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Sandstone Cemetery – the heart of the Murchison

08/07/2023 By Moya Sharp 12 Comments

Although the list of burials at the Sandstone Cemetery has been on the Outback Family History website for some years it needed some research to bring the information up to date and to add in extra research, so dull to read just a list of names and dates. One of my wonderful volunteers agreed to […]

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

125 Years of Kangas – book review

08/07/2023 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

The Kalgoorlie City Football Club recently celebrated 125 years of football, and with it came a book authored by John Terrell with heavy local research assistance coming from local club stalwart Cobber Rogers (88). The club, through its predecessor Hannans, was established at a meeting at the Exchange Hotel in Kalgoorlie on 3 May 1895.  […]

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Filed Under: Books, People, Sport Tagged With: Australian History, football, Goldfields History, sport, Western Australia

The Founding of the Coolgardie Miner –

01/07/2023 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

The Founding of “The Coolgardie Miner” The Golden West Magazine Avon Argus and Cunderdin-Meckering-Tammin Mail 13 April 1935 W. E. CLARE tells the story of Coolgardies first Newspaper, its Vicissitude and Fortunes, those of the “Old Camp,” and the men of the” Roaring Nineties·. “It is indeed a far cast of my memory. Hardly a […]

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

Mabel Hartrick – grave tales

01/07/2023 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Mabel Hutchinson was born in Walhalla, Victoria in 1874. She was the daughter of William Hutchinson and Mary Ann nee Lapping. At the age of 24yrs, young Mabel Hutchinson travelled to the Western Australian town of Geraldton where she married Charles Francis Fade Hartrick in 1899. The following photograph shows Charles with his brother Harry […]

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Filed Under: Grave Tales, People, Places Tagged With: Cemeteries, lennonville

When War Came to Kalgoorlie Boulder –

01/07/2023 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

When War came to Kalgoorlie-Boulder by Doug Daws As time passes human memories dim and new generations lose connection to the difficulties experienced by the earlier generations. This is never more obvious than when we look back through the mists of time to the Second World War. Although we here in Kalgoorlie-Boulder were a long […]

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Filed Under: People, Places, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Western Australia, WW2

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