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Samuel Burton RUDDUCK
Born 1873 in Dromana, Victoria, Australia [15]
Son of Nelson RUDDUCK and Jane Sophia CHAPMAN [15]
Arrived in Western Australia in 1900 and worked in Kalgoorlie and then in Perth [P17]
Married Alice Mary MORTON on 8 June 1903 in the Melbourne suburb of Saint Kilda [P363]
In 1905 he was living in Mends Street in South Perth [6]
Purchased approximately 14,000 acres of land in the Coorow-Waddy Forest district in 1906 [P17]
From 1906 to 1912 travelled to the farm each weekend, catching the train to Coorow and then back to Perth in time for work [P17]
Purchased land surrounding Ytinchie Spring and Pacanmaya Spring from the Benedictine Community of New Norcia in 1910 [68]
Wrote to the Upper Irwin Road Board in April 1910 inquiring about the clearing of road number 3605 in Coorow [9: 29-Apr-1910]
Again wrote to the Upper Irwin Road Board in July 1910 to request the clearing and improvement of roads in Coorow [9: 5-Aug-1910]
In October 1910 requested the closure of a road, the Board advising he advertise its closure in the Government Gazette [9: 4-Nov-1910]
Wrote to the Board in May 1911 requesting a new road be declared in Coorow, and outlining where it was required [9: 2-Jun-1911]
The Board responded that he had to obtain permission of owners for a road to pass through their property before they could act [9]
Foundation President of the Coorow Farmers' Progress Association in 1911 [39: 4-Aug-1911]
In 1912, along with his wife and two children, took up full time residence on his property - which he named Koobabbie [P17]
Farmer of Koobabbie Farm in Waddy Forest / Coorow 1912-1948 [P17]
In 1917 grew 1,100 acres of wheat crop on his farm - the largest acreage to be grown in the Coorow district that year [10: 19-Jun-1917]
His crops of Currawa wheat averaged 30 bushels per acre [9: 25-Jan-1918]
Advertised in The Midlands Advertiser in January 1918 that he had Currawa seed wheat for sale for 5/- per bushel [9: 25-Jan-1918]
The Midland Railway Company purchased 60 bags of his Currawa seed wheat for 5/- per bushel in 1918 [34]
He also owned a parcel of farmland in Marchagee which he sold to the Repatriation Department after the First World War [108: page 5]
The land was divided into two farms and allocated to two ex-servicemen under the Soldier Settlement Scheme [108: page 5]
As it turned out both ex-servicemen were "quite unsuitable on medical grounds and both suffered financial hardship" [108: page 5]
Sold 30 bales of wool in November 1921 - seven at 16¼d. per pound, ten at 16d. per pound, and 13 at 15½d. per pound [10: 11-Nov-1921]
On 19 September 1922 he was appointed honorary caretaker of all timber and vegetation on Jun Jun Road in Coorow [9: 29-Sep-1922]
Winner of the Coorow Farm Competition in 1922 with a crop of Nabawa wheat which yielded 36½ bushels per acre [10: 28-Feb-1924]
His wheat crop successes on his farm in Coorow were attributed to his use of 200 pounds of superphosphate per acre [10: 6-Mar-1924]
He also fostered the growth of trefoil, which enriched his land with nitrates and thus resulted in more pasture for livestock [10]
With more pasture he was able to run greater numbers of sheep whose droppings increased the presence of humus in the soil [10]
This was claimed to be of great assistance as soils in the Western Australian wheatbelt were deficient in humus [10]
His example showed other farmers the way, including BOTHE Bros of Coorow and Mrs Evelyn VANZETTI of Marchagee [10]
Advertised in January 1923 that he had Pedigreed Wheat for Sale, namely Currawa, Gresley and Nabawah [9: 5-Jan-1923]
Wrote a letter to the Carnamah Road Board in August 1924 suggesting improvements to roads in Coorow [9: 28-Aug-1924]
He was granted permission to erect a telephone line along the boundary of the road from Waddy store to his farm in 1925 [9: 27-Nov-1925]
Sold 50 bales of wool on 18 October 1929 - 6 at 12½d., 24 at 12¼d., 11 at 11¾d., 5 at 11d., and 4 at 10½d. per pound [4: 19-Oct-1929]
In 1930 Koobabbie was noted, among other things, for the beautiful roses grown in its gardens [4: 23-Aug-1930]
Competitor in the Victoria District Agricultural Society's Top Dressing of Pasture Competition conducted in 1930 [4: 29-Nov-1930]
Owned a Ford Runabout car registered with the Carnamah District Road Board with license plate CA-396 in 1932 [4: 12-Nov-1932]
Inaugural Patron of the Coorow-Waddy Forest District Agricultural Society 1932-1951 [4: 9-Apr-1932, 7-Apr-1951]
In September 1932 the Minister for Agriculture remarked he had "established one of the show farms of the State" [5: 9-Sep-1932]
Exhibited and won prizes in five sections of first Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show on Thursday 8 September 1932 [5: 16-Sep-1932]
Won 1st prizes for Merino Fleece (strong wool) and Merino Fleece (medium wool) and 2nd for Border Leicester Cross Fleece [5]
In the Cattle and Horse sections won 1st prize for a Shorthorn Cow and 2nd prize for a Team of Two Farm Horses in Harness [5]
Won both 1st and 2nd prizes for "Three ewes suitable for breeding export lambs (in the wool)" in the Sheep section [5]
In the Sheep section also won 1st prizes for Merino Ram (strong wool) and Three Fat Lambs (in wool) [5]
Won 2nd prizes for Dorset Horn Ram and Three Fat Lambs Suitable for Export in the Sheep section [5]
Won 1st prize for the "Best Pair of Bird any other breed" in the Poultry section; also won 2nd for Locally Grown Lemons [5]
Treated at the Carnamah Private Hospital for a dislocated wrist from being thrown from his horse on 30 July 1933 [5: 7-Jul-1933]
In 1933 he was known "as a most methodical and enterprising farmer" [5: 28-Jul-1933]
His property Koobabbie was described as a model farm that was well known of throughout the North Midlands [120: 5-Oct-1933]
Purchased and imported six Aberdeen Angus heifers from the Eastern States of Australia in July 1933 [5: 28-Jul-1933]
The previous year he had purchased an Aberdeen Angus Bull and crossed it with beef strain Shorthorn cows [5]
He intended going in for the beef and fat lamb markets and was gradually phasing out her Merinos and introducing crossbreds [5]
