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The Boy from Maryborough – grave tales

05/09/2020 By Moya Sharp 2 Comments

Copy of extract taken from Maryborough and Dunolly Advertiser – 4 Nov 1907 OLD MARYBOROUGH BOY Mr William Henry STANLEY On Wednesday last there arrived in Maryborough from Kalgoorlie, Mr W.H. Stanley, Manager of the Kalgoorlie Electric Tramways Ltd. Mr Stanley’s mother and father, who are still living, are two of the oldest identities of […]

Filed Under: People, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Kalgoorlie boulder, Trams, Western Australia

Tom Ryan – King of Meekatharra

29/08/2020 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Early in 2017, I was contacted by Sue Hartley who is the Great Granddaughter of Thomas Ryan and his wife, Henrietta Ryan nee Kane. Their third child, Mary Daisy Ryan, known as Dais, was her grandmother. Sue said: “Meekatharra Ryan” or “The King of Meekatharra” as Tom was known, did much to build the town […]

Filed Under: People, Places & Towns Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Meekatharra, Western Australia

A Lost Glitter – book review

29/08/2020 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

A Lost glitter : letters between South Australia and the Western Australian goldfields, 1895-1897 –   edited by Michael R. Best. A Lost Glitter is the most richly detailed first-hand account of goldfields’ life we have. The letters of the Deland family between the Western Australian goldfields and Gawler contrast the rumbustious, economically chancy, life of […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Western Australia

Royce Woodhead – a soldier in the making

29/08/2020 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

North Kalgoorlie School Cadets, winners of the best shooting school cadets. Taken in 1909. Back row ? SMITH, Jack BACKHOUSE, Captain Lionel JEFFRIES, E STRANGER, Eric LEAN Front Row:  Royce WOODHEAD, Tom CLEMENTS, B CAPLE,  Sid KINGS. Young Royce Woodhead would have been about 14 yrs old in the above photograph, although he look younger, […]

Filed Under: People, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales, Soldiers Story Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Kalgoorlie boulder, Western Australia, WW1

Samuel Slater Bentley – grave tales

29/08/2020 By Moya Sharp 2 Comments

Samuel Slater BENTLEY was the son of Thomas Beverton BENTLEY and Annice SLATER. he was born in Hooley Hill, Lancashire, England in 1876. He married Rosalinda Violet Fox in Boulder on the 5th April 1905 at age 26yrs just a fortnight before his terrible death. Kalgoorlie Miner – 19 April 1905, page 6 PREMATURE EXPLOSION, […]

Filed Under: Grave Tales, People Tagged With: Australian History, Cemeteries, Goldfields History, Kalgoorlie boulder, Mining Accidents, Western Australia

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