Good Morning Readers – I hope that you have had a good week. This month marks the 8th anniversary of the start of the Outback Family History Blog. I can’t believe it, the time has gone so fast! When I look back on my very early posts I find them a bit cringe-worthy, but I’m […]
Lasseter Looks for a “Missing Friend”
Pearl Bell by Chris Clark In Chris Clark’s research into Lewis Hubert Lasseter, his research also threw up Kalgoorlie connexion regarding the Sharkey family. On two successive days in July 1920, the columns of Western Australia’s ‘Kalgoorlie Miner’ newspaper – the “Voice of the Goldfields”—carried a ‘Missing Friends’ notice that read: Pearl BELL, last heard […]
Tragedy at Lakeside – grave tales
Kalgoorlie Miner 6 May 1922, page 5 As far as can be ascertained, no one actually witnessed the accident which resulted in George Lyall Luscombe, aged 19yrs, losing his life by being run over by a wood train on the Lakeside line, near the 52-mile siding, at 5.30 a.m. on Thursday. It is known that […]
Ripping Yarns and Tragic Tales – 8 August 2021
I hope your week has gone well. We have had a slight increase in temperature here, (Kalgoorlie-Boulder), which has been lovely. I hope wherever you are, this has been the case. We recently had a reader join us who lives in Boulder, but in Colorado USA. She said how odd it was that her descendants […]
He Nearly ‘Did a Perish’ –
Daily News 27 October 1934, page 16 Jim Keen arrived in Kalgoorlie from out East this week with his three camels. He has prospected in several other countries besides Australia and has had some narrow shaves in the last 40 years. But he reckons the narrowest he has had was just recently when he nearly […]
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