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Obituaries & funerals, 1870

245 stories in Sydney's papers · page 5 of 13

The Death of the [?] Ward, Alias Thunderbolt

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 28 May 1870 · page 7

By the courtesy of the Inspector-General of Police, we are enabled to publish the following telegram from Armidale, giving an account of the inquest held upon the body of the cutlaw, and further information as to…

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A Bushranger Shot. Capture and Death of the Notorious Thunderbolt. Armidale

Sydney Mail · Saturday 28 May 1870 · page 4

YESTERDAY afternoon information was received by the police that several persons had been stuck up by an armed man a few miles south of Uralla. Senior-constable Mulhall and constable Walker were…

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Death of Thunderbolt. Additional Particulars. Uralla[?] May 28th, 1870

Evening News · Tuesday 31 May 1870 · page 3

THE identity of Thunderbolt has, this morning, been thoroughly established by the boy (Monckton), formerly Ward's accomplice. This lad had been discharged on Monday last from prison, and arrived…

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Death of Thunderbolt.—additional Particulals. (From a Correspondent.) Uralla, May 28th, 1870

Empire · Wednesday 1 June 1870 · page 2

THE identity of Thunderbolt has, this morning, been thoroughly established by the boy (M onckton), formerly Ward's accomplice. This lad had been discharged on Monday last from prison, and arrived…

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The Death of "Thunderbolt."

Empire · Friday 3 June 1870 · page 4

THE life of a man must Lave been bad and mischievous indeed when thc news of his death is received as a cause for public congratulation; but it is to be feared that there are instances…

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Literature. the Funeral Fleet

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 4 June 1870 · page 18

All in the wintor silence, Rapt with a sonse of awe, A vision half—and half a dream— This was the sight I saw:…

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The Funeral of "Leo."

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 4 June 1870 · page 6

Like a great grief the news of the death of "Leo" came upon the citizens of Dublin. For although personally he was not widely known amongst them, by his songs and his…

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Death of " Thunderbolt," the Bushranger

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 4 June 1870 · page 24

TELEGRAMS in the daily papers of the 27th ult. apprised the public that the bushranger, Frederick Ward, alias Captain Thunderbolt, had boon shot dead, after a desperate fight, by constable Walker, near Blanche's Inn,…

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Obituary

Empire · Monday 6 June 1870 · page 3
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald, Evening News

The Duohess de Berri, Cardinal G nella (at Rome), Lord Hemricker (?), Dowager Lady Lyttleton, General Grey, General Thomas (at San Francisao, from apoplexy),…

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A Geelong Romance. Sale and Death of an Infant.—loss of a Fortune. (From the Correspondent of the Melbourne Herald.) Geelong, 2nd June

Empire · Monday 6 June 1870 · page 3

MELBOURNE and Ballarat having contributed their items of sensationalism, it was not to he supposed that the "Pivot" would be content to remain "quiet," and "make no sign" of vitality and…

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The Funeral Fleet

Evening News · Tuesday 7 June 1870 · page 3

All in the winter silence, Rapt with a sense of awe, A vision half—and half a dream—This was the sight I saw:…

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A Geelong Romance. Sale and Death of an Infant.—loss of a Fortune. Geelong, 2nd June

Evening News · Tuesday 7 June 1870 · page 3

MELBOURNE and Ballarat Having contributed their items of sensationalism, it was not to be supposed that the "Pivot" would be content to remain "quiet," and "make no sign" of vitality and…

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Sad Death of Lady Lopes

Evening News · Wednesday 8 June 1870 · page 3

A very sad death from burning occured at Frome on March 26th. Lady Lopes, the mother of Sir Massey : Lopes, Bart., M.P., for South Devon, and Mr Henry Charles Lopes, M.P. for Launceston and Recorder of…

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Capture and Death of "Thunderbolt."

Illustrated Sydney News · Wednesday 8 June 1870 · page 2

IN our article accompanying the illustration "Stuck up," in our last issue, we alluded to the gradual but sure extinction of the crime of bushranging throughout the colony of New South Wales. In those remarks we were unconsciously endorsing the…

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Death of a Waterloo Veteran

Evening News · Wednesday 8 June 1870 · page 3

James Joy, of Haddington-terrace, Acton, a pensioner of the 1st Life Guards, died on March 31. He was born about the year 1790, and at the age of seventeen ballotted into one of the militia regiments…

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Death of a Waterloo Veteran

Empire · Thursday 9 June 1870 · page 3

James Joy, of Haddington-terrace, Acton, a pensioner of the 1st Life Guards, died on March 31. He was born about the year 1790, and at the ago of seventeen ballotted into ore of the militia regiments…

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Sad Death of Lady Lopes

Empire · Thursday 9 June 1870 · page 3

A very sad death from burning occured at Frome on March 26th. Lady Lopes, the mother of Sir Massey Lopes, Bart., M.P., for South Devon, and Mr Henry Charles Lopes, M.P. for Launceston and Recorder of…

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The Death Bed of Byron

Evening News · Thursday 9 June 1870 · page 3

Fainting the poet-warrior lies—the noble and the free ! The strife is closing fast, for death has won the victory. He who hath borne such cruel wrong—despis'd, malign'd, oppress'd—…

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