Wedding: Elizabeth Agnes COLE to Charles ‘Clarence’ August John DEGENHARDT, 21st September 1904 at Kalgoorlie. Kalgoorlie Miner 20 September 1904, page 8 Wedding Bells. DEGENHARDT—COLE. Yesterday at St. John’s Anglican Church, Kalgoorlie, there was a marriage of unusual interest, the contracting parties being Mr. Clarence A. Degenhardt, son of Mr. Gustav Frederick Degenhardt solicitor, Adelaide, […]
Archives for March 2020
Henry Gregory – pioneer profile
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Daily News (Perth) 9 December 1929, page 6 PEN PORTRAITS – Prospector and Politician With only a comparatively short break the Hon. Henry Gregory. M.H.R has been associated with the politics of Australia for the past twenty-eight years. Like many other successful men in Western Australia, Mr. Gregory was born in Victoria, his native town […]
Anton MARINKOVIC – grave tales
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Anton MARINKOVIC – buried 25th September 1909 aged 16 months in the Roman Catholic Section of the Kalgoorlie Cemetery, Grave No 3365. The inscription says: ANTON The Beloved Son of Anton and Mary Marinkovic Died 23rd September 1909 Aged 16 months Had he asked us well we know We should cry ‘O spare this blow’ […]
Playing Hookey !!! A very serious game.
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‘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, […]
A verse to the Flu: 100yrs ago
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Just over 100 years ago we were advised to do similar things to protect our health as we are today. Regional towns in WA were quarantined just as we will be doing next week. Leonora Miner 21 June 1919 Averse to the Flu. (With apologies to Mrs Ella Wheeler Wilcox). Laugh and the world […]
