Editor Trudi Anne Gribble Author Vivienne Sinclair The Hordern Hotels Unique Marble Bottle The Hordern Hotel, located in Narrogin, Western Australia, is notable for its marble bottle, one of the few hotel bottles in the state. This unique bottle was produced by Cannington & Shaw of Lancashire, England. The hotel’s licensee, Michael Brown, was born in Ireland in 1850…
Editor: Trudi Anne Gribble Author: Vivienne Sinclair William Hellyar Cooper was born in Perth in 1870, and his business partner, Frederick Mortimer Blanton, was born in Melbourne in 1875. Cooper attended Perth High School (now Hale School) and at age 16, travelled to the Murchison with his brother-in-law, R. D. O’Grady. He worked as a station hand in the…
Edited by Trudi Anne Gribble Author Vivienne Sinclair George Thomas Davis: Entrepreneur and Prospector George Thomas Davis was born around 1859 and married Elizabeth Collison in Dubbo, New South Wales, in 1879. This marriage did not last, and Davis subsequently moved to Silverton, Broken Hill, and the Tarrawingee Flux Quarries in New South Wales. The quarries produced limestone carbonate,…
JOSEPH GILL born c1845 Lancashire & wife RACHEL nee Proud, arrived from County Down, Ireland on 3 May 1880, on board the “Clyde” with their 8 young children, including a daughter born on the journey and 13 year old son, Dan. Joseph was a coal miner living in County Durham in England in 1871 and first settled in NSW….
William George Watkins, aka George William and William Watkins was born in 1873 in Victoria. He came to WA in the gold rush era, about 1895 and was connected to I J K Cohn of Coolgardie. His first cordial factory was at Bulong. This town was gazetted in November 1895 and was formerly named the I O U after…
Francis Peter Shelley was born c1860 in South Australia to parents William & Elizabeth Sheehy. His parents arrived in Adelaide c1857 from London with their eldest son John Augustus Moree (Sheehy) Shelley. Sometime during the late 1850’s, the family changed their surname from the Irish, Sheehy to the English version of Shelley. Another son known as J.A.M. Shelley was…
Western Australian based group dedicated to the finding and preservation of relics of all sorts.