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Death at Dingo Creek –

09/03/2024 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Malcolm Chronicle and Leonora Advertiser 18 January 1902 DEATH FROM THIRST ANOTHER SAD TALE FROM THE BOOK OF THE BUSH On Saturday morning of last week, two Italians, named Bortolo and Joe Marinoni left Anaconda Copper Mine, where they were employed, with the intention of visiting a relative who was in the Malcolm Hospital.  The […]

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Malcolm Cemetery – the legion of the lost

10/02/2024 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Malcolm Cemetery Biographies:  138 burials Also known as Mount Malcolm There are 2 Cemeteries at Malcolm Malcolm Salt Lake Cemetery AKA Lake Raeside –  123 burial from 1897-1911 Malcolm Kookynie Road Cemetery 14 burials 1911 – 1915 Unfortunately, apart from identifying various headstones in each cemetery, there are no separate registers surviving for each cemetery. […]

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Filed Under: Grave Tales, People, Places Tagged With: Australian History, Cemeteries, Goldfields History, Malcolm, Western Australia

Malcolm Cemetery – the legion of the lost

04/11/2023 By Moya Sharp 2 Comments

Malcolm Cemetery Biographies:   137 burials Also known as Mount Malcolm There are 2 Cemeteries at Malcolm Malcolm Salt Lake Cemetery AKA Lake Raeside –  123 burial from 1897-1911 Malcolm Kookynie Road Cemetery 14 burials 1911 – 1915 Unfortunately, apart from identifying various headstones in each cemetery, there are no separate registers for each cemetery ADAMS […]

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Filed Under: Grave Tales, People, Places Tagged With: Australian History, Cemeteries, Goldfields History, Malcolm, Mt Malcolm, Western Australia

A Policemans Lot – The story of Patrick Donovan

25/03/2023 By Moya Sharp 2 Comments

I was recently sent a wonderful family story by Brian Kelly who has done an amazing job of researching the life and times of his ancestor Patrick Donovan. He has given me permission, with thanks, to reproduce an extract from the story of Patrick’s time in Western Australia. Patrick ‘Paddy’ Donovan (AKA O’Donovan) was born […]

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A History of Leonora United Lodge No. 64 WAC

04/02/2023 By Moya Sharp 6 Comments

Following on from our previous stories on the history of Freemasonary in the Goldfields, we are fortunate to have another chapter from Doug Daws on the history of Freemasons in Leonora, Gwalia and Malcolm. This story is not only of interest to those who are Freemasons but to all who are interested in the founding […]

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