He is know as ‘Red Flannel Joe’ throughout the district. He is old and somewhat pompous and lives in a tin hut in what was once the main street of this little nor west town of Peak Hill. Its almost deserted now, and Joe’s structure is the only one on that side. In the summer […]
The Schmidt Family of St Albans
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The infomation in the following stories was kindly supplied by Gary Cowans, and is re produced with his permission. In 1876 at the age of 19, Gustave Schmidt moved from Victoria where he was born to NSW and purchased land 8 miles SW of Moulamein. He married Emma Rebecca BICKFORD in 1884 and his first […]
Auralia ‘A Brave New Colony’
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“Auralia” and the goldfields separation movement A map printed in 1900, to accompany a petition to Queen Victoria, showing the boundaries of the proposed “Colony of ‘Auralia’. Auralia The move to separate the Western Australian goldfields from the colony of Western Australia, resulted in a petition which contained the signatures of more than 28,000 residents. […]
Black Range Pioneers – Where is ”Frenchy?
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Sunday Times 28 June 1908, page 3 BLACK RANGE PIONEERS “Where is ”Frenchy ?” There appeared in a recent issue of the Sunday Times, a paragraph relating to the original discoverers of Black Range, fourteen years ago in 1892. It was founded on the statement of one of them, McIntyre, as was published […]
Abbotts Cemetery – Yoothapina Station
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Abbotts Cemetery (Yoothapina Station) Formerly know as Abbotts Find Reserve 6980 and 22406 AZIZ Abdul — 43yrs, d 29 Apr 1900, at Abbotts GM employed by the Yagahong Co, Bitten by a camel on 20th April which broke his leg, He died on the 29th April from shock after and operation to amputate his leg, […]
