Robert Andrew HAVLIN was born in Bendigo, Victoria, on 8 October 1869. He was the youngest child of Patrick HAVLIN and Margaret EWINGS, both of whom were from Co Tyrone in Ireland. Robert married Emily ‘Emma’ Jane Pearce in Victoria, Australia, in 1894, and their first child, a daughter, Margaret Annie, born the same year, […]
Death in the Dark: Unravelling Marin Trdervich’s Fate
Sunday Times 26 December 1937, page 2 MURDER IN THE DARK Who Killed Marin Trdervich Peculiar Circumstances in the Boulder Tragedy Dead Man’s Mate Talks to “The Sunday Times” Who was the man dimly seen in the darkness of a Boulder street on Monday night, engaged in the act that brought death to 45-year-old Marin […]
Arthur Stubbs – Pioneer timber merchant
Arthur Stubbs. J.P. and Timber merchant Boulder: was born at Balmoral in Victoria on January 9th 1873. And is the son of the late William Alwyn Stubbs, one of the pioneer teachers in the Victorian Education Department. He was one of the twenty-three children from his father’s two marriages. His mother was Agnes AITKEN (second […]
The Railway Arrives in Boulder – a quiet affair
The following paper was written by Douglas C Daws J.P. and presented to the Eastern Goldfields Historical Soc on the 8th Nov 1997 for the centenary of the arrival of the railway to Boulder. It is reproduced here with his kind permission. PRECIS: Railways were introduced to Western Australia in the early 1880’s and developed […]
Sala Memorial – a father and son
I’m sure that you will agree that this memorial on the graves of father and son, Nicholas ‘Mick’ SALA and Martin William SALA is a most impressive one. It is in the Roman Catholic section of the Boulder Cemetery. Nicholas ‘Mick or Michael’ SALA was buried on 2nd August 1930 aged 41 years. Cause of […]
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