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The railways of New South Wales, Australia have had many incidents and accidents since their formation in 1831. There are close to 1000 names associated with rail-related deaths in NSW on the walls of the Australian Railway Monument in Werris Creek. Those killed were all employees of various NSW railways.
Riverstone (/ r ɪ v ər s t ə n /) is a suburb of Sydney in the state of New South Wales, Australia. [3] Riverstone is located 48 kilometres (30 mi) north-west of the Sydney central business district, in the Blacktown local government area and part of the Greater Western Sydney region. Originally settled in 1803 as part of a government stock ...
The Ryerson Index is an online index of death notices from Australian newspapers, past and present, compiled by the Sydney-based charity Ryerson Index Incorporated.The index database has in excess of 9 million records compiled from more than 470 newspapers and other sources across Australia.
New South Wales Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages. Civil registration in Australia of births, deaths and marriages as well other life events (such as changes of name, registration of relationships, adoption or surrogacy arrangements, changes of sex) is carried out and maintained by each state and territory in Australia, in an office called a Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages.
After August 1939 the Executive Council had automatically commuted death sentences to a term of imprisonment. [196] In 1955, with the Labor party in control of both houses of the State Parliament, New South Wales abolished the death penalty for crimes such as murder and rape.
New South Wales: 750 to 2,600: 1789: Smallpox epidemic among Aboriginal peoples [8] Epidemic: Sydney, New South Wales: 748: 1867 Feb–June: Measles epidemic in Sydney city & inner suburbs. Most of the victims were children under the age of 4. [9] Epidemic: Australia-wide: 535: 1900–1925: Bubonic plague. [10] Bushfires Australia-wide 479 2019 ...
2 July 1948 – Frederick Charles Hall, a 48-year-old labourer shot his six children to death near Glen Innes, New South Wales. He was sentenced to death, [23] later commuted to life imprisonment. 1 December 1948 – The Tamam Shud case. A middle-aged man was found dead, presumably poisoned, at Somerton Beach near Glenelg, South Australia.
In 1890 he was engaged by the Government of New South Wales to complete the official "History of New South Wales," at it was then known, the first volume of which had been edited by Mr. G. B. Barton . After his untimely death in 1892, Frank Murcott Bladen was appointed. [6]