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Obituaries & funerals, 1890

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Death of Mr.Justice Kerferd

Evening News · Wednesday 1 January 1890 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.-This morning the sad news was received in town announcing the death of His Honor Mr. Justice Kerferd. On Saturday week last his Honor entered on his long…

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Obituary. London, December 31

The Australian Star · Wednesday 1 January 1890 · page 6

The death is announced of the widow of the late Admiral Robert Fitzroy, the eminent hydrographer and meteorologist, who was Governor of New Zealand from…

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Death of Mr. Justice Kerferd. (By Telegraph)

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 1 January 1890 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--Mr. Justice Kerferd, one of the judges of the Supreme Court, died [?] Sorrento early this morning, In his fifty-ninth year, after n very short illness, dating…

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Death of a Centenarian. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 1 January 1890 · page 7

There died, at his farm at Rylands, near Kilmore, this morning, a contenarian, named Nicholas Sorragh[?]n, who was born in 1783. Up to yesterday he was able to walk about his farm, and regularly…

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Death of Mr. Justice Kerferd. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 1 January 1890 · page 7

Mr. Justice Kerferd died at his seaside residence at Sorrento at 20 minutes to [?] this morning. He was 59 years of age. His death was quite unexpected. He had a bathe in a private bath…

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Obituary

Evening News · Thursday 2 January 1890 · page 4
Also in The Daily Telegraph

LONDON, January 1.-The death, is announced of Maria Pabella, daughter of Mr. J. H. Smyth, of Heath Hall, Yorkshire, and widow of the late Vice-Admiral…

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Obituary. London, December 31

The Australian Star · Thursday 2 January 1890 · page 5

The death is announced of the widow of the late Admiral Robert Fitzroy, the eminent hydrographer and meteorologist, who was Governor of New Zealand from…

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Death of a Prize Horse

The Australian Star · Friday 3 January 1890 · page 5

GLEN INNES, Friday.--Mr. J. Bull's imported Clydesdale stallion, a Sydney, Maitland, and Glen Innes prize-taker, valued at 500 sovs, died suddenly last night…

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The Death of Captain Drevar

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 3 January 1890 · page 7

Mr. Wilshire, secretary of the National Shipwreck Relief Society of New South Wales, yesterday visited the widow of the late Captain George Drevar, and conveyed to her the…

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Funeral of Mr. Justice Kerferd. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 3 January 1890 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Thursday.--The funeral of the late Mr. Justice Kerford was very largely attended. The interment took place to-day at the St. Kilda Cemetery…

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A Suspicious Case. Death of the Victim. Certificate of Death Refused

The Australian Star · Friday 3 January 1890 · page 5

LAST night, about half Past 11 o'clock, it was reported to the police that a woman named Kempenar, married but living apart from her husband, had expired…

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Death of a Nonagenarian Minister. Father of the Tasmanian Scotch Church. (By Cable.)

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 3 January 1890 · page 5

HOBART, Thursday.--The Rev. Dr. William Nicholson died this morning at the age of 96. He was the father of the Scotch Church in Tasmania, having arrived in 1850 with…

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A Record of Tragic Deaths. Four Cases of Drowning Mysterious Death of a Grain Buyer. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 3 January 1890 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Thursday.--W. H. Mott, aged 24, Bon of Mr. G. H. Mott, of Messrs. Gordon and Gotch, and proprietor of the Hawthorn Advertiser, was drowned this morning while…

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Obituary

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 4 January 1890 · page 10

LIEUT.-COL. BAYNES.—We regret to note the death of Mr. Baynes, who has for so long been a prominent officer in the Volunteers and Permament Military forces of New South Wales. He…

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Death of William J. Price

Nepean Times · Saturday 4 January 1890 · page 4

On Friday morning the town of Penrith was somewhat startled at thd news of Mr. W. J. Price's death. It was well known that Mr. Price had been suffering seserply for close upon 12 months…

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Death of Sadler, the Sculler

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 January 1890 · page 5

LONDON, Friday.--The death is announced of J. H. Sadler, who held the sculling championship of the world in 1874 and 1875, and who was defeated in 1876 by…

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Death of a Woman. Suspicions Aroused

Evening News · Saturday 4 January 1890 · page 6

About half-past 11 on Thursday night, a married woman, named Kempenar, living apart from her husband, died at her residence in Illawarra-road, Marrickville, under such circumstances that…

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Aquatics. Death of J. H. SADLER

Evening News · Saturday 4 January 1890 · page 4

LONDON, January 3.—The death, is announced of the famous ex-champion sculler, J. H. Sadler. [Joseph Henry Sadler was born in 1840, and made…

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Death of the Ex-empress of Brazil

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 4 January 1890 · page 16

London, December 29.—The death is announced of Theresa Christina Maria, Ex Empress of Brazil; sister of Francis I., late King of Naples…

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