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Malcolm Cemetery – the legion of the lost

15/06/2019 By Moya Sharp 4 Comments

Malcolm Cemetery Biographies: 138 burials Also known as Mount Malcolm There are 2 Cemeteries at Malcolm Malcolm Salt Lake Cemetery AKA Lake Raeside – 123 burial from 1897-1911 Malcolm Kookynie Road Cemetery 14 burials 1911 – 1915 Unfortunately apart from identifying various headstones in each cemetery there are not separate registers for each cemetery ADAMS […]

Armless Abraham:

26/05/2019 By Moya Sharp 2 Comments

I am sure many of you will recognise this iconic photograph of an armless man called ‘Armless Abraham’ collecting wood with his goat cart. I have just been contacted by the Great Granddaughter of Thomas Abraham and this is what she tells me:- HISTORY OF THOMAS ABRAHAM Thomas Abraham was my Great Grandfather (Lynne McMeekin). […]

Milly Soak – Historic Graves

27/04/2019 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Thanks to John Pritchard for the original idea for this story: Milly/Millie Soak is 16 kilometers north of Cue and was a popular picnic spot in Cue’s early history. It also became the source of the town’s water for a number of years following the pollution of the town water supply due to poor sanitary […]

Its not all digital-

24/03/2019 By Moya Sharp 4 Comments

I recently had an email from a lady who I had been in contact with many years ago, asking me to assist her with a new family history query. At first it seemed quite straight forward, she knew that her cousin died in 1943 and she had the full date of death, and the place […]

Charles Carkeek – graves tales

31/12/2018 By Moya Sharp 8 Comments

In 2008, I was working at the Kalgoorlie Cemetery office, filling in when the office manager was away. One of the duties was to help visitors with their inquiries. A visitor called Brian Morris called in to inquire about a very early grave of one of his ancestors. Charles Carkeek. He was indeed able to […]