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 this small section of deaths will provide a good example to compare to […]
Yundamindera Cemetery:-
30/06/2018 By Leave a Comment
There are 11 known burials in the Yundamindera Cemetery (The Granites) 29°07.58’s 122°02.97’E 9 of natural causes and 2 suicides. The first burial is of John Joyce, known as Laurence Joyce on 11 Jul 1900 and the last was of John HALES 29 Mar 1923. ANDERSON Alfred, d 9 May 1903, at the Bulletin Hotel, Yundamindera, […]
Boulder Cemetery – a long time coming
25/06/2018 By 3 Comments
GREAT NEWS!!!! The current Boulder Cemetery is now available in full on the Outback Family History website as of today. Up until now it has only had a partial list, but thanks to Danelle Warnock, who has been editing and adding to the data for some time now, it is now online. It wouldn’t have […]
Who was George Dainty ???
17/06/2018 By Leave a Comment
George Dainty died in 1901, age about 40yrs (date unknown). His remains were found in the bush by a prospector, Henry Frederick KESTEL when searching for lost donkeys, on the 5 Jul 1903 between Childe Harold, 7 miles from the mine and 12 yards off the travelled road in the Laverton district. The undertaker, James […]
My Own Dear Boy:-
03/06/2018 By 1 Comment
Murchison Times and Day Dawn Gazette 29 July 1897 SUICIDE AT SMITHFIELD Last Saturday week a miner, Thomas McKileen, living by himself in a tent at Smithfield, committed suicide by blowing his brains out. At an inquest held on Monday afternoon before the acting-Coroner, Mr. E. O. Butler, J,P. it was elicited that on Friday […]
