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The Eastern Goldfields is made up of hundred towns both big and small. Outback Family History would like to bring you a collection of stories about some of these abandoned towns which you may never have heard of. Some may only have been there for a few years and now very little remains of the small thriving communities.

Current Cue Cemetery – beyond the white gate

05/11/2022 By Moya Sharp 7 Comments

As promised (albeit two weeks late!) the following is the end result of a research project bravely taken on in the last 18 months by John Pritchard whose help I find invaluable. He took the ‘basic’ cemetery record for the Cue Cemetery which consisted mostly of a name, date & denomination and he has made […]

Filed Under: Grave Tales, People, Towns and Places Tagged With: Australian History, Cemeteries, Cue, Day Dawn, Goldfields History

Cue Cemetery and Help Arrives

15/10/2022 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Next week will be published the finished first draft (is it ever finished?) of the Cue Cemetery Burial Register. For the last 18 months John Pritchard and I have been working on an upgrade of the Cue Cemetery records. Not being happy with just a name and a date, John proceeded to try find out […]

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

Nannine Cemetery –

01/10/2022 By Moya Sharp 2 Comments

Recently researched and updated by John Pritchard with thanks Nannine Cemetery (26.885S 118.341E) 35 kms South West of Meekatharra 94 Burials A Brief History and List of those persons known to be laying at rest there. (Caution-This document may contain names of deceased Aboriginal/Australian First Nations Peoples) Australian First Nations Peoples. For many years prior […]

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

A Pioneer Remembers – Charlie Counsel

24/09/2022 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Daily News 2 February 1935, page 13 Pilbarra Shows the Way to the Gold Rushes Pioneer Recounts his Romantic Story By ‘Westerner’ A man who went to the Kimberleys and its goldfields in 1887, and on the morning of his 21st birthday was doing the last 18 miles of a 300-mile walk with his swag […]

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

Barrambie put the ‘Wild’ in the Wild West

03/09/2022 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: People, Places & Towns, Towns and Places Tagged With: Australian History, Barrambie, Goldfields History, Western Australia

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