FATAL MINING ACCIDENT IN THE PERSEVERANCE MINE – MAN FALLS DOWN A PASS. Richard Ryan, a well known citizen of Boulder, met with an instantaneous death in the Great Boulder Perseverance. Kalgoorlie Western Argus (WA : 1896 – 1916), Tuesday 17 March 1908, page 17 On Wednesday 11th March about 9.30 a.m. the deceased and […]
Archives for February 2017
Southern Cross – Update
28/02/2017 By 1 Comment
Outback Family History page for Southern Cross An OFH reader recently contacted me to say that part of the Southern Cross Cemetery register was missing. It only went as far as ‘P’. So today I have devoted the day to fixing the register and working on the data to make it easier to read and […]
The Remarkable Love Life of Beth Maynard
27/02/2017 By 1 Comment
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 […]
Burley Bill and the Cemetery Rush – by Ted Rowell
26/02/2017 By Leave a Comment
Neil McLeod, with his partner, Syd Ward, had the licence at the primitive Exchange Hotel, a galvanised iron structure at the corner of Hannan and Maritana Sts, Kalgoorlie. Talk would turn to athletics and one of the customers who fancied he could run would be ‘chivied’ by Neil McLeod. McLeod would say “I don’t think […]
They Wished Upon a Star – book review
24/02/2017 By 6 Comments
They wished upon a star : a history of Southern Cross and Yilgarn by P.T. McMahon. Did you know that ‘MIRRABOOKA’ is the aboriginal word for Southern Cross??? YILGARNIA On that ancient sea bed of Yilgarnia, one of the oldest land surfaces in the world. Yilgarnia, timeless and mysterious, a land of such antiquity, that […]
