Michael Marijan ERCEG – family profile

The following photographs are reproduced here by kind permission of Ron Moss.  Michael Marijan Erceg and Milka nee Bulich are his wife’s parents. Marijan Erceg is the last one on the right of the back row as you look at it, he is in the tug of war photo below. (Standing far right with towel […]

No Good at Sewing –

The old timer was sitting among the pots and pans in orderly array outside his little camp, he was skewering a startling blue patch to a pair of trousers. ‘Can I do it for you?” asked the young lady visitor with a smile. He regarded her solemnly over his spectacles, then, ‘Thank ye kindly,” he […]

Lina FURIA – people profile

Lina Furia (1891 – 1970) Born   4 November 1891  –  Grosotto, Tirano, Valtellina Died  1970  Coolgardie, Western Australia  –   buried Boulder Cemetery. Occupation  –   Hotel owner Alternative Names    –   Osmetti, Lina    –  Robustellini, Lina Summary Lina Furia owned and ran the Cornwall Hotel in Boulder with her husband Charlie Furia and her son […]

Time Lapse – then and now

Kalgoorlie Cemetery gates, first photo taken today and the second c 1950, which do you prefer???  

“The Steward and his wife” – a family story

The photographs in this story were kindly supplied by Catherine and George’s Granddaughter, Jan Hale. This photo shows Kate Davis in a nurse uniform outside her private hospital in either 1898 or 1899. The occasion was Jan’s mother Dorothy’s, 4th or 5th birthday. She is the little dark-haired girl in the front row, 4th from […]