This is the first snapshot of biographies from the Broad Arrow Cemetery. It covers the years 1897 to 1917. However the years of 1905-1906 are missing Suicide was quite a common thing in the early days on the goldfields, men, and a few women, who find themselves in a state of complete despair. There are […]
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
Robert McMeikan and family:
20/07/2018 By 3 Comments
I was recently send the following photographs ‘from the family album’ by Des Hindes. I would say that the first photo may have been taken by a travelling photographer who would carry suitable backdrops such as this with them. If anyone would like to get in touch with Des, just send me a message. My […]
The Church at Bonnievale:
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The Wesleyan Church seems to have been the only church established in the townsite of Bonnievale. Although by 1903, there were approximately 6000 residents, there are only four recorded marriages. Many of the residents may have chosen to marry in Coolgardie, 7 miles away. Wesleyan Church Marriages:- BENAIM Henry married 14 Feb 1905 at Bonnievale […]
The School at Bonnievale:
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On the 1st March 1897 the residents of Bonnievale (7 ½ miles from Coolgardie) applied to the Secretary of Education, to have a day school established. The details of the application were:- Proposed location of school = Lot 2 in the town of Bonnievale Number of children between the ages of 4 and 16 living […]
A Ghan who did a’woowing go :
17/07/2018 By Leave a Comment
The Sun, Kalgoorlie : 24 March 1907, page 9 MARRIAGE OF A RUE DE BROOKMAN RESIDENT. The foundations of goldfields society were not exactly shaken to their bedrock bottom on Wednesday morning, last , when the “Kalgoorlie Miner” issued with the announcement of the marriage of a well known Afghan , to a more notoriously […]
