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 […]
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A Soldiers Letter- Ted Lennell
The following is a very interesting letter which was sent by Ted Lennell about his impressions of rural England during WW2. Evening Star Boulder 19 August 1916, page 2 LETTER FROM LANCE-CORPORAL TED LENNELL Mr. W. T Piper, of the Boulder Council staff, has received the following interesting letter from Lance-Corp Ted Lennel, son of […]
A Family Heirloom – Gary Martin
From Gary Martin – Grandson of Thomas Kempt The following letter was one my Grandfather Thomas Kempt received. He was ex Royal Navy and came to Australia in 1919 with his wife and my mother who was only one year old. Initially they lived in a tent at Ora Banda but later shifted to Kalgoorlie […]
The Death of Dr Maxwell – grave tales
Kalgoorlie Western Argus 25 March 1902, page 20 Death of Dr. Maxwell. Death last Monday claimed one for whose demise this community is the poorer indeed Dr. Patrick Arthur Maxwell, such men as he, whose life as others knew it, was a conspicuous example of the most encouraging side of frail humanity, are but rare. […]
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