Received seven 1st and seven 2nd prizes for exhibits entered in the Second Annual Agricultural Show held in Coorow in 1933 [5]
Won 1st for a Draught Mare/Gelding and 2nd prizes for Draught Stallion, Team of 2 Farm Horses and Team of 4 Farm Horses [5]
In the Cattle section received 1st prizes for Shorthorn Cow milking strain, Jersey Heifer and One Fat Beast [5]
Won 1st prizes for Border Leicester Ram, Crossbred Ewe with twin lambs and both 1st and 2nd for strong wool Merino Ewe [5]
Won 2nd prizes for Three Fat Crossbred Sheep, a Merino Fleece and for a Border Collie Sheep Dog or Bitch [5: 15-Sep-1933]
In October 1933 sold four bales of wool at 15¾d. per pound, 10 bales at 15¼d.,13 bales at 14¾ and 5 bales at 14½d. [5: 13-Oct-1933]
Patron in 1933 and Vice Patron 1935-1938 of the Carnamah District Agricultural Society [5: 26-Apr-1935, 22-Nov-1935, 22-Jan-1937] [13]
Gave seeds for Sturt Desert Peas to the Waddy Forest and Waddy Well State School and offered a prize for the first flower [5]
Joan MANNING and Anne GREENWOOD were the only ones who kept their plants alive, the latter being the winner [5: 25-May-1934]
Patron of the Coorow Football Club in 1934 and 1937 [5: 20-Apr-1934, 16-Apr-1937]
Successfully exhibited in four sections of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show held at Maley Park, Coorow on 30 August 1934 [5]
Received two 1st prizes in the Wool section for Border Leicester Merino Cross Fleece and for a Sheep Skin [5: 7-Sep-1934]
1st prizes for Draught Stallion and Brood Mare/Gelding and 2nd for Draught Brood Mare and Team of Two Farm Horses [5]
1st prize for 2½ year Merino Ewe and 2nd for Three Ewes for Breeding Export Lambs and a Border Collie Sheep Dog/Bitch [5]
In 1934-35 he was the owner of the registered six year old draught stallion by the name of Victoria Shamrock [5: 25-Jan-1935]
Sold 176 suckers through Westralian Farmers Ltd at the Midland Market on Wednesday 4 September 1935 [5: 6-Sep-1935]
Out of the 176 suckers sold 78 at 16/4 per head, 58 at 17/4 per head, 16 at 15/7 per head, and 24 at 15/1 per head [5]
Exhibited in the Wool and Horse section of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show held on Thursday 5 September 1935 [5: 13-Sep-1935]
Won 1st prizes for Border Leicester-Merino Cross Fleece, Brood Mare, and Yearling Draught; and 2nd for Draught Stallion [5]
Sold nine bales of wool at 13d. per pound and four bales at 12d. per pound at the Perth Wool Sale on 7 October 1935 [5: 11-Oct-1935]
Attended the entertainment for the Commonwealth Grants Commission at the Coorow Hotel on 21 November 1935 [5: 29-Nov-1935]
Sent a floral tribute for the grave of Miss "May" Mary L. LANG at the Winchester Cemetery on 26 November 1935 [5: 29-Nov-1935]
His nephew and niece Jack and Rene RUDDUCK of Melbourne visited himself and his wife at Koobabbie in May 1936 [5: 29-May-1936]
Sold 370 suckers (200 at 21/10 and 170 at 20/7, a total of £363/5/10) at the Midland Market on 19 August 1936 [5: 21-Aug-1936]
Exhibited in the Sheep, Wool and Sheep Dog sections of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1936 [5: 11-Sep-1936]
Came 2nd after his son for "three ewes first-cross long-wool suitable for breeding export lambs bred by exhibitor" [5]
and also received 2nd prizes for Border Leicester Merino Cross Fleece and for Kelpie Dog or Bitch [5]
Sold eight bales of wool through Westralian Farmers Ltd in 1936 - four bales at 15¾d. and 4 bales at 13½d. per pound [5: 16-Oct-1936]
Wrote to the Carnamah District Road Board in December 1936 conditionally agreeing to the closure of a road [5: 24-Dec-1936]
He agreed to the closure of the road that cut the corner of Victoria Location 8671 and went through Victoria Location 8187 [5]
He agreed subject to a new road being made along the south of Location 8671 and continuing along the west of Location 8187 [5]
It was then to go east and north to connect to the road to Maya, and the old road to stay open until the new one was cleared [5]
Received 15 points of rain from stormy weather in Waddy Forest on Wednesday 17 March 1937 [5: 19-Feb-1937]
Purchased a new Buick sedan car through Arthur W. G. A. POTTS of Three Springs in March 1937 [5: 25-Mar-1937]
Sold 16 ewes at 27/10 per head through Westralian Farmers Ltd at the Midland Market on Wednesday 14 July 1937 [5: 16-Jul-1937]
Financial Member of the Carnamah District Agricultural Society 1937-1939 [13]
Donated £5/5/- to the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts Agricultural Society to assist them with their Annual Show in 1937 [150]
Exhibited in the Horse, Cattle, Sheep Dog and Grain & Fodder sections of the Society's Annual Show in 1937 [5: 10-Sep-1937]
Awarded 1st prizes for Draught Gelding, Yearling Draught Colt or Filly and 2-year Filly; and 2nd for Draught Stallion [5]
Won 1st for Best Beef Breed Bull and Green Wheat for Hay; and 2nd for Green Oats for Hay and Kelpie dog or bitch [5]
Won a number of prizes in the cattle section of the 1939 Royal Show in Perth [0: image 03858]
Patron of the Coorow-Waddy Forest Agricultural Society and Patriotic Funds Committee in 1945 [0: image 04320]
In late 1948 left Koobabbie and retired to South Perth [4: 5-Feb-1949]
Prior to his departure he and his wife were presented with a solid silver salver from the residents of the Coorow district [4: 5-Feb-1949]
Resided at 26 Ridge Street in South Perth 1949-1952 [P17]
Father of Arnold and Muriel [P363]
Died 31 October 1952; cremated at the Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA [2]
From The Western Mail newspaper, Friday 20 December 1928:
Country Towns and Districts - Carnamah-Coorow - Rapid Development
"Mr S. B. Rudduck has 1,800 of his 10,030 acres under crop. The property is mostly heavy soil, but there is some rough country. His sowing policy is 100 lb. of super for grass and 200 lb. through the drill for crops. The property carries 4,000 sheep and cattle; Koonoona merinos have been crossed with Border Leicester rams for the needs of the fat lamb trade. Mr Rudduck grows Wimmera rye grass as fodder, and top dresses pastures heavily with super. The farm is exceptionally well equipped, electric light being supplied to the homestead and farm buildings. There is also an unusually large permanent dam."
