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Obituaries & funerals, 1879

399 stories in Sydney's papers · page 3 of 20

Obituary

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 18 February 1879 · page 8

MR. WILLIAM BARKER.—Mr. William Barker, a distinguished solicitor, died at his residence, Bondi, on the 24th January. Mr. Barker was a colonist of nearly forty years' standing. He was a native of Ireland, and came to…

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Death of Mr. Liardet

Evening News · Tuesday 18 February 1879 · page 2

MOSS VALE, Monday.—Great gloom has been cast over this township on the residents learning that the accident to Mr. Charles Evelyn Liardet, telegraph operator here, bad terminated fatally…

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Death of the Queensland Master of Titles

Evening News · Tuesday 18 February 1879 · page 2

BRISBANE, Tuesday.—Mr. Henry Scott, master of titles, who has been ailing for some time, died yesterday, at his residence, Kangaroo Point, from exhaustion…

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Death of Eurydice

Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Saturday 22 February 1879 · page 7

THIS beautiful painting, of which we give an engraving, represents an incident in ancient mythological romance. Eurydice was the wife of Orpheus, and was killed by the bite of a serpent. The artist has assembled a group of the…

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Death of the Hon. Eliot Yorke

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 22 February 1879 · page 314

We deeply regret to chronicle the death of the Hon. Eliot Yorke, M.P. for Cambridgeshire, which occurred on Saturday evening, December 21. The hon. gentleman had, we understand, taken cold during a night journey about a week…

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Death of a Noble Woman

Evening News · Monday 24 February 1879 · page 3

It is with feelings of the deepest regret that we have to announce the death of one of the most estimable of those self-abnegating followers of the Great Master, whose truths…

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Death of Mr. Archibald Thompson

Evening News · Monday 24 February 1879 · page 2

Many citizens of Sydney will be sorry to bear that Mr. Archibald Thompson (of the firm of A. Thompson and Co., wine and spirit merchants) is dead. His death took place at Hobart Town last Saturday…

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Obituary. London, February 24

Evening News · Wednesday 26 February 1879 · page 2

The Duke of Newcastle is dead. He succeeded to the title in 1834, and died at the comparatively early age of 44. BERLIN, February 22…

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Obituary. London, Feb. 24

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 26 February 1879 · page 7

The Duke of Newcastle is dead. He succeeded to the title in 1864, and died at the comparatively early age of 44. BERLIN, FEB. 22…

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Obituary

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 27 February 1879 · page 8

The REV. N. PIDGEON.—One of the earliest of our City Mission field, the Rev. Nathaniel Pidgeon, has just gone to his rest. Mr. Pidgeon was born at Bollevu, county Wexford, Ireland, August 16, 1808, and landed here May…

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The Late Mr. J. G. Baphael's Gift to the Charities

Evening News · Friday 28 February 1879 · page 2

Acting under the instructions of the executors, Mr. J. C. Taylor furnishes us with the following particulars of the gifts of the late Mr. J. G. Raphael to the several charities mentioned:—To the Jewish…

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The Late Mr. Archibald Thompson

Evening News · Saturday 1 March 1879 · page 4

By the Tasman, which arrived to-day from Hobart Town, the body of our late respected townsman, Mr. Archibald Thompson, we brought to the city. The funeral will leave bis late residence, Clopse, Potts'…

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Death of Lord Byron's Physician

Evening News · Saturday 1 March 1879 · page 3

Next to the death of an eminent personage who has played a leading part upon the stage of life, the event which is most apt to awaken a host of reminiscence! and stir our interest in the vexed…

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Death of the Daughter of Captain Cook

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 1 March 1879 · page 17

The DAILY TELEGRAPH of the 25th September, 1867, thus alludes, to this occurrence:—Fifty thousand gold-diggers are working to-day in the New Zealand gullies. Sydney is a splendid capital, with palaces…

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Death of Mr. Walter Windeyer

Evening News · Monday 3 March 1879 · page 2

BRISBANE, Monday.—Mr. Walter Orton Win deyer was found dead in his bed at Wantabadgery station, this morning. His logs, will be much felt, as he was an old and respected resident of this…

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Death of the Ameer Shere Ali. Bombay, March 2

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 March 1879 · page 5

Yakoob Khan has written a letter to the Viceroy of India containing overtures for a renewal of friendly, relations with the British Government, adding that news had reached…

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The late Mrs. Chalmers

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 8 March 1879 · page 390

SOME particulars respecting Mrs. Chalmers, who lately died here, will be read with interest by many of our readers. With her husband, the Rev. J. Chalmers, she left England for missionary work in the South Seas…

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Death of Lord Byron's Physician

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 8 March 1879 · page 27

Next to the death of an eminent personage who has played a leading part upon the stage of life, the event which is most apt to awaken a hose of reminiscences and stir our interest in the vexed…

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Death of a Noble Woman

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 8 March 1879 · page 25

IT is with feelings of the deepest regret that we have to announce the death of one of the most estimable of those self-abnegating followers of the Great Master, whose truths…

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