These wonderful photos have just been sent in by Mary Forward.
Her Grandmother’s sister Emily Mann (seen on right) was the Matron at the Lawlers Hospital from 1898 to 1899.
Lawlers Hospital c1898, Matron Emily Mann on right. (see the dog?)
In her off duty time.
Emily Mann and Mrs Clifton Lawlers
Lawlers Hospital taken later in 1922
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Moya Sharp
Owner at Outback Family History
My name is Moya Sharp, I live in Kalgoorlie Western Australia and have worked most of my adult life in the history/museum industry. I have been passionate about history for as long as I can remember and in particular the history of my adopted home the Eastern Goldfields of Western Australia. Through my website I am committed to providing as many records and photographs free to any one who is interested in the family and local history of the region.
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fantastic photos! my husband + our two young chn (2 yo and a 1yo) lived for a few months in a van outside the old police station where hubby’s office was one of the gaol cells -not that he spent much time in there as we were working in the field most of the time in 1972. we were then moved NE of Agnew -that was before Leinster was even thought of.
Great photo, imagine cycling thorough sand in those heavy ungainly clothes. Mrs Clifton was Florence Isabel Millward before she married Charlie Clifton he went prospecting in the late 1800’s with my elderly friend Anita R. O Black’s maternal grandfather Ernest Victor George Hahn a Kiwi. Ernest became the first aid officer to the Golden Horshoe mine in Boulder/Kalgoorlie then went up to Wiluna to be the first aid officer for the mines there. Florence’s mother Nurse Elizabeth Margaret Goodall Millward raised Ernest’s daughter Olive P Hahn and son Victor J Hahn when Ernest wife Mary Anne Jones sadly passed away at 37 of TB in Coolgardie
Imagine cycling through sand in those hot contricting clothes, Mrs Clifton was Florence Isabel Millward before she married Charlie Clifton a prospecting friend of my elderly friend’s Grandfather Ernest V G Hahn, in the late 1800’s, who I am doing a tree for. Her mother Nurse Elizabeth Goodall Millward raised Anita’s mother Olive P Hahn from 8 yrs along with her Uncel Victor J Hahn in Boulder after their mother Mary A Jones died at 37 from TB .E V G Hahn was the first aid officer for the Golden Horshoe mine in Boulder Kalgoorlie then went up to Wiluna to continue being first aid officer for the mines there.