Family and Local History of the Goldfields of Western Australia
Search for the Mt Palmer Cemetery and the grave of John Ebenezer JONES By Mike Duggan Early 1972 - Mr Ken White approached Eric Carnicelli, a member of the Southern Cross Historical Society, to see if Mr White’s grandfather’s grave at Mt Palmer … [Continue reading]
Dolly Pot - Western Mail, Perth - 21 November 1940, page 8 OVER THE PLATES An Unlucky Gamble. DEAR "Non-Com," Early in the "Roaring Nineties," Billy Collins, Ned Campion, Barney - and I were camped at a pool ten miles west of Cue. At the … [Continue reading]
Malcolm Chronicle and Leonora Advertiser 18 January 1902 DEATH FROM THIRST ANOTHER SAD TALE FROM THE BOOK OF THE BUSH On Saturday morning of last week, two Italians, named Bortolo and Joe Marinoni left Anaconda Copper Mine, where … [Continue reading]
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/37401376/3453908# Western Mail 25 December 1909, page 91 AN ABORIGINAL DON JUAN By DAISY M. BATES Opportunity makes the thief, and circumstance not infrequently makes the hero or the … [Continue reading]
Sir Samuel / Mt Sir Samuel Cemetery "With lonely old graves where departed souls sleep, Where a merciful god a vigil must keep Till the trumpet is heard on that final last day Let us never disturb them, just leave them that way' Sir … [Continue reading]
