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Alexander Henry Thomas CAIRNDUFF grave tales

13/05/2023 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Alexander Henry Thomas CAIRNDUFF: Fancy good dealer and tobacconist, Kanowna was born in Hobart Tasmania on Jan 20 1873 and is the son of the late Rev Alexander Cairduff M.A, who filled the office of a Presbyterian clergyman in the above city for 40 years. The gentleman under review was educated in his native place […]

Filed Under: Grave Tales, People Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Kanowna, Western Australia

The Beaton’s of Cogla Downs Station

06/05/2023 By Moya Sharp 2 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: People, Places & Towns Tagged With: Stations, Western Australia

The Strange Case of Baby Quinn

06/05/2023 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

As we all will know, when an illegitimate child was born to a young woman in the early part of the 1900’s there was not the support available to her that there is today, and many young women were forced by circumstances to give up their baby. Also, the laws concerning the adoption of children […]

Filed Under: Grave Tales, People Tagged With: Australian History, Coolgardie, Goldfields History, Western Australia

Not a Gold Rush but !!

06/05/2023 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Mirror Perth 15 August 1931, page 19 NOT A GOLD RUSH BUT !! A Rush On Richmond Beer Continuous Streams Of People Now Flow Daily Into The Grand Hotel, Kalgoorlie And Shamrock Hotel, Boulder. RICHMOND beer has captured the Goldfields as it has done every other part of Australia. The popular beverage is now so […]

Filed Under: People, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales, Towns and Places Tagged With: Beer, Western Australia

The Parched Dry Desert of Tragedy

29/04/2023 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

The Truth Perth 11 January 1931, page 11 GRISLY SUICIDE PACT OF THE OUTBACK Parched, Sun-Scorched and Mocked By The Cruel Phantom Of Water TRAGIC END OF KANGAROO SHOOTERS Henry Dyer, 55, of New Zealand and Laurie Raunio/Raunis, 31, native of Orimattila, Finland, died on November 3, 1930 about 100 miles north-west of Wiluna from […]

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

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