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Kanowna Cemetery a grave condition.

09/05/2020 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Last week you may have read a shjort blog post on the Kanowna Cemetery. In this story I included a newspaper article from tnhe 1920’s which complained of the deplorable condition of ‘Gods Acre’ at Kanowna. For this article I decided to take a trip out there and to take some ‘now’ photos of some […]

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

John Avery – grave tales

09/05/2020 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

John Avery, beloved father of Emily Maltman, died on the 8th February 1904 at Boulder City. John Avery was born in Gunnislake Cornwall England and was the son of Nathaniel and Maria nee BROAD. He was married to Elizabeth Jane WADGE. he was a miner. Kalgoorlie Miner Saturday 13 February 1904, page 4 DEATH. MALTMAN.— […]

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

Jeremiah Minehan – grave tales

02/05/2020 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

On the 3rd July 1910 Jeremiah Minehan was buried in the Roman Catholic Section of the Kalgoorlie Cemetery. He was 37yrs old. He was the son of Jeremiah Minehan and Elizabeth WEST. In 1904 in Young NSW he married Hannora ‘Norah’ Isabella KENNY, they had two children, Thomas John (b 1904) and Martin John (b1906), […]

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

Dugald Colin MCALLISTER – grave tales

25/04/2020 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

On the 4th August 1926  Dugald Colin McAllister was buried in the Kalgoorlie Cemetery in the Presbyterian Section grave 6559. He is buried alone. He was the only child of Peter Mountstuart Greenbank McAllister and Sarah McAllister nee McCollum. He was born in Boulder WA in 1901. Inscription Mother and Dad In Loving Memory of […]

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

The Box Soak Creek Rush:

25/04/2020 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Where is Box Creek you may ask? As I did myself back in 2000, (I can’t believe it was so long ago), when I received a letter from a lady in Queensland about a distant relative of hers called Ronald Donald McMillen who was supposed to be buried in the Box Soak Cemetery. I had […]

Filed Under: Grave Tales, People, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales, Towns and Places Tagged With: Australian History, Box Soak, Cemeteries, Granites, Western Australia, Yundmaindera

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