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A Beloved Son- Calder family story

08/05/2021 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

I have recently been in correspondence with Lisa Clifford, who has very kindly allowed me to share the following story and photographs with you. She originally got in touch with me after seeing the grave of Alistar Douglas Calder in the Black Range (Nungarra) Cemetery on the Outback Family History website. Lisa tells me that […]

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

Uncle Jack – a tree to remember him

01/05/2021 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

I was recently contacted by Jeannine Nolan who has very kindly allowed me to tell the story of her Great Uncle Jack. She came to get in touch through a story I did last year about John Hindhaugh. There may be a family connection as Emily Marion Hindhaugh married Ezra Chappel, Jack’s uncle. Sadly Emily […]

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

John Thomas Pearce – grave tales

24/04/2021 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

The Tragic Tale of a Northumberland Man. At the turn of the century in 1902, John Thomas Pearce left his home in Northumberland when the call went out for miners to work in the remote Western Australian town of Leonora at the Sons of Gwalia gold mine. His trade was a mining carpenter, and his […]

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

A Legend Cut Down – pioneer profile

17/04/2021 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Kalgoorlie Miner – 19 March 1934, page 5 Tragedy at Ora Banda Ora Banda has once more been the stage for a sad and dreadful fatality. Mr Charles Emery, who left the hotel with his cart and horse about 9 p.m. on Sunday, the 11th March was discovered on the following Monday morning, at about […]

Filed Under: People, Places & Towns, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, kalgoorlie cemetery, Ora Banda, Western Australia

A Nugget of Gratitude-

03/04/2021 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Sunday Times – Perth – Sunday 19 January 1941, page 8 The Donors Of Famous Nugget:  Mrs. Lynch (left), the first woman to he married at Coolgardie, and her sister, Mrs. Airey (right) and inset the brooch on which is mounted the original nugget of gold found by Paddy Hannan at Kalgoorlie and presented to […]

Filed Under: People, Places & Towns, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales, They were 1st Tagged With: Australian History, Coolgardie, Goldfields History, Western Australia

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