“For Those Who Blazed The Track”

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]

Dastardly and Diabolical Deed at Day Dawn

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]

The Golden Haired Charmer –

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]

Two Brides for Two brothers – pioneer profile

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]

Coolgardie Pioneer Cemetery – a picturesque and pathetic ceremony

Kalgoorlie Western Argus 3 November 1903, page 19 UNVEILING THE PROSPECTORS MEMORIAL CROSS A picturesque and pathetic ceremony was seen at the unveiling of the pioneers' memorial this day. In the early nineties, a small plot of ground was … [Continue reading]