These days most local residents expect airconditioned houses and cars and an annual holiday as a matter of course, but this was far from the life that confronted Millicent Rose Starr for most of her life. She was born in 1910 in the Gold Mining Town of Mt Morgans as Millicent Rose Buckman. Young Rose came […]
The Box Soak Creek Rush
12/11/2016 By Leave a Comment
Where is Box Creek you may ask! As I did ask myself back in 2000 (I cant believe it was so long ago) when I received a letter from a lady in Queensland about a distant relative of hers called Ronald Donald McMillen who was supposed to be buried in the Box Soak Cemetery. I […]
Star of Stage and Screen – Albert Whelan
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Albert Waxman of Old Coolgardie Among the hundreds of men who came to Coolgardie in the first few months of 1892 were many who possessed social talents of some kind or other, and often beyond the ordinary in standard. Albert Waxman was one such man…Born in Ballarat in 1875 and educated at the Melbourne Grammar […]
Six Boulder Sons Enlisted For World War II – The Renton Family
11/11/2016 By 8 Comments
The following is a story submitted by one of the OFH readers, Julie Clift nee Renton, about her family and is published with her kind permission:- The Reynolds family was one of the early Pioneering families that arrived In the Goldfields in 1897 and today there are still descendants living here. Francis Emma RENTON nee: REYNOLDS […]
Red Hill Cemetery (Kambalda) – Grave Tales
07/11/2016 By 1 Comment
Kambalda Pioneer Cemetery Beresford Rd, Kambalda L 31.204984 – L 121.650983 A recent post on Facebook about the suicide of an early miner who is buried in the Red Hill (Kambalda) Pioneer Cemetery raised a few comments so I thought it would be of interest to research a bit further on the few who have […]
