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Mt Palmer – a grave competition

16/03/2024 By Moya Sharp 4 Comments

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 could be located. He offered to pay the Historical Society $150 if […]

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The Unlucky Gamble – by Big Jim Allanson

16/03/2024 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

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 south end of the pool, flies were making short work […]

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Death at Dingo Creek –

09/03/2024 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

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 they were employed, with the intention of visiting a relative who was in the Malcolm Hospital.  The […]

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Filed Under: Grave Tales, People, Places Tagged With: Cemeteries, Goldfields History, Malcolm, Western Australia

An Aboriginal ‘Don Juan’

09/03/2024 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

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 villain. It was a happy circumstance that delayed Nyooneemurra’s arrival into the world until a few years after white settlement had taken place in his district. […]

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Sir Samuel Cemetery –

09/03/2024 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

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 Samuel Townsite Cemetery Sign Yakabindi Station East of Bellevue Mine […]

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Filed Under: Grave Tales, Hotels, People, Places Tagged With: Australian History, Cemeteries, Goldfields History, Mt Sir Samuel, Sir Samuel, Western Australia

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