An English woman whose brother was killed in one of the States worst ever air crashes made an emotional pilgrimage to Kalgoorlie in June of 2004. Jessie Kent was only 18, when her brother, Captain Charles Hood, was among seven people killed near Kurrawang about 15 kms west of Kalgoorlie on 15 October 1951. Mr […]
A Marriage of Unusual Interest:
Wedding: Elizabeth Agnes COLE to Charles ‘Clarence’ August John DEGENHARDT, 21st September 1904 at Kalgoorlie. Kalgoorlie Miner 20 September 1904, page 8 Wedding Bells. DEGENHARDT—COLE. Yesterday at St. John’s Anglican Church, Kalgoorlie, there was a marriage of unusual interest, the contracting parties being Mr. Clarence A. Degenhardt, son of Mr. Gustav Frederick Degenhardt solicitor, Adelaide, […]
Henry Gregory – pioneer profile
Daily News (Perth) 9 December 1929, page 6 PEN PORTRAITS – Prospector and Politician With only a comparatively short break the Hon. Henry Gregory. M.H.R has been associated with the politics of Australia for the past twenty-eight years. Like many other successful men in Western Australia, Mr. Gregory was born in Victoria, his native town […]
Anton MARINKOVIC – grave tales
Anton MARINKOVIC – buried 25th September 1909 aged 16 months in the Roman Catholic Section of the Kalgoorlie Cemetery, Grave No 3365. The inscription says: ANTON The Beloved Son of Anton and Mary Marinkovic Died 23rd September 1909 Aged 16 months Had he asked us well we know We should cry ‘O spare this blow’ […]
Playing Hookey !!! A very serious game.
‘Playing Hooky’, many of you, myself included, may think this means by definition:- To be absent from school with out permission or excuse. However if you were a drinker in the 1930’s in Kalgoorlie Boulder you probably would remember a quite different game. I first heard of this game when an ‘Outback Family History’ reader, […]
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