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

Calanchinis on the Eastern Goldfields

22/05/2021 By Moya Sharp 3 Comments

Calanchinis on the Eastern Goldfields Of Western Australia by Chris Clark Calanchini brothers – In the last decade of the nineteenth century three brothers with the very Italian-sounding surname of Calanchini but anglicised forenames (Peter, Michael James, and George Francis) arrived in Western Australia from the colony of Victoria. The three were sons of an […]

A Murderous Assault at Burbanks-

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Kalgoorlie Miner 24 March 1900 Attempted Murder at Coolgardie. A SENSATIONAL STORY. IMPRISONMENT IN A SHAFT. One of the most sensational stories that has ever been told in the annals of the Perth Criminal Court was that which was related by Mr Burnside, the Crown solicitor, in the Criminal Court on Wednesday, before Justice Stone, […]

George Henderson Hay – an Anzac Hero

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George Henderson Hay an Anzac Hero by Nicholas Allan George Henderson Hay was born on 27 June 1872 in Bathurst, New South Wales to his parents Martin Flynn of Ireland and Helen Henderson of Scotland. George’s diverse experiences, spanning from one side of Australia to the other, shaped him into a much-loved family man, publican, […]

Rutter’s grave – Dollypot

15/05/2021 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Western Mail – 5 August 1937, page 11 OVER THE PLATES A Lonely Grave. Dear “Non-Com.”-The last resting place of many early goldfields pioneers may be found north, south, east and west of the Eastern Goldfields auriferous belt, but few, if any, will be found in a more distant and isolated spot than that which […]

Victoria Margaretta Gill -thrice buried

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While researching the people who are buried in the Cue Cemetery, John Pritchard, one of our valued volunteers, has uncovered the story of Victoria Margaretta Gill who was first buried in the Cue Cemetery in 1905. She was then transferred to and reburied at the Dongara Cemetery and thence to the Karrakatta Cemetery in Perth. […]