Charles Bernhardt Hahnel was born in Chemnitz, Saxony, Germany in 1866 to Parents Charles August Hahnel and Theresa Schmidt. Charles came to Australia in 1886, boarding the ship Salier in Antwerp, Belgium. Charles was 20 at this time. On the sixth of December 1890, Charles married Hannah Gribble (born Maryborough 1871) in Timor Victoria. His […]
Almost Killed with Kindness –
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I was recently a guest speaker on the wonderful Sunday evening radio program ‘Remember When’ with Harvey Deegan. It was great to chat with Harvey and to talk about the three websites that I have on the history of the people and places of the WA Goldfields. When we were talking about the blog, I […]
The Doyles of Widgemooltha
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story by Lyn Beard From the obituary of James Doyle printed in Fremantle Advocate 11 January 1934 In a beautiful location overlooking the salt bed of Lake Lefroy, the remains of at least 17 people lie in the Widgiemooltha Cemetery. There are only a few headstones, the largest of which commemorates five members of the […]
William Schofield Randall – Evangelist of the Goldfields
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This wonderful story and photographs have been shared with the kind permission of Brian Randall- William Schofield Randall The evangelist on the Goldfields of Western Australia Appointed in 1895 to the opening of the Salvation Army Corps in Kalgoorlie and the Great Boulder With a journey of 140 miles before him, Lieutenant William Schofield Randall […]
A Ghan who did a woowing go :
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The Sun, Kalgoorlie: 24 March 1907, page 9 MARRIAGE OF A RUE DE BROOKMAN RESIDENT. The foundations of goldfields society were shaken to their bedrock bottom on Wednesday morning, last, when the “Kalgoorlie Miner” issued the announcement of the marriage of a well known Afghan, to a more notoriously known French woman, of the ‘Rue […]
