John Joseph READY – Kalgoorlie Cemetery RC Section Grave 7653 John Joseph Ready (A legendary figure) by George Compton 1992 John Joseph Ready who was buried in the Kalgoorlie Cemetery in grave number 7653 on 5 September 1933, born Co Limerick Ireland. He was a very early, very active, and somewhat enigmatic pioneer of the […]
Frankie Hayman – grave tales
14/03/2020 By Leave a Comment
Frank Lawford HAYMAN, aged 2yrs 7mths (born Kalgoorlie), buried 12th December 1923 in the Anglican Section of the Kalgoorlie Cemetery. Kalgoorlie Miner 21 December 1923, page 4 THANKS.— Mr. and Mrs. Frank and Edie Hayman, 103 Addis street, Kalgoorlie, desire to thank friends for their kind messages of sympathy during their recent sad bereavement. At […]
Alice Maud Cribb – grave tales
04/01/2020 By Leave a Comment
On the 14th March 1903 Alice Maud CRIBB nee LONG, the wife of Henry Theodore CRIBB, manager of the Croesus Proprietary Mine, died at the age of 26yrs. A few days later on the 24th of March, their infant daughter, also Alice Maud, aged 19 days (born on 5th March) also died. Alice and Henry […]
Beatrice Hemingway -grave tales
28/12/2019 By Leave a Comment
‘Died on Christmas Eve’ : 96yrs ago !!! Beatrice HOWARTH was married to Alfred William ‘Fred’ HEMINGWAY in Coolgardie in 1920. Only three years later she was to die in Southern Cross on Christmas Eve, 24th December 1923. Her husband was acting Station Master at Southern Cross at the time. She was expecting her […]
Farther Afield – the Gaffney family
30/11/2019 By Leave a Comment
The following plaque was photographed in a cemetery in Clunes Victoria by Wendy Broomfield. What a wealth of information on one plaque for the Gaffney family, it even gives the mothers maiden name, MARK, which is rare. Elizabeth GAFFNEY When Elizabeth MARK was born in 1845 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA, her father, Edward, was […]
