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Simon Rose Fraser – grave tales

01/05/2021 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Follow my blog with Bloglovin I was recently contacted by my friend and grave photographer extraordinaire, Danielle Warnock, about a query she had received from Duncan Fraser, about the grave of Simon Rose Fraser, his Great Uncle, buried in the Kalgoorlie Cemetery. He asked if she could take some photos of the grave for him […]

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Filed Under: Grave Tales, People Tagged With: Australian History, Cemeteries, Kalgoorlie boulder, kalgoorlie cemetery, Western Australia

Uncle Jack – a tree to remember him

01/05/2021 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

I was recently contacted by Jeannine Nolan who has very kindly allowed me to tell the story of her Great Uncle Jack. She came to get in touch through a story I did last year about John Hindhaugh. There may be a family connection as Emily Marion Hindhaugh married Ezra Chappel, Jack’s uncle. Sadly Emily […]

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Filed Under: Grave Tales, People, Places Tagged With: Australian History, Black Range, Cemeteries, Goldfields History, Sandstone, Western Australia

Robert Pickering True – a landmark in the wilderness

24/04/2021 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

It you were travelling in the Outback North of Laverton in Western Australia and you came across this imposing grave and headstone, you may think that this must be someone of importance to have such an impressive memorial in such a remote place. You might then decide to look up the name so you could […]

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Filed Under: Books, Grave Tales, People Tagged With: Australian History, Cemeteries, Goldfields History, Laverton, Western Australia

The Thirloway Boys – grave tales

10/04/2021 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Young William ‘Billie’ Edward Thirloway died aged only 8 years of age and was buried in the Kalgoorlie cemetery on the 22nd November 1931.  Billie’s parents must have been devastated when six years later, on the exact anniversary of Billie’s death, a tragic accident took the life of his brother, Jack Carlson Thirloway aged 14 […]

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A Dearly Beloved wife – grave tales

03/04/2021 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

I’m sure that I’m not the only one that sees the beauty of memorials in cemeteries.  I have spent a great deal of  time wandering around cemeteries, especially our own Kalgoorlie and Boulder Cemeteries.  The view from the road is often as much as is seen by many, but if you venture through the gates […]

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

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