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 […]
Murder in a Mining Camp
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! […]
The Norman Tindale Collection –
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 […]
From Gold to Milking Cows – by Helen Astrand
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 […]
The Cunninghams – by Gail and Arthur Peters
I was recently contacted by Gail and Arthur Peters who told me a wonderful story about their Cunningham ancestors on the Goldfields. The following is part of an article formerly written for the EG Historical Soc, and now is re-published here with the kind permission of the author, Gail Peters. Andrew Cunningham (Sr) is buried […]
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