Outback Family History

A Faithful Wife True and Kind

18/03/2023 By Moya Sharp 5 Comments

I was recently sent this photograph of H Cramer and Co, Saddle, Collar and Harness Maker. I was asked to find out a bit more about the business. I started to search and this sad tale unfolded. In Kalgoorlie in 1901, a young couple married, Margaret Theresa ANGUS and Henry Timothy CRAMER, they were both […]

Charlie Webb – a good fellows end

11/03/2023 By Moya Sharp 2 Comments

The Sun Kalgoorlie, WA 30 July 1916, page 4 MT REMARKABLE: The inability of a party of Perth politicians and pressmen who were motoring in the locality to see any eminence indicating Mt. Marshall recalled a story told by Charlie Webb, late of the Granites, Yundamindera, via Pindinnie. Out near the Granites was an […]

A Gallant Young Hero

11/03/2023 By Moya Sharp 4 Comments

Sunday Times – Perth – 5 April 1914, page 7 The Knickerbocker Hero The Little Lennonville Hero were some of the words used to describe Vincent Atkinson, a young boy of just ten years of age, who was to inspire West Australians with his presence of mind and his ‘heart of a lion’ after he […]

The Union Brewery Man – the Kaye family

11/03/2023 By Moya Sharp 3 Comments

In 1996, (yes, I really do keep my mail from that long ago ♥), I was in correspondence (by mail of course), with a lady called Helen Saunders from Figtree in NSW. She was asking if I could look into her Grandparent’s time in Kalgoorlie to see what I could find about them. She very […]

The Cattle Dogs Death

11/03/2023 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

The Cattle Dogs Death by Henry Lawson The Plains lay bare on the homeward route, And the march was heavy on man and brute; For the Spirit of Drought was on all the land, And the white heat danced on the glowing sand. The best of our cattle-dogs lagged at last, His strength gave out […]