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Western Australian Lonely Graves – books

18/11/2017 By Moya Sharp 3 Comments

Latest Release:-  Western Australian Lonely Graves  by Yvonne and Kevin Coate Four volume set  full details:- Hesperian Press ISBN 978-0-85905-682-3, A4, 1284 pages,  soft cover,  3.5 kg     $325.00* + POST These magnificent volumes are the result of nearly 40 years research by Yvonne and Kevin Coate and their associates, and contain details of thousands […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Australian History, Cemeteries, Goldfields History, Western Australia

Leonora Snapshot – all the little children ‘2’

07/11/2017 By Moya Sharp 6 Comments

Recently, on the OFH blog, I posted the 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 section of infant deaths will provide a good […]

Filed Under: People Tagged With: Australian History, Cemeteries, Children, Goldfields History, Leonora, Western Australia

Time Lapse – then and now

30/10/2017 By Moya Sharp 7 Comments

Kalgoorlie Cemetery Gates 2017 - photo Danelle Warnock

Kalgoorlie Cemetery gates, first photo taken today and the second c 1950, which do you prefer???  

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

Lily Pike – grave tales

13/10/2017 By Moya Sharp 4 Comments

On the 27th April 1906, Helena (Lily) Maud Pike (nee Rosevere) aged 30yrs, passed away at the St John of God Hospital in Dugan Street, Kalgoorlie from Typhoid. She was the wife of councillor Eustace Walter Pike and the mother of one child, James Albert, aged 6yrs. The following photograph is a very poignant one […]

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

Miss Elsie Fletcher – grave tales

03/10/2017 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

On the 13th February 1903 Miss Elsie Evelyn Fletcher died at her parents home at 3 Brookman Street, Boulder. She was the eldest daughter of Edmund and Elsie Fletcher of Boulder. her father was a well known butcher in Burt Street. It is not known what caused her death, she wasnt admitted to hospital. Sadly […]

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

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