Vera Kathleen Craig RUTLAND
Born 1901 in Midland, Western Australia [15]
Daughter of James Mathew RUTLAND and Jane Isabelle CRAIG [15]
Resided with her husband Clifford Clyde CROCKER on Glenhurst Farm in Coorow [19]
Received 2nd prizes for a female White Leghorn and for Beetroot at the first Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1932 [5: 16-Sep-1932]
Won 1st prizes for Onions in the Vegetable section of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show on Thursday 30 August 1934 [5: 7-Sep-1934]
Awarded 1st prizes for male and female Bronzewing Turkeys at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1935 [5: 13-Sep-1935]
Sold 48 ewes (20 at 9/10, 14 at 13/1, 14 at 9/1), 40 wethers at 40/1, 1 ram at 10/- and 1 lamb at 14/- in January 1936 [5: 8 & 22-Jan-1937]
Later resided in Bullsbrook [2]
Died 1 September 1992; buried Midland Cemetery, Midland WA (General, B, 73) [2]
Thomas RUFFLEY
Farmer in Gunyidi in 1911 and 1912 [19] [50]
"Maggie" Margaret RYAN
Born 25 November 1865 in Moonta, South Australia [55]
Daughter of John RYAN and Catherine O'BRIEN [55]
Married "Alf" John James Alford SPICER on 28 November 1894 at the residence of the Archbishop in Adelaide, South Australia [55]
Resided with her husband and children in Marchagee 1911-1915 and then in Gunyidi 1916-1920 [19] [44] [50]
For a period they lived at Lot 35 Station Street in the Coorow townsite [P66]
Later resided in Dalwallinu [P361]
Mother of "Irene" Annie Irene and "Ivy" Gwendoline Mary [P361]
Died suddenly in Dalwallinu on 29 May 1929 [P361]
"Maude" Edith Maude Wilcocks RYOTT
Born 1877 in Belmont, Durham, England [20] [21]
Daughter of Anthony Elliot RYOTT and Amelia Ann WILCOCKS [20] [21]
Baptised on 25 February 1877 in Belmont, Durham, England [33]
In the 1880s and 1890s her father was an Ironworks Clerk and Commercial Clerk however by 1901 was a Private School Tutor [20]
At the time of the 1881 British Census was living with her parents and sister Millicent at Carrville in Saint Giles, Durham, England [20]
By 1891 her mother had died and she was living with her father and sister Millicent at Eden Villa in Saint Giles, Durham, England [20]
Later resided with her father and stepmother Margaret at Woodspeen House in Newbury, Berkshire, England [20]
Married "Guy" Michael Guy GREENWOOD in 1912 [66]
Resided with her husband on Brooklands Farm in Southern Brook near Northam 1912-1922 [P141]
In 1922 shifted with her husband to prospective farmland at Waddy Forest that had been purchased the previous year [P141]
Resided on Manell Farm in Waddy Forest 1922-1942 [0: images 04183, 04462]
Wrote to the Carnamah District Road Board in August 1934 requesting the clearing of the road from Waddy to their farm [5: 31-Aug-1934]
Herself and her daughter travelled from Waddy to Perth in early October 1935, and returned home on Saturday 5 October [5: 4-Oct-1935]
Sold 19 lambs at 12/- per head and 27 lambs at 7/10 per head through Elder Smith & Co Ltd on 2 October 1935 [5: 4-Oct-1935]
Less than a week later sold 55 suckers (41 at 10/10, 12 at 12/10 and 2 at 18/1 per head) through Westralian Farmers Ltd [5: 11-Oct-1935]
Sold a steer for £3/12/6 through Elder Smith & Co Ltd at the Midland Market on Wednesday 23 October 1935 [5: 25-Oct-1935]
Attended the 25th Wedding Anniversary of Malcolm L. and Irene S. PATTON in Waddy Forest on 1 April 1936 [5: 3-Apr-1936]
Herself and her husband travelled from Coorow by train for a short holiday in Perth on Friday 19 June 1936 [5: 26-Jun-1936]
Won 1st for Snapdragons and 2nd for Six Geraniums in the Flower section of the 1936 Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show [5: 11-Sep-1936]
During later September 1936 she spent a holiday in Perth [5: 25-Sep-1936]
Sold 42 sheep (24 suckers at 14/10, 14 suckers at 10/10, 4 ewes at 18/- per head) at the Midland Market in October 1936 [5: 16-Oct-1936]
Sold 45 sheep (21 lambs at 15/10, 20 lambs at 13/10, 4 ewes at 12/- per head) at the Midland Market in November 1936 [5: 20-Nov-1936]
At the Midland Market on 6 January 1937 she sold 21 lambs at 13/7 and 24 lambs at 10/- through Elder Smith & Co Ltd [5: 8-Jan-1937]
Herself and her husband celebrated their Silver Wedding Anniversary at their farmhouse on Tuesday night 1 June 1937 [5: 4-Jun-1937]
Family and friends at the celebration included her husband's brother and sister-in-law George N. & Mary F. S. GREENWOOD; [5]
