On the 6th November 1911 little Dorothea Ruby Olive WRAIGH, age 9yrs, passed away in the Infectious Disease Hospital in Kalgoorlie. Exactly a week later her little brother Alwyn George WRAIGHT, aged 7mth, also died. They are buried together in the Boulder Cemetery.
Dorothea and Alwyn WRAIGHT Boulder Cemetery.
Dorothea was born in Coolgardie on the 20th Nov 1902 to George Thompson WRAIGHT and Ina Elizabeth RISDEN. Her brother Alwyn was born in Perth in 1911 the same year he died. Their father was aged 37yrs when the children died and he was born in Aberdeen Scotland. Ina was aged 28 yrs and was born in Stalwall Victoria. The two were married only a short time before in Kunanalling on the 1st Jul 1902. The two little ones where their only children.
Its not know for sure what the cause of death was, but as the ‘In Memorium’ notice mentions the Infectious Disease Hospital, it was most likely to be Tuberculosis.
2017 – Photo Danelle Warnock
2017 – Photo Danelle Warnock
Kalgoorlie Miner 7 Nov 1911
Kalgoorlie Miner 10 November 1911
George was to pass away in 1951 and Ina in 1960 both are in the Fremantle Cemetery, they were cremated and are in the Niche wall. They were both 77yrs when they died.
Moya Sharp
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Thanks Moya for your Sunday email. This has inspired me to drive into the country and visit my Grandparents grave to see if it needs any repair. As I am nearly 80 I may be the last person to visit. I always look forward to your interesting articles
Hi Moya,
I’ve just read Bill McCudden’s poem on the Paddington cemetery.
If you don’t have any background on Bill I’d like to submit the following: Bill was an Esperance boy who spent his whole working life with the WAGR. He was into poetry and history, especially Esperance history.
He told me many tales of his early years in the port town and of his time working on the construction of the Esperance to Salmon Gums railway in the 1920s.
He lived in the block in Wittenoom St opposite the old railway yard and was the storeman at the Kalgoorlie loco depot when I started there as a trainee engineman in 1961, and there he remained until retirement about 1970.
There are several articles on Esperance history by Bill in the early 1970s issues of the Railway Institute Magazine.
I don’t have a date for his passing but it would have to have been in the 1970s,
Cheers,
Bernie Morris.