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Sydney · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1870

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Death of Colonel Macdonell, C.B.

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 20 August 1870 · page 23

IT is not every day that we have to record the death of an officer, whose father was left for dead on the field of Culloden, and whose first commission in the army dates back no less than seventy-five years ago…

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Death of the Bishop of Southwark

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 20 August 1870 · page 3

The telegraph has brought the melancholy intelligence of an event which has been long anticipated, but which has come upon us with a certain, suddenness at last…

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The Death-bed of Chaterton

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Chronicle · Saturday 20 August 1870 · page 4

Oh World! vain, false, and heartless world! farewell! My ransom'd spirit plumes her wings for flight; Her fetters fast are crumbling into dust; How throbs my heart impatient for relcase…

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The Late Mr. Dickens. (From the Times, June 13.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 22 August 1870 · page 6

IN the last novel which Mr. Dickens ever completed, and in the last paragraph of its last page, he wrote words which now possess a remarkable interest:- "On Friday, the ninth of June, in the present year…

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Death of Jerome Bonaparte. (From the New York Standard.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 26 August 1870 · page 6

For some months past Prince Jero[?] Bonaparte has been suffering from a cancer in the throat. The best medical advice had been rendered to his relief, but about two months since he was informed by his physicians that…

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The Late Mr. Dickens

Sydney Mail · Saturday 27 August 1870 · page 11

IN the last novel which Mr. Dickens ever completed, and in the last paragraph of its last page, he wrote words which now possess a remarkable interest:—…

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Obituary

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 29 August 1870 · page 7
Also in Evening News

Rev. D. Bury (Catholic bishop), G. Deane, Q.C., Sir H. J. Ingleby, Mr. Evans (of Bradbury and Evans), Lady Simpson, George Somers (the celebrated Nottinghamshire…

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Arrival of the Rangatira, at Adelaide, with the English Mail, Per Geelong. Actual War Between France and Prussia. Engagements on the French Frontier. Death of General Douay. Europe Arming. Panic on the Stock Exchange. a Naval Engagement Imminent. [From Our King George's Soun[?] Telegraphic Correspondent.] Adelaide, Sunday, 1 p.m

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 29 August 1870 · page 4

The branch mail steamer Rangatira, Captain Paddle, arrived off Glenelg Pier at noon to-day, bringing the Adelaide portion of the English mail per R. M. S. Geelong; the down…

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Death of Lord Arthur Clinton

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 2 September 1870 · page 3

This nobleman, whose name bus been very discreditably connected with the "personification of women" case, died on June l8 at the King's Anns Hotel, Christchurch, Hampshire, where he had been staying for a few days on…

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Obituary

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 3 September 1870 · page 11
Also in Australian Town and Country Journal

Rev. D. Bury (Catholic bishop), G. Deane, Q.C., Sir H. J. Ingleby, Mr. Evans (of Bradbury and Evans), Lady Simpson, George Somers (the celebrated Nottinghamshire cricketer), Armand…

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Death of Jerome Bonaparte

Sydney Mail · Saturday 3 September 1870 · page 10
Also in Freeman's Journal

For some mouths past Prince Jerome Bonaparte has been suffering from a cancer in the throat. The beat medical advice had been rendered to his relief, but about two months since he was informed by his physicians that…

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Arrival of the Mail. Telegraphic News. Actual War Between France and Prussia. Engagements on the French Frontier. Death of General Douay. Europe Arming. Panic on the Stock Exchange. a Naval Engagement Imminent. Adelaide, Sunday, 1 P.M.

Sydney Mail · Saturday 3 September 1870 · page 8

The branch mail steamer Rangatira, Captain Paddle, arrived off Glenelg Pier at noon to-day, bringing the Adelaide portion of the English mail per R. M. S. Geelong; the down…

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Obituary. the Late Rev. William Stone

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 7 September 1870 · page 6

ON August 20th, the Rev. William Stone, a much respected clergyman and old colonist, who had attained to the great age of eighty-seven years, died it Springfield, near Berrima—the residence of his daughter,…

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Death of Lord Arthur Clinton

Sydney Mail · Saturday 10 September 1870 · page 9

This nobleman, whoso name has been very discreditably connected with the "personification of women" case, died on June 18 at the King's Arms Hotel, Christchurch, Hampshire, where he had been staying for a few days on…

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Beecher on the Death of Dickens

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 September 1870 · page 8

HENRY Ward Beecher, in an address on the death of Dickens, pays this beautiful tribute to the memory of the great novelist:- Compare him with such writers as Bulwer and Byron,…

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Death of a Fenian in Portland Prison

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 17 September 1870 · page 4

An inquest was held at the Convict Prison on Thursday week, before R. N. Howard, Esq., Coroner, on the body of William Pherson Thompson, aged thirty, a Fenian convict…

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Lines to a Lady on the Death of Her Infant Son. (Obit, July 18th, 1870)

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 17 September 1870 · page 11

Mourn no more for the departed, Chase all sorrow from thy brow, Ta the peerless land of angels, Thy loved one is happy now…

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