Outback Family History

Abbotts – ghost town

30/12/2017 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

There are over 200 towns from the Goldfields on the Outback Family History web site and I have commenced to upgrading each one with new information and photographs, and this weeks ‘Feature Town’ is Abbotts. You may not have heard of it before now, but it’s an abandoned town in the Murchison region of the […]

Vincent Abbott – pioneer profile

30/12/2017 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

Western Mail Perth – 4 April 1913 – (By James Thomson.) MR. VINCENT ABBOTT : A PIONEER OF THE MURCHISON GOLD-FIELDS. Amongst those attracted by the Murchison gold discoveries in the early nineties, and who assisted to blaze the track beyond Cue, was Vincent Abbott, a pioneer […]

In the line of Fire – the brutality of War

30/12/2017 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

I was recently sent this following extract from a new publication, ‘In the Line of Fire’ by Ian Townsend ,by Merv Kennedy who noticed the connection of the family to the Goldfields. This extraordinary true story has almost been forgotten, a young mother & her son Dickie caught up in a difficult situation & totally […]

Along the road to Cue – a verse

29/12/2017 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

Along the Road to Cue The race for gold that charms the bold Finds toil for men and beast And they, who left the East of old Are daily streaming East The whips that crack along the track Are strong, the horses too And strong the words the teamsters use Along the road to Cue […]

The Cole Boys – a family story

29/12/2017 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

Sunday Times: 6 June 1920 COLE’S FIND NEAR WILUNA – HOW A RETURNED SOLDIER DISCOVERED A GOLDFIELD (By Horace Stirling) George Cole, the discoverer of Cole’s Find, 11 miles south of Wiluna, Is a scion of a family of 15, four of whom first saw the light within an interval of eleven months. His […]