Hello to all our readers Hope you have had a good week and you are keeping warm (depending on where you are). I recently had an email from someone who wanted to know all of the various sources for family and local history in the Kalgoorlie Boulder area, and also how each group/body was set […]
Archives for June 2021
With Mail to Marble Bar:
26/06/2021 By Leave a Comment
Australia’s Longest Overland Mail from Meekatharra to Marble Bar. Western Australia. a distance of 1211 miles for the round trip. by John K Ewers – February 1935 Mundiwindi, Murramunda, Bald Hill, Noreena Downs. Nullagine — the very names are redolent of that other Australia which so few people know and which is the most vital […]
A Sequel to ‘The Child of the Woodline”
26/06/2021 By Leave a Comment
You may remember some time ago that I shared with you this story of a little grave surrounded by the baby’s own cot as a memorial. This story, which I have re-posted twice as it has been so popular has produced the most wonderful outcome. There have been many times where families have been reunited […]
Childe Harold – a ship, a horse or a poem ???
26/06/2021 By Leave a Comment
We now have a new town on the Outback Family History website: Childe Harold is on the Mt Weld Station, 22kms south of Laverton, Western Australia. Have you ever come across the name of a town that is so unusual you want to find out where the name came from? Many years ago I heard of […]
Donkey Power:
26/06/2021 By Leave a Comment
In the 1860’s donkeys were first brought to Australia as pack animals to replace horses that had succumbed to native poisonous plants. Now numbering 5 million, they have been declared a pest, owing to their damage to vegetation and erosion of soil. As you can see from the following photographs the number of donkeys to […]
