Weekly Times (Melbourne VIC) – 10 September 1898, page 48
Frank Ernest Randell & Co.
Messrs F E. Randell and Co. are well known on the West Australian goldfields as carrying and forwarding agents. Their head office is at Fremantle, having lately been transferred to that rising port, from the goldfields, and there are branches at Coolgardie, Kalgoorlie, Menzies and Norseman.
F E Randell & Co Coolgardie Office
They are also wine and spirits and general merchants. The carrying trade is a very large one, extending over all the goldfields. It was entered upon in 1894 by Mr F. E. Randell, who was at that time carrying on business at Broken Hill. His cousin, Mr Ernest Walter Randell, entered into partnership with him, the new firm, commencing operations at the Southern Cross. At that time, an enormous quantity of goods of all kinds, up to the heaviest of mining machinery had to be carted and carried to the fields, and Messrs Randell and Co., with great energy, speedily established a very large business as carrying and forwarding agents.
F E Randell & Co Norseman Office
It developed to such an extent that they were compelled to establish branches in many parts of the goldfields. Until recently, their head office was at Coolgardie, but business exigencies have compelled them to remove it to Fremantle. The Fremantle office is under the supervision of Mr F. E. Randell, and Mr E. W. Randell superintends the Kalgoorlie branch. Mr W. W. Manton, formerly the accountant of the head office, has taken charge of the Coolgardie branch, Mr W. R. Kimber, manages the Menzies office, and Mr J. T. Carr manages the Norseman office. The firm possesses a large number of teams of horses and 150 camels.
Kimber & Co & F E Randell & Co Menzies Office – Photo SLWA
It has acquired a high reputation for prompt and careful work and is prepared to undertake all classes of carrying, neither distance, weight, or number of packages constituting any obstacle. They also carry on a large business as general merchants, which is rapidly expanding. The enterprise that has marked the management is meeting its reward.
F E Randell & Co Kalgoorlie Office
Family History:
Frank Ernest Randell was born on the 3 May 1859 at Mill Cottage, Gumeracha, South Australia to John Beavis Luke Randell and Ann nee Cave. In April of 1884 in Port Wakefield South Australia he married Jane Nockolds. The couple were to have the following children:
Mable Annie born 1884 – Frank Leon Beavis born 1885 – Ruby Elizabeth born 1886 – Ernest Barrier born 1888 – Edith Darby born 1890 – Reginald Nockolds born 1882 – Clare Harcourt born 1884. The surviving children came to WA with their parents by 1899 as during July of that year Edith contracted Scarlatina of which she survived. Frank and his family were to return to NSW where his wife was to die in 1923 and he was to survive her till his death there in 1942.
Ernest Walter Randell was born on the 4 May 1866 at Mannum, South Australia to Thomas George Randell and Mary nee Smith. In 1890 in Broken Hill NSW he was to marry Florence Ellen Gupholme. The couple had one child, Eva Florence born in 1891 followed by the death of her mother the following year. Ernest then married Louisa Leney on the 1 January 1897 in Coolgardie, WA. They were to have the following children:
Guinevere Myrtle born 1898 – Thomas Ernest born 1900 – Eustace Walter born 1900 – Ellen May Milburn born 1901 – Clifford Kenneth born 1903 – Alice Mary born 1907 – Juanita Edith Mabel born 1908 – Kendrick Desmond born 1913. All the children were born in South Australia apart from Guinevere who was born in Kalgoorlie WA. Louisa and Ernest moved to South Australia where Ernest died in 1940 and Louisa in 1945.
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