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Kanowna Cemetery – a work in progress

18/03/2023 By Moya Sharp 2 Comments

Usually, when doing a cemetery upgrade for the Outback Family History website, I work on it until everything has been checked again and again and we have photographs of those buried there where available, and also newspaper articles and copies of inscriptions added. For the Kanowna Cemetery (the second one) we are going to do […]

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

Sisters of the Church – the first High School

18/03/2023 By Moya Sharp 3 Comments

The following story was written by Fr Ted Doncaster and is an extract from the publication “The Cross in the Field, a history of the Anglican Church in the Eastern and Murchison Goldfields of Western Australia”. It is produced with his permission and I would like to thank him for his assistance and his continued […]

Filed Under: Church, People, Places & Towns Tagged With: Australian History, Church, Goldfields History, School, Western Australia

A Faithful Wife True and Kind

18/03/2023 By Moya Sharp 5 Comments

I was recently sent this photograph of H Cramer and Co, Saddle, Collar and Harness Maker. I was asked to find out a bit more about the business.  I started to search and this sad tale unfolded. In Kalgoorlie in 1901, a young couple married, Margaret Theresa ANGUS and Henry Timothy CRAMER, they were both […]

Filed Under: People Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History

Charlie Webb – a good fellows end

11/03/2023 By Moya Sharp 2 Comments

  The Sun Kalgoorlie, WA 30 July 1916, page 4 MT REMARKABLE:  The inability of a party of Perth politicians and pressmen who were motoring in the locality to see any eminence indicating Mt. Marshall recalled a story told by Charlie Webb, late of the Granites, Yundamindera, via Pindinnie. Out near the Granites was an […]

Filed Under: Books, People, Poets Corner Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Western Australia

The Union Brewery Man – the Kaye family

11/03/2023 By Moya Sharp 3 Comments

In 1996, (yes, I really  do keep my mail from that long ago ♥), I was in correspondence (by mail of course), with a lady called Helen Saunders from Figtree in NSW. She was asking if I could look into her Grandparent’s time in Kalgoorlie to see what I could find about them. She very […]

Filed Under: People, Places & Towns Tagged With: Goldfields History, Kalgoorlie boulder, Western Australia

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