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Matron MacKenzie – a duty nobly done

28/08/2021 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Murchison Times and Day Dawn Gazette 24 January 1919, page 2 Death of Matron Mackenzie The news of the death of Matron Florence MacKenzie, at the Cue Hospital on Sunday night last, came as a shock to the residents of Cue and Day Dawn. Miss MacKenzie, who had only recently been appointed as matron at […]

Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales – 22nd Aug 2021

21/08/2021 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Hi to all our readers! Firstly I would like to announce the winner of our ‘Subscribers Only’ book prize, Our Shadows by Gail Jones. It is Charmaine Edwards who is also celebrating her birthday today believe so ‘Happy Birthday’ as well Charmaine. I hope you enjoy the book. Can you send me your postal address […]

Flood and Famine at the Peak

21/08/2021 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Western Mail – Perth – 3 June 1937, page 11 The Peak and the Flood. Dear “Non-Com.” The early days of the goldfields can never be written up fully except with the aid of official records and the memoirs of the experiences of individuals. Looking back about 40 years I often wonder at the stamina […]

Death at Dingo Creek –

21/08/2021 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Some time ago I received a request for assistance from Graeme Hughes in New Zealand. He was trying to find the burial of a relative, his Gt Gt Grandfather, George VOYSEY. He understood that he had died in 1896 at Niagara, but after looking at the burials for this cemetery on the Outback Family History […]

A Tonsorial Dynasty –

21/08/2021 By Moya Sharp 5 Comments

The Mickle family have established a dynasty of Hairdressers (Tonsorial Artists) and tobacconists in Western Australia. Starting in the Murchison and Northern Goldfields the four brothers and a nephew had premises in Menzies, Mt Magnet, Kookynie, Laverton and Wiluna and Meekatharra. They would also open a business in Narrogin in later years. The four sons, […]