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Geoff Lambert was his name:

03/07/2021 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Last week we heard about the longest mail run in Australia. So I thought you might like to know about the man who made these intrepid trips. Geoff Lambert did the ‘run’ for thirteen years. He was the longest-serving mailman employed by Campbell & Co who had the contract. Others who did the run were […]

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Filed Under: People, Places, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Marble Bar, Meekatharra, Nullagine

With Mail to Marble Bar:

26/06/2021 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Australia’s Longest Overland Mail from Meekatharra to Marble Bar. Western Australia. a distance of 1211 miles for the round trip. by John K Ewers  –  February 1935 Mundiwindi, Murramunda, Bald Hill, Noreena Downs. Nullagine —  the very names are redolent of that other Australia which so few people know and which is the most vital […]

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Filed Under: People, Places, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Marble Bar, Meekatharra, Nullagine, Western Australia

Childe Harold – a ship, a horse or a poem ???

26/06/2021 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

We now have a new town on the Outback Family History website: Childe Harold is on the Mt Weld Station, 22kms south of Laverton, Western Australia. Have you ever come across the name of a town that is so unusual you want to find out where the name came from? Many years ago I heard of […]

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Emma Emilie Urquhart – grave tales

19/06/2021 By Moya Sharp 4 Comments

Emma Emilie BELICKE ,Born 15 Aug 1884 in Prahan, Victoria. Died 28 Mar 1919 Kalgoorlie. Daughter of Carl Wilhelm BELICKE and Emma Amelia RAU. She came to Western Australia in 1897 with her parents aged 12yrs. On the 1st Feb 1905 Emma married Ernest URQUHART in Perth WA. Ernest was a year older than her […]

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Davyhurst Cemetery – grave tales

19/06/2021 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Davyhurst Cemetery – Western Australia    –       GPS Latitude and longitude 30° 03’.82s 120° 38’.70e The Davyhurst Cemetery has 45 people buried there. Davyhurst is a Goldfields town that is situated southwest of Menzies, Western Australia, and is approximately 120 kilometers northwest of Kalgoorlie. The proposed townsite was initially declared “Davyston” in 1900. […]

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Filed Under: Grave Tales, People, Places Tagged With: Australian History, Cemeteries, Davyhurst, Goldfields History, Ularring, Western Australia

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