The Disappearance of Margaret Bale In December 1909, Margaret Bale, a 25-year-old schoolteacher who had spent three years teaching at the Sisters of the Church school at Lamington Heights, Kalgoorlie (now a private House at 26 Ward Street, Lamington), left the goldfields intending to return to England. She travelled to Perth and stayed with friends […]
Married in Name Only: Kalgoorlie Union That Never Began
Daily News, 13 June 1928 — retold for Outback Family History A Kalgoorlie marriage so brief it never made it past the church steps Kalgoorlie has seen its fair share of whirlwind romances, but few were quite as brief — or as baffling — as the union of miner Francis Nelson ELLIS and his bride […]
A Church a Long Way From Home –
I received the following letter back in 2016 – I wonder what became of the old church. Gnowangerup has a bit of Boulder History in the form of a Church, Presbyterian/Methodist/Uniting. In 1922, this church was dismantled in Boulder, transported and re-erected here in Gnowangerup. About 2 years ago, the Church was decommissioned and sold, […]
Remembering Sr Anthony –
With thanks to Susie de Monchaux for sharing her wonderful family story with us – Sister Mary Anthony Fitzpatrick (1888–1986) by Susie de Monchaux and family Eric Sierins, image editor Sister Mary Anthony Fitzpatrick was the first cousin of my paternal grandmother, Mrs Minnie Lillian de Monchaux (nee Fitzpatrick). In 1970, when I was eight […]
Left Waiting at the Church –
WAITING AT THE CHURCH. PLIGHT OF A PAIR IN PICCADILLY A Brace of Boulderites Kept Waiting at the Matrimonial Starting Barrier— For the Parson who ” Forgot.” 11th April 1909 A NOW HAPPY PAIR (since they are married) who, for the best part of an hour, on Wednesday afternoon last, feared that their chance of […]