Hi Everyone, I hope your weekend is going well. This week I had the pleasure of meeting one of my volunteers in person as he was coming through Kalgoorlie. It doesn’t often happen that I do get to meet any of the many people who help me and who I am friends with online. It’s […]
A Most Prestigious Hotel:
04/09/2021 By 1 Comment
When driving to Perth from Kalgoorlie you may have seen a sign on the left not long after the Yellowdine Road House and before Moorine Rock, directing you to Mt Palmer. But have you ever ventured there??? In 1935 it was thought that Palmers Find (AKA Mt Palmer), 23 miles from Southern Cross, would become […]
Lulu Benstead – ‘The Westralian Warbler’
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Lulu (Lucelle) Stuart Benstead was born in Alice Springs, in the Northern Territory on the 5th February 1891. The daughter of goldfields pioneer, Bill (William) Benstead and Triphenia Lucelle Willesee nee RAINS. She travelled to Coolgardie with her family, arriving in about 1895. Lulu is believed to be the first white child to be born […]
Cemetery Snapshot Leonora – all the little children
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Back in August 2017, I had just finished transcribing the first section of the Leonora Cemetery records. I had finished the first decade when I published the first ‘Snapshot’ focusing on the number of deaths of children under the age of 5 years. As you may know, the first five years of a child’s life […]
The Ragged Thirteen
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Sunday Times 21 August 1938, page 21 Part legend, part fact, their adventures embellished and exaggerated around a thousand campfires, the story of the Ragged Thirteen has been beloved of bush storytellers for a hundred and thirty years. The Ragged Thirteen were brilliant horsemen, fugitives, consummate bushmen, lovers of bush poetry, and champions of the […]
