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

The Box Soak Creek Rush

12/11/2016 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Where is Box Creek you may ask! As I did ask myself back in 2000 (I cant believe it was so long ago) when I received a letter from a lady in Queensland about a distant relative of hers called Ronald Donald McMillen who was supposed to be buried in the Box Soak Cemetery. I […]

Star of Stage and Screen – Albert Whelan

11/11/2016 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Albert Waxman of Old Coolgardie Among the hundreds of men who came to Coolgardie in the first few months of 1892 were many who possessed social talents of some kind or other, and often beyond the ordinary in standard. Albert Waxman was one such man…Born in Ballarat in 1875 and educated at the Melbourne Grammar […]

Six Boulder Sons Enlisted For World War II – The Renton Family

11/11/2016 By Moya Sharp 8 Comments

The following is a story submitted by one of the OFH readers, Julie Clift nee Renton, about her family and is published with her kind permission:- The Reynolds family was one of the early Pioneering families that arrived In the Goldfields in 1897 and today there are still descendants living here. Francis Emma RENTON nee: REYNOLDS […]

Sensational Suicide at Red Hill -Grave Tales

06/11/2016 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

From the Kalgoorlie Miner 13th May 1905 MAN BLOWS HIS FACE AWAY Towards 5 o’clock yesterday afternoon a man named Henry Colley describing himself as a miner, residing at Red Hill (Former name of Kambalda), reported to the Kalgoorlie police that about 10 o’clock that morning a man named Edward Clayton (whose real name was […]

The Cable Family – book review

06/11/2016 By Moya Sharp 7 Comments

I was recently kindly sent a copy of the book written by Terry Mann on the family history of the Cable family of Western Australia. I am sure that lots of you would have heard of the name before. Terry is to be commended on the thorough research she has conducted into this very detailed […]