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The Swearful Dryblower – a verse

29/10/2022 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

I am a digger at Mulgabbie and I’d like to rise and say Dryblowing is a swearful game to most diggers anyway. You work for days without a color, then have a lengthy swear that takes two solid windy days to cleanse the atmosphere. If an angel down from heaven had to dryblow for a […]

Filed Under: People Tagged With: Goldfields History, Western Australia

The Norris Family on the Goldfields

29/10/2022 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

The Norris Family on the Goldfields by Chris Clark The journey from the east coast of Australia to the booming goldfields of Western Australia was a path taken by many from the 1890s. For most hopefuls the trip was one-way, signifying a migration that was irreversible, but for others, it was only a matter of […]

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

The Gaston Family – from Marjorie Burton nee York.

22/10/2022 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

I was recently sent some interesting information and photographs on the Gaston family from Marjorie Burton nee York. Her Gt Grandfather was George Gaston. The Gastons originally came from South Australia and before that from Sussex, England. They were Charles Gaston and his wife Rebecca nee Burfield. Their son George Gaston and his wife Ann […]

Filed Under: People, Places & Towns Tagged With: Burtville, Goldfields History, Mt Magnet, Southern Cross, Western Australia

The Murder of Michael Naughton –

22/10/2022 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

The Sun – Kalgoorlie – 22 February 1920 A MURCHISON MYSTERY UNRAVELED BY INSPECTOR MANN By the time Inspector Mann was 10 years, in the C.I.D. he was recognised as one of the ablest detectives in Australia. His only rival In WA was the late Detective Sergeant Kavanagh, but he was in charge of the […]

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

The Story of the Murchison-part 1

22/10/2022 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

As told by the nephew of the Late J C Peterkin, also called J C Peterkin, in Perth, in March 1946. About the years 1889-1890, Gilles MacPherson and J C Peterkin met in Perth. Both were old Kimberley and Queensland prospectors, they had known each other for a long time but had never actually worked […]

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

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