Just to let everyone know about what’s new on the Outback Family History Web site this week:- The headstone photographs have now been added to the Coolgardie Cemetery section C to F. New Photographs and biographies have been added to the Lawlers Cemetery with the following ‘Snapshots” Suicides The Irish Little Children Mining Deaths To […]
Mining Deaths – Lawlers Snapshot
In mining areas it was very common to have deaths occur from accidents and miners lung conditions, and Lawlers is no exception. In the Lawlers Cemetery there are 19 mining related deaths out of a total of 164 burials. It is sad that none of them have a headstone. Their details are all recorded on […]
To be or not to be – Lawlers Suicides
In this last edition of the Lawlers Cemetery Snapshots we look at suicides. Suicide was a sad but common cause of death in the early days of the Goldfields. Sometimes it was a release from a certain and horrific death by thirst or heat. Other times it was due to hopelessness and despair. In most […]
The Rabbits are Coming-
This article appeared just one year before the ‘Rabbit Proof Fence” was started and wouldn’t be finished until 1907. This may be the first sighting of rabbits on the Goldfields. Kalgoorlie Western Argus 23 October 1900 The Rabbits are Coming! WIDGIEMOOLTHA, Oct 15- Two local prospectors named J. Reed and J. White captured and brought […]
Lawlers Cemetery- Snapshot – all the little children
As to be expected in these early times, the child mortality rate was very high. If you lived away from a large population, it was even higher. The risk was not just for the babies and young children, but for the mothers as well. It is said, that if you were pregnant and living in […]
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