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Our Late Beloved Son – grave tales

18/07/2020 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

Kalgoorlie Miner 12th Feb 1925 BROWN — The friends of Mr and Mrs J. H. Brown and family are respectfully invited to follow the remains of their late beloved son and brother respectively, George Brown (formerly of the Midland workshops) to the Church of Christ portion of the Kalgoorlie Cemetery. The funeral will leave their […]

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

Little Teddy Murray – grave tales

11/07/2020 By Moya Sharp 2 Comments

If you visit the Kanowna Cemetery on the Yarri Rd just out of Kalgoorlie, (12 kms on the right from the turn off to the local tip) one of the first graves that you will see when you enter the gate is that of a little boy called ‘Teddy’. Over the years when I have […]

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

James Connolly – grave tales

20/06/2020 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

This grave is one of the earliest in the Kalgoorlie Cemetery. James Connolly died before the first Cemetery Board was appointed in December 1896 and the current numbering system commenced.  There is no grave number on the grave but according to the records for this period  number 23 was allocated at the time. He is […]

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

The Golden Graveyard:

20/06/2020 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Western Australian Goldfields Courier, Coolgardie  9 February 1895, page 4 WESTERN WANDERINGS. CAMP FIRE and FOREST TRACK. A GOLDEN GRAVEYARD. [BY A. G. ‘Smiler’ HALES] Michael William Kelly had thrown a seven. No one knew exactly what it was that killed him. Some of the boys at Kurnalpi, where he had worked long and well […]

Filed Under: Grave Tales, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales Tagged With: Australian History, Cemeteries, Kurnalpi, Western Australia

Gone But Not Forgotten – grave tales

13/06/2020 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

An interesting tale about a grave in the Boulder cemetery. I was contacted some time ago by Peter Huntly, a relative of Annie Bell who died at the Kalgoorlie Hospital on the 24th Oct 1909, and was subsequently buried in the Boulder Cemetery on the 29th of October 1909. Peter had already seen a photo […]

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

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