After living in Kalgoorlie-Boulder for many years, and talking to lots of people about what they did as youngsters and what games they played. I was told, that although playing on the slime dumps and near mine shafts was ‘strictly forbidden’ just about everyone did it. If their parents had know what they got up […]
Current Cue Cemetery – beyond the white gate
05/11/2022 By 6 Comments
As promised (albeit two weeks late!) the following is the end result of a research project bravely taken on in the last 18 months by John Pritchard whose help I find invaluable. He took the ‘basic’ cemetery record for the Cue Cemetery which consisted mostly of a name, date & denomination and he has made […]
Cue Cemetery and Help Arrives
15/10/2022 By Leave a Comment
Next week will be published the finished first draft (is it ever finished?) of the Cue Cemetery Burial Register. For the last 18 months John Pritchard and I have been working on an upgrade of the Cue Cemetery records. Not being happy with just a name and a date, John proceeded to try find out […]
A Memorial Unearthed – grave tales
15/10/2022 By Leave a Comment
An interesting tale about a grave in the Boulder cemetery. I was contacted some time ago by Peter Huntly, a relative of Annie Bell who died at the Kalgoorlie Hospital on the 24th Oct 1909, and was subsequently buried in the Boulder Cemetery on the 29th of October 1909. Peter had already seen a photo […]
Who was George Dainty ?
08/10/2022 By Leave a Comment
George Dainty died in 1901, aged about 40yrs (date unknown). His remains were found in the bush by a prospector, Henry Frederick KESTEL when searching for lost donkeys, on the 5 Jul 1903 between Childe Harold, 7 miles from the mine and 12 yards off the travelled road in the Laverton district. The undertaker, James […]
