Albert Ernest Bezzant was born in 1873 in Buninyong Victoria. He was the youngest son of Richard Bezzant (1830-1912) and Sarah nee Scott (1827-1905). Albert died at the age of 22yrs on 12 February 1895 in Coolgardie Western Australia. On his death registration, he is listed as a Miner and the cause of his death […]
F E Randell & Co – pioneer profile
20/08/2022 By Leave a Comment
Weekly Times 10 September 1898, page 48 F. E. RANDELL & CO. Messrs F. E. Randell and Co. are well known on the West Australian goldfields as carrying and forwarding agents. Their head office is at Fremantle, having lately been transferred to that rising port, from the goldfields, and there are branches at Coolgardie, Kalgoorlie, […]
The Torpey Girls in Australia-
06/08/2022 By Leave a Comment
I was recently sent a fascinating story by David Howell about his relatives the ‘Torpey Girls’. He has kindly allowed me to share part of their story with you. It was researched by himself and Bosco Ryan, my cousin and his cousin Ed O’Dea. The story begins with John Torpey from Ballyvouden, Kilteely, Co. Limerick […]
The Coolgardie Safe – a family story
23/07/2022 By Leave a Comment
Several members of the McCormick family were to emigrate from South Australia to Western Australia in the late 1890s but the most well know of them, was Arthur St Patrick Creed McCormick who was the inventor of the ‘Coolgardie Safe’. The following photographs are connected to this family but are also valuable in their own […]
Medicine Corner Coolgardie –
18/06/2022 By Leave a Comment
The south-eastern corner of Forrest and Lefroy Streets Coolgardie was the scene of a transaction in the early 1890’s that gave the site the name of ‘Medicine Corner’. An old prospector and a young man fresh from Broken Hill camped on the site to which came an old man – he was ‘slab-chested, bow-legged, windmill-armed, […]
