Family and Local History of the Goldfields of Western Australia
We pined in the crowded city, And tired of sordid marts Where misery glutted pity, Where yesterday limn’d to tomorrow, While loud avarice stalked All day, and at night wan sorrow And vice in vainness walked. We longed for the wide horizon The … [Continue reading]
Weekly Times (Melbourne, Vic. : 1869 - 1954), Saturday 10 September 1898, page 49 Mr John (Jack) W Boileau is a licentiate of the Dublin Pharmaceutical College, having served his time under his father, the senior partner in the … [Continue reading]
I have just completed entering the biographies on the people who are buried in the Broad Arrow Cemetery. Every cemetery provides a social and family history snapshot of the town where its located. Accident and disease show no favorites. I hope that … [Continue reading]
Sunday Times 17 August 1919 A RETURNED SOLDIER'S TRAGIC FATE : WILD SCENES IN KALGOORLIE AND BOULDER Bret Harte's "Roaring Camp" isn't in it with Kalgoorlie these days. A succession of shooting episodes has been … [Continue reading]
This is the first snapshot of biographies from the Broad Arrow Cemetery. It covers the years 1897 to 1917. However the years of 1905-1906 are missing Suicide was quite a common thing in the early days on the goldfields, men, and a few women, who … [Continue reading]
