Article contributed by – By Outback Family History reader Jenni Hodge There are few better ways to get a feel for the people of the past than by eating their diets. The experience of tasting something which our ancestors tasted connects us with them through a sensory experience which cannot be equaled in the realm of academic learning. […]
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
Isaac Goss – A Christian Man in Every Sense
Issac William Goss – Undertaker This is one of my favourite photographs. It is of the Goss family taken at their home in Piesse Street, Boulder in 1910. The family was well known for their undertaker’s business in Piesse Street, Boulder. Many of the headstones in our local cemeteries have their maker’s name on them. […]
Kunanalling – Ghost Town
Kunanalling – Ghost Town Latitude 30 141’ S Longitude 121 04’ E Now an abandoned townsite, Kunanalling is located in what is now the Eastern Goldfields of Western Australia 25 “miles (32 km) from Coolgardie on the road that traverses the western side of Mt Burges. Gold was discovered here in 1892, and it […]
The Legend of Hell Fire Jack
There was the time that the brokers were negotiating for the purchase of Merton’s Reward Goldmine in 1902, and arrived at Menzies by horse-drawn buggy at 8pm after the train for Kalgoorlie had left. It was essential for them to reach Kalgoorlie before midnight when the option on the lease would expire. So a privately […]
The Bardoc Murder –
The grave of the victim of the unsolved Bardoc murder is on the bank of the creek leading down from Lindsay’s Soak, which is crossed by the road from the Dark Horse (mine) to the Bellvue (mine) about three miles east of Grants Patch. The fenced grave is on the North bank of the creek, […]