John & Eliza M. P. LAMPARD; Fred & Lilian S. BINGHAM; Miss H. Verna FOWLER; Miss Ivy L. BINGHAM; [5]
their nephew Roy M. PATTON; and nephew and nieces Harry C., Mary E., M. Marjory M. and Anne P. GREENWOOD [5]
Herself and her husband departed Waddy Forest on Tuesday 15 June 1937 for a short holiday in Perth [5: 18-Jun-1937]
Attended the wedding in Carnamah and breakfast in Coorow of Mary E. GREENWOOD and Albert E. MILES on 18 August 1937 [5]
As aunt of the bride she was reported as "gowned in grey silk marocain with red trimmings and hand-made lace front" [5: 20-Aug-1937]
Sent a wreath for the funeral of Coorow stationmaster William C. Cox at the Karrakatta Cemetery on 4 November 1937 [5: 12-Nov-1937]
Following the death of her husband she left Waddy Forest and shifted to Busselton and resided there 1943-1947 [5: 18-Apr-1947]
Following her husband's death leased and later sold Manell Farm in Waddy Forest to their nephew Harry C. GREENWOOD [3]
Mother of Millicent [14]
Died 4 April 1947 in Busselton; buried Winchester Cemetery, Carnamah (Row D, Plot 8) [1] [14]
From The North Midland Times newspaper, Friday 18 April 1947:
"Obituary - Vale Mrs. E. M. Greenwood. The death occurred at Busselton on April 4 of Mrs Edith Maude Greenwood, aged 70 years. Since the death of her late husband, Mr. Michael Guy Greenwood in November, 1942, Mrs. Greenwood has been living in retirement in Busselton to be nearer her daughter and only child Mrs. S. Carroll. The late Mrs. Greenwood was a woman greatly beloved by the early settlers of Waddy Forest. The daughter of an Oxford tutor, she was brought up in a refined atmosphere, and was meticulous in her abservance of the conventions of her age. To be transplanted to the pioneering districts of Western Australia, first at Southern Brook and then at Waddy Forest, was a big change. But Mrs. Greenwood demonstrated that an English lady can reign in a settler's cottage. Though timid by nature and some times the subject of good natured Australian mirth she was dauntless in her courage when others needed help. She would think nothing of walking miles along a bush track to succour a sick neighbour or child. Her chief dread was to meet a bushranger and her armament consisted of a match box full of pepper. To use her own words she "would be a missing quantity by the time the bushranger stopped sneezing." A good conversationalist with a keen sense of humour and withal a firm Christian faith, Mrs. Greenwood had the art of endearing herself to all. Many were the notes that her daughter Millie carried to and from school as she kept in touch with other mothers. Right up to the time of her sudden death, she still wrote often to many friends in the district. The funeral was held at Winchester where the Anglican Rector, Rev. Foss officiated at the graveside in the presence of a large gathering of friends. The chief mourners were Mr. G. N. Greenwood (brother-in-law), Mrs. G. N. Greenwood (sister-in-law), Mrs. Miles (niece), Messrs. H. Greenwood, N. Patton and R. Patton (nephews). The ball bearers were:- Messrs. B. D. Bothe, A. M. McGilp, C. Gronow, D. McCann, B. Lampard, G. Underwood, E. W. Fowler, J. Morcombe. Floral tributes were received from the following:- Millie, Stewart [Carroll] and family; Jim, Marge, Jill and Jimmy [Hopkins]; George, Dolly, Harry and Dorothy [Greenwood]; Bert, Anne, Kaye and Janice [Jones]; Marge, Jim and family; Bert and Mary [Miles]; Lydia, Charles [Hyde] and family; Eleanor and Margaret Gronow; Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Melvin and family; Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Peters; Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Rudduck; Mr. and Mrs. R. Wallace and family; Mr. and Mrs. A. McGilp and family; Mr. and Mrs. Baxter Bothe, Dick and Lloyd; The Read Family; The Fowler Twins; Mr. and Mrs. Cole, Fred and Gordon; Irene, Roy, Norman, Mary and Joyce [Patton]; Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Fowler; Clarice and Arnold Rudduck; Ben, Nancy [Lampard] and family; Mr. and Mrs. Tim Melvin and family; Elsie and Frank Bradley; Mrs. Folland, Nance, Gilbert and Fay; Tom and Betty Morcombe; Edgar and Dorcas [Fowler]; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bothe and family; Mr. and Mrs. F J. and H. Kau; Mr. and Mrs. N. G. Hyde and family."
