Goongarrie Cemetery:- GPS Latitude & Longitude 30o 03″.03s 121o 09″.33e Link to the Outback Family History Page for Goongarrie. BROUGH Emma Elizabeth, d 9 Nov 1896, Gill Street, Goongarrie, Housewife 27yrs, Caude:- Dysentry, Father:- Jabez RAWLINGS (Baker) Mother:- Sarah GREEN, Born:- Broadford VIC, In VIC 27yrs, In WA 2 months, Married to George BROUGH in Essendon […]
Called Home to Jesus – grave tales
24/03/2018 By 2 Comments
On the 6th November 1911 little Dorothea Ruby Olive WRAIGH, age 9yrs, passed away in the Infectious Disease Hospital in Kalgoorlie. Exactly a week later her little brother Alwyn George WRAIGHT, aged 7mth, also died. They are buried together in the Boulder Cemetery. Dorothea was born in Coolgardie on the 20th Nov 1902 to George […]
Eh! but she was a good girl – grave tales
21/03/2018 By 2 Comments
It is a far cry from Coolgardie to Corbie in the Somme Valley in France; but in 1916, a Salvation Army Chaplin, Benjamin Orames, who as a boy had been on the Goldfields of Coolgardie, found himself in Corbie seeking the town mayor who he located in a dugout. While shells blasted the historic building […]
The Lakeside Tragedy – grave tales
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Kalgoorlie Miner (WA : 1895 – 1950), Saturday 6 May 1922, page 5 As far as can be ascertained, no one actually witnessed the accident which resulted in George Lyall Luscombe, aged 19yrs, losing his life by being run over by a wood train on the Lakeside line, near the 52-mile siding, at 5.30 a.m. […]
Richard Henry ‘Dick’ Ryan – grave tales
12/08/2017 By Leave a Comment
Westralian Worker (Perth, WA : 1900 – 1951), Friday 20 March 1908, page 8 The Perseverance Accident. The Boulder Branch has lost yet another of its members bv fatal accident. this time at the Perseverance mine. Richard Ryan, who has been in the Union for a number of years, was killed by falling against some […]
