Charles Bernhardt Hahnel was born in Chemnitz, Saxony, Germany in 1866 to Parents Charles August Hahnel and Theresa Schmidt. Charles came to Australia in 1886, boarding the ship Salier in Antwerp, Belgium. Charles was 20 at this time. On the sixth of December 1890, Charles married Hannah Gribble (born Maryborough 1871) in Timor Victoria. His […]
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
Almost Killed with Kindness –
I was recently a guest speaker on the wonderful Sunday evening radio program ‘Remember When’ with Harvey Deegan. It was great to chat with Harvey and to talk about the three websites that I have on the history of the people and places of the WA Goldfields. When we were talking about the blog, I […]
The Doyles of Widgemooltha
story by Lyn Beard From the obituary of James Doyle printed in Fremantle Advocate 11 January 1934 In a beautiful location overlooking the salt bed of Lake Lefroy, the remains of at least 17 people lie in the Widgiemooltha Cemetery. There are only a few headstones, the largest of which commemorates five members of the […]
The Stockman’s Grave –
The Stockman’s Grave Breezes stir the bowgada scrub York gums nod and sway Sheep may graze across the mound That is a stockman’s grave No cross, no name at the head of the mound Only little while stones surround The fading scars on the bushland tell How this stockman drowned Bush bird makes her warning […]
William Schofield Randall – Evangelist of the Goldfields
This wonderful story and photographs have been shared with the kind permission of Brian Randall- William Schofield Randall The evangelist on the Goldfields of Western Australia Appointed in 1895 to the opening of the Salvation Army Corps in Kalgoorlie and the Great Boulder With a journey of 140 miles before him, Lieutenant William Schofield Randall […]
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