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The Ghosts of Red Flag Well

05/12/2020 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Sophie Chapman died at the Ajax GM lease at Red Flag on the Mt Margaret Goldfields. 12 miles south west of Laverton and 2 miles from the Hawks Nest Rail Siding. Buried alongside Alexander McDONALD (age 27)  100 meters ESE of the old Red Flag Well. Sophie Chapman and Alexander McDonald were killed by the […]

Filed Under: People, Places & Towns, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Red Flag, Western Australia

John Fitzpatrick – Plumber and Tinsmith.

05/12/2020 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

John Fitzpatrick – Written by Susie de Monchaux John “Fitz” Fitzpatrick ran a plumbing and ironwork business on the corner of Ford and Sylvester Street, Coolgardie from 1896 to 1900. Family legend tells that John Fitzpatrick was born in South Australia in 1861, however, it was in Western Australia where he made his life. He […]

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

Charles Carkeek – grave tales

05/12/2020 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

In 2008, I was working at the Kalgoorlie Boulder Cemetery office, filling in when the office manager was away. One of the duties was to help visitors with their inquiries. A visitor, Brian Morris, called in to inquire about a very early grave of one of his ancestors, Charles Carkeek. He was indeed able to […]

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

John Hosken – grave tales

28/11/2020 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Sunday Times – Perth – 12 January 1936, page 7 THE LATE JOHN HOSKEN Large Attendance at Funeral   The unusually large number who followed the remains of the late John Hosken from his place of residence in Millen-street. Boulder, to the Methodist portion of the Boulder Cemetery, was testimony of the esteem in which […]

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

Diver Hughes – The Hero of Coolgardie

28/11/2020 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Cecil Albert Francis Herbert ‘Frank’ HUGHES was born on 11th Nov 1861 in Wrexham, North Wales, and educated at Ruabon Grammar School, he was the eldest son of Thomas Edward HUGHES and Mary THOMAS. Frank showed early on that he was of a roving and adventurous disposition. To satisfy his strong desire to go to […]

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

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