ABBOTTS (Yoothapina Station) Reserve 6980 and 22406 AZIZ Abdul, d 29 Apr 1900, 43yrs, at Abbotts GM, Occ:- Camel driver BISHOP Richard, d 26 Jan 1896, 54yrs, at Abbotts. Occ:- Labourer on contract at the Government Well. BURGES/S Henry William d 23 Dec 1896, at Abbotts General Co, Abbotts, age 44, Occ:- Blacksmith CAMPBELL John […]
Archives for December 2017
Double Murder Suicide – the Glass family Tragedy
31/12/2017 By 1 Comment
Daily News, Perth – 20 February 1893 TERRIBLE TRAGEDY NEAR NORTHAMPTON. DOUBLE MURDER AND SUICIDE. A FATHER SHOOTS HIS TWO DAUGHTERS. THE TREVENSON TRAGEDY A terrible tragedy has just been reported from Trevenson, 20 miles from Northampton. Yesterday afternoon, at 3 pm, William Charles Glass, aged about fifty, a squatter and long resident in this […]
Abbotts – ghost town
30/12/2017 By Leave a Comment
There are over 200 towns from the Goldfields on the Outback Family History web site and I have commenced to upgrading each one with new information and photographs, and this weeks ‘Feature Town’ is Abbotts. You may not have heard of it before now, but it’s an abandoned town in the Murchison region of the […]
Vincent Abbott – pioneer profile
30/12/2017 By 1 Comment
Western Mail Perth – 4 April 1913 – (By James Thomson.) MR. VINCENT ABBOTT : A PIONEER OF THE MURCHISON GOLD-FIELDS. Amongst those attracted by the Murchison gold discoveries in the early nineties, and who assisted to blaze the track beyond Cue, was Vincent Abbott, a pioneer […]
In the line of Fire – the brutality of War
30/12/2017 By 1 Comment
I was recently sent this following extract from a new publication, ‘In the Line of Fire’ by Ian Townsend ,by Merv Kennedy who noticed the connection of the family to the Goldfields. This extraordinary true story has almost been forgotten, a young mother & her son Dickie caught up in a difficult situation & totally […]
