ENTER HERE: → MEN OF THE LAKE VIEW AND STAR It’s finally up and running. The very first stage of the records of the Lake View and Star project is finally online and able to be searched. This massive data entry project has taken some time, as you can imagine, the bulk of the records […]
Archives for November 2017
The Adolph Brother – a family story
26/11/2017 By Leave a Comment
The three Adolph brothers were to travel to Kanowna from their home in South Australia. They were the sons of Frederick ADOLPH a farmer and Wilhemina STEF. George Charles Otto ADOLPH b. South Australia –Went to WA Goldfields with his brothers about 1895. In 1901 lived at Golconda Street Kanowna, worked as a goldminer died age 41 […]
Burbanks People – town snapshot
25/11/2017 By Leave a Comment
Burbanks Football Club 1913 This photograph shows Thomas Alford on the far left of the back row. He look like he was an official of the club rather than a player. The six years between these two photos has shown him as having aged somewhat and he has progressed socially. In the 1915 electoral rolls […]
Strange Happenings – grave tales
22/11/2017 By Leave a Comment
I have to admit that I have spent quite a bit of time wandering around cemeteries, as I am sure many of you will admit to as well. My children as well have accompanied me on may of these visits and they became very good at finding names for me. My mother assured me that […]
The Money or the Wife ??? –
22/11/2017 By Leave a Comment
Kalgoorlie Western Argus (WA : 1896 – 1916), Tuesday 23 October 1900, page 25 MATRIMONIAL MISFITS : A lady, who after 17 years of connubial bliss, took it into her head to elope with a jockey, was charged with larceny of £70 from her lawful husband. The latter, it appears, was reconciled perfectly to the […]
