Alexander Henry Thomas CAIRNDUFF: Fancy good dealer and tobacconist, Kanowna was born in Hobart Tasmania on Jan 20 1873 and is the son of the late Rev Alexander Cairduff M.A, who filled the office of a Presbyterian clergyman in the above city for 40 years. The gentleman under review was educated in his native place […]
Jimmy Whalin’s Dog
Western Mail 25 May 1939, page 11 by J.E.T., Nedlands. The Dolly Pot: – There are a wealth of stories yet untold about our Goldfields, past and present. We would like to remedy this and provide the old-timers and the new generation with the opportunity to bring the picturesque personalities of the past and present […]
Kanowna Cemetery – a work in progress
Usually, when doing a cemetery upgrade for the Outback Family History website, I work on it until everything has been checked again and again and we have photographs of those buried there where available, and also newspaper articles and copies of inscriptions added. For the Kanowna Cemetery (the second one) we are going to do […]
Crimes of Passion in Kanowna
Crimes of passion are not something new, and they happened in the early Goldfields days just as they do today, but the town of Kanowna seems to have had more than its fair share in its short history. The following three stories. Sadly there are no photographs of any of the people in these dramas. […]
Alleged Seduction at Kanowna
Kalgoorlie Miner 10 October 1906, page 2 Alleged Seduction The Kanowna Case – Serious Charges against Married Man Frances ‘Frank’ Fordham BROWNE (Plaintiff)-v- John Lewis Henry MARTIN (Defendant) The hearing of the civil case of Frank Fordham Browne against John Lewis Martin, in which the plaintiff claims £1000 for the alleged seduction of his step-daughter, […]
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