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Simon Rose Fraser – grave tales

01/05/2021 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Follow my blog with Bloglovin I was recently contacted by my friend and grave photographer extraordinaire, Danielle Warnock, about a query she had received from Duncan Fraser, about the grave of Simon Rose Fraser, his Great Uncle, buried in the Kalgoorlie Cemetery. He asked if she could take some photos of the grave for him […]

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

Uncle Jack – a tree to remember him

01/05/2021 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

I was recently contacted by Jeannine Nolan who has very kindly allowed me to tell the story of her Great Uncle Jack. She came to get in touch through a story I did last year about John Hindhaugh. There may be a family connection as Emily Marion Hindhaugh married Ezra Chappel, Jack’s uncle. Sadly Emily […]

Filed Under: Grave Tales, People, Places & Towns Tagged With: Australian History, Black Range, Cemeteries, Goldfields History, Sandstone, Western Australia

Robert Pickering True – a landmark in the wilderness

24/04/2021 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

It you were travelling in the Outback North of Laverton in Western Australia and you came across this imposing grave and headstone, you may think that this must be someone of importance to have such an impressive memorial in such a remote place. You might then decide to look up the name so you could […]

Filed Under: Books, Grave Tales, People Tagged With: Australian History, Cemeteries, Goldfields History, Laverton, Western Australia

John Thomas Pearce – grave tales

24/04/2021 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

The Tragic Tale of a Northumberland Man. At the turn of the century in 1902, John Thomas Pearce left his home in Northumberland when the call went out for miners to work in the remote Western Australian town of Leonora at the Sons of Gwalia gold mine. His trade was a mining carpenter, and his […]

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

In Old Paddington Cemetery

17/04/2021 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

In Kalgoorlie’s north, away out in the scrub Where nobody’s shoulders you’re likely to rub On an old winding track one scarcely could see Well hidden by bush is an old cemetery. And those lonely old graves with headstones of white Would appear to be ghosts should you pass by at night. Here graves are […]

Filed Under: Grave Tales, Poets Corner Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Gudarra, Paddington, Western Australia

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