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Billy Frost – the seeker of shadows

19/10/2024 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

Western Mail Perth – 16 September 1926, page 19 THE SEEKER – THE LATE BILLY FROST Prospector and Explorer By John Meiklejohn. Round the campfires of the various diggings during the 1890s, no name was more prominent than that of the late Billy Frost. He never had the fortune to make any sensational gold discovery, […]

Filed Under: People, Places & Towns Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Western Australia

Barrambie put the ‘Wild’ in the Wild West

19/10/2024 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Barrambie, is located 116 km southeast of Meekatharra and 75 km northwest of Sandstone. Of all the small satellite towns surrounding Sandstone, Barrambie was the one that has had, right up to the present time, the most constant stream of prospectors and miners working the shows in that vicinity. In June of 1905, there was […]

Filed Under: Grave Tales, People, Places & Towns Tagged With: Australian History, Barrambi, Cemeteries, Goldfields History, Western Australia

The World Well Lost for Love

12/10/2024 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Bunbury Herald 5 June 1907, page 3 The Story of Bob and Jack  A PROSPECTOR’S SACRIFICE By R. M. Cochrane Every prospector knows the dreary tracts of the Mount Margaret goldfields of Western Australia, but few are acquainted with the unspeakable dreariness of the tracks beyond, leading to the McDonnell ranges. So far as the […]

Filed Under: People, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Western Australia

John Bain – grave tales

12/10/2024 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

John Bain was born in Wick, Scotland on 18 Mar 1866 to John Bain and Margaret Miller. He came to Western Australia in 1894. He married Betsy Calder Miller in Fremantle WA in 1900. John was to go into partnership with Betsy’s brothers, Donald George and Ben Miller, when they founded the Marvellous West GM. […]

Filed Under: Grave Tales, People, Places & Towns Tagged With: Australian History, Coolgardie, Goldfields History, Mulline, Western Australia

Widgiemooltha Cemetery – Forget us not, for eternity here we reside

12/10/2024 By Moya Sharp 2 Comments

Widgemooltha Cemetery Off Coolgardie Esperance Highway Long -31.478272  Lat 121.583090 ‘We loved and were loved before we died, Forget us not for eternity here we reside.’ 16 Burials –  1 Mine Death – 8 children – 1 female – 1 suicide. BROWN Raymond Jeffrey – d 25 May 1935, 32yrs, Born: Melbourne VIC, In WA […]

Filed Under: Grave Tales, People, Places & Towns, Towns and Places Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Western Australia, Widgiemooltha

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