Widgiemooltha Cemetery – Forget us not, for eternity here we reside

Widgemooltha Cemetery Off Coolgardie Esperance Highway Long -31.478272  Lat 121.583090 ‘We loved and were loved before we died, Forget us not for eternity here we reside.’ 16 Burials –  1 Mine Death – 8 children – 1 female – 1 suicide. BROWN Raymond Jeffrey – d 25 May 1935, 32yrs, Born: Melbourne VIC, In WA […]

William Whitfield Mills – Surveyor-Explorer-Prospector

William W MILLS Surveyor – Explorer – Prospector MILLS William Whitfield – d 15 Aug 1916, 72yrs, at Widgiemooltha, WA, Occ: Pension and former surveyor, Father: Josias MILLS, Mother: Elizabeth Land WHITFIELD, Born: Plymouth, Devon, England in 1844, Cause: Senile decay, Death certified by Charles Mortimore WOOLDRIDGE, Postmaster, Widgemooltha, Reg: 20/1916 Coolgardie, Buried at Widgemooltha […]

Red Hill Cemetery (Kambalda)

Kambalda (Red Hill)  Pioneer Cemetery Beresford Rd, Kambalda L 31.204984 – L 121.650983 5 burials – 1 suicide 1 woman EUPELI George — d 13th June 1904, at the Butterfly Mine, Red Hill, Occ: Miner, 43 Years, Cause: Cardiac Failure, Valvular Disease, a post mortem examination was conducted (not very common on the Goldfields at […]

Tuckanarra Cemetery – now you’re but a memory blurred

Tuckanarra Cemetery -AKA Cork Tree Flat Coordinates: -27.10872, 118.09445 41kms north of Cue Karbar Station 13 Burials – 7 children – 4 women Deserted now, no more your stirred by those in quest of gold. Now you’re but a memory blurred of what you were of old. Yet, though the camp in silence sleeps, Except for songs […]

Alfred Ives – prospector and staunch friend

Sunday Times – Perth – 1 July 1910, page 1 New England ‘Mt Vernon” A Promising Gold Belt told by Alfred Ives Prospector Alfred Ives tripped up the office stairs last Wednesday to offer voluminous details about the development of the New England district, a promising gold-belt located about 40 miles S.S.E. of Wiluna, having […]