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Beware of Victorians Bearing Gifts –

16/11/2024 By Moya Sharp 2 Comments

Western Mail 29 September 1938, page 11 OVER THE PLATES One Day in Early Kanowna. A couple of young Victorians blew into camp one morning with a spring cart loaded with fresh vegetables, no more than a week old at least. Every man on the field was troubled with ‘Barcoo Rot‘, so the half-withered green […]

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

John Minden Caulfeild – grave tales

27/07/2024 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

On the evening of Monday 20th October 1896, three men of Kanowna, Open Call stockbroker Thomas Moore Fletcher, 22-year-old photographer John Minden Caulfeild, and Richard Baugh, cycled out to Lake Gwynn and set up a camp on the western shore of the lake about 5 miles from Kanowna. They had hired ‘The Gwynn’, a flat […]

Filed Under: Books, People, Places & Towns Tagged With: Australian History, Cemeteries, Goldfields History, Kanowna, Western Australia

George and Jessie Cooper – pioneer profile

22/06/2024 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

George Astley and Jessie Cooper from Carol Townsend (Great Granddaughter). George Astley COOPER was born in 1865 at Duck Ponds, Victoria. In 1890 to Benjamin Edward and Sophia Elizabeth. He married Jessie HASTHORPE  in Warragul, Victoria. Jessie was born in 1868 in Collingwood Victoria, the daughter of Jessie and Esther nee VARNEY. George and Jessie […]

Filed Under: People, Places & Towns, They were 1st Tagged With: Australian History, Gindalbie, Goldfields History, Kanowna, Vosperton, Western Australia

Old Mulgabbie – over the plates

08/06/2024 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Western Mail 23 January 1941, page 9 – Dolly Pot Old Mulgabbie About 130 kilometres north-east of Kalgoorlie, along the Kurnalpi-Pinjin Road. In the year of 1898 or thereabouts following closely on the opening of the Kanowna Deep Leads, I struck the track from Norseman to Coolgardie accompanied by a mate. We had light hearts, […]

Filed Under: People, Places & Towns Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Kanowna, Mulgabbie, Western Australia

The Death of Father Long –

13/04/2024 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Kalgoorlie Western Argus 25 May 1899, page 25 THE LATE REV FATHER LONG A telegraphic message was published    the Kalgoorlie Miner of May 18th to the effect that the Rev Father Long had succumbed to an attack of typhoid fever in Perth on the previous day. The death of the rev gentleman forms the […]

Filed Under: Church, People, Places & Towns Tagged With: Gold, Goldfields History, Kanowna, Western Australia

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