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The Mysterious Case of the Missing Doctor!!!

23/11/2019 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

A Wandering Pommy: the story of Dr Dale OBE “Search Parties Unsuccessful” The mysterious disappearance of Dr Dale, who has been missing from Kookynie since Saturday last, has caused his friends in Kookynie great uneasiness. It appears that the doctor, who has been practicing at Mr. M. Schneider’s pharmacy during the past five months, went […]

Filed Under: People, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Kookynie, Western Australia

The Prettiest Weddings of the Year:

20/11/2019 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

The following newspaper article about a local wedding was reported, as you will see, in great detail. This was very common and sometimes each wedding present received was also listed with the name of the person who gave it. , It is to remember in these days that no one had television and articles like […]

Filed Under: People Tagged With: Australian History, Kalgoorlie boulder, wedding, Western Australia

A Lost and Desolate Wanderer –

16/11/2019 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Evening Journal, Adelaide, 30 January 1894           A Terrible Experience at Coolgardie. A well-known and respected resident of Kent Town has received a letter from his son, who recently went to Coolgardie from Adelaide, from which the following is extracted :— “On December 24 and 25 (Merry Christmas Day) I was dying, […]

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

Charles William Douglas and family – by Harry Firns

12/11/2019 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

The following family story is submitted by Harry Firns and was written by George Charles Douglas about his father Charles William Douglas. Born Inglewood 1871 died Adelaide 1916 My father Charles William Douglas married Annie May Bowen in 1900 in Melbourne and they sailed shortly afterwards to Western Australia. They lived in Boulder City where […]

Filed Under: People Tagged With: Australian History, Goldfields History, Kalgoorlie boulder, Western Australia

Two Soldier Brothers – by Marcia McIntyre

09/11/2019 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

The following is a guest post from the Family History of Marcia McIntyre Bert and Cyril Longmore were first cousins to my mother, Alice Mary Jones nee True.  Although the Longmore family left Gundagai when Bert was only a small child and moved to Melbourne, then Western Australia, the family always kept in contact with […]

Filed Under: People, Soldiers Story Tagged With: Bullfinch, Goldfields History, Western Australia

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