Family and Local History of the Goldfields of Western Australia
The following story is one of the most unusual I have read for some time. It really does fit into the category of 'Ripping Yarns and Tragic Tales' The story starts SA and ends in NSW but has a Goldfields link!!! It is reproduced here with the kind … [Continue reading]
Book Review - Bullfinch and the Yilgarn Goldfield by Gilbert M Ralph Bullfinch and the Yilgarn Goldfield had its beginnings with a suggestion from Sir Laurence Brodie-Hall that the unique nature of the community at Bullfinch during the Great … [Continue reading]
Truth (Perth) 20 August 1910, page 6 'Kanowna Kase' Manslaughter in the Mulga How Fulton Fell Cox Committed The little Kanowna Police Court was crowded last Thursday, when the visiting magistrate, Mr. W. A. G. Walter, presided … [Continue reading]
Peter Phillips has kindly shared this wonderful story of his Great Great Uncle John Joseph Williams: John Joseph Williams was born on the 10th December 1855 in Creswick Victoria. His parents were John Williams (1822-1898) and Mary Ann CRAPP … [Continue reading]
On the 3rd July 1910 Jeremiah Minehan was buried in the Roman Catholic Section of the Kalgoorlie Cemetery. He was 37yrs old. He was the son of Jeremiah Minehan and Elizabeth WEST. In 1904 in Young NSW he married Hannora 'Norah' Isabella KENNY, they … [Continue reading]
