I have just completed my 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 small section of deaths will provide a good example to compare […]
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
Richard Henry ‘Dick’ Ryan – grave tales
12/08/2017 By Leave a Comment
Westralian Worker (Perth, WA : 1900 – 1951), Friday 20 March 1908, page 8 The Perseverance Accident. The Boulder Branch has lost yet another of its members bv fatal accident. this time at the Perseverance mine. Richard Ryan, who has been in the Union for a number of years, was killed by falling against some […]
Two Weddings and a Funeral –
12/08/2017 By 4 Comments
Does anyone else have someone in the family who has married two sisters? Not at the same time of course. I have come across it many times while helping to research other families and I have one of my own. My Gt Grandmother, Lucy BOLTON (right) died not long after her fourth child was born […]
No Music Played at the Funeral – grave tales
09/08/2017 By Leave a Comment
Sunday Times (Perth, WA : 1902 – 1954), Sunday 12 December 1943, page 3 Death Mutes Cornet of Hughie McMahon NO MUSIC PLAYED AT THE FUNERAL Although a band was present, no music was played at the funeral at Karrakatta Cemetery yesterday of beloved musician Mr. Hughie McMahon,. . . . And now the “Emperor […]
The Flying Cosgroves – grave tales
07/08/2017 By Leave a Comment
On the wall of the tourist information office and museum in Coolgardie, there is a large panorama showing the town as it was in the 1890’s. There towards the front, is the premises of Cosgrove and Mitchell. This was Tom Cosgrove’s auctioneering business. He later moved to premises in Bayley Street. His brother, William Irving […]
