When ‘Old Dick McCANSH’, a sixty-five-year-old miner, died of fever on 7 Jan 1893 his mates decided to give the ‘old battler’ a decent burial and a rude coffin was fashioned from some old meat cases. As the only vehicle available was a storekeepers dray, it was decided to skirt the alluvial grounds and go […]
A wedding with the wrong names:-
Although the Western Argus published the below photograph in Sept 1904, entitled ‘OLDAM-WALDERSON’ wedding, after some research it turns out to be the wedding of Robert William ALDERSON to Isabel KELLY. I can see how Alderson could become Walderson but not sure about the Kelly. (: Kalgoorlie Western Argus (WA : 1896 – 1916), Tuesday […]
Called Home to Jesus – grave tales
On the 6th November 1911 little Dorothea Ruby Olive WRAIGH, age 9yrs, passed away in the Infectious Disease Hospital in Kalgoorlie. Exactly a week later her little brother Alwyn George WRAIGHT, aged 7mth, also died. They are buried together in the Boulder Cemetery. Dorothea was born in Coolgardie on the 20th Nov 1902 to George […]
Dryblower Jack – pioneer profile
John Carins – know as Dryblower Jack:- John was born in Newcastle on Tyne, in Northumberland, England in 1890 and was educated in Rutherford College in that town. He was said to have come to Australia in 1913, he had a discharge certificate from the British services. As a young man he worked at various […]
Eh! but she was a good girl – grave tales
It is a far cry from Coolgardie to Corbie in the Somme Valley in France. Still, in 1916, a Salvation Army Chaplin, Benjamin Orames, who as a boy had been on the Goldfields of Coolgardie, found himself in Corbie seeking the town mayor who he located in a dugout. While shells blasted the historic building […]
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