I hope that you have had a good week and thank you to everyone who responded with your comments from last week. If I haven’t yet replied to you, I promise that I will do so. You will see this week we have another excerpt from Chris Clark’s research into the ‘Lasseters Lost Gold’ saga. […]
Archives for September 2021
Death by Despair – Leonora Snapshots
25/09/2021 By 2 Comments
In the last edition of the ‘Leonora Cemetery Snapshots’ we looked at ‘all the little children’. This edition looks at suicide which was a sad but common cause of death in the early days of the Goldfields. Sometimes it was a release from certain and horrific death by thirst or heat. Other times it was […]
Human Gold by N.E. Gledhill
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This sad and poignant story from the pen of N E Gledhill is kindly shared by his Great Nephew Allen Gledhill with thanks: STEVE HARDING lived with his wife in a tumble-down shanty on the outskirts of the Golden Mile. They were a queer couple. She, a diminutive, white-haired old woman, with deep-set eyes and […]
James Alfred Cock(s) – grave tales
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James Alfred Cock was born in Tredegar, Monmouthshire in Wales on the 17th December 1850. He was the eldest son of Joseph Cock and Ann nee Wherry. In 1870, at aged 19yrs, he embarked from Plymouth Devon England on the ship the Colonial Empire to Victoria, arriving in Melbourne in October of 1870. He gave […]
Another link in the Lasseter Story-
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William and Vera Bryant of Piesse Street, Boulder by Chris Clark One day in September 1960 a Western Australian Police officer visited a cottage at 193 Piesse Street in Boulder City, to speak with the occupants, William and Vera Bryant, a married couple aged in their 50s. The officer was making inquiries on instructions from […]
