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Obituaries & funerals, 1895

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Obituary. London, March 5

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 6 March 1895 · page 7

The death is announced of Mr. Thomas Cleghorn Westgarth, Australian financial agent…

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Death of a Barmaid. a Colonial Inquiry

The Australian Star · Wednesday 6 March 1895 · page 6

Mr. J. C. Woore, J.P., City Coroner, held a magisterial inquiry this morning at his court in Chancery-square on the body of Alice Hogan, a barmaid, who was killed…

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Obituary. SIR J. D. WESTON

Evening News · Wednesday 6 March 1895 · page 5

LONDON, March 5.—Sir J. D. Weston, M.P. for East Bristol, died to-day from influenza. Sir John Dodge Weston was born in 1822…

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General Cable News. Death of Mr. T. Westgarth

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 6 March 1895 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday.--The death is announced of Mr. Thomas Westgarth, of Melbourne…

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Death of Sir Henry Rawlinson. London, March 5

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 6 March 1895 · page 7

The death is announced of Sir Henry Rawlinson, the Oriental scholar and diplomatist…

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Bitten by a Snake. Death of a Young Woman

Evening News · Wednesday 6 March 1895 · page 2

MACLEAN, March 6.—The daughter of Mr. Richard Maher, of Harwood Island, 22 years of age, has died from the effects of a bite by a snake. She went out just…

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Northern Items. Newcastle News. the Sessions. Death of an Old Resident. the Minmi Strike

Evening News · Wednesday 6 March 1895 · page 2

NEWCASTLE, March 6.—The quarter sessions were continued on Tuesday before his Honor Judge Rogers. T. J. Jones, formerly shipping manager of the Cardiff Colliery,…

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Obituary. Sir Henry Rawlinson

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 7 March 1895 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday, 2 p.m. -- The death is announced of Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson. Bart., formerly a famous officer of the Indian service,…

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Obituary. SIR J. D. WESTON

Evening News · Thursday 7 March 1895 · page 4

London, March 5.—Sir J. D. Weston, M.P. for East Bristol, died to-day from influenza. Sir John Dodge Weston was born in 1822…

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Death of Sir Joseph Weston, M.p. London, March 5

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 7 March 1895 · page 5

The death is announced of Sir Joseph D. Weston, Liberal member for the East Division of Bristol, aged 73. Influenza was the cause of death…

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Obituary. LIEUT.-GENERAL J. H. LAYE

Evening News · Friday 8 March 1895 · page 4
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LONDON, March 7.—The death is announced of Lieutenant-General Joseph Henry Laye, C.B., well known in connection with the New Zealand,…

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The Death of Captain Byrnes. Magisterial Inquiry. An Open Finding

The Australian Star · Friday 8 March 1895 · page 6

The City Coroner (Mr. J. C. Woore, J.P.) held a magisterial inquiry at the Caledonian Hotel, Pyrmont, to-day, into the circumstances attending the death by…

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Dashed to Death. Collapse of a Cage. Seven Men Killed. London, March 7

The Australian Star · Friday 8 March 1895 · page 6

A shocking mining accident occurred at a lead-mine in Shropshire yesterday. The gear connected with the cage became disarranged when a number of…

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Slave and Emancipator. Death of Frederick Douglass. a Great Public Funeral

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 9 March 1895 · page 27

A cablegram from London, dated February 27, announces the death of Frederick Douglass, the famous ex-slave and orator. His remains were accorded a great public…

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A Ritualistic Funeral

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 9 March 1895 · page 7

The late Hon. and Rev. O. L. Courtenay, brother of the 11th Earl of Devon a Canon of Windsor, was a leading Ritualistic and a vice- president of the E.C.U. He was buried at…

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Funeral of Captain Byrnes

The Australian Star · Saturday 9 March 1895 · page 5

The remains of the late Captain Matthew Byrnes were interred in the Waverley Cemetery yesterday, the funeral being attended by a large number of representative citizens…

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Funeral of Capt. Byrnes

Evening News · Saturday 9 March 1895 · page 5

The remains of Captain Matthew Byrnes, who was drowned at Pyrmont, were interred yesterday afternoon in the Roman Catholic portion of Waverley…

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Death of Professor Blackie

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 9 March 1895 · page 511

The death is announced of Professor John Stuart Blackie, in his 86th year. He was formerly Professor of Greek in the University of Edinburgh, wasthe son of a banker at Aberdeen, and was born at…

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Death of a Jockey

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 9 March 1895 · page 20

THE jockey, Joseph O'Callaghan, who was injured in the Hurdle Race at St. Arnaud, Victoria, died in the local hospital last Friday. He was a stranger and not much was known of him, but it is believed…

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