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Alexander Henry Thomas CAIRNDUFF grave tales

13/05/2023 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Alexander Henry Thomas CAIRNDUFF: Fancy good dealer and tobacconist, Kanowna was born in Hobart Tasmania on Jan 20 1873 and is the son of the late Rev Alexander Cairduff M.A, who filled the office of a Presbyterian clergyman in the above city for 40 years. The gentleman under review was educated in his native place […]

Filed Under: Grave Tales, People Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Kanowna, Western Australia

Thomas Joseph Tobin – pioneer profile

06/05/2023 By Moya Sharp 4 Comments

I was recently sent the following story by Mary Mayenfisch about her Grandfather, Thomas J TOBIN, in her words of “the whole story reads like a film! “Outlander” in Australia…. “ On Easter Sunday in the time of Covid 19 – when in the throes of James Joyce “Ulysses” the Jesuit schools in Ireland came […]

Filed Under: People, Places & Towns Tagged With: Australian History, Cemeteries, Cue, Goldfields History, kalgoorlie cemetery

The Strange Case of Baby Quinn

06/05/2023 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

As we all will know, when an illegitimate child was born to a young woman in the early part of the 1900’s there was not the support available to her that there is today, and many young women were forced by circumstances to give up their baby. Also, the laws concerning the adoption of children […]

Filed Under: Grave Tales, People Tagged With: Australian History, Coolgardie, Goldfields History, Western Australia

The Parched Dry Desert of Tragedy

29/04/2023 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

The Truth Perth 11 January 1931, page 11 GRISLY SUICIDE PACT OF THE OUTBACK Parched, Sun-Scorched and Mocked By The Cruel Phantom Of Water TRAGIC END OF KANGAROO SHOOTERS Henry Dyer, 55, of New Zealand and Laurie Raunio/Raunis, 31, native of Orimattila, Finland, died on November 3, 1930 about 100 miles north-west of Wiluna from […]

Filed Under: Grave Tales, People, Places & Towns, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Western Australia, Wiluna

James “Carbine” Gullan – a Good Fellow all Round

29/04/2023 By Moya Sharp 2 Comments

While many of you have enjoyed several verses from the pen of John Terrell on the Outback Family History Blog, many of you will also be familiar with his books on the sporting history of the Goldfields. He recently sent me the following story which I’m sure you will find most interesting. You may think, […]

Filed Under: People, Sport Tagged With: Goldfields History, Kalgoorlie boulder, sport, Western Australia

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