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Joseph Kearney – pioneer profile

13/05/2023 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Southern Cross Times 26 September 1914, page 2 Sudden Death of Mr Joseph Vincent Kearney. Southern Cross was thrown into a state of gloom when it became known that Mr J. V. Kearney had died suddenly at midnight on Monday night. The deceased was one of the best-known men in Western Australian mining circles. He […]

Filed Under: Hotels, People, Places & Towns Tagged With: Beer, Cue, Day Dawn, Goldfields History, Sandstone

Alexander Henry Thomas CAIRNDUFF grave tales

13/05/2023 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Alexander Henry Thomas CAIRNDUFF: Fancy good dealer and tobacconist, Kanowna was born in Hobart Tasmania on Jan 20 1873 and is the son of the late Rev Alexander Cairduff M.A, who filled the office of a Presbyterian clergyman in the above city for 40 years. The gentleman under review was educated in his native place […]

Filed Under: Grave Tales, People Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Kanowna, Western Australia

The Beaton’s of Cogla Downs Station

06/05/2023 By Moya Sharp 2 Comments

Earlier this year I was in correspondence with Mal Beaton regarding the fascinating history of the Beaton family of Cogla Downs Station in the mid-west Sandstone area of Western Australia. He very kindly granted me access to the family Facebook group and he and his extended family have given me permission to share some of […]

Filed Under: People, Places & Towns Tagged With: Stations, Western Australia

Thomas Joseph Tobin – pioneer profile

06/05/2023 By Moya Sharp 2 Comments

I was recently sent the following story by Mary Mayenfisch about her Grandfather, Thomas J TOBIN, in her words of “the whole story reads like a film! “Outlander” in Australia…. “ On Easter Sunday in the time of Covid 19 – when in the throes of James Joyce “Ulysses” the Jesuit schools in Ireland came […]

Filed Under: People, Places & Towns Tagged With: Australian History, Cemeteries, Cue, Goldfields History, kalgoorlie cemetery

The Strange Case of Baby Quinn

06/05/2023 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

As we all will know, when an illegitimate child was born to a young woman in the early part of the 1900’s there was not the support available to her that there is today, and many young women were forced by circumstances to give up their baby. Also, the laws concerning the adoption of children […]

Filed Under: Grave Tales, People Tagged With: Australian History, Coolgardie, Goldfields History, Western Australia

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