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"Patricia" Frances Patricia SACHSE
Born 28 January 1921 in Cottesloe, Western Australia [215]
Daughter of Herbert Frank SASCHE and Mary Agnes NOLAN [215]
Resided with her parents on Monomeath Farm, Lot M1046 of Victoria Location 2023, in Coorow in 1930 and 1931 [215]
Following the reopening of the Coorow State School she was the tenth student enrolled on its opening day on 10 February 1930 [215]
Student at the Coorow State School in Coorow in 1930 and 1931 [215]
Resided with her parents in Three Springs in 1932 [98]
Student at the Dominican Convent School in Three Springs from 8 February 1932 until the end of 1932 [98] [99]
Won 2nd prize for Scones made with Anchor Baking Power at the Three Springs Agricultural Show in 1932 [5: 30-Sep-1932]
Enrolled as a student at the Dominican Ladies College in Dongara on 15 February 1933 [99]
She became a Dominican nun and was also known as Sister Mary Anthony [2]
Resided of late in the Perth suburb of Scarborough [2]
Died 12 June 2008; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Roman Catholic, IC, 1G) [2]
Herbert Frank SACHSE
Born 12 May 1898 in Boulder, Western Australia [16]
Son of "John" Johann Gottlieb SACHSE and Emma Minnie GROSSMAN [15]
Married (1) Mary Agnes NOLAN in 1920 [66]
Farmer of Monomeath Farm in Coorow in 1930 and 1931 [215]
The farm was the 1,477 acre Lot M1046 of Victoria Location 2023 which belonged to the Estate of the Late Charles A. NOLAN [215]
Listed his three elder children in applications for the closed Coorow State School to be reopened in early January 1930 [215]
Confectioner in Three Springs in 1932 [98]
Cook in Geraldton in 1933 [99]
He was living in the Perth suburb of Nedlands when he enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Force in Perth on 21 March 1942 [16]
Corporal 46872 of the Royal Australian Air Force's 5 Personnel Depot Staff during the Second World War [16]
Married (2) Ellen Margaret STAPLETON in Perth in 1944 [66]
Discharged from the Royal Australian Air Force on 8 February 1946 [16]
Resided of late in the Perth suburb of Embleton [2]
Father of Patricia, Margaret, Nancy and Robert [98] [215]
Died 1 April 1974; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Roman Catholic, PG, 100) [2]
Margaret Mary SACHSE
Born 18 September 1922 in Kwelkan, Western Australia [98]
Daughter of Herbert Frank SACHSE and Mary Agnes NOLAN [98]
Resided with her parents on Monomeath Farm, Lot M1046 of Victoria Location 2023, in Coorow in 1930 and 1931 [215]
Following the reopening of the Coorow State School she was the 16th student enrolled on its opening day on 10 February 1930 [215]
Student at the Coorow State School in Coorow in 1930 and 1931 [215]
Resided with her parents in Three Springs in 1932 [98]
Enrolled as a student at the Dominican Convent School in Three Springs on 8 February 1932 [98]
Resided with her parents Geraldton in 1933 [99]
Student at a convent in Geraldton before being enrolled at the Dominican Ladies College in Dongara on 28 September 1933 [99]
Resided in the Perth suburb of Nedlands prior to enlisting in the Royal Australian Air Force on 2 June 1943 [16]
Aircraftwoman 103888 at the Royal Australian Air Force's Station at Pearce during the Second World War [16]
Discharged from the Royal Australian Air Force on 21 January 1946 [16]
Married Eric WELLER in 1946 [66]
Died 26 January 1994; buried Utakarra Cemetery in Geraldton, Western Australia [26]
Mrs Mary Agnes SACHSE
Wife of Herbert Frank SACHSE; see Mary Agnes NOLAN
"Nancy" Mary Irene SACHSE
Born 21 February 1924 in Kellerberrin, Western Australia [215]
Daughter of Herbert Frank SASCHE and Mary Agnes NOLAN [215]
Resided with her parents on Monomeath Farm, Lot M1046 of Victoria Location 2023, in Coorow in 1930 and 1931 [215]
Following the reopening of the Coorow State School she was the 17th student enrolled on its opening day on 10 February 1930 [215]
Student at the Coorow State School in Coorow in 1930 and 1931 [215]
After her parents left Coorow she attended a school in Kununoppin and then a convent in Trayning [99] [215]
Enrolled as a student at the Dominican Ladies College in Dongara on 4 July 1934 [99]
Resided in the Perth suburb of Nedlands prior to enlisting in the Royal Australian Air Force in Perth on 5 June 1943 [16]
Aircraftwoman 103931 in the Royal Australian Air Force's 87 Operational Base Unit during the Second World War [16]
Discharged from the Royal Australian Air Force on 23 August 1945 [16]
Married "Ken" Laurence Kenneth WINTON in Perth in 1947 [66]
Resided of late in the Perth suburb of Trigg [2]
Died 28 December 2003; ashes interred Pinnaroo Valley Memorial Park, Perth suburb of Padbury (Banksia Court, 45, 165T) [2]
Stella Alison SAGE
Born 7 April 1887 in Angaston, South Australia [55]
Daughter of Samuel SAGE and Helen FROBES [55]
Married "Phil" Philip Thomas MORCOMBE on 6 July 1915 in Port Lincoln, South Australia [55]
Resided with her husband on farmland in Ceduna, South Australia [P86]
In 1921 her husband purchased and shifted to prospective farmland in Waddy Forest, Western Australia [P86]
Shifted with her son to Waddy Forest in 1923 to join her husband [P86]
Resided on Minaru Farm in Waddy Forest [P86]
Attended Charles ROBERTSON and Winifred LANG's wedding dance on 27 March 1928 at the Carnamah Hall [4: 31-Mar-1928]
Awarded 1st prize for Cakes at the Carnamah Show and Sports Carnival on Thursday 4 October 1928 [4: 13-Oct-1928]
Won 1st prizes for Six Varieties of Cakes and for Sponge Sandwich at the Carnamah Agricultural Show in 1929 [4: 28-Sep-1929]
In August 1930 her garden was described as "exceptionally attractive" in The Irwin Index newspaper [4: 23-Aug-1930]
Won 1st for Sponge Sandwich in the Confectionary section of the Carnamah Agricultural Show on 18 September 1930 [4: 27-Sep-1930]
Exhibited and won prizes in three sections of Coorow-Waddy's First Agricultural Show held on Thursday 8 September 1932 [5]
Won 2nd prizes for Cauliflower, Pickles and for a Decorative Vase of Garden Flowers [5: 16-Sep-1932]
Along with her husband and two children spent a holiday in Bunbury in January 1933 [5: 27-Jan-1933]
Attended the Official Opening of the Carnamah Golf Course at Centenary Park in Carnamah on Sunday 23 July 1933 [5: 28-Jul-1933]
