Sunday Times 10 June 1934, page 15 SOLITARY HORSEMAN WHO STARTED A GREAT GOLD RUSH Some Made Fortunes – Some Died on the Trail The following report of the discovery of Coolgardie was published in an English paper, “People.” It was written by its special correspondent at Ruckinge in Kent: “Our Special Correspondent” proceeds to […]
Murder Before the Cinderella Ball
The murder-suicide tragedy of Nurse Elizabeth Gold and Kenneth Snodgrass is a tale quite widely known, but I have not before told the story on the Outback Family History Blog. In Coolgardie in the 1890’s, Elizabeth Gold, Charles Gold and Kenneth Snodgrass and his family were living in Coolgardie, WA. As with many tragedies, the […]
Twenty Yards from Water – the man who was lost twice
George MOUNTJOY – 36 yrs, buried in the Cue cemetery in Dec 1895, location not specified. He was born in Cheltenham, England. He was reported missing by a friend who last saw him leaving his camp near Cue in the Murchison of Western Australia to go to his workplace a short distance away; he was […]
Across the Generations: The Gaffney Family Story
The following plaque was photographed in a cemetery in Clunes, Victoria, by Wendy Broomfield. What a wealth of information on one plaque for the Gaffney family; it even gives the mother’s maiden name, MARK, which is rare. Elizabeth GAFFNEY When Elizabeth MARK was born in 1845 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA, her father, Edward, was […]
Parents Too Late: Tragedy on the Warburton Track
Fri 17th Jul 1942 Kalgoorlie Miner BOY SERIOUSLY INJURED ON WARBURTON RANGES TRACK LAVERTON AMBULANCE LONG TRIP About noon yesterday, the Laverton ambulance commenced a 200-mile trip each way along Warburton Ranges to attend a boy seriously injured when run over by a tractor trailer. The boy is John William Wade, the 13-year-old son of Mr […]
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