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Obituaries & funerals, 1874

313 stories in Sydney's papers · page 6 of 16

Obituary

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 20 May 1874 · page 6

THE following obituary notice is re-printed from the Report of the Council of the Boyal Astronomical Society of England, read at the fifty-fourth, annual general meeting, in February last. It records some interesting passages in…

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Extraordinary Action for the Death of a Husband

Empire · Wednesday 20 May 1874 · page 4

ON Saturday, in the Court of Exchequer, in the case of Le wood v. Person, the action was brought to recover compensation in damages for serious inju[?] resulting in death, sustained by…

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Obituary. London, May 23

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 26 May 1874 · page 5

Roger Therry, formerly one of the Puisne Judges of New South Wales…

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Telegrams This Day. Cable Messages. the Foreign Stock Market. the London Wool and Metal Markets. Failure at Bradford. the New Zealand Loan. Death of Ex-judge Therry. the New French Cabinet. Anticipated Political Crisis. London, May 23. Received is Sydney, May 26, 1.50 a.m

Evening News · Tuesday 26 May 1874 · page 2

Foreign stocks are depressed. The competition in wool is animated, prices having an upward tendency. The copper market is without noticeable…

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Death of Sir Roger Therry

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 29 May 1874 · page 5

OUR London telegram, dated the 23rd instant, announced the death of Sir Roger Therry, formerly a Judge of the Supreme Court, and Primary Judge in Equity, in New South Wales. As the former career of the deceased was…

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Death of a Centenarian

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 30 May 1874 · page 10

ANTHONY BRADY, an old resident of Sydney, who had attained the ripe old age of 111 years, died at his residence, Upper Elizabeth-street, on Tuesday morning. The deceased was born…

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On a New Rush.—first Funeral

Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Saturday 30 May 1874 · page 4

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Obituary. London, May 23

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 30 May 1874 · page 694

Roger Therry, formerly one of the Puisne Judges of New South Wales…

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On a New Rush—the First Funeral

Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Saturday 30 May 1874 · page 18

ONE of the most melancholy, but at the same time Christianising, scenes to be met with in Australia is the ceremony of interment or funeral obsequies performed in the wild,…

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Obituary. London, May 31

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 2 June 1874 · page 5

Lady Therry, wife of the late Sir Roger The[?]ry…

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PARAMATTA. Frightful Case of Stabbing Death of the Victim. June 2

Evening News · Tuesday 2 June 1874 · page 2

POLICE COURT.—Before G. Langley, Esq. and H. Taylor, Esq. Joshua Helloway a labourer, was charged with stabbing with intent to murder Louis Ven Seuter, cook of the Meat Preserving Company at Hacking Creck. Senior-sergeant…

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Obituary. London. May 31

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 6 June 1874 · page 730

Lady Therry, wife of the late Sir Roger Therry…

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Obituary. Sir Roger Therry

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 6 June 1874 · page 735

OUR London telegram, dated the 23rd instant, announced the death of Sir Roger Therry, formerly a Judge of the Supreme Court, and Primary Judge in Equity, in New South Wales. As the former career of the deceased was…

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Death of Mr. Charles Thomas Weaver. (From the Armidale Express.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 8 June 1874 · page 3

ON Tuesday afternoon Armidale was shocked by a report that Mr. Charles Thomas Weaver (formerly Police Magistrate at Armidale, and subsequently for some time a member of the Assembly for New England) had been found…

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Coroner's Court. Death of Miss Connor.—The Inquiry Adjourned

Evening News · Tuesday 9 June 1874 · page 3

The City Coroner held an inquest at John Orr's National Hotel, William-street at 9 o'clock this morning, on the body of Elizabeth Connor, lying dead at her residence, Yurong-street…

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Obituary

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 13 June 1874 · page 767

THE LATE MRS. BROUGHTON.—Many of those who have made the trip from Sydney to London in the ships La Hogue and Parramatta will learn with regret that Mrs. William Broughton, who was connected for so many years…

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Death of a Notorious Character.—

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 13 June 1874 · page 2

Miss Connor, keeping a tobacco shop iu William-street, Woolloomooloo, died suddenly on Monday night last. It will be remembered that this person attempted to commit suicide some time…

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Obituary. London. June 6

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 13 June 1874 · page 762

Andrew Lang is dead…

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Death of a Durham Heifer at Greystanes

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 13 June 1874 · page 6

—I mentioned a week or two back, that among other pieces of ill luck to the Greystanes pure-breds, was an accident to the two-year-old heifer Princess Purple 13th, who took first piize in her class at our last…

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