The following photographs from the family album of Carole Hampton were sent to me recently. Mudgedeen was her husbands Grandfather. Her husband is the son of Mudgedeen and Clara’s daughter Violet, from her second marriage. Mudgedeen, (AKA Charles), was born in 1873 in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan, the son of M BARRADEEN. He married Clara Ellen […]
John Thomas – grave tales
Left: John THOMAS was a clarinet player in the Salvation Army Federal Band WA in 1897. Right: Edmond HAM. They operated a small claim together at Goongarrie. John Thomas married Isabella Mary YEARING on the 3rd Aug 1898 at age 32, in Coolgardie at the Salvation Army Barracks. He was the son of William THOMAS […]
Charles Carkeek – grave tales
In 2008, I was working at the Kalgoorlie Boulder Cemetery office, filling in when the office manager was away. One of the duties was to help visitors with their inquiries. A visitor, Brian Morris, called in to inquire about a very early grave of one of his ancestors, Charles Carkeek. He was indeed able to […]
John Hosken – grave tales
Sunday Times – Perth – 12 January 1936, page 7 THE LATE JOHN HOSKEN Large Attendance at Funeral The unusually large number who followed the remains of the late John Hosken from his place of residence in Millen-street. Boulder, to the Methodist portion of the Boulder Cemetery, was testimony of the esteem in which […]
Comet Vale Cemetery
COMET VALE – Latitude 29° 56 36′ S Longitude 121° 07 34′ E Comet Vale is an abandoned goldfields mining town, situated about 30 kilometers south of Menzies. It is named after a comet, visible at the time gold was discovered in the area, and in 1895 had a population of 500. It was […]
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