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Obituaries & funerals, 1887

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Sad Death of a Child

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 2 July 1887 · page 6

Mr. Pinkey, J.P., held a magisterial inquiry yesterday at the Prince Alfred Hospital into the death of a boy named [?] aged 2 years, who died at the institution from [?]…

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Sad Death of a Child. '

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 2 July 1887 · page 8

Mr. Pinh[?]y also held an inquiry at the Prince Alfred Hospital concerning the death of a child named Cecil Blyth, two years of age, who died in the institution at about 9.46 p.m. on Thursday. It appeared from the evidence…

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Death of Boyd, the Seu[?]er

Evening News · Monday 4 July 1887 · page 5

LONDON, July 1.—The death is announced of Boyd, the well-known English sculler…

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Death of Sculler Boyd

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 5 July 1887 · page 5

London, Sunday.--The death is announced of Boydd, the well-known English sculler…

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Death of Boyd the Sculler. London, July 1

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 5 July 1887 · page 9

The death is announced of Boyd, tho well-known English sculler…

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Obituary

Evening News · Wednesday 6 July 1887 · page 5

LONDON, July 5.—Mr. Louis Kett,of Reid's Creek, Victoria, is dead. The cause of death was sunstroke. He was worth £60,000…

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Death of Mr. T. A. Tenison-woods

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 9 July 1887 · page 15

WE regret to announce to our readers the decease of Mr. T. A. Tenison-Woods, brother of the well-known scientific missionary, the Rev. Father Juliair Tenison-Woods. The deceased gentleman…

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Home and Foreign. Ireland. Death of Mr. J. A. Blake, M.p. for Carlow

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 9 July 1887 · page 5

There is no true Irishman here of [?]where but will regret to learn of the sudden death of Mr. John Aloysius Blake, M.P. The feeling will be intensified in the case of those who had…

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Death of a Child From Hunger and Cold. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Bourke

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 14 July 1887 · page 8

The body of a child, the son of H. C. Smith, caretaker of Hiliman's Tank, on the Cobar-road, was found on the 5th instant about two miles from the tank. It seems that a traveller had turned out his horses for a spell, and went…

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Obituary

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 16 July 1887 · page 15
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A GOOD and earnest Catholic—a zealous yet unpretending man has passed from our midst. Mr. Donald, M'Donald, who died last Friday in his 70th year, was known to very few in Sydney. Not so in…

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Death of Krupp

Evening News · Saturday 16 July 1887 · page 5

LONDON,, July 14.—The death is announced of Frederick Krupp the celebrated gum maker. [Frederick Krupp was the proprietor of the celebrated metal foundry and gun manufactory at Essen, in Rhenish…

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DEATH Of a Goulburn Nun

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 16 July 1887 · page 15

THIS morning (writes our correspondent on the 12th instant) the Convent of Mercy was the scene of a very sad but imposing ceremony, viz., the conveying of the remains of one of the good…

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Death of a Child from Hunger and Cold

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 16 July 1887 · page 129

The body of a child, the son of H. C. Smith, caretaker of Hiliman's Tank, on the Cobar-road, was found on the 5th instant about two miles from tbe tank. It seems that a traveller had turned out his horses for a spell, and went…

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DEATH Of Lady Sturt

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 18 July 1887 · page 4

Some weeks ago we published a cable message from our London correspondent announcing the death of Lady Sturt, the widow of the Australian explorer, Captain Charles Sturt. Another cable…

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Death of Frederick Krupp

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 18 July 1887 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday.--The renowned German cannon and projectile maker, Frederick Krupp, is dead…

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Death of Frederick Krupp. London, July 15

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 July 1887 · page 7

The death is announced of Herr Frederick Krupp, the renowned cannon and projectile maker, of Essen, Germany…

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Death of Lady Stuart

Evening News · Tuesday 19 July 1887 · page 5

LONDON, July 18.—Lady Stuart, widow of the late Sir Alexander Stuart, Premier of New South Wales, is dead…

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Death of a Boy Athlete

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 19 July 1887 · page 5

BATHURST, Saturday.--Last evening some boys were exercising on a bar in a skittle alley, Perth, among them a lad named Field, who practised, for some time and then dropped…

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The LATE Mr. JOHN H. KEYS, of BENGALLA

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 20 July 1887 · page 4

In the decease of Mr. John H. Keys there has passed away a prominent and venerable gentleman who was well known on the Hunter, and whose high character commanded the esteem of all who know him. Mr. Keys was a native of…

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