This wonderful story has been sent in by Allen Gledhill. The story was written by his Great Uncle Norman Eric Gledhill. Thank you for sharing it with us Allen. The Oversight By Norman Eric GLEDHILL HUXLEY had had plenty of time to think it over. Three months in a ten by ten cell gives a […]
The Search for the real Walter Robert Fitzgerald-Moore
AN IRISH ROMANCER: THE SEARCH FOR THE REAL WALTER ROBERT FITZGERALD-MOORE Walter Moore, if that was his real name!, was my grandfather, but he died 25 years before I was born. His origins are shrouded in mystery and even the circumstances of his death – “in the arms of his mistress” as my father so […]
Madeline Mary Thomas – grave tales
Madeline Evans has very kindly sent in this wonderful photograph and story of her Gt Gt Grandmother Madeline Mary Thomas nee DIXON. She was born the 22 October 1879 in Adelaide South Australia, the daughter of Joseph Elliott Dixon and Jane BROWN. She came to Coolgardie with three sisters and one brother and in 1897 […]
Brandon’s Fate – a tale of Darlot
Brandon’s fate A TALE OF DARLOT by Pharisee. The eager, excited crowd that thronged the long dry stage to the Darlot diggings in the first blush of the new discovery included Dick Brandon and his mate, Jimmy Spiggot. That dreary and waterless track skirting the edge of desolate Lake Barlee presented a motley appearance as […]
Charles R L Finn – Grave Tales
Recently Outback Family History reader, Peter Sirr, sent me the following photograph of a baby’s grave in the Kalgoorlie Cemetery. It appears to have been most carefully made from tin possibly by his father. Charles Robert Leslie FINN Age 1year 5 months Buried in the Anglican Section Kalgoorlie Cemetery on 31 Dec 1928 Grave no […]
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