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The newsletter will be taking a short break until 8 November while I travel to England to visit my two youngest children, who both live there. When I return, I hope to share news of a new venture I’ve...
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Doyle’s Well: Coaches, Cold Beer and Frog Cocktails
DOYLES WELL Originally called CUTMORE’S WELL Located between Leonora and Agnew and near the Turkey and Wilson Creeks. A wayside inn and coaching stop. In 1903, there was a coach service from Leonora...
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A Fate Worse than Death – Lost in the Bush
Mirror Perth – 27 December 1907, page 16 AUSTRALIAN BUSH YARN by Rodney Creek, an old Bushman Lost in the Bush It is doubtful if, for bodily and mental anguish, anything can much exceed the hardships...
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When There’s a Gold Rush, Sell Beer – John Glowrey
Coolgardie Pioneer, 11 December 1897, page 14 ONE OF THE PIONEERS. “I don’t want no pioneerin’; take me back to Collin’wood.” This was the strain sung by an Eastern states poet who visited, and was...
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Rogues Along the Coach Road from Kunanalling to Bonnie Vale
The Sun 28 June 1903, page 3 A TRIP FROM KUNANALLING TO BONNIE VALE by Cobb. Coming over from Siberia, I put up a night at Kunanalling, and had an opportunity to study the town and its inhabitants. Two...
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GOLD THIEVES AT CROOKED SHOOT! An Innocent Man Dies Under Suspicion
Geraldton Guardian 12 September 1925 Crooks at the Crooked Shoot Mine by C.P.J ‘Coo-oo-ey! Coo-oo-ey!’ sounded faintly through the semi-darkness of a cloudless night, which enveloped the ‘Crooked...
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Before the Fence: The Rabbits are Coming
This article appeared just one year before the ‘Rabbit Proof Fence” was started. The fence wouldn’t be finished until 1907. This may be the first recorded sighting of rabbits on the Eastern Goldfields....
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Big K: The Brew That Built a Goldfields Empire
The Mirror – Perth 28 August 1937, page 23 Kalgoorlie Brewery’s Record of Progress, Maker of Big K Ale and Stout & Hannan Lager Only one of the 19 breweries once trading on the Goldfields has...
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The Story of Honest Ed Turnbull
Sunday Times 10 June 1934, page 15 SOLITARY HORSEMAN WHO STARTED A GREAT GOLD RUSH Some Made Fortunes – Some Died on the Trail The following report of the discovery of Coolgardie was published in an...
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Bill Cutmore – A Man with a Famous Mate
Back in 1998, I was in correspondence with a lady, Joanne Shumak, whom I was assisting to look into the family history of her uncle, William Basham Cutmore, who, if not for a slip of fate, may be a...
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The Dust, the Digger and the Barmaid
Murchison Times and Day Dawn Gazette – 25 September 1897, page 4 The Murchison Author unknown (From the London Financial Times) The Murchison was the earliest explored field in West Australia, not the...
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A Life on the stage – Goldfields Early Theatres
On the 4th September 1894, Hannan’s Find was declared, and the track from Coolgardie became the main street. The camp was becoming a town, and more and more businesses began to spring up. Many were...
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Murder Before the Cinderella Ball
The murder-suicide tragedy of Nurse Elizabeth Gold and Kenneth Snodgrass is a tale quite widely known, but I have not before told the story on the Outback Family History Blog. In Coolgardie in the...
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The Angels on the Hill – Some Memoirs of a Nursing Sister
Sunday Times – 18 September 1932 THE ANGELS ON THE HILL Some Memoirs of a Nursing Sister by the First Hospital Trained Nurse in Coolgardie (Unnamed) When I arrived in Coolgardie 38 years ago, it was...
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Rafferty’s Rules and Rough Justice at Niagara
Smith’s Weekly, 26 November 1927, by John Drayton How “Justice” was Served Out on the Goldfields. Niagara was one of the little towns worth a column in the W.A. Post Office Directory of 1899 following...
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Twenty Yards from Water – the man who was lost twice
George MOUNTJOY – 36 yrs, buried in the Cue cemetery in Dec 1895, location not specified. He was born in Cheltenham, England. He was reported missing by a friend who last saw him leaving his camp near...
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Lennonville: From Roaring Goldfield – to Vanished Town
Daily News, 23 July 1953, page 5 – By road, 361 miles north-north-east from Perth is Lennonville. A tourist guide book 50 years ago would have described it as a population of 3000, seven hotels, two...
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A Golden West Marriage and a Family of Twelve – The Gregson’s
On the 11th Sep 1928, the ‘Rainbow Argus’ in Rainbow, Victoria, reported the death of John Watts Gregson. It said he was a highly respected resident of the town. He was born in Chepstone, Victoria, in...
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Jealousy, a Woman and Murder in the Dark
Sunday Times 26 December 1937, page 2 MURDER IN THE DARK Who Killed Marin Trdervich Peculiar Circumstances in Boulder Tragedy Dead Man’s Mate Talks to “The Sunday Times”. Who was the man dimly seen in...
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John Edwin Kaye: Brewer, Miner and Midnight Wanderer
In 1996 (yes, I really do keep my mail from that long ago ), I was in correspondence (by post, of course) with a lady called Helen Saunders from Figtree in NSW. She was asking if I could look into her...
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