Towns and places

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.

Dead Men’s Gold:

16/02/2019 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

A Story of the Early Days of Hannans. Written in Nov 1904. I’m full up of Hannans Find,” remarked my mate. ” I’m off back to Coolgardie”. “You’ll go alone,” I laconically added. I felt a bit disappointed in Dick. I was a curious fellow in those days and usually without a mate, but I […]

Where is Quinns – ghost towns

02/02/2019 By Moya Sharp 2 Comments

xgy z vxsd+632. Many of you may not have heard of the small settlement of Quinns in the Murchison of Western Australia. It is described in 1895 as ‘A picturesque spot, half way between Nannine and Barambi, and was at one time the largest alluvial field on the Murchison. The Phoenix is the main mine, […]

The Coolgardie Safe – a family story

19/10/2018 By Moya Sharp 7 Comments

Several members of the McCormick family were to emigrate from South Australia to Western Australia in the late 1890’s but the most well know of them, was Arthur Patrick McCormick who was the inventor of the ‘Coolgardie Safe’. The following photographs are connected to this family but are also valuable in their own right, as […]

Broad Arrow snapshot – all the little children

28/07/2018 By Moya Sharp 3 Comments

I have just completed entering the biographies on the people who are buried in the Broad Arrow Cemetery. Every cemetery provides a social and family history snapshot of the town where its located. Accident and disease show no favorites. I hope that this small section of deaths will provide a good example to compare to […]

Kookynie people and places:-

26/05/2018 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Robert James REA’S EMPORIUM After a round of experience on the fields, MR. R. J. Rea was one of the first, if not the first, to secure a business block, and start operations in Kookynie. Mr Rea, attracted by wondrous tales of gold, came to this State in April, 1895, and entered into business […]