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Obituaries & funerals, 1871

193 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 10

The Late Mr. Egan

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 7 January 1871 · page 5

BY the relatives of the late Mr. D. Egan we are now enabled to lay before the public the facts connected with the removal of Ids remains from the grave in which they…

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The Funeral. (From the Courier.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 9 January 1871 · page 5

If any proof were required of the respect and affection in which his Excellency the late Governor was held by all classes of his fellow-townsmen, his funeral on Tuesday would have borne ample testimony of the fact. We can…

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Death of Governor Blackall, of Queensland. (From the Express, January 3.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 9 January 1871 · page 5

ON Monday forenoon, 2nd instant, shortly after 11 o'clock, the lowering of the flag at Government House and the Parliamentary Buildings, to half-mast, told of the decease of his Excellency the late Governor. Immediately on the…

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Death of the Father of the House of Lords. (From the Times, October 25.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 13 January 1871 · page 3

WILEN we recorded the death of the late Lord Radnor, who had held a seat in the two Houses of Parliament for nearly seventy years, and again when we announced the death of Dr…

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The Funeral

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 14 January 1871 · page 12
Also in Sydney Mail

If any proof were required of the respect and affection in which his Excellency the late Governor was held by all classes of his fellow-townsmen, his funeral on . Tuesday…

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The Late Mr. Egan's Case

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 14 January 1871 · page 4

As our article, in last Week's issue, respecting the outrage committed on the body of the late Postmaster-General, at the instance of the Romish authorities, in the…

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Death of Governor Blackall, of Queensland

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 14 January 1871 · page 12

On Monday forenoon, 2nd instant, shortly after 11 o'clock, the lowering of the flag at Government House and the Parliamentary Buildings, to half-mast, told of the decease of…

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Obituary

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 18 January 1871 · page 5
Also in Empire

Thomas Thornton, aged 70, leaving £2,000 sterling; Hon. Rev. Leland Noel, aged 73; the widow of the Ettrick Shephered, Archdeacon Hale, Lord Byron, Professor…

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Coroner's Inquest. Death of Two Children From Eating Poisonous [?]

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 20 January 1871 · page 6

THE City Coroner held un inquiry, yesterday forenoon, at Grice's, Coach and Horses Hotel, Randwick, touching the supposed death in the neighbourhood, of two children from eating poisonous fish, and who had died on the afternoon…

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Obituary

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 21 January 1871 · page 22
Also in Freeman's Journal

Thomas Thornton, aged 70, leaving £2,000,000 sterling; Hon. Rev. Leland Noel, aged 73; widow of Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd; Archdeacon Hale, Lord Byron, Professor Barker…

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Funeral of General Lee

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 23 January 1871 · page 3

<t>PHILADELPHIA, October l8</t>.—<a>From every part of the South the intelligence is sent us of the mourning for General Lee. The grief there is deep and universal, and is testified in every possible way. Ex-Con-</a>…

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Coroner's Court This Day Death of a Child Through Inhuman Treatment

Evening News · Monday 23 January 1871 · page 2

THIS morning, at 9 o'clock, the city coroner. Mr. Henry Shiell, held an inquest at the Oxford Hotel, King-street, upon the body of a child named Ada Jane Logue, who was found on Friday night in an unoccupied…

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Coroner's Court This Day Death of a Child Through Inhuman Treatment

Evening News · Wednesday 25 January 1871 · page 2

THE inquest was resumed this morning, at the Oxford Hotel, on the body of Ada Jane Logue, aged sixteen months, who was found in the empty house, No. 244, Castlereagh-street, on Friday evening last, and died…

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Death of Governor Blackall, of Queensland

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 27 January 1871 · page 6

ON Monday forenoon, 2nd instant, shortly after 11 o'clock the lowering of the flag at Government House and the Parliamentary Buildings, to half-mast, told of the decease of his Excellency the late Governor. Immediately on the…

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Funeral of General Lee

Sydney Mail · Saturday 28 January 1871 · page 8

PHILADELPHIA October 18.--From every part of the South the intelligence is sent us of the mourning for General Lee. The grief there is deep and universal, and is testified in every possible way…

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Death of Two Children From Eating Poisonous Fish

Sydney Mail · Saturday 28 January 1871 · page 14

THE City Coroner held an inquiry, on the 19th and 20th instant, at Grice's, Coach and Horses Hotel, Randwick, touching the supposed death in tho neighbourhood, of two child on from eating poisonous fish, and who had died on…

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The Late Mr. Egan. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 31 January 1871 · page 5

SIR,—Permit me to correct an erroneous inference in your article of Saturday last, on the subject of the removal of the body of the late Mr. Egan. The Archbishop was not my authority for stating that this removal was, under the…

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