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A Wedding at Maybe

08/10/2022 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

On 22nd April 1914 William Alexander Wallace TILLER married Mabel Christine LEIPOLD in the Protestant Hall, Kookynie. The reception was held at the Maybe Gold Mine. It was said this was the last marriage held in Kookynie – Photo Jenny de Lacy. William was the son of William TILLER and Anne nee BEARDMORE and was […]

Filed Under: People, Places & Towns Tagged With: Australian History, Cemeteries, Goldfields History, Kookynie, wedding

The Remarkable Potter Sisters – a family story

08/10/2022 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

I was recently contacted by Dorothy Maude Rodoreda (nee McMeikan). She told me of her very interesting family story from Yunndaga (Woolgar).  Her great-uncle, Richard Goninon, was the mine manager of Menzies Consolidated Goldmine for some 25 years from about 1900 to 1925. She had photos of the Manager’s Residence next to the mine and […]

Filed Under: People, Places & Towns Tagged With: Goldfields History, Western Australia, Woolgar

Childe Harold – a ship, a horse or a poem?

17/09/2022 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Have you ever come across the name of a town that is so unusual you want to find out where the name came from? Western Australia has many places with odd names, but I think the following is one of the most unusual I have come across. Many years ago I heard of this town […]

Filed Under: Places & Towns Tagged With: Australian History, Childe Harold, Goldfields History, Western Australia

Mark Lewis – Mayor of Day Dawn

10/09/2022 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

      From: Jewish Herald VIC, Friday 24 January 1908, page 10        

Filed Under: People, Places & Towns Tagged With: Australian History, Day Dawn, Goldfields History, Western Australia

Barrambie put the ‘Wild’ in the Wild West

03/09/2022 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Barrambie, is located 116 km southeast of Meekatharra and 75 km northwest of Sandstone. Of all the small satellite towns surrounding Sandstone, Barrambie was the one that has had, right up to the present time, the most constant stream of prospectors and miners working the shows in that vicinity. In June of 1905, there was […]

Filed Under: People, Places & Towns, Towns and Places Tagged With: Australian History, Barrambie, Goldfields History, Western Australia

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