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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.

A Dastardly Deed in Lefroy Street –

25/11/2023 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Coolgardie Miner 28 December 1897, page 5 SENSATIONAL SHOOTING. Attempted Murder by Four Armed Men A party of shop workers was held up in Forrest Street Coolgardie by two armed and masked men. There is so far no known motive for the dastardly crime and no arrests have been made. The police are baffled! One […]

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

John “Jack” Ivison – Fighting son of the Empire

11/11/2023 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

In Memory of an Anzac Soldier Private John “Jack” Ivison 1888 – 1915 By Julia Robinson-White, 26 April 2021 Published on: www.dustandglare.home.blog/in-memory-of-an-anzac-soldier/ Anzac Day – 25 April 2021 Amongst a box of family photographs given to me for safekeeping by my Dad’s cousin, I came across a postcard of a Digger from WWI. The photo […]

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Filed Under: People, Rolls of Honor, Soldiers Story, Towns and Places Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Gwalia, Western Australia, WW1

Robert Arthur Yeo – grave tales

04/11/2023 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Coolgardie Miner 9 May 1899, page 6 THE STABLE TRAGEDY INQUEST RESUMED VERDICT OF ACCIDENTAL DEATH. The inquest into the circumstances connected with the death of Robert A. Yeo, who was kicked to death in Castieau’s stables on Sunday morning, was resumed yesterday, before Mr H. S. King, J.P. (acting coroner), and a jury consisting […]

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

The Cemetery at Mt Margaret –

28/10/2023 By Moya Sharp 2 Comments

Mt MARGARET CEMETERY Established in 1897 when the townsite of Mt Margaret was gazetted. 11 Burials between 1896-1901 except for one in 1930 and one in 1942. Latitude: -28.806418 Longitude: 122.168054 GPS: 28 48.38505, 122 10.08316 The name of Mount Margaret could mean several things. It could be: The Mt Margaret Goldfields The Mt Margaret […]

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Filed Under: Grave Tales, People, Towns and Places Tagged With: Aboriginal History, Australian History, Cemeteries, Goldfields History, Leonora, Mt Margaret

Meat For the Fields – the Rowell Boys

21/10/2023 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Western Mail 12 February 1953, page 23 WESTRALIANA Meat for the Fields by E. ROWELL A Butcher who was a heavyweight athlete and successful prospector, too, will be remembered by some who were on the Eastern Goldfields in 1894. My elder brother Bill went to Coolgardie some months after Bayley and Ford found the rich […]

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

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