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Cuddingwarra Kate –

02/09/2023 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Western Mail Perth – 3 March 1906, page 47 CUDDINGWARRA KATE By R. W. Patrick Tho fortnightly-mail coach was due. Jack Crenane, the driver, was generally right up to time, and a big crowd always congregated in front of Corney’s pub just before five o’clock to see it come in. The arrival of the coach […]

Filed Under: People, Places & Towns, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales Tagged With: Australian History, Cuddingwarra, Goldfields History, Sandstone, Western Australia

The Mysterious Tom Cue

26/08/2023 By Moya Sharp 2 Comments

The mysterious Tom Cue By Jim Foster  –  https: www.goldgemtreasure.com.au/shop Tom Cue is mostly known for his involvement in the finding of gold near Cue, the Western Australian town that bears his name. And, while most people assume it was Tom who made the discovery, it was actually his partners, Michael John Fitzgerald and Edward […]

Filed Under: People, Places & Towns Tagged With: Australian History, Cue, Goldfields History, Western Australia

Kalgoorlie Hospital Admission Records – No 8

26/08/2023 By Moya Sharp 4 Comments

The next files are now released:   “3600 individual new entries” File 37 and 38 –  from 30th January 1916 to 27 August 1919  The Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital, told us some 17 years ago, that all of the original patient admission registers from the very first days of the Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital were still stored in […]

Filed Under: People, Places & Towns Tagged With: Australian History, Hospital, Kalgoorlie boulder, Western Australia

George August Dux – pioneer profile

19/08/2023 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

The following story was sent to me by the President of the East Gippsland Family History Group, Debbie Squires,  about one of their ‘locals’ who came west! “G.A.D.” has left an entertaining (and informative) description of Bairnsdale and districts in his writings – but who was he? There are a few clues in the narrative. […]

Filed Under: People, Places & Towns Tagged With: Australian History, Broad Arrow, Goldfields History, Western Australia

Helena Maud ‘Lily’ Pike – grave tales

19/08/2023 By Moya Sharp 4 Comments

On the 27th April 1906, Helena ‘Lily’ Maud Pike (nee Rosevere) aged 30yrs, passed away at the St John of God Hospital in Dugan Street, Kalgoorlie from Typhoid. She was the wife of councillor Eustace Walter Pike and the mother of one child, James Albert, aged 6yrs. The couple had married in Adelaide SA in […]

Filed Under: Grave Tales, People, Places & Towns Tagged With: Australian History, Cemeteries, Goldfields History, Kalgoorlie boulder, kalgoorlie cemetery, Western Australia

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