As many of you will know if you have been following our stories for a while, Outback Family History embarked on a project to restore and preserve the Kanowna Cemetery. This is the second cemetery located on Yarri Road. This was three years ago and I would now like to advise you how far we […]
A Murder in the Kimberleys –
Sunday Times 5 September 1954, page 3 Murder Ended a 1922 search for Oil in Kimberleys Memories of the Locke Expedition by Morva Gogan In a specially equipped Dakota plane, a party from the Bureau of Mineral Resources has almost completed a survey of the North West Kimberleys with the object of exploring for oil […]
A Most Determined Suicide – John Philp
Mental health is today something that we are much more aware of. In 1898 it was still a crime to attempt to kill yourself and was so until the mid 1960’s in most Australian states. This would be why Sergeant Sellenger said he would take no further action. Western Australian Goldfields Courier 8 January 1898, […]
Yuin Reef Mine Cemetery –
Yuin Reef Mine Cemetery 27°56’379″S 116°09’06.8″E Yuin Cemetery also known as Yuin Station Cemetery situated in the Mid-West region of Western Australia. Yuin Station, the Yuin Reef Townsite and Royal Standard Mine have historic and social significance for their role in the development of the Shire. The cemetery is now no longer in use and […]
Helena Maud ‘Lily’ Pike – grave tales
On the 27th April 1906, Helena ‘Lily’ Maud Pike (nee Rosevere) aged 30yrs, passed away at the St John of God Hospital in Dugan Street, Kalgoorlie from Typhoid. She was the wife of councillor Eustace Walter Pike and the mother of one child, James Albert, aged 6yrs. The couple had married in Adelaide SA in […]
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