Hi Everyone, hope your week has been better than ours. Sadly one of our beloved dogs has been diagnosed with cancer of the jaw bone and it has thrown us all into shock and sadness. We have decided that we will not put her through the drastic surgery that was suggested but to just keep […]
Bridget Delia Oates – grave tales
The following photograph is of the headstone and grave of Bridget Delia Oates, who was the beloved wife of Richard Knight Oates, born in County Clare Ireland on 28 Jan 1873. She died at Kalgoorlie on the 17th Sep 1909 aged 37 years. This photograph was taken just after the headstone, ledger, and grave fencing […]
Calanchinis on the Eastern Goldfields
Calanchinis on the Eastern Goldfields Of Western Australia by Chris Clark Calanchini brothers – In the last decade of the nineteenth century three brothers with the very Italian-sounding surname of Calanchini but anglicised forenames (Peter, Michael James, and George Francis) arrived in Western Australia from the colony of Victoria. The three were sons of an […]
A Murderous Assault at Burbanks-
Kalgoorlie Miner 24 March 1900 Attempted Murder at Coolgardie. A SENSATIONAL STORY. IMPRISONMENT IN A SHAFT. One of the most sensational stories that has ever been told in the annals of the Perth Criminal Court was that which was related by Mr Burnside, the Crown solicitor, in the Criminal Court on Wednesday, before Justice Stone, […]
George Henderson Hay – an Anzac Hero
George Henderson Hay an Anzac Hero by Nicholas Allan George Henderson Hay was born on 27 June 1872 in Bathurst, New South Wales to his parents Martin Flynn of Ireland and Helen Henderson of Scotland. George’s diverse experiences, spanning from one side of Australia to the other, shaped him into a much-loved family man, publican, […]
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