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The Graves of Horseman’s Gully – grave tales

21/05/2022 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

WARNING:– Graphic content of human remains, this may upset some people. In 1995 Forsyth-Plutonic Gold Mining held the mining lease of an area that included burials at Horseman’s Gully near Darlot in the Murchison. Under mining law, it is prohibited to mine within 100 yards (91 meters) of a know burial site. This posed a […]

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Filed Under: Grave Tales, People, Places Tagged With: Australian History, Darlot, Goldfields History, Horsemans Gully, Western Australia

John Minden Caulfeild – grave tales

07/05/2022 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

On the evening of Monday 20th October 1896, three men of Kanowna, Open Call stockbroker Thomas Moore Fletcher, 22-year-old photographer John Minden Caulfeild, and Richard Baugh, cycled out to Lake Gwynn and set up a camp on the western shore of the lake about 5 miles from Kanowna. They had hired ‘The Gwynn’, a flat […]

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Filed Under: Grave Tales, People, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Kanowna, Western Australia

Murder in the Dark – a crime of passion?

30/04/2022 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Sunday Times 26 December 1937, page 2 MURDER IN THE DARK Who Killed Marin Trdervich Peculiar Circumstances in Boulder Tragedy Dead Man’s Mate Talks to “The Sunday Times” Who was the man dimly seen in the darkness of a Boulder street on Monday night engaged in the act that brought death to 45-year-old Marin Trdervich? […]

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Filed Under: Grave Tales, People, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales Tagged With: Australian History, Boulder, Boulder Cemetery, Goldfields History, Western Australia

The Gibson Boys

23/04/2022 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

I was recently contacted by Beryl Patullo of the “Friends of Will Will Rook Pioneer Cemetery Inc.” in Broadmeadows, Victoria regarding a connection to the Goldfields of Western Australia with the Gibson family. The Gibson Family in the Will Will Rook Cemetery Victoria. This is the story of one of the lesser-known families who originated […]

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Filed Under: Grave Tales, People, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, kalgoorlie cemetery, Western Australia

James Joseph Niland – grave tales

16/04/2022 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

James Joseph NILAND was born in Tubbercurry Ireland. a machine miner at the Lake View and Star GM, Kalgoorlie-Boulder. James married Margaret Ellen MURPHY  in Fremantle WA on 2nd September 1895. Margaret was born in Marble Bar, Ireland. The family moved to Kanowna where their first child Catherine was born and then on to Boulder […]

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