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Dunnsville’s Postmistress – they were first

10/04/2021 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Western Mail – Perth – 25 January 1908, page 27 EARLY GOLDFIELDS DAYS. Mrs Arthur Dusantoy was the first woman in Dunnsville, and kept the first Post Office at that place, a rude structure, but typical of the buildings of the early goldfields days of Western Australia. Mrs. Dusantoy’s experiences may be best told in […]

Filed Under: People, They were 1st, Towns and Places Tagged With: Australian History, Dunnsville, Goldfields History, Western Australia

A Nugget of Gratitude-

03/04/2021 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Sunday Times – Perth – Sunday 19 January 1941, page 8 The Donors Of Famous Nugget:  Mrs. Lynch (left), the first woman to he married at Coolgardie, and her sister, Mrs. Airey (right) and inset the brooch on which is mounted the original nugget of gold found by Paddy Hannan at Kalgoorlie and presented to […]

Filed Under: People, Places & Towns, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales, They were 1st Tagged With: Australian History, Coolgardie, Goldfields History, Western Australia

A Dearly Beloved wife – grave tales

03/04/2021 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

I’m sure that I’m not the only one that sees the beauty of memorials in cemeteries.  I have spent a great deal of  time wandering around cemeteries, especially our own Kalgoorlie and Boulder Cemeteries.  The view from the road is often as much as is seen by many, but if you venture through the gates […]

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

‘Molar Mauler’ Heathcote-

03/04/2021 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

The career of a later well know dentist surgeon, Albert ‘Bert’ Edward Heathcote, had a somewhat shaky start as the following article will show: Kalgoorlie Western Argus 7 May 1907, page 27 Unregistered Dentist Fined for Practicing. At the Boulder court, Tuesday before the R.M. Mr. E.P. Dowley, Albert Edward Heathcote (age 28yrs), was charged […]

Filed Under: People, Places & Towns Tagged With: Australian History, Dentist, Goldfields History, Western Australia

A Lost Glitter – letters from the frontier

27/03/2021 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Lost glitter : letters between South Australia and the Western Australian goldfields, 1895-1897 – edited by Michael R. Best. A Lost Glitter is the most richly detailed first-hand account of goldfields’ life we have. The letters of the Deland family between the Western Australian goldfields and Gawler South Australia, contrast the rumbustious, economically chancy, life […]

Filed Under: Books, People

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