Truth (Perth) 4 July 1908, page 5 SADDLER AND HIS WIFE The Harness Parted and the Wife Bolted, John Brown Cadzow, a saddler carrying on business at the lively little town of Leonora, is a man who has a decided objection to wives going out at night unless accompanied by their husbands, and because Margueretta […]
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
A Lynching for Kitty:
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Eastern Recorder – Kellerberrin WA – 3 March 1933 LYNCH LAW IN Western Australia A True Story of Early Goldfields Days – by D Dinan. With, my dear old friend, “Matilda” (my swag), I struck Niagara (W.A.) early in the nineties. Niagara was some town in those days —four pubs, one at each […]
Our Late Beloved Son – grave tales
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Kalgoorlie Miner 12th Feb 1925 BROWN — The friends of Mr and Mrs J. H. Brown and family are respectfully invited to follow the remains of their late beloved son and brother respectively, George Brown (formerly of the Midland workshops) to the Church of Christ portion of the Kalgoorlie Cemetery. The funeral will leave their […]
Aviation Pioneers of the Outback- part 3
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Aviation Pioneers of the Outback of WA part 3 (Final) – by John Pritchard Connellan Airways Pty Ltd Mr Edward John Connellan became a businessman after being a teacher and then developed a passion for aviation around 1936 and his family had interests in the rural sectors Victoria and New South Wales. In 1937, he […]
The Tangled web of “Burly Bill” Lucas –
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William “Burly Bill” Lucas (1852-1904) a family story. The following story has been most carefully researched, not withstanding the complications. John Fripp, who has very kindly shared this unusual family story was assisted by DNA tests as well as the usual research methods. William Lucas must have been a very hansom figure of a man, […]
