Last week you may have read a shjort blog post on the Kanowna Cemetery. In this story I included a newspaper article from tnhe 1920’s which complained of the deplorable condition of ‘Gods Acre’ at Kanowna. For this article I decided to take a trip out there and to take some ‘now’ photos of some […]
The remarkable love life of Beth Maynard:
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The following story is one of the most unusual I have read for some time. It really does fit into the category of ‘Ripping Yarns and Tragic Tales’ The story starts SA and ends in NSW but has a Goldfields link!!! It is reproduced here with the kind permission of the author,Annie McKay O’Riley, from […]
Manslaughter in the Mulga – how Fulton fell
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Truth (Perth) 20 August 1910, page 6 ‘Kanowna Kase’ Manslaughter in the Mulga How Fulton Fell Cox Committed The little Kanowna Police Court was crowded last Thursday, when the visiting magistrate, Mr. W. A. G. Walter, presided over an inquiry concerning the death of a man named Henry Fulton. The three jurymen were Messrs Mainstone, […]
John Joseph Williams -pioneer profile
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Peter Phillips has kindly shared this wonderful story of his Great Great Uncle John Joseph Williams: John Joseph Williams was born on the 10th December 1855 in Creswick Victoria. His parents were John Williams (1822-1898) and Mary Ann CRAPP (1835-1920). He married Sarah Jane EDWARDS, the daughter of Robert Edwards and Elizabeth Brown on 15 […]
Jeremiah Minehan – grave tales
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On the 3rd July 1910 Jeremiah Minehan was buried in the Roman Catholic Section of the Kalgoorlie Cemetery. He was 37yrs old. He was the son of Jeremiah Minehan and Elizabeth WEST. In 1904 in Young NSW he married Hannora ‘Norah’ Isabella KENNY, they had two children, Thomas John (b 1904) and Martin John (b1906), […]
