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

Ptomaine Poisoning – the silent killer

07/06/2018 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

The term, ptomaine poisoning, is was used to include all sorts of cases of bacterial poisoning due to the consumption of unhealthy food, except where specific disease. e.g. tuberculosis. is conveyed. The main reason was contamination from tinned food that had not been prepared or tinned properly. Anyone who has travelled in the outback will […]

Death at Dingo Creek:-

01/06/2018 By Moya Sharp 5 Comments

Malcolm Chronicle and Leonora Advertiser 18 January 1902 DEATH FROM THIRST – ANOTHER SAD TALE OF THE BUSH. On Saturday morning of last week, two Italians, named Bortolo Marinoni and Joe Marinoni, left Anaconda Copper Mine, where they were employed, with the intention of visiting a relative who was in the Malcolm Hospital. The latter, […]

The Parker Family – pioneer profile

01/06/2018 By Moya Sharp 6 Comments

Charles PARKER was born in 1873 and his wife Hannah nee REES was born 1872. They were married in 1892 and came to Australia to live at Hill End in New South Wales. Five of the couples daughters were listed as deceased by 1903. Their last three children were born in Kalgoorlie, Violetta May in […]

Coolgardie Footballers – 1930’s

29/05/2018 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

Back Row:- L-R ? – ? – ? – Len PERRY – ? – George TREHERN – Bub KEMP – ? – Jack CAVAZZI. Front Row:– ? – Bill ALLEN – Jack HEWITT – Telf PEDRETTI – ? – ? – ? – George PATIENCE -Jimmy PEDRETTI. Front Lying:– Henry POSTANS. Back Row:- L-R […]

What is a Homestead Lease ???

28/05/2018 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

The Homestead Leases, or more correctly Miners Homestead Leases (MHL), were issued under the mining laws of the time – until the demise of the 1904 Mining Act in 1982. These laws allowed bonefide miners/prospectors who held a Gold Mining Lease (GML) in the area to apply for suitable land (mostly away from their workings) […]