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Boney Brims Contract:

20/04/2019 By Moya Sharp 5 Comments

Sunday Times : 22 December 1907 OLD “Boney Brim” and his old mate Jolly, walked deliberately into the bar of The Miners’ Arms, at Cue, and each drank a pint of beer. The contract for sinking the main shaft of the Old Warden mine another hundred feet, had just been let, and the two mates […]

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Mr Schumann – a man of enterprise!

25/02/2019 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Margaret Hartley’s ancestors had a long and varied history in the Murchison district of Western Australia. She has very kindly sent me the following photographs and details of the Schumann family. The Schumann family outside their house at Day Dawn about 1907 GULLEWA  GOLDFIELD – The W.A. Record – Saturday 27th February 1897 Gullewa Goldfield […]

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Nannine – William James Fisher

12/01/2019 By Moya Sharp 2 Comments

The following amazing photograph have been kindly sent to me to share with you. They are from the family album of Ms Robin Panousieris, nee Fisher, and are about her Grandfather, William James Fisher, who was born in Ballarat, so he experienced the gold rush there which may have given him the idea that gold […]

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