The booklets are here! The 130 Women booklets with all 130 individual stories have arrived and are available for purchase. Booklets are $25 Gallery Collection or $30 Australian Delivery. Orders can be arranged through email with – Herstories@130women.com.au the requested number of copies, the postal address to mail them to a phone number to arrange […]
Kanowna Cemetery – a work in progress
Usually, when doing a cemetery upgrade for the Outback Family History website, I work on it until everything has been checked again and again and we have photographs of those buried there where available, and also newspaper articles and copies of inscriptions added. For the Kanowna Cemetery (the second one) we are going to do […]
Sisters of the Church – the first High School
The following story was written by Fr Ted Doncaster and is an extract from the publication “The Cross in the Field, a history of the Anglican Church in the Eastern and Murchison Goldfields of Western Australia”. It is produced with his permission and I would like to thank him for his assistance and his continued […]
Edith Bowe – a colourful life
The following story was sent to me by an OFH reader Jean Bearda about her Grandmother, Edith Annie Bowe, who was born on 26th March 1891 in Sydney, Australia and died on 15th October 1972 in Melbourne, Australia. She has very kindly sent me the following brief history and some wonderful photographs taken in Kalgoorlie/Boulder […]
A Faithful Wife True and Kind
I was recently sent this photograph of H Cramer and Co, Saddle, Collar and Harness Maker. I was asked to find out a bit more about the business. I started to search and this sad tale unfolded. In Kalgoorlie in 1901, a young couple married, Margaret Theresa ANGUS and Henry Timothy CRAMER, they were both […]