With thanks to Susie de Monchaux for sharing her wonderful family story with us – Sister Mary Anthony Fitzpatrick (1888–1986) by Susie de Monchaux and family Eric Sierins, image editor Sister Mary Anthony Fitzpatrick was the first cousin of my paternal grandmother, Mrs Minnie Lillian de Monchaux (nee Fitzpatrick). In 1970, when I was eight […]
Sisters of the Church – the first High School
18/03/2023 By 2 Comments
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 […]
Sisters of the Church High School –
14/12/2019 By Leave a Comment
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 […]
The Miners’ Hall – Boulder
20/10/2018 By Leave a Comment
The Goldfields Leader of February 1902 reported that “The Boulder Miners’ Hall was erected on the Lake View lease some 5 or 6 years ago”. It is believed that the Rev’d E.M. Collick purchased it by private subscription and almost entirely enlarged it considerably at his own expense He was Rector of Boulder from1898 to […]
Eh! but she was a good girl – grave tales
21/03/2018 By 2 Comments
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 […]
