The Bermingham Family by Pat Callahan Eastern Australia was experiencing a depression in the 1890s. At the end of 1894 when he was nineteen, James Bermingham or Jas as he was called, sailed for Fremantle in Western Australia. After settling in and slowly getting his gear together, Jas and a mate took the train to […]
Sandstone Cemetery – the heart of the Murchison
08/07/2023 By 8 Comments
Although the list of burials at the Sandstone Cemetery has been on the Outback Family History website for some years it needed some research to bring the information up to date and to add in extra research, so dull to read just a list of names and dates. One of my wonderful volunteers agreed to […]
The Founding of the Coolgardie Miner –
01/07/2023 By 1 Comment
The Founding of “The Coolgardie Miner” The Golden West Magazine Avon Argus and Cunderdin-Meckering-Tammin Mail 13 April 1935 W. E. CLARE tells the story of Coolgardies first Newspaper, its Vicissitude and Fortunes, those of the “Old Camp,” and the men of the” Roaring Nineties·. “It is indeed a far cast of my memory. Hardly a […]
Mabel Hartrick – grave tales
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Mabel Hutchinson was born in Walhalla, Victoria in 1874. She was the daughter of William Hutchinson and Mary Ann nee Lapping. At the age of 24yrs, young Mabel Hutchinson travelled to the Western Australian town of Geraldton where she married Charles Francis Fade Hartrick in 1899. The following photograph shows Charles with his brother Harry […]
When War Came to Kalgoorlie Boulder –
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When War came to Kalgoorlie-Boulder by Doug Daws As time passes human memories dim and new generations lose connection to the difficulties experienced by the earlier generations. This is never more obvious than when we look back through the mists of time to the Second World War. Although we here in Kalgoorlie-Boulder were a long […]
