Archives for 2016

Boulder Cemetery online records !!!

A few days ago I uploaded the first section of the Boulder Cemetery. The ‘Pioneer’ Cemetery has been on the site for several years but this is the first time that the current cemetery lists have been online. First section was A to B and the second section was C to D    @ www.outbackfamilyhistory.com.au […]

Playing Hookey !!! A very serious game.

‘Playing Hooky’, many of you, myself included, may think this means by definition:- To be absent from school with out permission or excuse. However if you were a drinker in the 1930’s in Kalgoorlie Boulder you probably would remember a quite different game. I first heard of this game when an ‘Outback Family History’ reader, […]

Almost Killed with Kindness!!

From the Western Argus Newspaper 24th January 1905 Coolgardie Jan 17th 1905 Sydney CONDER who was admitted to the Coolgardie Hospital last Thursday suffering from snakebite is in a serious condition.  Condor saw a rabbit enter a burrow and thrust his arm in and was bitten on the hand. His ‘mates’ scarified the bite to […]