Outback Family History

No Good at Sewing –

04/11/2017 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

The old timer was sitting among the pots and pans in orderly array outside his little camp, he was skewering a startling blue patch to a pair of trousers. ‘Can I do it for you?” asked the young lady visitor with a smile. He regarded her solemnly over his spectacles, then, ‘Thank ye kindly,” he […]

Lina FURIA – people profile

02/11/2017 By Moya Sharp 2 Comments

Lina Furia (1891 – 1970) Born 4 November 1891 – Grosotto, Tirano, Valtellina Died 1970 Coolgardie, Western Australia – buried Boulder Cemetery. Occupation – Hotel owner Alternative Names – Osmetti, Lina – Robustellini, Lina Summary Lina Furia owned and ran the Cornwall Hotel in Boulder with her husband Charlie Furia and her son […]

The Picnic – tragedy in the great drought

02/11/2017 By Moya Sharp 3 Comments

The day dawned still and sure, as the first day might have dawned. No wind whispered across the white dust. This was a day like any other. But she knew it was not! By Frannie HOPKIRK The woman had slept fitfully through the hot night. Her slumber the shallow sad unrest of one tormented by life, […]

Time Lapse – then and now

30/10/2017 By Moya Sharp 7 Comments

Kalgoorlie Cemetery gates, first photo taken today and the second c 1950, which do you prefer???

“The Steward and his wife” – a family story

27/10/2017 By Moya Sharp 3 Comments

The photographs in this story were kindly supplied by Catherine and George’s Granddaughter, Jan Hale. This photo shows Kate Davis in a nurse uniform outside her private hospital in either 1898 or 1899. The occasion was Jan’s mother Dorothy’s, 4th or 5th birthday. She is the little dark-haired girl in the front row, 4th from […]