On the 3rd July 1910 Jeremiah Minehan was buried in the Roman Catholic Section of the Kalgoorlie Cemetery. He was 37yrs old. He was the son of Jeremiah Minehan and Elizabeth WEST. In 1904 in Young NSW he married Hannora ‘Norah’ Isabella KENNY, they had two children, Thomas John (b 1904) and Martin John (b1906), […]
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
Dugald Colin MCALLISTER – grave tales
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On the 4th August 1926 Dugald Colin McAllister was buried in the Kalgoorlie Cemetery in the Presbyterian Section grave 6559. He is buried alone. He was the only child of Peter Mountstuart Greenbank McAllister and Sarah McAllister nee McCollum. He was born in Boulder WA in 1901. Inscription Mother and Dad In Loving Memory of […]
The Old Prospector – a verse
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Coolgardie Miner 16 June 1938, page 8 The Old Prospector: He fossicks around from year to year Away in the country’s outback, A little bit there, a little bit here With a sample or two in his pack. Away from the tracks of his fellows, The places that other men know, To the land of […]
The Box Soak Creek Rush:
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Where is Box Creek you may ask? As I did myself back in 2000, (I can’t believe it was so long ago), when I received a letter from a lady in Queensland about a distant relative of hers called Ronald Donald McMillen who was supposed to be buried in the Box Soak Cemetery. I had […]
Herbert Ernest Wright – a family story
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1872– 1945 Guest Post by:- Katherine Statton Herbert Ernest Wright was the ninth child of Thomas Wright and Sarah Hayes Hutchinson. He was born at Green Ponds in Tasmania on 21 April 1872. His father was a teacher at the Green Ponds State School. Green Ponds was first settled in the 1820s. It is a hilly […]
