Recently Outback Family History reader, Peter Sirr, sent me the following photograph of a baby’s grave in the Kalgoorlie Cemetery. It appears to have been most carefully made from tin possibly by his father. Charles Robert Leslie FINN Age 1year 5 months Buried in the Anglican Section Kalgoorlie Cemetery on 31 Dec 1928 Grave no […]
Mulwarrie Cemetery:
Mulwarrie is an abandoned townsite in the North Coolgardie Goldfield of the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia, 125 km northwest of Kalgoorlie and 55 km southwest of Menzies, between Davyhurst and Mulline. It was originally known as Mount Higgins; gold was first discovered there by Paddy Higgins, who later discovered gold at Higginsville. In 1900, […]
Born of Grief and Despair:
On the 23rd of September 1903 in Gwalia Street, Leonora Western Australia an event would take place that would start a string of family tragedies. The event was the death of a little girl, Eileen Margaret Doyle. She died of Tonisilitis and Bronchitis and was only 2 ½yrs old. She had only been ill only […]
Did she fall or was she pushed??
The British Arms Hotel in Hannan Street, Kalgoorlie was built in 1899 and operated as a hotel until it was delicenced in 1924. It is reputed to be the narrowest two-story hotel in the southern hemisphere measuring only 3.2 meters in width. Although small in size, the hotel did a brisk trade in the early […]
The Binduli Blood House:
The Binduli Bloodhouse – The following article appeared in ‘The Sun’ newspaper on the 28th October 1906. The sentiments and derogatory comments about foreigners and women were common at the time. THE BINDULI BLOODHOUSE. -BARTOLO MORATTI’S PUB- ITS CLAIMS TO POLICE ATTENTION. Disreputable Boozing Den— For Dissipated Dagos.— No Attractions for Picnickers.— Closure Badly Wanted. […]
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