Australia’s Longest Overland Mail from Meekatharra to Marble Bar. Western Australia. a distance of 1211 miles for the round trip. by John K Ewers – February 1935 Mundiwindi, Murramunda, Bald Hill, Noreena Downs. Nullagine — the very names are redolent of that other Australia which so few people know and which is the most vital […]
Childe Harold – a ship, a horse or a poem ???
26/06/2021 By Leave a Comment
We now have a new town on the Outback Family History website: Childe Harold is on the Mt Weld Station, 22kms south of Laverton, Western Australia. Have you ever come across the name of a town that is so unusual you want to find out where the name came from? Many years ago I heard of […]
Davyhurst Cemetery
19/06/2021 By Leave a Comment
Davyhurst Cemetery – Western Australia – GPS Latitude and longitude 30° 03’.82s 120° 38’.70e The Davyhurst Cemetery has 45 people buried there. Davyhurst is a Goldfields town that is situated southwest of Menzies, Western Australia, and is approximately 120 kilometers northwest of Kalgoorlie. The proposed townsite was initially declared “Davyston” in 1900. […]
Peter Dennis KAVANAGH – Police Officer
19/06/2021 By Leave a Comment
Peter Dennis Kavanagh joined the Police Force when he was twenty-one. How he crushed the gold stealing industry on the Golden Mile has now gone down in history. He was tutored by that wonderfully astute Excise Inspector – John Mitchell Christie. He was a born detective, keen and shrewd, with boundless energy. He was also […]
The Waters Family in the West-
12/06/2021 By 1 Comment
From the family records of Grant Waters, with thanks: In the 1890s (possibly 1894), my Great Great Grandfather, Arundel William Waters, and two of his brothers, Thomas Waters and William Henry Waters shipped their horse teams to Western Australia to chase work (carting) on the expanding goldfields. They were the sons of William Henry and […]
