Sun Sunday 21 June 1908, page 9 THE WIDOW WHO SUED! THEN, BREACH O’ PROMISE SUITED THE MAN. An Ex Kalgoorlie Barmaid the Plaintiff (Margaret Augusta Elizabeth BRIDGELAND) and an Ex -Publican of Boulder Block the Defendant (‘Rorty’ Harry RODER) The Bridgeland- Roder breach of promise for £1,000 action was heard and concluded before Judge […]
Eh! but she was a good girl – grave tales
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It is a far cry from Coolgardie to Corbie in the Somme Valley in France. Still, in 1916, a Salvation Army Chaplin, Benjamin Orames, who as a boy had been on the Goldfields of Coolgardie, found himself in Corbie seeking the town mayor who he located in a dugout. While shells blasted the historic building […]
St Ives Cemetery – grave tales
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St Ives AKA Ives Find Cemetery (no headstones) Reserve 18492 (Cancelled in 1991) on the Gold Fields St Ives Mine Site (not accessible without permission from mine) DOUGLAS William – d about 12 Aug 1933, 69 yrs, a half a mile west of St Ives Hotel, Occ: Prospector, Cause: Natural Causes, Son of John and […]
Uncovering the Truth of Kate Cooper Bux –
02/11/2024 By 2 Comments
I was recently sent the following fascinating family story by Karen Hayes. Thanks to Karen and her aunts, Jude and Kath, for her kind permission to share the story with you. She originally contacted me to ask for transcripts from the Kalgoorlie Hospital records for her Great Grandmother and her two children. These are the […]
“For Those Who Blazed The Track”
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Coolgardie Pioneer Cemetery – 44 burials. “The Rev Thomas Trestrail writes to the Courier this week, complaining about the barbarous state of things existing at the Coolgardie cemetery. He asserts that bodies are thrown into shallow graves anyhow, and no proper record is kept of the burials. Foul odours are he says, commencing to arise […]
