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A Lost and Desolate Wanderer –

16/11/2019 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Evening Journal, Adelaide, 30 January 1894           A Terrible Experience at Coolgardie. A well-known and respected resident of Kent Town has received a letter from his son, who recently went to Coolgardie from Adelaide, from which the following is extracted :— “On December 24 and 25 (Merry Christmas Day) I was dying, […]

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

A Davyhurst Romance:

16/11/2019 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Sunday Times 18 November 1906, page 4 DAVYHURST ROMANCE  –  THE VAGRANT LETTER The Bush Buck-and the Belle   –   A Mulga Novelette “Vagrant” : The love affairs of ‘Dancing Tommy’, coach-driver, poet, and whipper in in general at local social functions, have ever been of considerable interest to the Davyhurst community and other Mulgaland centres. […]

Filed Under: People, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales

The Drovers Wife – a short story by Henry Lawson

16/11/2019 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

The Drover’s Wife is a dramatic short story by the Australian writer Henry Lawson. It recounts the story of an outback woman left alone with her four children in an isolated hut. The story can be read in full here: The Drovers Wife In The Drover’s Wife by Henry Lawson, we have the theme of struggle, hardship, […]

Filed Under: People, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales Tagged With: drover, Goldfields History, Henry Lawson

Charles William Douglas and family – by Harry Firns

12/11/2019 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

The following family story is submitted by Harry Firns and was written by George Charles Douglas about his father Charles William Douglas. Born Inglewood 1871 died Adelaide 1916 My father Charles William Douglas married Annie May Bowen in 1900 in Melbourne and they sailed shortly afterwards to Western Australia. They lived in Boulder City where […]

Filed Under: People Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Kalgoorlie boulder, Western Australia

Two Soldier Brothers – by Marcia McIntyre

09/11/2019 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

The following is a guest post from the Family History of Marcia McIntyre Bert and Cyril Longmore were first cousins to my mother, Alice Mary Jones nee True.  Although the Longmore family left Gundagai when Bert was only a small child and moved to Melbourne, then Western Australia, the family always kept in contact with […]

Filed Under: People, Soldiers Story Tagged With: Bullfinch, Goldfields History, Western Australia

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