Several years ago I was contacted by Roderick Martin from the Tavistock Museum in Devon, England. Roderick was researching local cordial makers in his area for an upcoming book. he had found an inscription on this grave stone in the Plymouth Road cemetery in Tavistock. Sacred to the memory of Louisa MacKey, beloved wife of Robert […]
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
Ptomaine Poisoning – the silent killer
07/06/2018 By 1 Comment
The term, ptomaine poisoning, is was used to include all sorts of cases of bacterial poisoning due to the consumption of unhealthy food, except where specific disease. e.g. tuberculosis. is conveyed. The main reason was contamination from tinned food that had not been prepared or tinned properly. Anyone who has travelled in the outback will […]
Death at Dingo Creek:-
01/06/2018 By 5 Comments
Malcolm Chronicle and Leonora Advertiser 18 January 1902 DEATH FROM THIRST – ANOTHER SAD TALE OF THE BUSH. On Saturday morning of last week, two Italians, named Bortolo Marinoni and Joe Marinoni, left Anaconda Copper Mine, where they were employed, with the intention of visiting a relative who was in the Malcolm Hospital. The latter, […]
The Parker Family – pioneer profile
01/06/2018 By 6 Comments
Charles PARKER was born in 1873 and his wife Hannah nee REES was born 1872. They were married in 1892 and came to Australia to live at Hill End in New South Wales. Five of the couples daughters were listed as deceased by 1903. Their last three children were born in Kalgoorlie, Violetta May in […]
The Ghosts of Red Flag Well
29/05/2018 By Leave a Comment
Sophie Chapman died at the Ajax GM lease at Red Flag on the Mt Margaret Goldfields. 12 miles south west of Laverton and 2 miles from the Hawks Nest Rail Siding. Buried alongside Alexander McDONALD (age 27) 100 meters ESE of the old Red Flag Well. Sophie Chapman and Alexander McDonald were killed by the […]
