I’m sure that you will agree that this memorial on the graves of father and son, Nicholas ‘Mick’ SALA and Martin William SALA is a most impressive one. It is in the Roman Catholic section of the Boulder Cemetery. Nicholas ‘Mick or Michael’ SALA was buried on 2nd August 1930 aged 41 years. Cause of […]
Edjudina Cemetery – carry me back to the bush when I die
Edjudina Western Australia AKA Peake’s Find 29° 46′ 58” South , 122° 29′ 32” East Edjudina Station is a pastoral lease that operates as a sheep station in Western Australia. The station is approximately 130 kilometres to the south of Laverton and 240 kilometres north east of Kalgoorlie in the Goldfields-Esperance region. The Edjudina Goldfield […]
The Prospector who dug his own Grave –
Sunday Times – 22 September 1940, page 10 The Prospector Who Dug His Own Grave The story of Franz Horneg (AKA Franz ERDMAN), a German and Anthon Johansen, called ‘The Swede’ (but was Norwegian), is a true story, yet if it had occurred to a fiction writer, the author would have probably rejected it as […]
Goongarrie Cemetery – they paid the price of the golden game
The Goongarrie (AKA Goongarri) area was first prospected, before Hannans was discovered, by Pickersgill, Frost and Cahill in 1893. It was first known as ‘The Roaring Gimlet’ and afterwards, when it was at its most prosperous, The Ninety-Mile. If you have ever driven up to Menzies, I am sure you will have seen the two […]
Joanni Fidele Scattini – grave tales
Joanni (Joseph) Fidele SCATTINI was born on the 17th Dec 1879 in Strathfieldsaye, Victoria to Giovanni Antonio Fidele SCATTINI (Born in Brione, Verzasca, Switzerland) and Mary Elizabeth GOOD (born Sheep Wash, Victoria). He married Martha Wilson in Kalgoorlie WA on the 5th Aug 1908. Martha was from Adelaide Lead VIC and was the daughter of […]
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