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Obituaries & funerals, 1875

251 stories in Sydney's papers · page 7 of 13

Shocking Death of a Convict

Evening News · Friday 2 July 1875 · page 3

ONE of the convicts employed at the dock works now being carried on at Williamstown, met with a sudden and shocking death last Monday morning. The Melbourne HERALD gives the following…

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Mysterious Death of Mr. J. J. Cope

Evening News · Tuesday 6 July 1875 · page 2

This morning the City Coroner received the following report from sergeant Dale:—"About 8 o'clock on the 6th instant a gentleman, who gave his name as John Joseph Cope, and appeared to be between 30 and…

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Obituary

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 July 1875 · page 7

CAPTAIN CLINCH.—Our readers will share with us our regret at the death of Captain Clinch, the late commander [?] the steamer Southern Cross, trading between Sydney and Hobart Town. The steamer had left the Grafton…

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Death of a Celebrity

Evening News · Saturday 10 July 1875 · page 4

It will be remembered that a coloured man named Nathaniel or John Pawsey was a candidate for the suffrages of the electors of East Sydney at the last election. Last night he was found dead in a room…

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Funeral Reform. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 17 July 1875 · page 10

SIR,—I was present, a fow days ago, at the funeral of a lady—whose friends would have been justified in giving her ever so pompous u burial—which showed me that the efforts of the Funeral Reform Association were beginning…

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Death of a Remarkable Man—109 Years Old

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 17 July 1875 · page 26
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An undoubted centenarian, Jean Frederick Waldeck, died on April 30. [?]ascended from an old Prague family, he was born on the 16th of March, 1766. In 1785 he went to the Cape with…

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Obituary

Evening News · Thursday 22 July 1875 · page 2

Viscount Molesworth ; Archdeacon Sinclair, aged 78; Lord Mackenzie, Judge of Edinburgh Court of Sessions; Mr. B. Dodley Baxter, solicitor and statistical writer; Hon. John Crawford,…

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Sudden Death of Mr. Stratford

Evening News · Thursday 22 July 1875 · page 3

We have to announce with regret the sudden death of Mr. F. A. Stratford, manager of the English, Scottish, and Australian Chartered Bank, which took place yesterday afternoon. Mr. Stratrord was in…

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Death of Lady Franklin

Evening News · Friday 23 July 1875 · page 2

NEW YORK, June 19.-Philip P. Harris, of this city, received this morning the following telegram from Cyrus W. Field, date Liverpool, Jane 19th: " I am just off in the Bothnia, Lady Franklin in dangerously…

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Death of Lady Franklin. London, July 20

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 23 July 1875 · page 5

The name of Lady Franklin appears in the obituary…

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Obituary

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 24 July 1875 · page 106
Also in Australian Town and Country Journal

Archdeacon Sinclair, aged 78; Lord Mackenzie, Judge of Edinburgh Court of Session; Mr. K. Dudley Baxter, solicitor and statistical writer; Hon. John Crawford,…

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Baron Pigotts Funeral

Evening News · Saturday 31 July 1875 · page 3

Arthur Pigott, the eldest eon of the late Baron Pigott, was charged before the Basingstoke magistrates on June 2 with having created n disturbance at the funeral of the late baron in the churchyard…

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Baron Pigott's Funeral

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 31 July 1875 · page 27

Arthur Pigott, the eldest son of the late Baron Pigott, was charged before the Basingstoke magistrates on June 2 with having created a disturbance at the funeral of the late baron in the churchyard…

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Death of Lady Franklin

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 31 July 1875 · page 23

NEW YORK, June 19.—Philip P. Harris, of this city, received this morning the following telegram from Cyrus W. Field, dated Liverpool, June 19th: "I am just off in the Bothnia. Lady Franklin is dangerously…

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Death of Lady Franklin. London, July 20

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 31 July 1875 · page 150

The name of Lady Franklin appears in the obituary…

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Death of General Samuel P. Spear, a Fenian Leader

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 31 July 1875 · page 6

General Samuel P. Spear died on Tuesday morning, May 4, at St. Lake's Hospital, New York city, aged 62 years. General Spear was born in Boston, Mass., in 1815, and…

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Obituary. London, August 3

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 5 August 1875 · page 5

Andrew. Johnson, ex President of the United States of America…

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Telegrams This Day. Cable Messages. Beutee's Special Telegrams.] the Suez Hail. Serious Offences by a Colonel of Hussars. Death of Ex-president Johnson. London, via Singapore, August 4th. Received in Sydney August 4th, 7.59 p.m

Evening News · Thursday 5 August 1875 · page 4

The P. and O Company's mail steamer Golconda, left Galle, for Melbourne, on the 31st July. Colonel Baker, of the 10th Hussars, has been tried for indecently assaulting a lady in a railway…

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