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Obituaries & funerals, 1887

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Death of Sir T. G. Browne. London, April 19

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 20 April 1887 · page 9

The death is announced of Sir Thomas Gore Browne, K.C.M.G., formerly Governor of New Zealand, and also of Tasmania…

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Frightful Railway Accident at Auburn. Sad Death of Mr. A. T. Gilbert

The Cumberland Mercury · Wednesday 20 April 1887 · page 2

LATE on Friday evening last news of a shocking nature was brought to Parramatta by the 10.25 train, of a sad and terrible railway accident at Auburn to a well known resident and…

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Obituary

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 21 April 1887 · page 5

London, Wednesday.--The death is announced of the Earl of Longford…

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The Late Mr. S. W. M'gowan

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 21 April 1887 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--The funeral of the late Mr. Samuel W. M'Gowan, deputy Postmaster General, took place to-day. It was very largely attended by public men and prominent…

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The Death of Warrior

Referee · Thursday 21 April 1887 · page 8

At the Hurlingham pony meeting on Saturday. in concluding the flat race for larger animals. Warrior fell at a sharp turn and brock his leg. having to be…

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Inquests. Death of an Infant

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 21 April 1887 · page 5

The inquiry commenced about a fortnight ago relative to the death of the infant son of a domestic servant named Elizabeth Larkins was resumed by the City Coroner yesterday morning…

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Coroner's Inquests. Death of an Infant

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 21 April 1887 · page 4

At the South Sydney morgue yesterday, the City Coroner, Mr. H. Shiell, J.P., resumed the inquest commenced a fortnight ago touching the death of a newly-born male infant which was found by the police in a closet attached to…

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Obituary

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 23 April 1887 · page 9

MR. T. J. OLIVER.—Mr. Thomas Jewel Oliver, who died at Randwick on April 14, was born in Plymouth (England) in June, 1807, and came to this colony about 50 years ago. He entered the…

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Inquests. Death of an Infant

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 23 April 1887 · page 3

The City Coroner held an inquest at the South Sydney Morgue yesterday mornings touching the death of an infant named Margaret Reid, who was found dead in bed by the side of…

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Sudden Death of an Infant

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 23 April 1887 · page 10

The City Coroner held an inquest at the South Sydney morgue yesterday upon the body of an infant named Margaret Reed, three weeks old, who died suddenly on Thursday morning, at her parents' residence, No. 1,…

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News by Telegraph. Death of Hon. John Crozier

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 23 April 1887 · page 5

ADELAIDE, Friday.--The Hon. John Crozier. M.L.C., died to-day from heart disease and dropsy, aged 73 years. He arrived in New South Wales in 1838, and at once assumed…

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Death of the Hon. John Crozier. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Adelaide

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 23 April 1887 · page 14

The Hon. John Crozier, M.L.C., died this morning, at the age of 78. He was born in Scotland, and went out to Sydney in 1838. He managed the Redesdale Estate, in the Braidwood district, and…

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Obituary

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 25 April 1887 · page 5

London, Sunday.--The death is announced of Lord Phipps…

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Death of Lord Hervey Phipps. London, April 23

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 25 April 1887 · page 7

The death is announced of Lord Hervey Phipps, who was aide-de-camp to the Marquis of Normanby late Governor of Victoria. Lord Hervey Phipps was the second. son of the…

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Sad Death of a Young Woman

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 27 April 1887 · page 6

An inquest was held by the City Coroner at the Assembly Hotel, Hunter-street, yesterday, upon the body of a young woman named Florence Annie Law, alias Curtis or Dampier, who died in the Sydney Hospital on Sunday last,…

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Obituary

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 28 April 1887 · page 4

Many persons—and especially those connected with the Press and with the Imperial service in these colonies as far back as the old Legislative Council— will learn with regret of the death of Mr. Thomas…

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Sudden Death of Mr. J. C. Suttor

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 29 April 1887 · page 5

BATHURST, Thursday.--Mr. J. C. Suttor dropped dead from his carriage in the street today. He had been summoned as a juryman in the Criminal Sessions, and had sat on jury as…

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Obituary

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 30 April 1887 · page 41

MR. JOHN CROZIER, M.L.C.—The death, on April 21, is announced from Adelaide of this gentleman, who was an old and highly-respected pioneer, a wealthy squatter, and a member of the…

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Death of a Young Priest

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 30 April 1887 · page 14

IT is with peculiarly painful feelings we record the death of a saintly young priest, Father Eugene Hurley, who at the age of 27 surrendered his soul within, the last few days to His Heavenly…

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Death of a Marist Missionary

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 30 April 1887 · page 18

FROM Rewa, Fiji, the melancholy intelligence is reported of the death of the Rev. Father Favier, S.M., which took place at the Marist Mission Station on Monday, April 4. The rev. gentleman…

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