This is a snapshot of the town of Abbotts. There are seven births recorded as taking place in Abbotts and one wedding. This almost matches the number of deaths which were eleven. Births Registered in ABBOTTS:- MASON Arthur Collins, born 1905 Father:- Edward Isaac MASON, Mother:- Mary Elizabeth COLLINS MASON Hamblin Edward, born 1898, Father:- […]
Double Murder Suicide – the Glass family Tragedy
Daily News, Perth – 20 February 1893 TERRIBLE TRAGEDY NEAR NORTHAMPTON. DOUBLE MURDER AND SUICIDE. A FATHER SHOOTS HIS TWO DAUGHTERS. THE TREVENSON TRAGEDY A terrible tragedy has just been reported from Trevenson, 20 miles from Northampton. Yesterday afternoon, at 3 pm, William Charles Glass, aged about fifty, a squatter and long resident in this […]
Abbotts – ghost town
There are over 200 towns from the Goldfields on the Outback Family History web site and I have commenced to upgrading each one with new information and photographs, and this weeks ‘Feature Town’ is Abbotts. You may not have heard of it before now, but it’s an abandoned town in the Murchison region of the […]
Vincent Abbott – pioneer profile
Western Mail Perth – 4 April 1913 – (By James Thomson.) MR. VINCENT ABBOTT : A PIONEER OF THE MURCHISON GOLD-FIELDS. Amongst those attracted by the Murchison gold discoveries in the early nineties, and who assisted to blaze the track beyond Cue, was Vincent Abbott, a pioneer […]
George Edward HARRISON – grave tales
Several years ago I was sent the following two photographs by Lucy Hamilton. She was trying to find out how her Great uncle, George Harrison, had died. She had thought it was from a mining accident. However this doesn’t appear to be the case. It is most unusual, but I have not been able to […]
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