Frank Twitt was born to George Twitt and Sarah Ann nee SPERRING on 5 JUL 1870 in Worle, Somerset, England. He was the seventh child of 10 born to the couple, who both were born and died in Somerset. Frank arrived in Fremantle in 1902 at the age of 32 years. Frank, according to Margaret […]
Kalgoorlie Hospital Admission Records – No 8
26/08/2023 By 4 Comments
The next files are now released: “3600 individual new entries” File 37 and 38 – from 30th January 1916 to 27 August 1919 The Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital, told us some 17 years ago, that all of the original patient admission registers from the very first days of the Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital were still stored in […]
George August Dux – pioneer profile
19/08/2023 By Leave a Comment
The following story was sent to me by the President of the East Gippsland Family History Group, Debbie Squires, about one of their ‘locals’ who came west! “G.A.D.” has left an entertaining (and informative) description of Bairnsdale and districts in his writings – but who was he? There are a few clues in the narrative. […]
Helena Maud ‘Lily’ Pike – grave tales
19/08/2023 By 4 Comments
On the 27th April 1906, Helena ‘Lily’ Maud Pike (nee Rosevere) aged 30yrs, passed away at the St John of God Hospital in Dugan Street, Kalgoorlie from Typhoid. She was the wife of councillor Eustace Walter Pike and the mother of one child, James Albert, aged 6yrs. The couple had married in Adelaide SA in […]
The Swagmans Friend –
19/08/2023 By Leave a Comment
The Quart-Pot and Billy-Can No utensil is so generally used in the bush as the billy-can; none is more widely distributed, none better known in Australia. It is cheap, light, useful, and a burden to no man. It goes with every traveller, it figures in comedy and tragedy and has been the repository of the […]
