Frances ‘Frank’ Michael Connolly was born on 8th Oct 1877 in Warwick Queensland. He was the son of Dennis Connolly and Johanna Mary Callaghan both from Co Cork, Ireland. He had seven brothers and three sisters and he died of Typhoid fever in the Kalgoorlie Hospital on the 13th Jan 1902. He is buried alone […]
Ripping Yarns and Tragic Tales – 30 May 2021
Hope you are keeping warm on this chilly day. My new filing cabinet is here and now I’m waiting on my new desk to arrive. I’ve been told that no one uses filing cabinets anymore, how odd!!! Some things that have ‘turned up’ in the office move. A large box of photographs that my friend […]
Dastardly and Diabolical Deed at Day Dawn
Evening Mail – Fremantle 23 March 1908, page 1 No one will deny that Harry Goninon Smith, who at 8 o’clock this morning paid, on the scaffold at the Fremantle Prison, the last penalty for the supreme crime in the criminal calendar, was the murderer of the man, William John Clinton at Day Dawn. No […]
Dorothea Ruby Olive Wraight -grave tales
Young Dorothea ‘Dorothy’ Ruby Olive Wraight, was born in Coolgardie WA on the 30th November 1902. She was the daughter of George Thompson Wraight and Ira Elizabeth nee Risden. George was from Aberdeen in Scotland and Ira was from Stawell in Victoria. George and Ira married in Jul of 1902 in Kunanalling (near Coolgardie) WA. […]
Ode to the Nurses by Smiler Hales
Coolgardie Miner – 9 June 1898, page 4 The wretched typhoid microbe Is feasting in my chest; I’m doomed beyond redemption, By the cursed goldfields pest. It’s ‘elp me, nurse, ‘nd soothe me, nurse, Put ice upon me ‘ead; Take a message to me mother, nurse, As soon as I am dead. I’ve broke me […]
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