John O’Malley LYONS, known as Jack. Died 4 April 1945, aged 70 years, on Duck Creek Station 140 miles east of Onslow. Present at the burial was C. C. Dalton. The grave is about 2 ½ miles south-west of the station camp on the west bank of the Serpentine Creek. John Lyons was a Pastoralist […]
Blanche Habgood – a station grave
A Story sent to me by Jennifer Sherwood as told to her by Lorraine Rieck, published with Lorraine’s kind permission. It is about Blanche Habgood who died in the Peak Hill district of the Murchison of Western Australia. The reason for this story is the memory of running around Blanche’s grave as a child and […]
The Beaton’s of Cogla Downs Station
Earlier this year I was in correspondence with Mal Beaton regarding the fascinating history of the Beaton family of Cogla Downs Station in the mid-west Sandstone area of Western Australia. He very kindly granted me access to the family Facebook group and he and his extended family have given me permission to share some of […]