After a recent blog post on early Mt Margaret Deaths, I received a most interesting email from Margaret (Margo) Lanagan, who was able to give us a little more information on the two HEFFERNAN’S in that list. The following are the two entries from that post. HEFFERNAN James, d 10 Feb 1897, 36yrs, at Black […]
Youanmi Cemetery :
27/06/2020 By Leave a Comment
Latitude : 28 37 S Longitude : 118 50 E Youanmi is an abandoned goldfields townsite located 570 km north east of Perth and 90 km south west of Sandstone. Gold was discovered in the area in 1896, but was of insufficient richness to warrant being developed. The area was rediscovered in 1908, and by […]
James Connolly – grave tales
20/06/2020 By Leave a Comment
This grave is one of the earliest in the Kalgoorlie Cemetery. James Connolly died before the first Cemetery Board was appointed in December 1896 and the current numbering system commenced. There is no grave number on the grave but according to the records for this period number 23 was allocated at the time. He is […]
The Golden Graveyard:
20/06/2020 By Leave a Comment
Western Australian Goldfields Courier, Coolgardie 9 February 1895, page 4 WESTERN WANDERINGS. CAMP FIRE and FOREST TRACK. A GOLDEN GRAVEYARD. [BY A. G. ‘Smiler’ HALES] Michael William Kelly had thrown a seven. No one knew exactly what it was that killed him. Some of the boys at Kurnalpi, where he had worked long and well […]
Gone But Not Forgotten – grave tales
13/06/2020 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 […]
