Widgemooltha Cemetery
Off Coolgardie Esperance Highway
Long -31.478272 Lat 121.583090
‘We loved and were loved before we died,
Forget us not for eternity here we reside.’
Widgiemooltha Cemetery – Photo Find a Grave
16 Burials – 1 Mine Death – 8 children – 1 female – 1 suicide.
BROWN Raymond Jeffrey – d 25 May 1935, 32yrs, Born: Melbourne VIC, In WA 2yrs, Reg 96/1935 East Coolgardie (Kalgoorlie), Buried Widgemooltha Cemetery. Mine Death: www.wavmm.com
Coolgardie Miner 7 June 1935, page 2
Widgiemooltha Inquest – Verdict of Accidental Death Jury Commends Rescuers
The inquest on Raymond Jeffery Brown, who received fatal injuries on May 25 at the Mount Mine at Widgiemooltha, when he and B. Gilbert were overcome by fumes, was concluded on Tuesday before Mr. P. A. Moran, J.P. (acting coroner) and a jury. The Coroner returned a verdict that Raymond Jeffery Brown came by his death as a result of a fractured skull caused by his falling down a shaft when overcome by fumes, and that no blame is attachable to anyone.
The jury added a rider —”That the jury is of the opinion that the three men, Ernest Albert Cooper, George Sawyer and Norman Allan, who assisted in saving the life of Gilbert and in bringing Brown to the surface, should be commended for their heroic effort.
DEL PIANO Maria – d 1915, 5hrs, at Widgemooltha, Natural Causes, Father: Giovanni DEL PIANO, Mother: Maria FAZZINA, Reg: 14/1915 Coolgardie, Buried Widgemooltha Cemetery.
DOYLE Francis Joseph – d 15 Aug 1897, 6 days, Reg: Buried Widgemooltha Cemetery.
Kulkhen and Doyle Family Grave – Widgemooltha Cemetery – Photo Find a Grave
DOYLE Gerald John – d 16 Nov 1898, 2 mths, Born Coolgardie WA, Father: John James DOYLE, Mother: Mary Elizabeth HAYES, Buried Widgemooltha Cemetery.
DOYLE James Nicholas – d 9 Aug 1900 10mths, Born Coolgardie WA, Father: John James DOYLE, Mother: Mary Elizabeth HAYES, Buried Widgemooltha Cemetery.
The Herald -Coolgardie 28 August 1900, page 4
DOYLE John James – 18 Mar 1933 70yrs, Father: John DOYLE, Mother: Catherine BYRNE, Reg: 49/1933 East Coolgardie (Kalgoorlie), Buried Widgemooltha Cemetery.
Daily News Perth 20 March 1933, page 2
DOYLE Mary – d 13 Jul 1945, 85yrs, Occ: Retired Publican, at St John of God Hospital, Kalgoorlie, Father: John HAYES, Mother: Mary HICKEY, Reg 128/1945 East Coolgardie (Kalgoorlie), RC, Buried Widgemooltha Cemetery.
Kalgoorlie Miner 27 July 1945, page 4
Death of Pioneer – The death occurred on July 13, in St. John of God Hospital, Kalgoorlie, where she had resided for the past five years, of Mary, relict of the late James Doyle. Deceased was the first white woman to settle in Widgiemooltha, where she had lived since her marriage in 1898, assisting her husband to run Doyle’s Hotel until they sold out in 1932. James Doyle died in 1933 and the three children born to them died in infancy. Mrs. Doyle leaves one brother and two sisters, residing in Victoria. Her funeral took place on Sunday July 15, in the Widgiemoaltha cemetery.
KINGSWOOD Vivyan – d 25 Mar 1912, 8 days, at Widgemooltha, Cause: Premature birth, Father: Richard Thomas KINGSWOOD, Mother: Elizabeth Jane DRUMMOND, Reg 18/1912 Coolgardie, Buried Widgemooltha Cemetery.
