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Death at Dingo Creek –

21/08/2021 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Some time ago I received a request for assistance from Graeme Hughes in New Zealand. He was trying to find the burial of a relative, his Gt Gt Grandfather, George VOYSEY. He understood that he had died in 1896 at Niagara, but after looking at the burials for this cemetery on the Outback Family History […]

Filed Under: People, Places & Towns Tagged With: Australian History, Dingo Creek, Goldfields History, Kookynie, Menzies, Western Australia

A Tonsorial Dynasty –

21/08/2021 By Moya Sharp 5 Comments

The Mickle family have established a dynasty of Hairdressers (Tonsorial Artists) and tobacconists in Western Australia. Starting in the Murchison and Northern Goldfields the four brothers and a nephew had premises in Menzies, Mt Magnet, Kookynie, Laverton and Wiluna and Meekatharra. They would also open a business in Narrogin in later years. The four sons, […]

Filed Under: People, Places & Towns Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Kookynie, Laverton, Meekatharra, Menzies, Western Australia, Wiluna

Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales – 15 Aug 2021

14/08/2021 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Good Morning Readers – I hope that you have had a good week. This month marks the 8th anniversary of the start of the Outback Family History Blog. I can’t believe it, the time has gone so fast!  When I look back on my very early posts I find them a bit cringe-worthy, but I’m […]

Filed Under: About Outback Family History, Books Tagged With: Goldfields History, Western Australia

Lasseter Looks for a “Missing Friend”

14/08/2021 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Pearl Bell  by Chris Clark In Chris Clark’s research into Lewis Hubert Lasseter, his research also threw up Kalgoorlie connexion regarding the Sharkey family. On two successive days in July 1920, the columns of Western Australia’s ‘Kalgoorlie Miner’ newspaper – the “Voice of the Goldfields”—carried a ‘Missing Friends’ notice that read: Pearl BELL, last heard […]

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

Tragedy at Lakeside – grave tales

14/08/2021 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Kalgoorlie Miner 6 May 1922, page 5 As far as can be ascertained, no one actually witnessed the accident which resulted in George Lyall Luscombe, aged 19yrs, losing his life by being run over by a wood train on the Lakeside line, near the 52-mile siding, at 5.30 a.m. on Thursday. It is known that […]

Filed Under: Grave Tales, People Tagged With: Australian History, Cemeteries, Goldfields History, Kalgoorlie boulder, Western Australia

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