Kambalda (Red Hill) Pioneer Cemetery
Beresford Rd, Kambalda
L 31.204984 – L 121.650983
5 burials – 1 suicide 1 woman
Kambalda Pioneer Cemetery Photo by Carol Judkins
EUPELI George — d 13th June 1904, at the Butterfly Mine, Red Hill, Occ: Miner, 43 Years, Cause: Cardiac Failure, Valvular Disease, a post mortem examination was conducted (not very common on the Goldfields at this time). He was buried in the Kambalda Cemetery on 15th June 1904. He had lived in Victoria for 13 years and had been in WA for about 3 years. He is supposed to have been married in Melbourne VIC, but his wife’s name is not known. Reg 42/1904 Coolgardie, Buried Red Hill Cemetery. Mine Death: www.wavmm.com
Grave of George Eupeli – Photo Find a Grave
Butterfly Mine, Kambalda 1905 – Photo SLWA
HASSELL Edward Lindsay AKA Edward CLAYTON – 12 May 1905, 40 yrs, d 12 May 1905, at Red Hill, Cause: Suicide while temporarily insane, by Verdict of the Coroner, Father: William Lindsay HASSELL (Miner), Mother: Hannah Elizabeth MORRIS. He was born in Heathcote Victoria in 1862, Single, Registered by Joseph HASSELL (Brother), Reg 483/1905, Buried Red Hill (Kambalda) Cemetery. (Last Burial)
MAN BLOWS HIS FACE AWAY
Kalgoorlie Miner 13th May 1905
Towards 5 o’clock yesterday afternoon a man named Henry Colley describing himself as a miner, residing at Red Hill reported to the Kalgoorlie police that about 10 o’clock that morning a man named Edward Clayton (whose real name was supposed to be Hassell) came to where the miner was at work on the Shotover Lease and asked him to take charge of two letters, which were duly handed over. Clayton/Hassell then left but after going a short distance he sang out to Colley. “Don’t let those letters go, put them with your possessions”. Colley, who then looked at the two letters, saw that one was marked ‘Police’ and the other was addressed to ”Mrs Hassell, Heathcote, Victoria”
Colley further stated that he lost sight of the other man for the time being, as he, Colley, went below into the shaft in which he had been working. He then climbed out of the shaft and gazed around him. He heard an explosion, and ran towards the spot where it had occurred. There he found Clayton/Hassell lying on his back. The front portion of the man’s head had been blown clear away.
Colley said that he did not stop to make any investigations, but started, almost immediately from Red Hill to bring news of the occurrence to the police in Kalgoorlie. Colley has handed to the Police the two letters which were entrusted to him by the now-deceased man.
Note: In the cemetery, there is a headstone for both Edward Hassell and for Edward Clayton but they are one in the same person.
HYLAND John — 26yrs, d 21 Dec 1899, Born: 25 Oct 1873, Chester, Cheshire, England, Occ: Miner, working at Block 48, Cause: Through a fall of earth at Block 48 Mine. Father: Patrick HYLAND (Soldier), Mother: Elizabeth Anne STRONG, The police went out from Kalgoorlie and arranged for his burial. A coroner’s inquest was held on the site of the fatality, and a verdict of accidental death was returned, Reg: East Coolgardie (Kalgoorlie) 25/1900, Buried Red Hill Cemetery.
John Hyland – Photo Ancestry.com
Kalgoorlie Miner, Sat 23 Dec 1899
PRENTICE Elizabeth – Commonly known as Elizabeth GAUNT — 47 yrs, d 23 Dec 1899, at the Commercial Hotel, Larkin Street, Kambalda (Red Hill), Married woman, Cause: Burns. Father: John VORBACH (Farmer), Mother: Jane, She was born in Manchester, England and arrived in Australia as a child. She had lived in Victoria for 35yrs and in WA for 4 years. She married John PRENTICE in Daylesford, Vic at the age of 25yrs, Her death was registered by a friend, John Gaunt. Reg 188/1900, Buried Red Hill Cemetery.
Grave of Elizabeth Prentice – Photo Find a Grave
The West Australian 25 Dec 1899
Commercial Hotel Kambalda – Photo SLWA
WENZEL Friedrich Wilhelm ‘German Bill’ — 65yrs, d 2 Jun 1897, at Widgemoola Camp, Red Hill, Born: Brandenberg, Germany, Father: Gottlieb Gottfried WENZEL (Farmer), Mother: Johanna Dorothea NEUMANN, Cause: Typhoid, Married to Anne FARMER on the 13 Mar 1866 at Penhurst, VIC, the couple had 10 children, his wife and family stayed behind in VIC, he came to Red Hill to start a newsagency, Certified by F C Compton, Reg 300/1897 (Registered as William WEUZELL), Buried Red Hill Cemetery. (First Burial)
WENZEL Friedrich Wilhelm ‘German Bill’ – Photo Ancestry.com
Coolgardie Pioneer 12 June 1897, page 26
Death at Red Hill
Mr James Balzano, writing from the Lake Lefroy diggings, states that the first death registered at Red Hill occurred on the afternoon of June 2. The name of the deceased was William Wenzel, a German, aged 65 years, who leaves a wife and several children in South Australia. He was well known in Coolgardie as “German Bill,” a news vendor. For the past ten weeks he has been keeping a little store at Red Hill, and during the whole of that period he was suffering from inflammation of the lungs. For five weeks he was tenderly cared for by Mrs Wilson, a trained nurse living in the settlement, and when his death became known the residents rolled up next day to attend the funeral. The remains were carted to a spot three miles away from the township, a track having to be cut through the bush. In the absence of a clergyman, Mr F, G. Compton read the Church of England burial service, among those around the grave being three ladies. A neat fence will mark this first grave at the new rush.
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