Call News-Pictorial Perth – 7 September 1928, page 2 WILD WEST DEEDS AT BULLFINCH Love Lorn Migrant’s Reign of Terror Ends With Bullet Sensational Incidents Follow Rejected Affection Because he loved fifteen-year-old Dorothy Cook, the daughter of a local farmer, a youthful migrant entered upon a series of sensational exploits of terror at Bullfinch on […]
Bullfinch Cemetery – grave tales
11/01/2025 By Leave a Comment
BULLFINCH CEMETERY Latitude -30.998333 degrees Longitude -119.093961 degrees 35km north of Southern Cross. 27 Known Burials – 1905-1940 BELL John – 23 Jun 1923, 41 years, in the bush 15 miles East of Marda, Cause: Exposure and lack of water, Father: Joseph BELL, Mother: Priscilla PICKERING, Reg 4/1923 Yilgarn, buried Bullfinch Cemetery. CROCKER Albert Munro […]
Thomas Smith Ickeringill – pioneer profile
14/11/2020 By Leave a Comment
The following photo and story was kindly sent in by Jan Merry, Thomas Smith Ickeringill is her relative. Residents of Southern Cross: Bob the Pieman, Tom Ickeringill and Jock Mavor -Photo Jan Merry This is a fascinating picture showing some of the colourful characters of the Outback. My relative is Thomas Smith Ickeringill, second from […]
Bullfinch and the Yilgarn Goldfield – book review
02/05/2020 By Leave a Comment
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 Western Consolidated era from 1950 to 1963 deserved recording. Sir Arvi Parbo, who began his mining […]
Two Soldier Brothers – by Marcia McIntyre
09/11/2019 By Leave a Comment
The following is a guest post from the Family History of Marcia McIntyre Bert and Cyril Longmore were first cousins to my mother, Alice Mary Jones nee True. Although the Longmore family left Gundagai when Bert was only a small child and moved to Melbourne, then Western Australia, the family always kept in contact with […]
