Thanks to John Pritchard for the original idea for this story: Milly/Millie Soak is 16 kilometers north of Cue and was a popular picnic spot in Cue’s early history. It also became the source of the town’s water for a number of years following the pollution of the town water supply due to poor sanitary […]
Its not all digital-
24/03/2019 By 4 Comments
I recently had an email from a lady who I had been in contact with many years ago, asking me to assist her with a new family history query. At first it seemed quite straight forward, she knew that her cousin died in 1943 and she had the full date of death, and the place […]
Charles Carkeek – graves tales
31/12/2018 By 8 Comments
In 2008, I was working at the Kalgoorlie Cemetery office, filling in when the office manager was away. One of the duties was to help visitors with their inquiries. A visitor called Brian Morris called in to inquire about a very early grave of one of his ancestors. Charles Carkeek. He was indeed able to […]
The Mysterious Mr Bradley – a family story
06/11/2018 By 3 Comments
The comment ‘not another Lionel’ is a long-standing joke, between a good friend of mine and fellow historian, Graeme Sisson, who was the Archivist of the Police Historical Soc of WA at the time. It came to refer to any research inquiry that we were working on that was more than a little complicated and […]
Ernest Giles – grave tales
03/11/2018 By 4 Comments
The Australian explorer Ernest Giles (1835-1897) was the first man to cross the desert wilderness between central and western Australia both ways. The Australian explorer Ernest Giles (1835-1897) was the first man to cross the desert wilderness between central and western Australia both ways. Ernest Giles was born in Bristol, England, on July 20, 1835, […]
