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

Flood and Famine at the Peak

21/08/2021 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Western Mail – Perth – 3 June 1937, page 11 The Peak and the Flood. Dear “Non-Com.” The early days of the goldfields can never be written up fully except with the aid of official records and the memoirs of the experiences of individuals. Looking back about 40 years I often wonder at the stamina […]

Death at Dingo Creek –

21/08/2021 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Some time ago I received a request for assistance from Graeme Hughes in New Zealand. He was trying to find the burial of a relative, his Gt Gt Grandfather, George VOYSEY. He understood that he had died in 1896 at Niagara, but after looking at the burials for this cemetery on the Outback Family History […]

A Tonsorial Dynasty –

21/08/2021 By Moya Sharp 5 Comments

The Mickle family have established a dynasty of Hairdressers (Tonsorial Artists) and tobacconists in Western Australia. Starting in the Murchison and Northern Goldfields the four brothers and a nephew had premises in Menzies, Mt Magnet, Kookynie, Laverton and Wiluna and Meekatharra. They would also open a business in Narrogin in later years. The four sons, […]

Lasseter Looks for a “Missing Friend”

14/08/2021 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Pearl Bell by Chris Clark In Chris Clark’s research into Lewis Hubert Lasseter, his research also threw up Kalgoorlie connexion regarding the Sharkey family. On two successive days in July 1920, the columns of Western Australia’s ‘Kalgoorlie Miner’ newspaper – the “Voice of the Goldfields”—carried a ‘Missing Friends’ notice that read: Pearl BELL, last heard […]

Tragedy at Lakeside – grave tales

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Kalgoorlie Miner 6 May 1922, page 5 As far as can be ascertained, no one actually witnessed the accident which resulted in George Lyall Luscombe, aged 19yrs, losing his life by being run over by a wood train on the Lakeside line, near the 52-mile siding, at 5.30 a.m. on Thursday. It is known that […]