SIBERIA CEMETERY /WAVERLEY Cemetery 30°14’19.0S – 120°57’01.5”E ANDERSON James, known as ‘New Zealand Jimmy’ d 25 April 1895, age 40, a condenser owner who was speared by an aboriginal. He was from Aberdeen Scotland (Book Jacky, Polly and Jimmy) James death was never registered and the native who supposedly speared him was found […]
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
Freemasons of Broad Arrow:
11/05/2019 By Leave a Comment
Broad Arrow Cemetery – Kurawah August 12, 2018 By moya sharp For some weeks I have been working on my database of burials at Broad Arrow. My final total is 188 with 18 headstones. Every cemetery provide a snapshot of the community at the time, accident and illness in remote places does not show and […]
Streets named for Miners:
11/05/2019 By 8 Comments
Streets named after miners who have been killed in workplace accidents in Kalgoorlie:- In the mid 1990’s, the new subdivision of Somerville-O’Connor, started a trend to name new streets after miners who had been killed in mining accidents:- I have listed below 41 names, if you know if any that have been missed do let […]
Yalgoo : a book review and photographs
07/05/2019 By Leave a Comment
The history of pastoral stations and mining in the Yalgoo district, east of Geraldton. Available from Hesperian Press. YALGOO – Latitude 28° 20′ S Longitude 116° 41′ E The townsite of Yalgoo is located in the Murchison region, 499 km north north east of Perth and 118 km east north east of Mullewa. Gold […]
I J K Cohn – pioneer profile
04/05/2019 By 7 Comments
Isidore James Knight COHEN JP, (he later changed the name to COHN), was born in Melbourne in 1843, the son of Victor Cohen (Born 1813 on the Isle of Thanet in Kent England) and Annie Henrietta MAGNUS. From his early boyhood had been associated with gold mining. If there was ever a calling conducive to […]
