East Family as related by Nell Charlwood nee East – Nell’s father, Cornelius ‘Neal’ East, came to Lennonville near Mount Magnet from Bolton, Ontario, Canada. He came to work and invest in the mine owned and established by James East, his brother. James East had worked on various mines in South Dakota, New Mexico and […]
The people of the Goldfields
The Goldfields of Western Australia was and still is made up of many people, from poets to politicians, from saints and sinners and everything in between. I hope to tell you the stories of some of these people either famous or infamous or just the ordinary folks. Sometime the most ordinary people do the most extraordinry things
Wild West Deeds at Bullfinch –
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Call News-Pictorial Perth – 7 September 1928, page 2 WILD WEST DEEDS AT BULLFINCH Love Lorn Migrant’s Reign of Terror Ends With Bullet Sensational Incidents Follow Rejected Affection Because he loved fifteen-year-old Dorothy Cook, the daughter of a local farmer, a youthful migrant entered upon a series of sensational exploits of terror at Bullfinch on […]
Lost in the Bush by Rodney Creek
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Mirror Perth – 27 December 1907, page 16 AUSTRALIAN BUSH YARN by Rodney Creek, an old Bushman Lost in the Bush. It is doubtful if, for bodily and mental anguish, anything can much exceed the hardships of one who is lost in the bush, more especially so when those sufferings are accentuated by the lack […]
Kurnalpi Cemetery – grave tales
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KURNALPI BURIALS 1894 -1912 80 km east north east of Kalgoorlie New Cemetery – 1 mile SW of town Reserve 2715 Cemetery Gully – near road 1050, 1 ½ Miles East of Town, Reserve 4068 13 Burials = 10 New Cem 3 Gully Cem The Lonely graves are scattered In that fenceless vast gods acre […]
New Kalgoorlie Hospital Records 1919 to 1921
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NEW KALGOORLIE HOSPITAL RECORDS It’s been a while since our last addition to the admission records of the Kalgoorlie Hospital. I’m happy to now add to the Outback Family History website, the latest digitised index covering the dates: August 1919 to April 1921. This is a total of 513 new entries. You can view the […]
