Many years ago I was fortunate to be given access to the first marriage records for Coolgardie from July 1894 to Aug 1898. These marriages are not only a record of two people joining in matrimony but it also show the broad number of the different nationalities and occupations of these first pioneers. I have […]
Kurrawang-Coolgardie United Football Club 1923
04/04/2018 By 3 Comments
Kurrawang-Coolgardie United Football Club Season-1923 Back Row:- J Tovey, J Crudace, W Reid, J Moran, A Dunlop, G Rinaldi Third Row:- G Hilliert, J Clementson, D Maguire (Sec), E Cullen, M Maguire Second Row:-S Thompson, W Mulligan, J Rinaldi (President), D Brown (Capt), H Larcombe (Vice-Capt), E Scahill, J Ryan. Front Row:- G Hoyer, T […]
Cricket isn’t life or death. It’s much more important!
03/04/2018 By 1 Comment
BAYLEY’S CRICKET CLUB Premiers 1938-1939 Coolgardie Cricket Association Back Row:- L to R = L WILSON, J MacFARLANE, W CATTENACK, M NIVEN (Capt), D Matthews, L NORRISH, W SIMPSON, Front Row:– J MORALEE, F HOLT, J McKENZIE, R DOWNEY, John Ronald PAUL (with hat)
Called Home to Jesus – grave tales
24/03/2018 By 2 Comments
On the 6th November 1911 little Dorothea Ruby Olive WRAIGH, age 9yrs, passed away in the Infectious Disease Hospital in Kalgoorlie. Exactly a week later her little brother Alwyn George WRAIGHT, aged 7mth, also died. They are buried together in the Boulder Cemetery. Dorothea was born in Coolgardie on the 20th Nov 1902 to George […]
Dryblower Jack – pioneer profile
23/03/2018 By 7 Comments
John Carins – know as Dryblower Jack:- John was born in Newcastle on Tyne, in Northumberland, England in 1890 and was educated in Rutherford College in that town. He was said to have come to Australia in 1913, he had a discharge certificate from the British services. As a young man he worked at various […]
