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Darlot Update – the cemetery

24/08/2017 By Moya Sharp 3 Comments

Following up from the recent post on Darlot I would like to now add the cemetery details which will be also on the Outback Family History page for Darlot:- “The exodus out East has been attended by sad results to at least seven of the hardy pioneers. Among those who have fallen victim to the […]

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Leonora Snapshot – all the little children

20/08/2017 By Moya Sharp 8 Comments

I have just completed my first batch of biographies on the people who are buried in the Leonora 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 […]

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Richard Henry ‘Dick’ Ryan – grave tales

12/08/2017 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Westralian Worker (Perth, WA : 1900 – 1951), Friday 20 March 1908, page 8 The Perseverance Accident. The Boulder Branch has lost yet another of its members bv fatal accident. this time at the Perseverance mine. Richard Ryan, who has been in the Union for a number of years, was killed by falling against some […]

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Coolgardie Pioneer Cemetery

05/08/2017 By Moya Sharp 3 Comments

Southern Cross Times  3 October 1903, page 2 THE OLD COOLGARDIE CEMETERY.—There are 33 graves in the old cemetery where the ceremony of unveiling a tablet took place (says the “Coolgardie Miner”). Of these the names of only six of those whose bodies were interred there are known. Most of the burials in fact nearly […]

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Westonia Cemetery- from past to present

31/07/2017 By Moya Sharp 3 Comments

As previously promised we I would now like to announce that the Westonia Cemetery burial register is now available online, it is available in full  for the first time on the Outback Family History Web site. Other sites have included parts of the register  but in collaboration with the Westonia Shire, we are proud to […]

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