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
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
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 […]
Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales – 29th August 2021
Hi Everyone, How has your week been? I finally got around to having my COVID vaccination this week which left me feeling very ill for a day or so which quite surprised me as I don’t usually have any reactions. It’s not like I’m really at risk being in Kalgoorlie and not going out much, […]
The Wool Cheque:
THE WOOL CHEQUE told by Rod Teal This came from a confession by a colleague who trained as a Postal Clerk in the early 1950’s. The job of a Postal Clerk was complex. Besides the usual things you might expect to happen in a post office, in those days, money orders were used where today […]
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