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Obituaries & funerals, 1879

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Death of Professor Pell

Evening News · Thursday 8 May 1879 · page 2

We have to announce the death of Professor Pell, B.A., which took place at his residence, Old Parramatta-road, Forest Lodge, yesterday. Mr. Pell was connected with the Sydney University for about 27…

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Funeral of the Rev. H. A. Palmer

Evening News · Thursday 8 May 1879 · page 2

The funeral of the late Rev. H. A. Palmer, whose sudden death we reported on Monday, took place yesterday morning at the Canterbury Cemetery, and, in accordance with the expressed wish of the…

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Obituary

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 10 May 1879 · page 9
Also in The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser

LONDONpMay May 5.—Mr. Isaac Butt, Q.C., and M.P. for Limerick…

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Death of William Howict

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 10 May 1879 · page 42

It ia some thirty years ago since william Howett, then in the prime of life and an eminent litterateur, visited Australia, but there are yet many in the colonies who will remember his bright…

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Death of a Noted Centenarian

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 10 May 1879 · page 41

The Rev. Dr. Ingram, minister of the Free Church of Unat, Shetland, has just passed away He was within a month of completing his 103rd yenr, having been born in Aberdeenshire on April…

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The Death of Mr. Butt

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 10 May 1879 · page 13

ISAAC BUTT is dead! His loss must be regarded in every sense as a national calamity. Since O'Connell quitted the scene no man has appeared in public life…

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Death of Isaac Butt, Q.c

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 10 May 1879 · page 15

OUR readers will be sorry to learn that Isaac Butt, Q.C., M.P., has died after a long and lin-gering illness. Whatever political mistakes he may have made—and it is but human to err—he…

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Obituary. REV. H. A. PALMER

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 10 May 1879 · page 17

Many of our readers will regret to hear of the death of the Rov. Henry Andrew Palmer, Church of England minister, at his residence at Petersham. The reverend gentlemen was a native of Yorkshire, and…

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Cable Messages. Death of Garibaldi

Evening News · Monday 12 May 1879 · page 2

LONDON, May 10.—General Garibaldi, the famous Italian liberator, died in Rome last Might…

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Death of the Third Son of the Crown Prince of Germany

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 13 May 1879 · page 7

Berlin, March 27.—Prince Waldemar, third son of the Crown Prince of Germany, died suddenly of heart disease at half-past 3 o'clock this morning. A telegram was received by the Prince of Wales confirmatory of the sad news…

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Death of Garibaldi

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 17 May 1879 · page 8

LONDON, May 10.—General Garibaldi, the famous Italian liberator, died in Home last night…

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The Late Mr. John Macintosh, M.a

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 20 May 1879 · page 6

A meeting of the former master's students and pupils of Camden College, and the friends of the late Mr. John Macintosh, M.A., who was recently killed by falling from his horse at Queensland, was held last night at the…

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Obituary

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 22 May 1879 · page 7

Rev. H. A. PALMER.—This gentleman, who for some time officiated at the Church of England church, Petersham, regret to say died on the 5th instant. On the previous Sunday morning the reverend gentleman took part…

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Death of Prince Waldemar

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 23 May 1879 · page 7

The death of Prince Waldemar of Prussia is stated in the Berlin telegrams to have taken every one by surprise. He was apparently in excellent health and spirits on the 22nd March, when he took part in the rejoicings in honour of the…

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Sudden Death of a Queensland Squatter

Evening News · Friday 23 May 1879 · page 2

The City Coroner yesterday afternoon held an inquest concerning the death of a well-known squatter in Queensland, named Henry Kable, who was found dead in his bed at the American Restaurant in…

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Death of a Vetern Politician

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 24 May 1879 · page 5

Saunders's Irish Daily News of Tuesday, March 88, says:— "One of the last links which bind us to the period of which Lever and Maxwell wrote…

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America. Death of Jerome Bonaparte's First Wife. Romantic History of a Famous Irish-american Beauty

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 24 May 1879 · page 6

Mme. Patterson-Bonaparte died on last Friday afternoon, after an illness of several weeks, at her residence in Baltimore, Md. There were present at her death-bed her…

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Mail News. Arrival of the Mail via Torres Straits. Sucking Death of Lord Amelius. Beauclerk

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 24 May 1879 · page 831

In the afternoon of March 27 Dr. Hardwicke, coroner for Cent nil Middlesex, held an inquiry in the dining-room of No. 3, Byanston-square, in reference to the death of Rear-Admiral Lord Amelius Wentworth Beauclerk, aged…

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Latest Telegrams. New South Wales Items. Death of an Old Resident. West Maitland

Evening News · Wednesday 28 May 1879 · page 2

Mr. Studdart, clerk of petty sessions, and a very old and much-respected resident of the Paterson died yesterday morning. ASSAULTING A CHINAMAN…

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