Family and Local History of the Goldfields of Western Australia
Southern Cross Times 26 September 1914, page 2 Sudden Death of Mr Joseph Vincent Kearney. Southern Cross was thrown into a state of gloom when it became known that Mr J. V. Kearney had died suddenly at midnight on Monday night. The … [Continue reading]
Alexander Henry Thomas CAIRNDUFF: Fancy good dealer and tobacconist, Kanowna was born in Hobart Tasmania on Jan 20 1873 and is the son of the late Rev Alexander Cairduff M.A, who filled the office of a Presbyterian clergyman in the above city … [Continue reading]
Earlier this year I was in correspondence with Mal Beaton regarding the fascinating history of the Beaton family of Cogla Downs Station in the mid-west Sandstone area of Western Australia. He very kindly granted me access to the family Facebook group … [Continue reading]
I was recently sent the following story by Mary Mayenfisch about her Grandfather, Thomas J TOBIN, in her words of "the whole story reads like a film! "Outlander" in Australia.... " On Easter Sunday in the time of Covid 19 - when in the throes of … [Continue reading]
As we all will know, when an illegitimate child was born to a young woman in the early part of the 1900's there was not the support available to her that there is today, and many young women were forced by circumstances to give up their baby. Also, … [Continue reading]
