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A Faithful wife, True and Kind:

19/10/2019 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

I was recently sent this photograph of H Cramer and Co, Saddle, Collar and Harness Maker. To find out a bit more about the business I started to search. A sad tale indeed unfolded. In Kalgoorlie in 1901, a young couple married, Margaret Theresa Angus and Henry Timothy Cramer. They moved to Coolgardie where Henry […]

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The Money or the Wife ??? –

19/10/2019 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

Kalgoorlie Western Argus 23 October 1900, page 25 MATRIMONIAL MISFITS  :    A lady, who after 17 years of connubial bliss, took it into her head to elope with a jockey, was charged with larceny of £70 from her lawful husband. The latter, it appears, was reconciled perfectly to the loss of his better half, but, […]

Filed Under: People Tagged With: Kalgoorlie boulder, Western Australia

Captain Kettle of the Toorak Hotel –

17/10/2019 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Built in 1899. On June 25, 1903 a fire destroyed the whole of the front of the hotel. Situated on the 90 Mile Road, in the early days, this was the road out of Coolgardie on the North side. It closed some time in 1910. Licensee’s Harold B McCormick – 1900 E Bradley – 1901 […]

Filed Under: Grave Tales, Hotels, Places & Towns Tagged With: Australian History, Coolgardie, Goldfields History, Hotels, Western Australia

St Anthonys Convent – pupils 1897-1925

17/10/2019 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Earlier this year you may recall, we were fortunate in being granted access to the admission records for St Anthony’s Convent In Coolgardie. Because of the privacy laws of the Catholic Church records we were given permission to access up to 1925, which fortunately for us is the pertinent period for the town. The archives […]

Filed Under: People Tagged With: Catholic, Coolgardie, Goldfields History, School, Western Australia

The Golden Graveyard:

12/10/2019 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Western Australian Goldfields Courier, Coolgardie  9 February 1895, page 4 WESTERN WANDERINGS. CAMP FIRE and FOREST TRACK. A GOLDEN GRAVEYARD. [BY A. G. ‘Smiler’ HALES] Michael William Kelly had thrown a seven. No one knew exactly what it was that killed him. Some of the boys at Kurnalpi, where he had worked long and well […]

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

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