Last year, the Outback Family History web site turned 15 years old. Although still quite youthful in human years, for web sites it was bordering on elderly! (: So with the wonderful help of Design Sense and Graphic and Web ,who did the original site, we undertook a face lift and this week I would […]
Burtville Cemetery:
30/05/2020 By Leave a Comment
BURTVILLE CEMETERY 14 Named Burials: (thought to be over 30 graves) The first thing I noticed about the Burtville cemetery was the cause of deaths for the 14 named burials. There were no deaths of women amongst them, but there were two infants. Of the 14, if you include the two infants, only 3 were […]
Arthur Cranbrook Ashwin – prospector and pastoralist
23/05/2020 By Leave a Comment
The following biography and photographs have been kindly supplied by Jeffrey Oates, whose wife is the great-granddaughter of Arthur Cranbrook Ashwin, a prospector/pastoralist of note in the Lake Darlot area in the late 1800’s until his death in 1930. This is his story- Arthur Cranbrook Ashwin was born on 12 November 1850 in Adelaide, South […]
Suicide, Cyanide and Scones –
23/05/2020 By Leave a Comment
Murchison Advocate 27 February 1904, page 3 Suicide and Attempted Murder. A SENSATIONAL AFFAIR At Boulder this morning, Alexander Solomon, a notorious character and well known to the police, was arrested on suspicion of the attempted murder of a young fellow named Thomas Rassmussen. While being searched in the lockup at the police station, he […]
Alick and Nunginna- a love story
23/05/2020 By Leave a Comment
Kalgoorlie Miner 5 May 1937, page 1 TRIBAL LAW DRAMA ERRING COUPLE PUNISHED The story of a drama, among the aboriginal people of the Laverton district has been received at Kalgoorlie. A young woman called Nunginna, had fallen in love with a boy named Alick, She had deserted her husband and run away with Alick. […]
