The worst accident ever to happen on the Yalgoo Goldfields at Fields Find was on the 31st Aug 1899. On this date, four men were working in the No. 1 shaft of the Fields Find GM. Fields Find is located between Yalgoo and Paynes Find, approximately 54km northwest of Paynes Find. They were Daniel HOGAN […]
The Picadilly Police Station
This photograph shows Constable Jeremiah John JONES and his wife Evelyn Mortimer nee HOLLOWAY and their infant daughter Eveleyn Margaret Jones, born 1903 in Kalgoorlie (their only child). Jeremiah was born in May 1873 at Wangaratta, Victoria to Owen Jones and Ann Kennedy. He died in Merredin WA in 1932 and is buried there with […]
The Caldwell Brothers – a soldiers story
The following biographies have been researched by – Dave Spain 3638 PTE James Caldwell was born in Kanowna on or about January 1896. He enlisted in Perth, Western Australia, on the 23rd of March 1917. His Father was James Jonas Caldwell and his Mother was Charlotte Caldwell nee Gardner. They resided at 68 Padbury St, […]
Abbotts – ghost town
There are over 200 towns from the Goldfields on the Outback Family History website, and I have commenced upgrading each one with new information and photographs, and this weeks ‘Feature Town’ is Abbotts. You may not have heard of it before now, but it’s an abandoned town in the Murchison region of the Goldfields, 31 […]
Vincent Abbott – a Murchison pioneer
Western Mail Perth – 4 April 1913 – by James Thomson MR. VINCENT ABBOTT A PIONEER OF THE MURCHISON GOLD-FIELDS. Amongst those attracted by the Murchison gold discoveries in the early nineties, and who helped blaze the track beyond Cue, was Vincent Abbott, a pioneer gold hunter with long and varied experience. He pushed on […]
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