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Broad Arrow snapshot – all the little children

28/07/2018 By Moya Sharp 3 Comments

I have just completed entering the  biographies on the people who are buried in the Broad Arrow Cemetery. Every cemetery provides a social and family history snapshot of the town where its located. Accident and disease show no favorites. I hope that this small section of deaths will provide a good example to compare to […]

Filed Under: People, Towns and Places Tagged With: Australian History, Broad Arrow, Cemeteries, Children, Goldfields History

Yundamindera Cemetery:-

30/06/2018 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

There are 11 known burials in the Yundamindera Cemetery (The Granites)  29°07.58’s  122°02.97’E 9 of natural causes and 2 suicides. The first burial is of John Joyce, known as Laurence Joyce on 11 Jul 1900 and the last was of John HALES 29 Mar 1923. ANDERSON Alfred, d 9 May 1903, at the Bulletin Hotel, Yundamindera, […]

Filed Under: People Tagged With: Australian History, Cemeteries, Goldfields History, yundamindra

Boulder Cemetery – a long time coming

25/06/2018 By Moya Sharp 3 Comments

GREAT NEWS!!!! The current Boulder Cemetery is now available in full on the Outback Family History website as of today. Up until now it has only had a partial list, but thanks to Danelle Warnock, who has been editing and adding to the data for some time now, it is now online. It wouldn’t have […]

Filed Under: People Tagged With: Australian History, Boulder Cemetery, Cemeteries, Goldfields History, Kalgoorlie boulder, Western Australia

Who was George Dainty ???

17/06/2018 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

George Dainty died in 1901, age about 40yrs (date unknown). His remains were found in the bush by a prospector, Henry Frederick KESTEL when searching for lost donkeys, on the 5 Jul 1903 between Childe Harold, 7 miles from the mine and 12 yards off the travelled road in the Laverton district. The undertaker, James […]

Filed Under: People Tagged With: Australian History, Cemeteries, Goldfields History, Laverton

My Own Dear Boy:-

03/06/2018 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

Murchison Times and Day Dawn Gazette 29 July 1897 SUICIDE AT SMITHFIELD Last Saturday week a miner, Thomas McKileen, living by himself in a tent at Smithfield, committed suicide by blowing his brains out. At an inquest held on Monday afternoon before the acting-Coroner, Mr. E. O. Butler, J,P. it was elicited that on Friday […]

Filed Under: Grave Tales Tagged With: Broad Arrow, Cemeteries, Suicide, Western Australia

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