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Old Meeka Cemetery – ”are we now remembered?”

29/07/2023 By Moya Sharp 3 Comments

The original cemetery used before the town of Meekatharra was gazetted in 1903 and continued to be used until May 1907. The cemetery was located next to mining works and was deemed unsuitable. In 1907 the town council organised the creation of the Cemetery Board, which organised land cleared for a new cemetery. – With […]

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

The Wild Girls – a family in pictures

22/07/2023 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

The following photographs are from the family album of Sandy Koushappis and she has kindly shared them with us. The first of the Wild girls in Australia was Esther WILD nee MILLS. She was born, possibly in Lancashire, England on the 8th June 1838. When she was 23 years old she married James WILD in […]

Filed Under: People, Places & Towns Tagged With: Australian History, Cemeteries, Day Dawn, Goldfields History, Leonora, Western Australia

The Boulder Hammer Murder –

22/07/2023 By Moya Sharp 9 Comments

Daily News 28 November 1951, page 1 Hammer Murder In Boulder BOULDER – With head injuries allegedly caused by a hammer blow, a Yugoslav miner was found dead in a Boulder house at 4 a.m. today. A man living in the same house has been arrested and charged with wilful murder. He is labourer called […]

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

Sandstone Cemetery – the heart of the Murchison

08/07/2023 By Moya Sharp 12 Comments

Although the list of burials at the Sandstone Cemetery has been on the Outback Family History website for some years it needed some research to bring the information up to date and to add in extra research, so dull to read just a list of names and dates. One of my wonderful volunteers agreed to […]

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

Mabel Hartrick – grave tales

01/07/2023 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Mabel Hutchinson was born in Walhalla, Victoria in 1874. She was the daughter of William Hutchinson and Mary Ann nee Lapping. At the age of 24yrs, young Mabel Hutchinson travelled to the Western Australian town of Geraldton where she married Charles Francis Fade Hartrick in 1899. The following photograph shows Charles with his brother Harry […]

Filed Under: Grave Tales, People, Places & Towns Tagged With: Cemeteries, lennonville

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