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Our Late Beloved Son – grave tales

18/07/2020 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

Kalgoorlie Miner 12th Feb 1925 BROWN — The friends of Mr and Mrs J. H. Brown and family are respectfully invited to follow the remains of their late beloved son and brother respectively, George Brown (formerly of the Midland workshops) to the Church of Christ portion of the Kalgoorlie Cemetery. The funeral will leave their […]

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

Little Teddy Murray – grave tales

11/07/2020 By Moya Sharp 2 Comments

If you visit the Kanowna Cemetery on the Yarri Rd just out of Kalgoorlie, (12 kms on the right from the turn off to the local tip) one of the first graves that you will see when you enter the gate is that of a little boy called ‘Teddy’. Over the years when I have […]

Filed Under: Grave Tales, People, Places & Towns Tagged With: Australian History, Cemeteries, Goldfields History, Kanowna

Heffernan family – grave tales

04/07/2020 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Grave Tales, People

Youanmi Cemetery –

27/06/2020 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Youanmi Cemetery 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, […]

Filed Under: Grave Tales, People, Places & Towns Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Youanmi

James Connolly – grave tales

20/06/2020 By Moya Sharp 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 […]

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

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