The people of the Goldfields

The Goldfields of Western Australia was and still is made up of many people, from poets to politicians, from saints and sinners and everything in between. I hope to tell you the stories of some of these people either famous or infamous or just the ordinary folks. Sometime the most ordinary people do the most extraordinry things

Kanowna Cemetery – a new milestone

30/09/2023 By Moya Sharp 5 Comments

As many of you will know if you have been following our stories for a while, Outback Family History embarked on a project to restore and preserve the Kanowna Cemetery. This is the second cemetery located on Yarri Road. This was three years ago and I would now like to advise you how far we […]

Died of Thirst – a verse

30/09/2023 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Evening Journal 3 May 1890, page 3 DIED OF THIRST By Ned The midday sun poured down his fiery rays Upon Australia’s burnt and arid plains, And shone on one who now for nigh three days Had suffered thirst, that worst of frightful pains. He staggers on beneath his heavy swag, Heavy from weakness rather […]

A Murder in the Kimberleys –

23/09/2023 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

Sunday Times 5 September 1954, page 3 Murder Ended a 1922 search for Oil in Kimberleys Memories of the Locke Expedition by Morva Gogan In a specially equipped Dakota plane, a party from the Bureau of Mineral Resources has almost completed a survey of the North West Kimberleys with the object of exploring for oil […]

William H Gale – first mayor of Cue

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Geraldton Express and Murchison and Yalgo Goldfields Chronicler (WA : 1896 – 1905), Friday 26 March 1897, page 42 Cue was declared a municipality in August 1894, the first election of councillors taking place at the Warden’s office on the 16th of August of that year, when Mr. W. H. Gale was elected Mayor, after […]

A Most Determined Suicide – John Philp

23/09/2023 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Mental health is today something that we are much more aware of. In 1898 it was still a crime to attempt to kill yourself and was so until the mid 1960’s in most Australian states. This would be why Sergeant Sellenger said he would take no further action. Western Australian Goldfields Courier 8 January 1898, […]