Just recently, I was helping a lady search for information on her grandfather who was once the mayor of Cue in the Murchison. While looking for information, I came across the following verse which was written about him when he became one of the trustees of the Cue Cemetery. Sunday Press 26 July 1903, page […]
Paynes Find Cemetery
Paynes Find Cemetery Location:- off Goodingnow Rd Paynes Find, Post Code 6612 Lat: -29.270163, Lug:-117.68618 Reserve 21873 an area of 404 Squ meters gazetted 10 May 1938 16 burials Although the Paynes Find Cemetery has been on the Outback Family History website for some years it needed some research to bring the information up to […]
The Death of ‘Dutch’ Clark – grave tales
Cecil Bryce (Brice) ‘Dutch’ Clark was born on 19 August 1898 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada to William James Clark and Mary Jane nee Girling who were both from Berkshire in England. He was the youngest of seven children. At the age of 18yrs, in April of 1916, he joined the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Forces. He […]
Kanowna Cemetery – a work in progress
Usually, when doing a cemetery upgrade for the Outback Family History website, I work on it until everything has been checked again and again and we have photographs of those buried there where available, and also newspaper articles and copies of inscriptions added. For the Kanowna Cemetery (the second one) we are going to do […]
The Mysterious Mr Bradley – a family story
The comment ‘not another Lionel’ is a long-standing joke between a good friend of mine and fellow historian, Graeme Sisson, who was the Archivist of the Police Historical Society of WA at the time. It came to refer to any research inquiry that we were working on that was ‘more’ than a little complicated and […]
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