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Tuckanarra Cemetery – now you’re but a memory blurred

28/09/2024 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

Tuckanarra Cemetery -AKA Cork Tree Flat Coordinates: -27.10872, 118.09445 41 km north of Cue Karbar Station 12 Burials – 7 children – 4 women Deserted now, no more your stirred by those in quest of gold. Now you’re but a memory blurred of what you were of old. Yet, though the camp in silence sleeps, Except for […]

Filed Under: Grave Tales, People, Places & Towns Tagged With: Australian History, Cemeteries, Goldfields History, TUCKANARRA, Western Australia

Ora Banda Cemetery – of dust and dreams

14/09/2024 By Moya Sharp 3 Comments

Ora Banda Cemetery (1913-1925) GPS Coordinates: -30.39500, 121.12400 18 Burials 6 Children, 1 Woman, 5 Mine accidents, 1 Suicide. Lonely they rest, and rest must until The final call to awaken at God’s will Now the Eucalypts on the field that bears their name, they hide beneath the ‘wounds of the golden game’. AHERN Joan – d 2 […]

Filed Under: Grave Tales, People, Places & Towns Tagged With: Australian History, Cemeteries, Goldfields History, Ora Banda, Western Australia

Florence Ayre – grave tales

08/09/2024 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Florence Adelaide AYRE was the daughter of Joseph AYRE (1843-1913) and Ellen JANEWAY (1832 – 1905) and was born in 1877 in Queensland. She had one sibling, Joseph Benjamin born in 1875. It was her mother’s second marriage, her first was to George RANDALL. Florence had eight half-siblings. In 1899 Joseph and Ellen moved the […]

Filed Under: Grave Tales, People, Places & Towns, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales Tagged With: Australian History, Boulder Cemetery, Cemeteries, Goldfields History, Suicide, Western Australia

The Crudace Brothers –

24/08/2024 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

The following stories about the Crudace brothers was written by their nephew, the late John William Green who was the son of their sister, Clara Elizabeth CRUDACE who married William Henry GREEN from Boulder. John was born in Kanowna in 1905 and died in 1985, he is buried in the Kalgoorlie Cemetery. William Mellamby CRUDACE […]

Filed Under: Grave Tales, People, Places & Towns, Soldiers Story Tagged With: Australian History, Cemeteries, Goldfields History, Kalgoorlie boulder, Western Australia, WW1

Mother and Daughter – grave tales

17/08/2024 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

The below elaborate memorial to a mother and daughter who died not long apart has stood the test of time. As you will see in the second photograph taken 107 years later it remains much the same. It is surprising that often a grave made with the same type of materials will fall into disrepair […]

Filed Under: People Tagged With: Australian History, Cemeteries, Goldfields History, Kalgoorlie boulder, Western Australia

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