Family and Local History of the Goldfields of Western Australia
I was recently sent the following fascinating family story by Karen Hayes. Thanks to Karen and her aunts, Jude and Kath, for her kind permission to share the story with you. She originally contacted me to ask for transcripts from the Kalgoorlie … [Continue reading]
Coolgardie Pioneer Cemetery – 44 burials. "The Rev Thomas Trestrail writes to the Courier this week, complaining about the barbarous state of things existing at the Coolgardie cemetery. He asserts that bodies are thrown into shallow graves anyhow, … [Continue reading]
Evening Mail - Fremantle 23 March 1908, page 1 No one will deny that Harry Goninon Smith, who at 8 o'clock this morning paid, on the scaffold at the Fremantle Prison, the last penalty for the supreme crime in the criminal calendar, was … [Continue reading]
Geraldton Express and Murchison and Yalgoo Goldfields Chronicler - 23 December 1898, page 18 It was in the early, though not the 'very' early days, that Cue awoke one morning to find a charmer in its midst with golden hair that put the most … [Continue reading]
Westralian Worker Perth - 26 Jun 1931 - Fremantle News and Views OBITUARY - GOLDFIELDS PIONEER PASSES Buried on Saturday afternoon, June 6, in the Fremantle Cemetery, Mr. Edward Currie, of Hickory Street, South Fremantle. The deceased was a … [Continue reading]
