Outback Family History

Freemasons of Broad Arrow:

11/05/2019 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Broad Arrow Cemetery – Kurawah August 12, 2018 By moya sharp For some weeks I have been working on my database of burials at Broad Arrow. My final total is 188 with 18 headstones. Every cemetery provide a snapshot of the community at the time, accident and illness in remote places does not show and […]

Streets named for Miners:

11/05/2019 By Moya Sharp 8 Comments

Streets named after miners who have been killed in workplace accidents in Kalgoorlie:- In the mid 1990’s, the new subdivision of Somerville-O’Connor, started a trend to name new streets after miners who had been killed in mining accidents:- I have listed below 41 names, if you know if any that have been missed do let […]

Trains with Names:

11/05/2019 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

I have always thought it was lovely that the small locos used on the Goldfields Woodlines were given names. All the ones I have found so far have female names except for ‘Ken’. – Thank you to Peter Green for sending me this information.

Yalgoo : a book review and photographs

07/05/2019 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

The history of pastoral stations and mining in the Yalgoo district, east of Geraldton. Available from Hesperian Press. YALGOO – Latitude 28° 20′ S Longitude 116° 41′ E The townsite of Yalgoo is located in the Murchison region, 499 km north north east of Perth and 118 km east north east of Mullewa. Gold […]

When the Law Came to Niagara:

04/05/2019 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

Smith’s Weekly 26 November 1927 by John Drayton How “Rough Justice” Was Served Out On Goldfields Niagara was one of the little camps worth a column in the W.A. Post Office Directory of 1899 that followed Bob Menzie’s strike in September, 1894. Its life was short, but while it was alive, it ‘LIVED’. Menzies find […]