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Obituaries & funerals, 1871

193 stories in Sydney's papers · page 4 of 10

Death of Sir James Palmer

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 6 May 1871 · page 313

IT is with, great regret that we have to announce the decease of Sir James Palmer, late President of the Legislative Council, who died shortly before 9 o'clock on Monday night at Hawthorn. Sir James had been in failing…

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Death of a Young Patriot

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 6 May 1871 · page 5

The Count de Chambord has written the following letter to the Countess de Bouille on death of her son in the war :— "Madame la Comtesse,—At the very time…

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Horrible Death of a Lady from a New Species of Parasite

Evening News · Wednesday 10 May 1871 · page 3

THERE is considerable excitement and alarm in this city and vicinity on account of the appearance of a strange disease heretofore unknown to physicians, or, at least, to the physicians of Elgin. The facts…

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Obituary

Evening News · Thursday 11 May 1871 · page 2

Sir Archibald Edmonstone, Dr. Campbell Mackinnon, hospital inspector; Lord Hastings, General Beckwith, Sir Baldwia Loighton, Sir H. Freeling; Professor M'Gill, of St. Andrew's; Professor de…

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Horrible Death of a Lady From a New Species of Parasite. (From the Chicago Tribune, December 6th.)

Empire · Thursday 11 May 1871 · page 4

THERE is considerable excitement and alarm in this city and vicinity on account of the appearance of a strange disease herotofore unknown to physicians, or, at least, to the physicians of Elgin. The facts…

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Obituary

Empire · Friday 12 May 1871 · page 3
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

Sir Archibald Edmonstone, Dr. Campbell Mackinnon, hospital inspector; Lord Hastings, General Beckwith, Sir B[?]ldwia Leighton, Sir H. Freeling; Professor M'Gill, of St. Andrew's; Professor do…

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Obituary

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 13 May 1871 · page 330
Also in Australian Town and Country Journal

Sir Archibald Edmonstone; Dr. Campbel Mackinnon, Hospital Inspector; Lord Hastings, General Beckwith, Sir Baldwin Leighton, Sir H. Freeling ; Professor M'Gill…

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Obituary of Notable Persons

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 13 May 1871 · page 5

WE take the following biographies of persons, whose deaths were reported in our English telegrams, from "Men of the Times" and the "Peerage:"— SCHAMYL, popularly known as a Circassian chief, was…

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Shocking Death of a Lady

Evening News · Monday 15 May 1871 · page 3

The body of a Mrs. Anne Dicker, the widow of a Church Missionary, who has been missing from Exeter since January 26, has been found in a ditch near Cowlev Brid[?] on the river Exe. The deceased was…

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Shocking Death of a Lady

Empire · Tuesday 16 May 1871 · page 3

The body of a Mrs. Anne Dicker, the widow of a Church missionary, who has been missing from Exeter since January 26, has been found in a ditch near Cowley Bridge, on the river Exe. The deceasod was…

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Shocking Death of a Lady

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 20 May 1871 · page 22

The body of a Mrs. Anne Dicker, the widow of a Church missionary, who has been missing from Exeter since January 20, has been found in a ditch near Cowley Bridge, on the river Exe The deceased was…

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"Of Such Is the Kingdom of Heaven." [On the death of a most interesting child, the daughter of a Clergyman.]

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 20 May 1871 · page 381

She has passed like the beautiful flower of the spring, Or a blithe pretty bird on its swift downy wing, Scarcely time to pray softly, "Thy will Lord be done, "Grant us strength to submit through Christ Jesus thy…

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Death of an Old Highland Laird

Evening News · Tuesday 23 May 1871 · page 3

MR. JOHN MACDOUGALL, of Lunga, died at his residence, Daill House, Craignish, a few days since, in the seventy-fourth year of his ag[?]. He was among the last of the Argyllshire proprietors of his…

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The Late Mr. Hugh Glass

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 27 May 1871 · page 391

THE Melbourne Daily Telegraph of the 16th instant says:—The death of Mr. Hugh Glass is announced in our obituary of this day. He was a native of the North of Ireland, and before emigrating was…

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The Cape. Death of the Most Bev. Dr. Grimley

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 27 May 1871 · page 5

We extract the following from the Dublin Freeman's Journal:— Dr. Grimley, Bishop of Cape Town is no more. Only a few short months ago he was…

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A Man Burned to Death. Heroism of a Woman

Evening News · Monday 29 May 1871 · page 3

A fire broke out last evening at No. 183, Fulton-setreet, Brooklyn, in the building occupied by Julius Weinberg, as a fur store, and the premises were speedily enveloped in flumes. The only person in…

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Death of a Seringapatam Veteran

Evening News · Wednesday 31 May 1871 · page 3

SERGEANT A. LISTON, late of the 94th Regiment (Old Scotch Brigade), was recently interred in the Canongate Churchyard. Sergeant Liston entered the army as long ago as 1788. He was sent with…

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Death of a Notoriety

Evening News · Thursday 1 June 1871 · page 3

THE People, a weekly paper published in Indianapolis, gives an account of the death of Dr. M'Bride, whose notorious character and fantastic appearance as the " King of pain," some months ago, excited…

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