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Obituaries & funerals, 1901

2,621 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 132

The Funeral of Prince Christian: By Agnes Macready. A Pathetic War Sketch

The Catholic Press · Saturday 5 January 1901 · page 7

At a wayside station, on tho way to Pretoria, amid tag-ends of news that Kitchener was going to put an end to tho war in a month; that the line was torn up again…

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Death of a Queensland Priest. The Late Father O'Gorman, O.S.A.

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 5 January 1901 · page 18

SHORT as is his absence from his diocese in the interest of the North Queensland Mission, the Right Rev. Dr. Murray, Bishop of Cooktown, will have to deplore on his return the death of one of his…

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Royal Rascals. George Iv. and Queen Caroline. The King's Seclusion, Lady Conyngham in Evidence. The Coronation of the King—The Queen Refused Admission to Westminster Abbey—Death of the Queen Within a Month — The King in Ireland— Death of the K i n g. No. XII—CONCLUSION

Truth · Sunday 6 January 1901 · page 3

To go back a little. At the accession of George IV., January 29,1820, the new King was so ill that he was unable to attend his father's funeral. So ill was he that it was anticipated…

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Death of a Victorian

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 7 January 1901 · page 5

LONDON, Sunday.--Trooper Eugene Bolingbroke St. John, of the Victorian Bushmen, has died at Buluwayo of malarial coma…

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Death of a Little Girl

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 7 January 1901 · page 7

A strange fatality happened at Woodstock West, near Tarnagulla, on Saturday morning. A little girl, Mary Trevaskes, who was spending her holidays at Stone's farm, wishing to enter the cellar…

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Death of Mr. F. C. B. Vosper

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 7 January 1901 · page 4

Mr. F. C. B. Vosper, M.P., the well-known Labor advocate, editor of the "Sunday Times," and one of the candidates for the Federal Parliament, died at 5 o'clock this, morning…

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The Balmain Shooting Case. Death of Purtill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 7 January 1901 · page 8

The young man Maurice Purtill, who was shot by [?] constable while in the execution of his duty at Rosell[?] at an early hour on Friday morning last, died in the Balmain Cottage Hospital at 11 o'clock last night…

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The Balmain Shooting Case Death of the Victim

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 7 January 1901 · page 5

The man Maurice Purtill who was admitted to the Balmain Collage Hospital early en Friday morning last suffering from a bullet wound inflicted by a constable, died last night. He…

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Death of Sir Edward Knox a Leading Citizen Gona

The Australian Star · Monday 7 January 1901 · page 5

Sir Edward Knox died suddenly this morning at his residence, Fiona, Woollahra. He was one of Sydney's. best known and most esteemed citizens, his name, In fact., being a…

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Sir Arthur Sullivan's Funeral

The Australian Star · Tuesday 8 January 1901 · page 3

Sir Arthur Sullivan was buried In St. Paul's Cathedral on Tuesday, November 26 The first part of the service was conducted, by the Queen's command, in the Chapel Royal,…

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Death of an Imperial Bushman

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 8 January 1901 · page 5

ADELAIDE, Monday.--Trumpeter C. G. Davis, of the Imperial Bushmen, has died from fever in South Africa…

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Death of an Aboriginal Murderer

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 8 January 1901 · page 7

DUBBO, Monday.--Pompey, a blackfellaw, who was sentenced to death in April, 1898, for the murder of another aboriginal on the Darling River, and whoso sentence was commuted…

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Death of Sir Edward Knox

Evening News · Tuesday 8 January 1901 · page 6
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald, The Daily Telegraph

Sir Edward Knox, who is well known as the chairman of the Colonial Sugar Company and the Commercial Banking Company, died suddenly yesterday at his residence, "Fiona," South Head-road,…

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Death of Mr. James Wesley Hall

Evening News · Tuesday 8 January 1901 · page 6

Mr. James Wesley Hall died yesterday at his residence, "Oma." Toorak, Melbourne, in his 62nd year. Mr. Hall was the first general manager of the Mount Morgan Gold Mining Company,…

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Death of Mr. P. D. Armour

Evening News · Tuesday 8 January 1901 · page 5

LONDON, January 7, 1.40 p.m.-The death is announced of Mr. P. D. Armour, head of the great meat-preserving firm at Chicago…

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The Balmain Sensation. Death of Maurice Purtill. To-day's Inquest

Evening News · Tuesday 8 January 1901 · page 4

The City Coroner to-day initiated an inquest touching the death of the young man Maurice Purtill, which occurred in Balmain Hospital on Sunday. The Jury viewed the body in the hospital…

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Obituary. London, January 7, 1.40 p.m

The Australian Star · Tuesday 8 January 1901 · page 4

The death is announced of Mr. P. D. Armour, of Chicago, the head of the well-known meat packing firm of that name…

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Death of a Young Woman

The Australian Star · Wednesday 9 January 1901 · page 3

Dr. Todd, Deputy City Coroner, held an inquest into the death of a young married woman, named Sarah Berkeley, 20, which occurred In Prince Alfred Hospital on December…

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