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Anton MARINKOVIC – grave tales

28/03/2020 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Anton MARINKOVIC  – buried  25th September 1909 aged 16 months in the Roman Catholic Section of the Kalgoorlie Cemetery, Grave No 3365. The inscription says: ANTON The Beloved Son of Anton and Mary Marinkovic Died 23rd September 1909 Aged 16 months Had he asked us well we know We should cry ‘O spare this blow’ […]

Filed Under: Grave Tales, People Tagged With: Australian History, Cemeteries, Goldfields History, Kalgoorlie boulder, Western Australia

Playing Hookey !!! A very serious game.

28/03/2020 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

‘Playing Hooky’, many of you, myself included, may think this means by definition:- To be absent from school with out permission or excuse. However if you were a drinker in the 1930’s in Kalgoorlie Boulder you probably would remember a quite different game. I first heard of this game when an ‘Outback Family History’ reader, […]

Filed Under: Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales, Sport Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Hotels, Kalgoorlie boulder, Western Australia

The Prince and the Diggers Daughter-

21/03/2020 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Nambucca and Bellinger News 6 May 1932, page 5 A TALE OF THE GOLDFIELDS written by JAMES GRAYSON for the “Nambucca News” When gold is calling, however tortuous the road, civilised men all the world over (and some women, too) will overcome all apparent impossible obstacles, reaching their objective often in the last stage of […]

Filed Under: People, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales Tagged With: Afghan, Australian History, Goldfields History, Western Australia

Margaret Alice Lynch – grave tales

21/03/2020 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

103 yrs ago Margaret Alice Lynch died at age 68 yrs and was buried in the Roman Catholic Section of the Kalgoorlie Cemetery on the 21st Sept 1917 in grave number 4986. This impressive memorial is in a double plot, but she is buried there alone. She is buried close to her son, William Reilly, […]

Filed Under: Grave Tales, People Tagged With: Australian History, Cemeteries, Goldfields History, Kalgoorlie boulder, Western Australia

The World Well Lost for Love:

21/03/2020 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

The Story of Bob and Jack – Bunbury Herald 5 June 1907, page 3 A PROSPECTOR’S SACRIFICE By R. M. Cochrane Every prospector knows the dreary tracts of the Mount Margaret goldfields of Western Australia, but few are acquainted with the unspeakable dreariness of the tracks beyond, leading to the McDonnell ranges. So far as […]

Filed Under: People, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales Tagged With: Australian History, Erlistoun, Goldfields History, Prospectors

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