Paynes Find Cemetery Location:- off Goodingnow Rd Paynes Find, Post Code 6612 Lat: -29.270163, Lug:-117.68618 Reserve 21873 an area of 404 Squ meters gazetted 10 May 1938 16 burials Although the Paynes Find Cemetery has been on the Outback Family History website for some years it needed some research to bring the information up to […]
The Death of ‘Dutch’ Clark – grave tales
01/04/2023 By 1 Comment
Cecil Bryce (Brice) ‘Dutch’ Clark was born on 19 August 1898 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada to William James Clark and Mary Jane nee Girling who were both from Berkshire in England. He was the youngest of seven children. At the age of 18yrs, in April of 1916, he joined the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Forces. He […]
Kanowna Cemetery – a work in progress
18/03/2023 By 2 Comments
Usually, when doing a cemetery upgrade for the Outback Family History website, I work on it until everything has been checked again and again and we have photographs of those buried there where available, and also newspaper articles and copies of inscriptions added. For the Kanowna Cemetery (the second one) we are going to do […]
Arthur King or Theo Herchler – grave tales
25/02/2023 By Leave a Comment
Arthur KING – real name Theodore HERCHLER Born in Germany in September 1859. As a young man, Arthur was a student of the Conservatoire of Music where he graduated with honours. He then started working with Gilbert and Sullivan, and Doyle Carte in England as a repetiteur or rehearsal pianist. On the 22nd October 1890, […]
Peak Hill Cemetery – grave tales
18/02/2023 By 1 Comment
Peak Hill Cemetery 120 kms north of Meekatharra 25°37’44.5 , 118°45’03.6 Compiled with the help of Joan Peters 80 known burials There are said to be about 100 burials in the cemetery. NOTE: There are 9 names in ‘RED’ these are not confirmed as buried in Peak Hill Cemetery, but they all died in Peak […]
