I have recently been in correspondence with Lisa Clifford, who has very kindly allowed me to share the following story and photographs with you. She originally got in touch with me after seeing the grave of Alistar Douglas Calder in the Black Range (Nungarra) Cemetery on the Outback Family History website. Lisa tells me that […]
A Woman of the Black Range: The Troubled Life of Florence Menon
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 […]
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