Won 1st prizes for Plain Scones, Vase of Flowers and Pansies and 2nd for Marmalade at the 1933 Coorow-Waddy Show [5: 15-Sep-1933]
Committee Member of the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts Agricultural Society 1933, 1935 and 1937 [5: 23-Dec-1932, 3-May-1935, 20-Nov-1936]
Along with her husband, Stan FOLLAND and Keith MORCOMBE travelled to Perth by car on Friday 16 March 1934 [5: 23-Mar-1934]
Exhibited in the Confectionary and Flower sections of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show on 30 August 1934 [5: 7-Sep-1934]
Received 1st prizes for Fancy Scones, Fruit Cake, Fancy Bread and Collection of Marmalade, and 2nd prize for Madiera Cake [5]
Won 1st prizes for Geraniums, Pansies, Iceland Poppies, and 2nd for Sweet Peas and Artistically Arranged Vase of Flowers [5]
Herself, her husband and daughter Helen travelled from Waddy to Perth by car with Angus MCGILP on 25 June 1935 [5: 28-Jun-1935]
Won 2nd prizes for Sweet Peas and Crochet Woollen Article at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1935 [5: 13-Sep-1935]
Exhibited in the Fancywork section of the Three Springs Agricultural Show on Thursday 19 September 1935 [5: 27-Sep-1935]
Awarded both 1st and 2nd prizes for Doyleys, 1st prize for Worked Toilet Set, and 2nd prize for Pair of Knitted Socks [5]
Herself, her husband and their daughter Helen spent a holiday in the Perth in October 1935, and attended the Royal Show [5: 11-Oct-1935]
Attended the funeral of Miss "May" Mary L. LANG of Carnamah at the Winchester Cemetery on 26 November 1935 [5: 29-Nov-1935]
Along with her husband and children travelled form Waddy to Perth on Tuesday 4 February 1936 [5: 7-Feb-1936]
On Thursday 6 February 1936 herself and her daughter Helen departed on the Manoora for Adelaide, South Australia [5]
After some weeks visiting relatives in South Australia they returned to Western Australia during mid April 1936 [5: 24-Apr-1936]
Her husband travelled to Perth to meet them on 15 April 1936, and they returned to Waddy Forest on Sunday 19 April 1936 [5]
Attended the Coorow Golf Club's Opening Day for the 1936 season in Coorow on Sunday 17 May 1936 [5: 22-May-1936]
After four days as inmates at the Carnamah Private Hospital herself and her daughter returned home on 10 June 1936 [5: 12-Jun-1936]
Herself and her husband travelled to Perth and returned to their home in Waddy during the first week of August 1936 [5: 7-Aug-1936]
Attended the Surprise 21st Birthday of her niece Nance FOLLAND at Enfield Park in Waddy Forest on 17 August 1936 [5: 21-Aug-1936]
Financial Member of the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts Agricultural Society in 1936 [150]
Exhibited in the Confectionary, Fancy Work and Flower sections of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show on 3 September 1936 [5]
Won 1st prizes for Madeira Cake and Crochet Woollen Article, and 2nd for Cream Puffs, Sweet Peas and Gent's Buttonhole [5]
Attended the Show Ball held at the Coorow Hall during the evening wearing black georgette [5: 11-Sep-1936]
Won 1st prize for Sweet Peas in the Flower section of the Carnamah Agricultural Show on Thursday 10 September 1936 [5: 18-Sep-1936]
Judged the Confectionary section of the Three Springs Agricultural Society's Annual Show on 17 September 1936 [5: 25-Sep-1936]
Herself, her husband and their daughter Helen motored from Waddy Forest to Perth on Wednesday 30 September 1936 [5: 2-Oct-1936]
After a brief stay in Perth, during which they attended the Perth Royal Show, they returned to Waddy Forest [5: 16-Oct-1936]
Travelled to Perth in December 1936 to see her son before he went to Port Hedland for Christmas with a school friend [5: 11-Dec-1936]
After an enjoyable few days of camping at Dongara returned to Waddy Forest on Tuesday night 19 January 1937 [5: 22-Jan-1937]
The camping party had consisted of herself, her husband, their daughter Helen, niece Barbara and friend Enid CONWAY [5]
Purchased an Electrolux Kelvinator refrigerator from Carnamah agent W. George MULLIGAN in early 1937 [5: 5-Mar-1937]
Herself, her husband and their children spent "a jolly week" holidaying at Safety Bay in early February 1937 [5: 12-Feb-1937]
Member of the Coorow Golf Club in 1937 [5: 30-Jul-1937]
Attended the Surprise Linen Tea for Miss Mary E. GREENWOOD at Maryland Farm in Waddy Forest on 22 July 1937 [5: 23-Jul-1937]
Edward and Mrs MATTNEY of Adelaide, South Australia holidayed with them in Waddy Forest in September 1937 [5: 3-Sep-1937]
Donated a trophy for the Flower section and 16/- to the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts Agricultural Society's Show in 1937 [150]
Exhibited in the Farm Produce and Flower sections and won 2nd prizes for Lemons and Sweet Peas [5: 10-Sep-1937]
Sent a wreath for the funeral of Coorow stationmaster William C. Cox at the Karrakatta Cemetery on 4 November 1937 [5: 12-Nov-1937]
While in Carnamah on 20 May 1938 she was bitten on the foot by a dog, and received treatment at the Carnamah Private Hospital [88]
By 1958 herself and her husband and left Waddy Forest and shifted to 10 Helm Street in Mount Pleasant WA [30: item 7986382]
Herself and her husband later moved back to South Australia [P86]
Mother of Jim and Helen [P86]
Thomas Wilfred SALE
Born 1899 in Hamstall, Staffordshire, England [20] [21]
Son of farmer William SALE Jnr and Ellen SLATER [20] [21]
In 1901 he was living with his parents and siblings Mary, Rupert and Ernest on Hay End Farm in Hamstall, Staffordshire [20]
Departed London, England on the Ormuz and arrived in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia on 24 June 1924 [63]
Farmhand on A. Hamlet JONES' Turipa Farm in Coorow, Western Australia in 1928 [4: 22-Sep-1928]
He was among the 400 people who attended the Matrons and Benedicts Ball held in Three Springs on 31 August 1928 [4: 8-Sep-1928]
Died 11 September 1928 in Coorow; buried Winchester Cemetery, Carnamah (Row A, Plot 5) [1] [4]
Undertaker of his funeral was Henry Parkin & Son of Carnamah and the officiating minister was Rev. JAQUET of Three Springs [1]
From The Irwin Index newspaper, Saturday 22 September 1928:
The Coorow Tragedy - Inquest and Verdict - Some Remarkable Features
