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He Rode Across Australia in Search of Opportunity – The Story of William James Fisher

18/07/2026 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

The following wonderful photographs have been kindly sent to me to share with you. They are from the family album of Ms Robin Panousieris, nee Fisher, and concern her Grandfather, William James Fisher, who was born in 1872, Sago Hill, Ballarat, Victoria. He was the son of Edwin Fisher and Elizabeth Sharp. He married Alice Beatrice […]

Filed Under: People, Places & Towns Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Lake Way, Nannine, Western Australia

Jack Tulloch – a tragic fatality at Lake Way

01/03/2025 By Moya Sharp 3 Comments

Geraldton Express and Murchison and Yalgoo Goldfields Chronicle 22 January 1897, page 9 A TRAGIC FATALITY AT LAKE WAY The sad news is just to hand from Lake Way that Jack Tulloch, the well-known and respected partner in Tulloch Willis and Co’s butchery business at Cue, Day Dawn and Leonora, has perished near Lake Way […]

Filed Under: Grave Tales, People, Places & Towns, Towns and Places Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Lake Way, Leonora, Western Australia, Wiluna

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