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Bridget Delia OATES – grave tales

24/06/2022 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

The following photograph is of the headstone and grave of Bridget Delia Oates, who was the beloved wife of Richard Knight Oates, born in County Clare Ireland on 28 Jan 1873. She died at Kalgoorlie on the 17th Sep 1909 aged 37 years. This photograph was taken just after the headstone, ledger, and grave fencing […]

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Filed Under: Grave Tales, People, Places Tagged With: Australian History, Kalgoorlie boulder, kalgoorlie cemetery, Western Australia

Dead Man in a Mine Shaft –

04/06/2022 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Kalgoorlie Miner Wednesday 31 August 1898, page 4 A Dead Man In A Mine Shaft BELIEVED TO BE A KANOWNA RESIDENT. A gruesome discovery was made at about 2 o’clock yesterday afternoon by Mr. H Colin. That gentleman was walking over the ground about three-quarters of a mile to the southwest of the southern end […]

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Filed Under: People, Places, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, kalgoorlie cemetery, Kanowna, Western Australia

Bessie Jordan – a pioneering woman

21/05/2022 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Elizabeth Jane Ann ‘Bessie’ Jones was born on 17 AUG 1877 in Sandhurst, Victoria. She was the daughter of James Jones (1849-1892) and Harriet Jones nee Harry (1851-1925). She had only one sibling, James Henry Jones born 15 Aug 1882. At the age of 20yrs, she married Richard Michael Jordan on the 27th of August […]

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The Gibson Boys

23/04/2022 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

I was recently contacted by Beryl Patullo of the “Friends of Will Will Rook Pioneer Cemetery Inc.” in Broadmeadows, Victoria regarding a connection to the Goldfields of Western Australia with the Gibson family. The Gibson Family in the Will Will Rook Cemetery Victoria. This is the story of one of the lesser-known families who originated […]

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A Legend Cut Down –

16/04/2022 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Kalgoorlie Miner 19 March 1934, page 5 Tragedy at ORA BANDA Ora Banda has once more been the stage for a sad and dreadful fatality. Mr. Charles Emery, who left the Ora Banda hotel with his cart and horse about 9 p.m. on Sunday the 11th March was discovered on the following Monday morning, at […]

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