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Sydney · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1905

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Funeral Reform

The Newsletter: an Australian Paper for Australian People · Saturday 4 March 1905 · page 16

WHATEVER is worth doing is worth doing well, is an adage which has wide application in every walk of life, but especial application in spheres of…

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Sudden Death of a Young Woman

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 March 1905 · page 11

The police yesterday took charge of the body of a young woman named Kate O'Donne[?]l, who died suddenly during the night. She was in the employ of Dr. Nash, of Phillip-street,…

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Tragedy at Honolulu. Death of Mrs. Stanford. Indications of Poisoning

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 March 1905 · page 9

LONDON, Thursday Afternoon.--Mrs. Leland Stanford, the well-known millionairess and philanthropist, has died at Honolulu, and there are indications that she was…

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Death of Dr. Crabbe

Sunday Times · Sunday 5 March 1905 · page 8

Bowlers generally, and members of Chatswood Club particularly, will be sorry to hear that Dr. J. B. Crabbe, an ex-president of Chatswood Bowling Club, died last night at about 9 o'clock of…

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Death of a Child

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 7 March 1905 · page 3

An inquest was opened yesterday on the body of a newly-born male child who died on Saturday morning at 37 Ada-street. After evidence of identification was given the inquest was…

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Death of a Cave Dweller

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 7 March 1905 · page 6

On Sunday afternoon the body of a man named Fortesque was found lying in a small pool of water in a gully at the head of Kerosene Bay. About 10 yards from where the body was…

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Casualties. Suspicious Death of a Child

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 7 March 1905 · page 8

The body of a child was removed to the Morgue on Saturday. It had been born that morning. The mother, Hannah Priscilla Smith, residing at 37 Ada-street, awoke at…

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A Grazier's Estate. Valued at Over £100,000. Late Mr. A. Tobin's Will

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 7 March 1905 · page 6

The will of the late Mr. Andrew Tobin, the well-known grazier, of Wlngadee, near Coonamble, N.S.W., and of Alma-road, St. Kilda, Melbourne, has been sworn for probate and…

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Obituary

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 8 March 1905 · page 596
Also in Australian Town and Country Journal

Thomas Terry, 84, of Albury. Dr. J. B. Crabbe, 55, of Chatswood. William Moncur Wallis, at Neutral Bay. John Watchorn, M.L.C., 80, of Tasmania…

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The Mysterious Death of M. Syveton

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 8 March 1905 · page 37

The longer Paris seethes over the greatest mystery in the annals of that city of mysteries, the less able its inhabitants, whether in official or private life, find themselves to agree on any…

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Victoria. Death of a "Hansard" Reporter. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 March 1905 · page 7

An Inquest concerning, the death of Mr. John Tipping, late member of the Victorian "Hansard," a finding was returned that death was due to an overdose of chloral hydrate…

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OBITUARY. Death of Dean O'Sullivan, Gunnedah

The Catholic Press · Thursday 9 March 1905 · page 15

The people of the diocese of Armidale heard with the deepest regret of the death of the Very Rev. Dean John O'Sullivan P.P., V.F., Gunnedah, which occurred on Monday,…

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The Late Mr. Francis Schimmel

The Catholic Press · Thursday 9 March 1905 · page 15

On Thursday the members of St. Vincent de Paul's Choir, Redfern, paid a tribute to the memory of their late conductor, Mr. Francis Schimmel. A Solemn Requiem…

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Death of Mr. A. J. Malcolm

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 9 March 1905 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday Afternoon.--The death is announced of Mr. Alexander James Malcolm. Mr. Alexander James Malcolm, sen., was for many years chairman of James M'Ewan and Co.,…

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Obituary. London, March 8

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 9 March 1905 · page 5

The death is announced of Mr. Alexander James Malcolm, chairman of directors of the London and Melbourne firm of James M'Ewan and Co., Ltd…

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QUEENSLAND. Obituary. Rev. Father F. A. DUNHAM

The Catholic Press · Thursday 9 March 1905 · page 26

After an illness extending over two years, during which time he was unable to discharge any of his sacred duties, the Rev. Father F. A. Dunham, of Holy Cross…

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Death of Mother Mary Ignatius. Foundress of the Bathurst Convent of Mercy. a Sister of the Late Archbishop Croke

The Catholic Press · Thursday 9 March 1905 · page 17

The death of Mother Mary Ignatius Croke, sister of the late Archbishop of Cashel, took place in the Bathurst Convent on Thursday evening. For several weeks past she had…

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Birds at a Funeral

Evening News · Friday 10 March 1905 · page 8

At the funeral some little time back of a birdfancier, at the East End-of London, two small cases, each-containing a beautiful and favourite canary, were placed on the pall which covered…

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Obituary. Sir Benjamin Benjamin

The Hebrew Standard of Australasia · Friday 10 March 1905 · page 7

The death announcement of Sir Benjamin Benjamin will be received with deep regret by a large circle of friends. A few weeks ago Sir Benjamin was compelled to submit himself…

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