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Gullewa Goldfield: A Fleeting Boom in the Western Australian Outback

27/09/2025 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

GULLEWA  GOLDFIELDS The W.A. Record 27th February 1897 The Gullewa Goldfield is situated N.E. from Mingenew, 80 miles, and east of Wurarga on the Mullewa-Cue line, which is the nearest railway station, about 18 miles, and is only one day’s journey by rail from the Port of Geraldton. This new field is still in its […]

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

Tampa’s Forgotten Cemetery: A Single Soul at Rest

20/09/2025 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

TAMPA BURIALS 29°13.41’S – 121°50.07’E  –  Cemetery Reserve: 4096 TAMPA – AKA Dingo Creek Tampa is an abandoned goldfields townsite located 805 km east northeast of Perth and about 55 km south of Leonora. Gold was discovered in the Tampa area in the late 1890s, and by 1896, there was enough demand for land for […]

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

Robert Andrew HAVLIN – grave tales

13/09/2025 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Robert Andrew HAVLIN was born in Bendigo, Victoria, on 8 October 1869. He was the youngest child of Patrick HAVLIN and Margaret EWINGS, both of whom were from Co Tyrone in Ireland. Robert married Emily ‘Emma’ Jane Pearce in Victoria, Australia, in 1894, and their first child, a daughter, Margaret Annie, born the same year, […]

Filed Under: People, Places & Towns, Towns and Places Tagged With: Australian History, Boulder, Cemeteries, Goldfields History, Western Australia

The Lone Jewish Prospector: A Goldfields Burial

06/09/2025 By Moya Sharp 2 Comments

Western Mail 14 January 1937, page 13 A Goldfields Burial. Amongst the present-day barrow pushers, there is not one who could put up a decent show against the old-timers. These men, representatives from all climes, pushed heavily loaded barrows over heavy bush tracks, and in many cases, no tracks at all, and put up with […]

Filed Under: People, Places & Towns Tagged With: Australian History, Cemeteries, Goldfields History, Sandstone, Western Australia

Mulwarrie Cemetery – no broken cross of marble, white

16/08/2025 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Mulwarrie is an abandoned townsite in the North Coolgardie Goldfield of the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia, 125 km northwest of Kalgoorlie and 55 km southwest of Menzies, between Davyhurst and Mulline. It was originally known as Mount Higgins; gold was first discovered there by Paddy Higgins, who later discovered gold at Higginsville. In 1900, […]

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

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