This is a true story of the Moran family, who worked a pastoral lease at Mangowine to the north of Merredin in the early years. In those days the closest hospital and doctor was at Southern Cross, and in 1905 James Moran was admitted to the hospital suffering from two broken legs. One leg had […]
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
The Black Range Pioneers – “Wheres Frenchy?”
28/04/2018 By Leave a Comment
Sunday Times 28 June 1908, page 3 BLACK RANGE PIONEERS “Where is ”Frenchy ?” There appeared in a recent issue of the Sunday Times, a paragraph relating to the original discoverers of Black Range, fourteen years ago in 1892. It was founded on the statement of one of them, McIntyre, as was published […]
The Picadilly Police Station
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This photograph shows Constable Jeremiah John JONES and his wife Evelyn Mortimer nee HOLLOWAY and their infant daughter Eveleyn Margaret Jones, born 1903 in Kalgoorlie (their only child). Jeremiah was born in May 1873 at Wangaratta, Victoria to Owen Jones and Ann Kennedy. He died in Merredin WA in 1932 and is buried there with […]
The Laslett Building-
28/04/2018 By 1 Comment
I am sure you will all have seen the beautiful Laslett Building in Hannan Street which the family built and which stands on the site where this photograph was taken. I just love the following photo, as our Family is in Real Estate I found it particularly fascinating. It is of the Laslett family who […]
O’Meara Family Photograph- Alan O’Meara
25/04/2018 By 2 Comments
I was recently sent the following photos by Alan O’Meara which are from the documents of his father, James Jeremiah O’Meara.
