Several years ago I was contacted by Roderick Martin from the Tavistock Museum in Devon, England. Roderick was researching local cordial makers in his area for an upcoming book. he had found an inscription on this grave stone in the Plymouth Road cemetery in Tavistock. Sacred to the memory of Louisa MacKey, beloved wife of Robert […]
Ptomaine Poisoning – the silent killer
07/06/2018 By 1 Comment
The term, ptomaine poisoning, is was used to include all sorts of cases of bacterial poisoning due to the consumption of unhealthy food, except where specific disease. e.g. tuberculosis. is conveyed. The main reason was contamination from tinned food that had not been prepared or tinned properly. Anyone who has travelled in the outback will […]
My Own Dear Boy:-
03/06/2018 By 1 Comment
Murchison Times and Day Dawn Gazette 29 July 1897 SUICIDE AT SMITHFIELD Last Saturday week a miner, Thomas McKileen, living by himself in a tent at Smithfield, committed suicide by blowing his brains out. At an inquest held on Monday afternoon before the acting-Coroner, Mr. E. O. Butler, J,P. it was elicited that on Friday […]
Death at Dingo Creek:-
01/06/2018 By 5 Comments
Malcolm Chronicle and Leonora Advertiser 18 January 1902 DEATH FROM THIRST – ANOTHER SAD TALE OF THE BUSH. On Saturday morning of last week, two Italians, named Bortolo Marinoni and Joe Marinoni, left Anaconda Copper Mine, where they were employed, with the intention of visiting a relative who was in the Malcolm Hospital. The latter, […]
The Parker Family – pioneer profile
01/06/2018 By 6 Comments
Charles PARKER was born in 1873 and his wife Hannah nee REES was born 1872. They were married in 1892 and came to Australia to live at Hill End in New South Wales. Five of the couples daughters were listed as deceased by 1903. Their last three children were born in Kalgoorlie, Violetta May in […]
