Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales – 5th September 2021

Hi Everyone, I hope your weekend is going well.

This week I had the pleasure of meeting one of my volunteers in person as he was coming through Kalgoorlie. It doesn’t often happen that I do get to meet any of the many people who help me and who I am friends with online. It’s odd how you get a mental picture of someone in your head and then when you see them in person they look compleatly different John also very kindly took a picture to a lady in Perth in his luggage for me. You may recall that I was trying to find a home for a framed photo which was given to me some 20yrs ago and as its no connection to my family, I wanted to find a relative of those in the photograph who would like it. The lady who accepted it was a relative of two of the people in the picture from the Wearne family.

The United Grocers Cricket Team

I hope that you like this weeks stories and if there is any subject that you would like to know more about or something that would make a good ‘Ripping Yarn’, I would love to hear from you: research@outbackfamilyhistory.com.au

Bye for now

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Moya Sharp

Owner at Outback Family History

My name is Moya Sharp, I live in Kalgoorlie Western Australia and have worked most of my adult life in the history/museum industry. I have been passionate about history for as long as I can remember and in particular the history of my adopted home the Eastern Goldfields of Western Australia. Through my website I am committed to providing as many records and photographs free to any one who is interested in the family and local history of the region.

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