While relatively unknown, Charles Cooke Hunt played a crucial role in opening up of country east of York and ultimately the eastern goldfields. Hunt was born in England 1833. He joined the Royal Navy acquiring his Masters Certificate in 1859 but was injured and pensioned off. Hunt arrived in WA in early 1863 and completed […]
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
Milly Soak – an oasis in the desert
18/09/2021 By Leave a Comment
Thanks to John Pritchard for the original idea for this story: Milly/Millie Soak is 16 kilometers north of Cue and was a popular picnic spot in Cue’s early history. It also became the source of the town’s water for a number of years following the pollution of the town’s water supply due to poor sanitary […]
Jules Gascard – pioneer profile
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In the days before the motor vehicle and on the eve of the arrival of railway travel the horse and the camel ruled the transport business. Jules Samuel Gascard was one businessman who was at the forefront of this booming trade. Cue 1896 – Jules Gascard’s Livery stables are the largest in the colony and […]
A History of Lodge Golden Thistle –
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A HISTORY OF LODGE GOLDEN THISTLE No. 840 S.C. First Scottish Lodge erected on the Eastern Goldfields of WA By Bro. Doug Daws PDGM, Hon, SGW (Scot.) – August 2021 Although Coolgardie is now known to most West Australians as a tourist town and refueling stop on the road to the Eastern States, in the […]
Gold and Ghosts –
11/09/2021 By Leave a Comment
The murder-suicide tragedy of Nurse Elizabeth Gold and Kenneth Snodgrass, is a tale quite widely known about but I have not before told the story on the Outback Family History Blog. In Coolgardie in the 1890’s, Elizabeth Gold, Kenneth Snodgrass, and Charles Gold were living in Coolgardie. As with many tragedies, the interest lies within […]
