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 […]
Charles R L Finn – Grave Tales
17/07/2021 By Leave a Comment
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 […]
Did she fall or was she pushed??
10/07/2021 By Leave a Comment
The British Arms Hotel in Hannan Street, Kalgoorlie was built in 1899 and operated as a hotel until it was delicenced in 1924. It is reputed to be the narrowest two-story hotel in the southern hemisphere measuring only 3.2 meters in width. Although small in size, the hotel did a brisk trade in the early […]
COCKER Marcus Cleveland – grave tales
03/07/2021 By Leave a Comment
Marcus Cleveland Cocker was born on 30th Sep 1871 in North Adelaide South Australia. He was the oldest child of Henry Cleveland Cocker and Elizabeth FARRAR. He had three other siblings, all girls, Ethel, Emily, and Bessie. On the 7th Dec 1911 in Tammin, Western Australia, he married Ida Agnes HURST. Marcus was 40yrs old […]
Emma Emilie Urquhart – grave tales
19/06/2021 By 4 Comments
Emma Emilie BELICKE ,Born 15 Aug 1884 in Prahan, Victoria. Died 28 Mar 1919 Kalgoorlie. Daughter of Carl Wilhelm BELICKE and Emma Amelia RAU. She came to Western Australia in 1897 with her parents aged 12yrs. On the 1st Feb 1905 Emma married Ernest URQUHART in Perth WA. Ernest was a year older than her […]
