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Florence Ayre – grave tales

08/09/2024 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Florence Adelaide AYRE was the daughter of Joseph AYRE (1843-1913) and Ellen JANEWAY (1832 – 1905) and was born in 1877 in Queensland. She had one sibling, Joseph Benjamin born in 1875. It was her mother’s second marriage, her first was to George RANDALL. Florence had eight half-siblings. In 1899 Joseph and Ellen moved the […]

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Filed Under: Grave Tales, People, Places, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales Tagged With: Australian History, Boulder Cemetery, Cemeteries, Goldfields History, Suicide, Western Australia

The Crudace Brothers –

24/08/2024 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

The following stories about the Crudace brothers was written by their nephew, the late John William Green who was the son of their sister, Clara Elizabeth CRUDACE who married William Henry GREEN from Boulder. John was born in Kanowna in 1905 and died in 1985, he is buried in the Kalgoorlie Cemetery. William Mellamby CRUDACE […]

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Filed Under: Grave Tales, People, Places, Soldiers Story Tagged With: Australian History, Cemeteries, Goldfields History, Kalgoorlie boulder, Western Australia, WW1

Mother and Daughter – grave tales

17/08/2024 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

The below elaborate memorial to a mother and daughter who died not long apart has stood the test of time. As you will see in the second photograph taken 107 years later it remains much the same. It is surprising that often a grave made with the same type of materials will fall into disrepair […]

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

Paddington Cemetery – in the lonely old graves the departed souls sleep

27/07/2024 By Moya Sharp 3 Comments

PADDINGTON CEMETERY AKA GUDARRA Coordinates: -30.48531, 121.36204 With lonely old graves where departed souls sleep, Where a merciful god a vigil must keep Till the trumpet is heard on that final last day Let us never disturb them, just leave them that way. BIDWELL Mary Edith Kathleen – d 30 Oct 1899, at Paddington, 5mths, Cause: Diarrhoea […]

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

John Minden Caulfeild – grave tales

27/07/2024 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

On the evening of Monday 20th October 1896, three men of Kanowna, Open Call stockbroker Thomas Moore Fletcher, 22-year-old photographer John Minden Caulfeild, and Richard Baugh, cycled out to Lake Gwynn and set up a camp on the western shore of the lake about 5 miles from Kanowna. They had hired ‘The Gwynn’, a flat […]

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

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