Sunday Times – 25 December 1927, page 40 Paddy Higgins Christmas The Story of a Lost Nugget. By John Meiklejohn. The day after CoIreavy’s and Murphy’s teams from Southern Cross had dumped the first load of gold-hunters’ swags on Fly Spot Flat, Coolgardie, September 1882. Paddy Higgins and Frank Summer, sworn mates and two of […]
Nullagine’s Pioneering Spirit: A 1904 Snapshot of a Thriving Outback Town
While Nullagine lies beyond the typical scope of Outback Family History, its allure is undeniable, as countless miners from Western Australia’s central goldfields flocked to this remote region. I’m confident you’ll find the 1904 account of the town truly captivating. Latitude 21° 53′ S Longitude 120° 07′ E The townsite of Nullagine is located in […]
Cess -The Hermit of Oobagooma
CESS RODERICK, OOBAGOOMA, KIMBERLEY ‘TIL SHE DROPPED HER STRIDES’ This story is an extract from the book “‘Til She Dropped Her Strides” by Roger Garwood and Trish Ainslie published in 1991. The book was one of a series which documented the traditional lifestyles in the Australian outback which were under threat from an increasingly modernised […]
The Glass Family Tragedy – a fathers fatal rage
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 […]
Doubly Deserted at the Moonbeam –
Western Mail 25 December 1905, page 10 The Doubly Deserted by Val Jameson Up in the heavens, a westering sun cast oblique rays, still fiercely hot, on the parched bush that stretched its shrivelled growth as far as the eye could see from the prospectors’ camp. Nearby, a windlass under a roof of boughs stood […]
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