sydney Mail · Saturday 31 October 1868 · page 5

The Bishop of Peterborough, Earl of Abergavenny, Lord Howard De Walden, Generals Cockburn and Mackenzie, Sergeant Goulburn, Lord Normanton, Lord Ashburton, Dean…

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