Run to Earth at Barambie: The Arrest of Florence Menon, 1906 Among the many stories that emerged from the remote settlements of the Western Australian Goldfields, few capture the character of the era quite like that of Florence Menon. In the days when sly grog shanties dotted the bush and the police waged a constant […]
Nunngarra Cemetery – Out on the wastes of the Never Never
Nunngarra Cemetery – Black Range (Ivy Linden) Reserve 9270 – 28°04’45.1″S – 119°14’38.0″E 43 Known Burials – In the Shire of Sandstone, approximately 12 km from the Sandstone townsite. On an active Mining lease, the Cemetery is hard to find, and the graves are overgrown in the bush. ‘From Oct 1903 to Feb 1908’ Out […]
Building a Dynasty: The Cock Family’s Journey in Western Australia
I was recently sent some wonderful photographs from the family album of Jon Berry who is a descendant of the Cock family. Alma Godfrey (nee Cock) was his late grandmother. Thanks to Jon for sharing them with us. William Nicholas Cock, born October 7, 1870, in Moonta, South Australia, to William Cock and Dinah Tamblyn, […]
Birrigrin’s Golden Days: A Mining Settlement’s Brief Spark
Birrigrin Lat 27° 30′ 14” South Long 119° 31′ 13” East Birrigrin is 120 km from Wiluna and is in the Black Range District near Sandstone. It was known in the early days as the ’50 Mile’ as it was about 50 miles from Nungarra. The main source of mining in the district is gold […]
‘Bold McManaway’ – publican and gentleman
From Finder of Relics February 16, 2021 JOHN MCMANAWAY OF CUE, BLACK RANGE AND SANDSTONE Author – Vivienne Sinclair. John McManaway was born in Roscommon, Ireland in 1863. He moved to Victoria, Australia and by the age of 21 years had married Mary Glover. They had 6 children and by 1895 the family had moved […]
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