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Meat for the Fields – The Rowell Boys

25/01/2025 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

Western Mail 12 February 1953, page 23 WESTRALIANA Meat for the Fields by E. Rowell A Butcher who was a heavyweight athlete and successful prospector too, will be remembered by some who were on the Eastern Goldfields in 1894. My elder brother Bill went to Coolgardie some months after Bayley and Ford found the rich […]

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Filed Under: People, Places, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales Tagged With: Australian History, Coolgardie, Goldfields History, Western Australia

Arthur Cyril Leevers – pioneer & publican

25/01/2025 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Arthur Cyril LEEVERS was born on the 9th of March 1866 at Sowerby Bridge, Yorkshire, England. His parents were John LEEVERS and Mary Ann RATHY. In 1872 he travelled to New Zealand with his parents and brothers. He married twice, 1st to Isabella HEBLY in June 1886 in Wellington, New Zealand and 2nd to Alma […]

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Filed Under: Hotels, People, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales, Soldiers Story Tagged With: Australian History, Coolgardie, Goldfields History, Hotels, Menzies, Western Australia

The Suicide – by B.E.

25/01/2025 By Moya Sharp 2 Comments

The Sun -Kalgoorlie – 3 April 1904, page 6 ALLEN Frederick ‘Fred’ Howard- of Tampa, who, some weeks ago, committed suicide by hanging.  This verse was written by his mate at the Champion Mine, Kookynie and submitted to ‘The Sun’. THE SUICIDE Before shuffling off this mortal coil. Before being covered with the soil, Just […]

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Filed Under: People, Places, Poets Corner Tagged With: Australian History, Cemeteries, Goldfields History, Kookynie, Suicide, Tampa, Western Australia

The East Brother and the Wheel of Fortune –

18/01/2025 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

East Family as related by Nell Charlwood nee East – Nell’s father, Cornelius ‘Neal’ East, came to Lennonville near Mount Magnet from Bolton, Ontario, Canada. He came to work and invest in the mine owned and established by James East, his brother. James East had worked on various mines in South Dakota, New Mexico and […]

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Wild West Deeds at Bullfinch –

18/01/2025 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Call News-Pictorial Perth – 7 September 1928, page 2 WILD WEST DEEDS AT BULLFINCH Love Lorn Migrant’s Reign of Terror Ends With Bullet Sensational Incidents Follow Rejected Affection Because he loved fifteen-year-old Dorothy Cook, the daughter of a local farmer, a youthful migrant entered upon a series of sensational exploits of terror at Bullfinch on […]

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