Outback Family History

The Old Soldier – father and son

14/01/2018 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

This is the most amazing photo don’t you think? It is of Amadeo GALLE aged 99yrs and his son Raffael aged 67yrs taken c 1936 at their home at 1 Hamilton Street, Boulder. Raffael was a bootmaker!! Amadeo fought with Guiseppi Garabaldi’s Redshirts in 1859 and helped in the unification of Italy. he wears his hat […]

A Bushranger of Note – where did Joe go?

12/01/2018 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

Although this is not a ‘Goldfields’ story it is one that I have always had a soft spot for as ‘Joe’ came out on the same convict ship as my husbands Gt Gt Grandfather. I had fondly thought that they may have met on the ship, both being the same age, who knows, maybe they […]

Ratepayers Gazetteer -1900

12/01/2018 By Moya Sharp 2 Comments

The following is an extract from an excellent online Gazetteer sent to me by an OFH reader, John Pritchard. In the foreword the publishers confidentially exclaim that this, the first issue, will be an annual production. Each year getting bigger and better. Sadly this never came to be and it appears that this was the […]

Drawn to Mt Magnet

10/01/2018 By Moya Sharp 5 Comments

As you will know we have done some recent ‘snapshop’ posts on various town such as Leonora and Abbotts. I had at first decided to review each town page on the OFH web site in alphabetical order but thats a bit dull don’t you think?? So I’m now jumping to Mt Magnet for no other […]

Portraits of Crime – NSW archives

10/01/2018 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

The State Archives of NSW have just released over 46,000 records of people in NSW Gaols from 1870-1930. Each record has the following information:- http://bit.ly/2mjMkSE The Gaol Photographic Description Books contain a photograph of each prisoner and the following information: number, prisoners’ name, aliases, date when portrait was taken, native place, year of birth, details of […]