The following photos were sent in by Ian Knight and are reproduced with his permission. He has given me all the names that he has gathered and would like to know if anyone can identify the missing children. Legend * Agree that the person is the same in each photo so marked * people at […]
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
School Days- children of the new century
10/11/2017 By 7 Comments
Bewween 1903 and 1906 there was an incentive to photograph all of the children in the education system in Western Australia. Many of these photographs appeared in the newspapers. As with many of the schools in the outlying towns of the Goldfields, the whole school could be captured in one photograph. It would also be […]
Leonora Snapshot – all the little children ‘2’
07/11/2017 By 6 Comments
Recently, on the OFH blog, I posted the first batch of biographies on the people who are buried in the Leonora Cemetery. Every cemetery provides a social and family history snapshot of the town where its located. Accident and disease show no favorites. I hope that this section of infant deaths will provide a good […]
Michael Marijan ERCEG – family profile
04/11/2017 By 5 Comments
The following photographs are reproduced here by kind permission of Ron Moss. Michael Marijan Erceg and Milka nee Bulich are his wife’s parents. Marijan Erceg is the last one on the right of the back row as you look at it, he is in the tug of war photo below. (Standing far right with towel […]
No Good at Sewing –
04/11/2017 By 1 Comment
The old timer was sitting among the pots and pans in orderly array outside his little camp, he was skewering a startling blue patch to a pair of trousers. ‘Can I do it for you?” asked the young lady visitor with a smile. He regarded her solemnly over his spectacles, then, ‘Thank ye kindly,” he […]
