In 1903, Elizabeth Halford and her husband and family decided to make a fresh start in Western Australia after some disastrous farming seasons in South Australia. Mrs Halford was born Elizabeth Patience SHEPPEARD, the daughter of a Royal Navy paymaster and his wife and married William Henry HALFORD in 1881. They had three sons and […]
A Life in Pictures – Hemus and Hall
The first professional photographers were well ahead of their time even using the clumsy and painfully slow wet-plate method, they set about creating a marvelous gallery of portraits and scenes. They caught the picturesque, raffish, ponderous and pioneering spirit of the period in a remarkable fashion just as the character and enthusiasm of the golden […]
The Hill End Tragedy and the aftermath:
Kalgoorlie Western Argus, Tuesday 26 January 1904, page 13 Hill End Fire Tragedy. Inquest on the Victims Mr. A. J. Evans, acting coroner, and a jury consisting of Messrs F. Mitchell (chairman), J. Matthews and W. V. Lee, inquest held into the cause of the death of the three little boys Lee, who were burnt […]
The Railway Coffee Palace- Coolgardie
The above photograph is of Harrisons Guest House and Coffee Palace which was in the Railway Chambers and also contained the Westralia Dining Rooms. This building, built in 1897, was directly across from the Coolgardie Railway Station in Woodward Street, Coolgardie. It was also know as the Railway Coffee Palace. The man on the far […]
Registered or not Registered – that is the question ???
Outback Family History – Tips and Tricks In over the last 30 years or so in helping people to search their family history and of course my own family, a comment often made to me is- ‘Grandma’s death was never registered’. However, I find that this usually is not the case and a registration not […]
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