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The Christmas Find by John Drayton

23/12/2023 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

Sunday Times 24 December 1916, page 18 It was not ‘Happy Christmas Hogan’s’ fault that he was born on the natal day of the Prince of Christianity. He certainly had had no voice in the matter which, it was apparent to him later, if not to his godfathers and godmothers in his baptism, was altogether […]

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

A Lost and Desolate Wanderer –

23/12/2023 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

Evening Journal, Adelaide, 30 January 1894 A Terrible Experience at Coolgardie. A well-known and respected resident of Kent Town, South Australia, 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 1893 (Merry Christmas Day!) I was dying, a […]

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Murder in a Mining Camp

16/12/2023 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Sunday Times 29 August 1943, page 7 Murder In a Gold Mining Camp Murderers I Have Known, by Harry Mann, ex-Chief of the C.I.B., Perth, as told to Max Praed Boom days on the Murchison goldfields! What a picture that calls up, to us who remember the richness and the wickedness! of those roaring times! […]

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The Norman Tindale Collection –

16/12/2023 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Most of the people photographed in this collection would now be deceased, except for some of the children and very young adults. Outback Family History were kindly given copies of some of the images from the Goldfields area only, they are on the OFH website – SEARCH. The list I have is not a complete […]

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From Gold to Milking Cows – by Helen Astrand

16/12/2023 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

From Gold to Milking Cows A story of a young life on a dairy farm in the Goldfields by Helen Astrand nee Pollard The late 1890s saw John James POLLARD, born 1877 in Moonta in South Australia, travel from SA to Malcolm in the Northern Goldfields of Western Australia to seek his fortune. There he […]

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

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