"Details of the accident at Coorow whereby Thomas Wilfred Sale lost his life under tragic circumstances make sad reading. From the evidence of Senior Constable Street, of Three Springs, taken at the inquest held at Coorow before Mr. F. Bingham J.P., as Acting Coroner, on September 12, it appears that on September 11 Sale, who was a native of Staffordshire, England, an apparently about 23 years of age, was working a tractor to which a disc plough was attached at "Turipa," Coorow, the property of Mr. A. H. Jones, for whom he had worked for about nine months. At about 7 p.m. on that day it was noticed that deceased had not returned from the paddock in which he had been working, and thinking that something was wrong, Jones and another employee named George Alexander Melville went to look for him. They found the tractor stopped, and no one in charge. Returning to the house for a light, they made a search, and found the body. Being unable to get in touch with the Three Springs police on account of the telephone office being closed, they communicated with the Moora police through the railways. Receiving a message from Moora early the next morning, Constable Street proceeded to the scene of the tragedy. A careful investigation revealed tracks from which it appeared evident that the unfortunate young man had stopped the tractor and attempted to do something to the discs. Being apparently unsuccessful in his object, he had restarted the machine and walked behind with the intention of adjusting the discs while the plough was in motion. He had then, it appeared attempted to get back to his seat again by getting in between the plough and the tractor, and had been caught by the plough and dragged under, the wheel of the plough passing over his head. The body had been dragged for 408 paces, and was shockingly mutilated, but the neck seemed to be broken and the constable was of the opinion that deceased was killed almost instantaneous. Both arms and legs were broken and the neck and other parts of the badly had been badly gashed by the discs. The Acting Coroner returned a verdict to the effect that deceased was killed by falling between a tractor and plough while same was in motion. Remarkable Features - Some remarkable features of the case were noted by Constable Street. After dragging the body of Sale for nearly a quarter of a mile, the discs on the plough had struck a root and released it. The machine had then gone on working for about four hours unattended, stopping finally when headed straight for the body, within 50 yards of it, as the result of a piece of grit becoming lodged the petrol pipe and checking the supply. On three occasions the tractor has passed close to the body, twice on one side, and once on the other. Once it just missed a tree. At another time it passed within six feet of the fence. On one occasion it had been heading straight for the fence, but had then turned and gone along parallel with it at a distance of about 15 feet. A deep patch of sand had been traversed almost as though some person were controlling the machine. Those who saw how it has been working [from its tracks], always turning and keeping in the paddock on each occasion when it had been heading in a direction leading out of it, were unanimous in describing the occurrence as the most marvellous thing they had ever seen. The Funeral - The funeral took place in the Anglican portion of the Winchester Cemetery on Thursday, the Rev. E. G. Jaquet, of Three Springs, officiating. The funeral arrangements were carried out by Messrs Henry Parkin and Son of Carnamah. Members of Mr. Jones' family attended, also deceased's mate, Mr. Melville, who was visibly affected. The late Mr. Sale was of sober habits, and in fairly good financial circumstance. He came to Australia in 1924 and had no relatives in this country so far as could be ascertained. Mr. Jones thought highly of him, and he had been treated as one of the family."
"Vic" Victor Richard SALES
Born 1906 [15]
Farmhand in Waddy Forest [5: 19-Oct-1934]
Member of the Waddy Forest Tennis Club in 1933-34 and 1934-35 [5: 20-Oct-1933, 19-Oct-1934]
Represented Waddy Forest at meetings of the Carnamah-Winchester-Coorow Tennis Association in 1934-35 [5: 7-Sep-1934]
Farewelled by his friends at Belper Farm in Waddy Forest on Tuesday 8 January 1935 [5: 11-Jan-1935]
Left Waddy Forest in January 1935 after purchasing a property near Brunswick Junction [5: 11-Jan-1935]
Married Evelyn RIDLEY, who had worked at the general store in Waddy Forest [P84]
Later resided in Bunbury WA [2]
Died 30 August 1992; ashes interred Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Crematorium Rose Gardens, O, 184) [2]
Richard SAUNDERS
Farmhand for Patterson & Company on the Mamboobie Estate in Marchagee in 1917 [50]
W. Arnold SAYER
Farmer in Gunyidi [3]
Farmed the 500 acre Victoria Location 8799 in Gunyidi, which he began leasing on 21 August 1930 [3]
Member of the Gunyidi-Marchagee Cricket Club in 1930-31 [4: 13-Dec-1930]
Samuel SCOTT
Farmer of Meelyah Farm in Gunyidi 1914-1917 [19]
His farm name was spelt Mulgah on the Commonwealth Electoral Roll of 1917 [50]
Joseph SCRIMGEOUR
Repairer in Marchagee in 1913 and 1914 [19] [50]
Harold Thomas SEYMOUR
Born 27 October 1906 in Moora, Western Australia [16]
Son of Henry SEYMOUR and "Bella" Isabella Jane BROAD [192]
Resided with his parents on Cowalcarra Farm in Moora from his birth until 1909 when they shifted to Woodbine Farm in Miling [P371]
Educated at the Moora State School 1914-1917 and then at the Round Hill State School in 1917 and 1918 [P371]
Did further schooling by correspondence classes at home on the farm which were supervised by his elder sister Evelyn [P371]
Following the conclusion of his schooling he farmed Woodbine Farm in Miling with his father and brothers [P371]
He was a nephew of Mrs Blanche A. BOTHE of Coorow and cousin of Richard B. BOTHE and Lloyd D. BOTHE of Coorow [192]
Won 1st prize for Southdown Ram at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in Coorow on Thursday 5 September 1935 [5: 13-Sep-1935]
Won the 100 yards Sheffield Handicap at the Easter Sports Meeting at Centenary Park in Carnamah on 13 April 1936 [5: 17-Apr-1936]
Best man at the wedding of George A. RAFFAN of Inchgower and Mavis S. PETHICK of Petan in Winchester in 1936 [5: 23-Oct-1936]
