Frank Ernest RANDELL & CO.

Weekly Times (Melbourne VIC) – 10 September 1898, page 48 Frank Ernest Randell & Co. Messrs F E. Randell and Co. are well known on the West Australian goldfields as carrying and forwarding agents. Their head office is at Fremantle, having lately been transferred to that rising port, from the goldfields, and there are branches […]

The Norseman Hotels –

Coolgardie Miner – 12 July 1935, page 10 The New Norseman Hotel  The new Norseman Hotel, which has just been completed by Mr Jesse K. Moore, was designed by Cavanagh & Cavauagh, architects, Perth, and has been built to the specifications approved by the Licencing Board, was opened on June 17. The building consists of […]

Norseman – books and photographs

Norseman is a town on the edge of the places covered by the Outback Family History web site and blog. If you are interested in the history of the town and the surrounding area I would like to recommend the following three books. There may be others, but there are ones I have myself or […]

Norseman Weddings – Methodist Church

A new record has been added to the Outback Family History web site. It is the Methodist Church marriages for the town of Norseman. Although included in the ‘Goldfields People’ Index it is helpful to be able to search these records by town. There are 487 marriages which give the following details. Name of Groom […]

The Dimers and the Greens – a picnic at Norseman

I was recently sent this wonderful photograph from OFH reader Peter Green, it is from his family album. William Henry and Clara Elizabeth Green are in the front sulky.  The child on Clara’s knee is Arnold Joseph Green born at Burbank’s in 1910, he has been identified by Uncle Arnold’s son. The story goes that […]