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Best Wishes Christmas 2022

23/12/2022 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

I would like to take this opportunity to wish all of our subscribers, both those that have recently joined us and many who have been with us since the beginning over nine years ago, a very peaceful and happy Christmas. I am fortunate to have all my four children and their partners and the three […]

Filed Under: About Outback Family History

The Prince and the Diggers Daughter

22/12/2022 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Nambucca and Bellinger News 6 May 1932, page 5 A TALE OF THE GOLDFIELDS written by JAMES GRAYSON When gold is calling, however tortuous the road, civilised men all the world over (and some women, too) will overcome all apparent impossible obstacles, reaching their objective often in the last stage of endurance. How strange it […]

Filed Under: People, Places & Towns, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales

A Bush Christmas by C J Dennis

22/12/2022 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

The sun burns hotly thro’ the gums As down the road old Rogan comes The hatter from the lonely hut Beside the track to Woollybutt. He likes to spend his Christmas with us here. He says a man gets sort of strange Living alone without a change, Gets sort of settled in his way; And […]

Filed Under: Poets Corner

The Box Soak Creek Rush

22/12/2022 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Where is Box Creek you may ask? As I did myself back in 2000, (I can’t 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 had […]

Filed Under: People, Places & Towns

Christmas Tragedy at Day Dawn –

22/12/2022 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

I have read of many tales of hardship and terrible accidents over the years, but the following story is, without doubt, one of the saddest and most tragic of all I have ever come across. I first read about it some time ago when I was contacted by Ian Leithhead, who asked me to assist […]

Filed Under: People, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales

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