Sunday Times – 25 December 1927, page 40 Paddy Higgins Christmas The Story of a Lost Nugget. By John Meiklejohn. The day after CoIreavy’s and Murphy’s teams from Southern Cross had dumped the first load of gold-hunters’ swags on Fly Spot Flat, Coolgardie, September 1882. Paddy Higgins and Frank Summer, sworn mates and two of […]
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
Nullagine’s Pioneering Spirit: A 1904 Snapshot of a Thriving Outback Town
While Nullagine lies beyond the typical scope of Outback Family History, its allure is undeniable, as countless miners from Western Australia’s central goldfields flocked to this remote region. I’m confident you’ll find the 1904 account of the town truly captivating. Latitude 21° 53′ S Longitude 120° 07′ E The townsite of Nullagine is located in […]
Cess -The Hermit of Oobagooma
CESS RODERICK, OOBAGOOMA, KIMBERLEY ‘TIL SHE DROPPED HER STRIDES’ This story is an extract from the book “‘Til She Dropped Her Strides” by Roger Garwood and Trish Ainslie published in 1991. The book was one of a series which documented the traditional lifestyles in the Australian outback which were under threat from an increasingly modernised […]
No Stories This Week
Dear Readers I do apologise, but there will be no newsletter this week as I have been unwell. Bye for now Moya
The Glass Family Tragedy – a fathers fatal rage
Daily News, Perth – 20 February 1893 TERRIBLE TRAGEDY NEAR NORTHAMPTON. DOUBLE MURDER AND SUICIDE. A FATHER SHOOTS HIS TWO DAUGHTERS. THE TREVENSON TRAGEDY A terrible tragedy has just been reported from Trevenson, 20 miles from Northampton. Yesterday afternoon, at 3 pm, William Charles Glass, aged about fifty, a squatter and long resident in this […]
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