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Macquarie’s Dog-

09/01/2021 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Geraldton Advertiser 13 November 1896, page 3 That There Dog o’ Mine From Henry Lawson’s ” While the Billy Boils.” Macquarie the shearer had met with an accident. To tell the truth, he had been in a drunken row at a wayside shanty, from which he had escaped with three fractured ribs, a cracked head, […]

Filed Under: Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales Tagged With: Goldfields History, Western Australia

Burt Street – by Vic Dale

09/01/2021 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Burt Street Boulder Oh the years have long strayed, where my younger days played The dust on a long summer breeze Our old house where we stayed, mother cried when she prayed The dust storms that came as they pleased The Old Trams of Burt Street, in an old world compete With steam on the […]

Filed Under: Poets Corner Tagged With: Australian History, Boulder, Goldfields History, Western Australia

Abbotts Cemetery – Yoothapina Station

09/01/2021 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Abbotts Cemetery (Yoothapina Station) Formerly know as Abbotts Find Reserve 6980 and 22406 AZIZ Abdul — 43yrs, d 29 Apr 1900, at Abbotts GM employed by the Yagahong Co, Bitten by a camel on 20th April which broke his leg, He died on the 29th April from shock after and operation to amputate his leg, […]

Filed Under: Grave Tales, People, Places & Towns Tagged With: Abbotts, Australian History, Cemeteries, Goldfields History, Western Australia

MUDGEDEEN – Cameleer and Grocer

09/01/2021 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

The following photographs from the family album of Carole Hampton were sent to me recently. Mudgedeen was her husbands Grandfather. Her husband is the son of Mudgedeen and Clara’s daughter Violet, from her second marriage. Mudgedeen, (AKA Charles), was born in 1873 in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan, the son of M BARRADEEN. He married Clara Ellen […]

Filed Under: People Tagged With: Afghan, Australian History, Cemeteries, Coolgardie, Goldfields History, Leonora, Western Australia

The Remarkable Life of Beth Maynard:

02/01/2021 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

The following story is one of the most unusual I have read for some time. It really does fit into the category of ‘Ripping Yarns and Tragic Tales’ The story starts SA and ends in NSW but has a Goldfields link!!! It is reproduced here with the kind permission of the author, Annie McKay O’Riley, […]

Filed Under: People

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