Murchison Times and Day Dawn Gazette – 25 September 1897, page 4 The Murchison (From the London Financial Times) Author unknown The Murchison was the earliest explored field in Western Australia, not the first goldfield—that was the Yilgarn, discovered by my friend Anstey—but the first upon which development work was undertaken. It went with a […]
The Man Who Found Goldfields Fortunes — Death of Alf McDonnell
I was in correspondence with a lady way back in 1996 (yes, I do keep my research letters that far back😊). This was in the pre-Internet days when all research had to be done by letter (possibly strapped to the leg of a dinosaur). The lady’s name was Susan Salvair, and at the time she […]
From Grief to Despair: The Doyle Family Tragedy
On the 23rd of September 1903, in Gwalia Street, Leonora, Western Australia, an event would take place that would start a string of family tragedies. The event was the death of a little girl, Eileen Margaret Doyle. She died of Tonsillitis and Bronchitis and was only 2 ½yrs old. She had only been ill for […]
Shot in His Sleep — The Day Dawn Murder That Shocked the Goldfields
Evening Mail – Fremantle 23 March 1908, page 1 No one will deny that Harry Goninon Smith, who at 8 o’clock this morning paid, on the scaffold at the Fremantle Prison, the last penalty for the supreme crime in the criminal calendar, was the murderer of the man, William John Clinton, at Day Dawn. No […]
St Albans at Menzies — The Man Who Made the Desert Bloom
The information in the following stories was kindly supplied by Gary Cowans and is reproduced with his permission. In 1876, at the age of 19, Gustave Schmidt moved from Victoria, where he was born, to NSW and purchased land 8 miles SW of Moulamein. He married Emma Rebecca BICKFORD in 1884, and his first three […]
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