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The Lakeside Tragedy – grave tales

18/12/2017 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Kalgoorlie Miner (WA : 1895 – 1950), Saturday 6 May 1922, page 5 As far as can be ascertained, no one actually witnessed the accident which resulted in George Lyall Luscombe, aged 19yrs,  losing his life by being run over by a wood train on the Lakeside line, near the 52-mile siding, at 5.30 a.m. […]

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Richard Henry ‘Dick’ Ryan – grave tales

12/08/2017 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Westralian Worker (Perth, WA : 1900 – 1951), Friday 20 March 1908, page 8 The Perseverance Accident. The Boulder Branch has lost yet another of its members bv fatal accident. this time at the Perseverance mine. Richard Ryan, who has been in the Union for a number of years, was killed by falling against some […]

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Late Beloved Son – grave tales

27/12/2016 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

George Brown Feb 1925 Kalgoorlie Cemetery

Kalgoorlie Miner 12th Feb 1925 BROWN — The friends of Mr and Mrs J. H. Brown and family are respectfully invited to follow the remains of their late beloved son and brother respectively, George Brown (formerly of the Midland workshops) to the Church of Christ portion of the Kalgoorlie Cemetery. The funereal will leave their […]

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Joseph Salinger – Then and Now

22/10/2016 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Joseph Salinger 1907

DEATHS.  SALINGER.— On the 29th January,  at Nurse Egan’s Private Hospital,  Joseph Salinger, late of 61 Cassidy street, Kalgoorlie, aged 41 years. Prayers will be held this (Friday) evening at the Synagogue, at 7o’clock, and each evening during the week at his late residence, opposite Commonwealth Reserve, at 7.30 p.m. Joseph was a well known […]

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Kalgoorlie Cemetery – News!!!

07/08/2016 By Moya Sharp 2 Comments

Finally I would like to say that the two last stages of the Kalgoorlie Cemetery Burial Indexes are now uploaded onto the Outback Family History website, N to R and S to Z. There is only one more section still missing and that is some names that begin with Mc or Mac. These will be […]

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