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Lennonville ‘Warramboo’ Cemetery –

18/06/2022 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Following on from last week’s article on Lennonville: Lennonville (Warramboo) East Cemetery  – 1st. Reserve: 6842 gazettal date 16 Mar 1900 35 deaths 27 of whom were children. There are two cemeteries at the abandoned town of Lennonville which is about 10kms north of Mt Magnet. The cemeteries are located on either side of the […]

Filed Under: Grave Tales, People, Places & Towns Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, lennonville, Western Australia

Mabel Hartrick – grave tales

11/06/2022 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Mabel Hutchinson was born in Walhalla, Victoria in 1874. She was the daughter of William Hutchinson and Mary Ann nee Lapping. At the age of 24yrs, young Mabel Hutchinson travelled to the Western Australian town of Geraldton where she married Charles Francis Fade Hartrick in 1899. The following photograph shows Charles with his brother Harry […]

Filed Under: Grave Tales, People, Places & Towns Tagged With: Goldfields History, lennonville, Western Australia

Bessie Jordan – a pioneering woman

21/05/2022 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Elizabeth Jane Ann ‘Bessie’ Jones was born on 17 AUG 1877 in Sandhurst, Victoria. She was the daughter of James Jones (1849-1892) and Harriet Jones nee Harry (1851-1925). She had only one sibling, James Henry Jones born 15 Aug 1882. At the age of 20yrs, she married Richard Michael Jordan on the 27th of August […]

Filed Under: Grave Tales, People Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Kalgoorlie boulder, kalgoorlie cemetery, Western Australia

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 […]

Filed Under: Grave Tales, People, Places & Towns 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 […]

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

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