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Laverton Cemetery update –

16/07/2022 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Over the last 18 months, one of my dedicated volunteers, David Senn, has been working on revising and researching the records we have on the Laverton Cemetery. The finished list is now on the website at  Laverton Cemetery. (I say finished, but I really mean the best we can make it at the moment, no […]

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

Arthur Granville Adam – pioneer profile

09/07/2022 By Moya Sharp 2 Comments

ARTHUR GRANVILLE ADAM by Roger Bee Judging from his life history, Arthur Granville Adam, my grandfather, must have been quite a character. He was born on 11 January 1855 in Gorey parish, Wexford, Ireland, although his father was Scottish. The son of William Adam and Amelia ‘Emily’ Helen ROBERTSON. At various times he was a […]

Filed Under: People, Places & Towns Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Kanowna, Laverton, Western Australia

Distressing Complications at the Yerilla Cemetery

09/07/2022 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

150kms north of Kalgoorlie, in fairly lush pastoral country, lies Yerilla Station. A few kilometers from the homestead are the remains of the old Yerilla townsite and its early gold workings. It is relatively unheard of in regards to gold production but is renowned worldwide for its ‘Green Gold’ Chrysoprase, one of the most valuable […]

Filed Under: Books, Grave Tales, People, Places & Towns Tagged With: Australian History, Cemeteries, Goldfields History, Western Australia, Yerilla

The Gaston Family from Marjory Burton

30/06/2022 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

I was recently sent some interesting information and photographs on the Gaston family from Marjory Burton. Her Gt Grandfather was George Gaston. The Gastons originally came from South Australia and before that from Sussex, England. They were Charles Gaston and his wife Rebecca nee Burfield. Their son George Gaston and his wife Ann Cicely nee […]

Filed Under: People, Places & Towns Tagged With: Australian History, Burtville

The Matron and the Major – Nurse Annie Jones

24/06/2022 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

In early 1896 Annie Jones from Bendigo Victoria was nursing in the Government hospital at Cue, Western Australia.  While she was recovering from a mild form of typhoid fever, word came by camel train that Mr. Magnus Maxton Calder, a member of the firm Calder & Co of Cue, was suffering from typhoid fever in […]

Filed Under: People, Places & Towns Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Lawlers, Mt Magnet, Western Australia

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