Malcolm Cemetery Biographies: 138 burials Also known as Mount Malcolm There are 2 Cemeteries at Malcolm Malcolm Salt Lake Cemetery AKA Lake Raeside – 123 burial from 1897-1911 Malcolm Kookynie Road Cemetery 14 burials 1911 – 1915 Unfortunately, apart from identifying various headstones in each cemetery, there are no separate registers surviving for each cemetery. […]
Gold Rush Days The Kimberley
West Australian 14 September 1934, page 29 GOLD RUSH DAYS The Kimberley the Eighties Interesting diaries, containing details of life in the North in the eighties, and written by one who was a trooper with the first police gold escort sent to Halls Creek goldfield in 1886, are in the possession of Mr. S. P. […]
The Tragic Death of Mollie Smith – grave tales
On the 3rd July 1924, a young teacher aged 18 years, Mary ‘Mollie’ Smith, was tragically burned to death in front of her class of young children. It must have been horrific for the children present. She is buried in the Boulder Cemetery. MARY ‘MOLLIE’ FINDLATER SMITH Mollie Findlater SMITH was born in 1905 in […]
The Loneliest Goldfield in the World –
Daily News – 19 November 1932, page 11 The Granites: A Hard Trek and a Rigorous Existence Where Every Ounce of Gold is Earned Indeed (By F. E. Baume, our Special Representative with the Madigan Expedition to the Granites goldfield. Written shortly after arrival at the field three weeks ago.) ‘The Madigan Geologist Expedition’ has […]
Linden Cemetery – grave tales
Linden Cemetery (formerly Griffithston) Reserve 4683 S 29° 17.32, E 122° 25.28 The first burial was in 1899 when the cemetery was gazetted and it was not until 1911 that the second occurred. In 1915 the local residents wrote to the Dept of Works to ask “ we are enquiring of you as the best […]
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