Kambalda (Red Hill) Pioneer Cemetery Beresford Rd, Kambalda L 31.204984 – L 121.650983 5 burials – 1 suicide 1 woman EUPELI George — d 13th June 1904, at the Butterfly Mine, Red Hill, Occ: Miner, 43 Years, Cause: Cardiac Failure, Valvular Disease, a post mortem examination was conducted (not very common on the Goldfields at […]
Tuckanarra Cemetery – now you’re but a memory blurred
28/09/2024 By 1 Comment
Tuckanarra Cemetery -AKA Cork Tree Flat Coordinates: -27.10872, 118.09445 41kms north of Cue Karbar Station 13 Burials – 7 children – 4 women Deserted now, no more your stirred by those in quest of gold. Now you’re but a memory blurred of what you were of old. Yet, though the camp in silence sleeps, Except for songs […]
Alfred Ives – prospector and staunch friend
28/09/2024 By 2 Comments
Sunday Times – Perth – 1 July 1910, page 1 New England ‘Mt Vernon” A Promising Gold Belt told by Alfred Ives Prospector Alfred Ives tripped up the office stairs last Wednesday to offer voluminous details about the development of the New England district, a promising gold-belt located about 40 miles S.S.E. of Wiluna, having […]
Ora Banda Cemetery – of dust and dreams
14/09/2024 By 3 Comments
Ora Banda Cemetery (1913-1925) GPS Coordinates: -30.39500, 121.12400 18 Burials 6 Children, 1 Woman, 5 Mine accidents, 1 Suicide. Lonely they rest, and rest must until The final call to awaken at God’s will Now the Eucalypts on the field that bears their name, they hide beneath the ‘wounds of the golden game’. AHERN Joan – d 2 […]
Florence Ayre – grave tales
08/09/2024 By Leave a Comment
Florence Adelaide AYRE was the daughter of Joseph AYRE (1843-1913) and Ellen JANEWAY (1832 – 1905) and was born in 1877 in Queensland. She had one sibling, Joseph Benjamin born in 1875. It was her mother’s second marriage, her first was to George RANDALL. Florence had eight half-siblings. In 1899 Joseph and Ellen moved the […]
