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Obituaries & funerals, 1881

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Death of a Well-known Journalist

Evening News · Friday 21 January 1881 · page 2

LONDON, January 20.-Mr. C. J. Poole, a well-known and esteemed journalist, long connected with the metropolitan press, is dead…

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Obituary

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 22 January 1881 · page 7

Mr. Alfred Charles Button a gentleman long connected with the Now South Wales Postal Department, and widely known and respeated, especially in the Hunter and northern districts, died last week…

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Death of Mrs. Dalley

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 22 January 1881 · page 15

IT is our painful duty to have to record the death of Mrs. Dalley, wife of the Hon. W. B. Dalley, Q.C., which took place at Clairvaux on Monday morning at eleven o'clock. The…

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Death of an Actor

Evening News · Saturday 22 January 1881 · page 4

LONDON, January 21.-Sir. Sothern, the well-known actor (the original Lord Dundreary), is dead…

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Death of a Prominent Colonist

Evening News · Saturday 22 January 1881 · page 7

Another old anil respected pioneer of commercial interests has passed away from oar midst. Many of the residents of the Hunter and Lo war Hunter districts will regret to hear that Mr. Charles Lawn died…

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Death of Edward Askew Sothern

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Monday 24 January 1881 · page 3

The death of Edward Askew Sothern, the well-known actor, is reported by cable from London, From "Men of the Time" we learn that he was born in Liverpool, 1st April, 1830, was educated…

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Death of Mr. Sothern. London, January 21

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Monday 24 January 1881 · page 3

The death is announced of Edward Askew Sothern, the well-known actor (Lord Dundreary), aged 50…

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Death of a Public School Teacher. MERRIWA

Evening News · Monday 24 January 1881 · page 2

Mr. Micheal Brake, who has been public school teacher hera for about 20 years, expired after a short illness last night, the doctor having been only called in yesterday morning. He usually…

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Obituary

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 25 January 1881 · page 6

Edward A. Sothern, the celebrated comedian, is dead, aged 50 years…

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Death of Mr. Samuel H. Banks

Evening News · Tuesday 25 January 1881 · page 2

Mr. Samuel Banks, who was employed at the Government Printing office, expired very suddenly yesterday. He was at business in the morning, and went home to lunch. On his return in the…

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Death of Mr. J. C. Lloyd

Evening News · Tuesday 25 January 1881 · page 2

Our Narrbkri correspondent wires us that Mr. James Charles Lloyd, whose name has long been before the public as plaintiff in the great squatting case of Lloyd v. Vickery, died at his residence, near…

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Obituary

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 29 January 1881 · page 15

DEATH OF MR. JOHN BYRNE.—It is with sincere regret we (Queanbeyan Age) are called upon to record that death has again entered the family circle of our osteemed follow citizen, M. Byrne,…

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Death of an Actor

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 29 January 1881 · page 10

LONDON, January 21.—Mr Sotborn, the well-known actor (the original-Lord Dundreary), is dead…

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Death of Dr. Adam Cairns

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Monday 31 January 1881 · page 3

It is with great regret that we announce the death of the Rev. Dr. Cairns, of Melbourne, which sad news we received last night. The deceased has for many years been one of the leading ministers…

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Death of Mr. N. A. Tension-woods

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 31 January 1881 · page 3

It is with deep regret that we learn by the English mail of the death, on November 1, of Mr. Nicholas Augustine Tenison-Woods, one of the ablest of the special correspondents, of the London Press. The deceased gentleman was…

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Death of a Centenarian. NEWCASTLE

Evening News · Wednesday 2 February 1881 · page 2

On Monday Mrs. Jane Mack, residing at Jesmond, near Lambton, died aged 100 years all but two months. She was an old colonist, and leaves a grown-up family. She was Scotch by birth,…

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Obituary. London, Feb. 1

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 2 February 1881 · page 5

Mrs. S. C. Hall, the popular authoress of past years, is dead…

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Death of Mrs. S. C. HALL. London, February 1

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 2 February 1881 · page 3

Mrs. S. C. Hall, the well-known authoress, is dead…

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Cable Messages. Death of a Famous Writer

Evening News · Friday 4 February 1881 · page 2

LONDON, February 2.—Mrs. S. C. Hall, wife of Mr. Samuel Carter Hall, F.S.A., is dead…

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Painful Death of an Infant. NEWCASTLE

Evening News · Friday 4 February 1881 · page 2

The infant son of Mr. Gale, a Newcastle butcher, pulled a table cloth off the table, yesterday, scalding itself frightfully with coiling tea on the face and chest. It died at 11 o'clock last…

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