Charles R L Finn – Grave Tales

Recently Outback Family History reader, Peter Sirr, sent me the following photograph of a baby’s grave in the Kalgoorlie Cemetery. It appears to have been most carefully made from tin possibly by his father.

Photo – Peter Sirr

Charles Robert Leslie FINN
Age 1year 5 months
Buried in the Anglican Section
Kalgoorlie Cemetery
on 31 Dec 1928 Grave no 6896

Kalgoorlie Miner 31 December 1928, page 4

Little Charles was the child of Leslie Vincent FINN and Marjory Ruth FINN nee YATES – Ancestry.com

Leslie and Marjorie were married in St Ives near Widgemooltha in 1925, Charles was the oldest of their four children born to the couple. Next was Melva Masie FINN born Kalgoorlie in 1929 and died the same year in Perth. Two more children were born but their names are not known.

Western Argus 21 July 1925, page 14

On Thursday evening, July 9, 1925, the members of the St. Ives Tin Can Band assembled at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Finn, Widgiemooltha road, St. Ives, to welcome them home from their honeymoon. After giving the performers sufficient time to express their musical and artistic feelings with the various instruments in their possession, Mr. and Mrs. Finn invited the company to enter their new home, where refreshments were provided and a musical and elocutionary program was carried out. Before departing, Mr. Harry McCahon, on behalf of the company, thanked Mr. and Mrs. Finn for the cordial reception they had extended to the visitors. He thought it was a most auspicious event, inasmuch as it was the first marriage of a St. Ives resident; but Mr. Finn had set a precedent that was worthy of emulation by all other young men in the district. On behalf of the St. Ives residents in general and the Tin Can Band in particular, it gave him much pleasure to wish Mr. and Mrs. Finn all health, happiness, and prosperity in their married life. Cheers for the host and hostess terminated the proceedings.

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My name is Moya Sharp, I live in Kalgoorlie Western Australia and have worked most of my adult life in the history/museum industry. I have been passionate about history for as long as I can remember and in particular the history of my adopted home the Eastern Goldfields of Western Australia. Through my website I am committed to providing as many records and photographs free to any one who is interested in the family and local history of the region.

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