KUHLKEN Frances Amy May – d 17 Nov 1902, 7mths, at Widgemooltha, Cause: Convulsions, Teething, Father: Richard KUHLKEN (Police Constable), Mother: Frances Theresa HAYES, Born: Kalgoorlie WA, Reg 85/1902 Coolgardie, Buried Widgemooltha Cemetery.
MCLEON/MCLEAN Eion ‘Ian’ – d 19 Mar 1997, 66yrs, Buried Widgemooltha Cemetery.
MILLS William Whitfield – d 15 Aug 1916, 72yrs, at Widgiemooltha, WA, Occ: Pension and former surveyor, Father: Josias MILLS, Mother: Elizabeth Land WHITFIELD, Born: Plymouth, Devon, England in 1844, Cause: Senile decay, Death certified by Charles Mortimore WOOLDRIDGE, Postmaster, Widgemooltha, William. Whitfield Mills arrived in South Australia from England aboard the Atlanta on the 15th of April 1866 aged 22yrs. On the 24th of March 1879, he married Mary Jane MULLEN, daughter of John Mullen (Mine Owner) and Mary KELLY at Christchurch, Kapunda, South Australia, Children: Alice Thornton, born 1881 and Ethel May, born 1885 both in South Australia.Reg: 20/1916 Coolgardie, Buried at Widgemooltha Cemetery.
Plaque on grave of William W Mills – Widgemooltha Cemetery – Photo Find a Grave
SUDLOW Arthur – d 12 May 1958, 70yrs, Father: Harry William SUDLOW, Mother: Rachel Georgina HARRIS, Born: c1888, Thornton Heath, Surrey, England, Reg 68/1958 East Coolgardie (Kalgoorlie), Buried Widgemooltha Cemetery.
Arthur SUDLOW grave Widgiemooltha Cemetery – Photo Find a Grave
SWEENEY Doris Georgina – d 3 May 1912, 2mths, at Widgemooltha, Cause: Congenital Debility, Diarrhoea from birth, Father: George SWEENEY (Publican), Mother: Isabell DONALDSON, Born: Coolgardie WA, Reg 33/1912 Coolgardie, Buried Widgemooltha Cemetery.
Doris Georgina SWEENEY – Widgemooltha Cemetery – Photo Find a Grave
THORN Augustus Loftus ‘Gus’ – d 14 Jul 1932, 74yrs, Natural Causes, (not registered), Born: 14 Aug 1857 in Helsingborg, Sweden, Married to: Elizabeth Jane MCINNES, Children: Stella Constance born 1876 – Ernest Frederick Laurence born 1871 – Lillian May born 1887 – Gertrude born 1889 – Robert Theodore born 1893 – Charles born 1897, Buried Widgemooltha Cemetery.
The Goldfields Observer of 17 July 1932.
TOMKINSON unnamed male – d 27 Dec 1913, 30mins, at Widgemooltha Post Office, Cause: Premature birth, Father: Edward George TOMKINSON and Ada Ruth BURSILL, Reg 7/1914 Coolgardie, Buried Widgemooltha Cemetery.
VINCENT Percy Whitburn – d 24 Mar 1933, in a mine shaft half a mile south of Widgemooltha, buried 30 Mar 1933, 53yrs, Cause: Suicide by taking cyanide, Father: Thomas VINCENT, Mother: Mary Louisa WHITBURN, Born: 13 Jan 1880 in Ballarat East, Victoria, Married to Mary Baron Fraser MCLEOD in Mt Morgans WA in Feb 1927, Children: Grace born 1907, Mary Florence born 1909, Alice born 1910, James Thomas born 1913, Jean Fraser born 1915, Jack Templeton born 1917, Reg: 70/1933 East Coolgardie (Kalgoorlie), Buried Widgemooltha Cemetery.
West Australian Perth – 30 March 1933, page 18
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These death notices evoke such untold stories! And all the short-lived babies of the era. How tragic for the mothers.