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An Eerie Premonition – Michael Madden

10/01/2017 By Moya Sharp 7 Comments

I had been researching the accidental death of this miner because of an entry I found in the Annual Report from the Department of Mines for 1897 which stated, that a miner called ‘John Madden’ had been killed in an accident on the Goongarrie GM. As this name was not one I had listed I […]

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

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