Came 3rd in the 75 Yards Sprint at Boxing Day Sports Meeting at Maley Park in Coorow on Saturday 26 December 1936 [5: 8-Jan-1937]
Married Alice Maud PETHICK of Winchester on Thursday 8 July 1937 at Saint George's Anglican Hall in Carnamah [5: 9-Jul-1937]
His best man was at his wedding was his brother Stanley G. SEYMOUR, who was also a Farmer in Miling [5: 9-Jul-1937] [50]
Farmer of Meridale Farm in Miling 1937-1951 [P371]
Member of the Miling Football Club, Miling Tennis Club and Miling Golf Club [P371]
Member of the Round Hill Rifle Club [P371]
Member of the Miling Pasture Improvement Group and the Miling Progress Association [P371]
Corporal W75151 in Moora's Australian Army Volunteer Defence Corps during the Second World War [16]
Drowned after being washed off rocks by a king wave while fishing at Goats Gulch in Kalbarri [P371]
Father of Desmond and Beryl [P371]
Died 29 June 1951 in Kalbarri; buried Moora Cemetery, Moora [P371]
Following his death his farm in Miling was run by his wife with assistance from his brother Richard H. SEYMOUR [P371]
Patrick William SHANAHAN
Medical Practitioner in Coorow in 1931 [50]
William George SHAW
Labourer in Coorow 1911-1914 [19]
Grace Emily SHEARS
Born 1877 in Pyrford, Surrey, England [20] [21]
Daughter of William SHEARS and Ellen INGRAM [20] [21]
On the night of the 1881 census she was with her parents and brother Harold at 2 Tinkers Lane in Woking, Surrey, England [20]
Her father was the farmer of 660 acres in 1881 and at that time employed 30 labourers, 11 boys and 9 women [20]
In 1891 was living with her parents, siblings May, Blanch, Mary and Harold and uncle James SHEARS at Lees Farm in Pyrford [20]
In 1901 was living with her parents, brother Harold and sisters May and Mary on Lees Farm in Pyrford, Sussex, England [20]
Married John READ in 1906 in Middlesex, England [21]
Resided with her husband and later also children on farmland in Wembley, Middlesex, England [P66]
Along with husband and children departed London, England on the Esperance Bay on 5 December 1922 [P66]
Arrived in Fremantle, Western Australia on the Esperance Bay on 5 January 1923 [P66]
On arrival in Western Australia resided in Fremantle for three months before shifting to Coorow [P66]
Resided on Tokyngton Farm in Coorow from 1923 until 1951 [P66]
Along with her daughter Joan, son Tom and Edgar FOWLER travelled to Perth by car on Tuesday 13 March 1934 [5: 16-Mar-1934]
Had Mr and Mrs BIRMINGHAM of West Perth as guests at their home in Coorow during early July 1936 [5: 3-Jul-1936]
Financial Member of the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts Agricultural Society in 1936 [150]
Passed away at the North Midlands District Hospital in Three Springs [1]
Mother of John, Joan, Elizabeth and Thomas [P66]
Died 13 April 1951 in Three Springs WA; buried Winchester Cemetery, Carnamah WA (Row F, Plot 11) [1]
"Gertrude" Evelyn Gertrude SHEEHAN
Teacher of the Turipa State School on JONES' Turipa Farm in Coorow in 1919 [215]
Herself and "Trix" Sarah A. E. JONES held a dance at the JONES' home on Turipa Farm on 17 May 1919 [9: 30-May-1919]
In late June 1919 the Education Department decided to move her to Coorow to reopen the closed Coorow State School [215]
Reopened the Coorow State School from a room of Coorow House on Victoria Location 385 in Coorow on 19 August 1919 [215]
Teacher of the Coorow State School from two rooms of the unoccupied Coorow House in Coorow in 1919 and 1920 [215]
Left Coorow and shifted to Perth on 5 November 1920 [215]
She left partly on account of illness and also because there was no building available to conduct the school from [215]
Called upon the Education Department in Perth on 8 November 1920 and encouraged them to continue with the school in Coorow [215]
At that time there were 14 schoolchildren and Coorow was likely to go ahead as there were surveyors busily surveying new farms [215]
John SHEPPERD
Farmer in Marchagee in 1911 [19]
Farmhand in Marchagee 1912-1914 [50]
Robert SHERRY
Groom in Coorow in 1917 [50]
Clinton Archibald SIBLEY
Born C.1890 [1]
Resided in Marchagee [1]
Died 12 February 1964 in Marchagee; buried Winchester Cemetery, Carnamah (Row R, Plot 13) [1]
Alfred SIMMS
Contractor in Coorow in 1909 [50]
John SIMPTON
Born C.1847 [2]
Married (1) Lily [19]
Ganger for the Midland Railway Company at the 162 Mile Siding in Winchester in 1911-1913 [19] [50]
Line Repairer / Fettler for the Midland Railway Company in Carnamah 1913-1918 [6] [39: 13 & 14-Aug-1913] [44]
Purchased from the Midland Railway Company for £40 two vacant blocks in the Carnamah townsite on 24 September 1914 [27]
The two blocks were 7 Yarra Street (Lot 11 of Victoria Location 1936) and 8 Yarra Street (Lot 12 of Victoria Location 1936) [27]
Later purchased 9 Yarra Street (Lot 13 of Victoria Location 1936) and 10 Yarra Street (Lot 14 of Victoria Location 1936) [27]
Purchased the then vacant 9 Yarra Street, Carnamah from the Midland Railway Company for £20 on 24 August 1916 [27]
Purchased the also then vacant 10 Yarra Street, Carnamah from the Midland Railway Company for £20 on 15 May 1918 [27]
He completed paying for all four townsite blocks, which each came payable by instalments over two years [27]
Sang a song at the "Carnamah Concert" held in the railway goods shed in Carnamah on Friday 19 February 1915 [10: 26-Feb-1915]
His wife Lily passed away at the age of 57 years on 15 September 1917 and was buried at the Karrakatta Cemetery in Perth [2]
Married (2) Mrs Mary ATTWOOD in 1919 [66]
Fettler / Ganger for the Midland Railway Company in Coorow 1919-1921 [6] [50] [215]
His stepson Paul ATTWOOD was a student at the Coorow State School during their time in Coorow [215]
The school was conducted from two rooms of Coorow House until later 1920 when it became unavailable and the school closed [215]
He built a makeshift room of about 25 feet long and 12 feet wife with hessian sides, an iron roof, fireplace and two windows [215]
The Coorow State School was then conducted from his room which he rented to the Education Department for £1 per month [215]
The first teacher to use the room found it "of very rough description" with its open gable ends and the floor being of sleepers [215]
Nonetheless his building resulted in the continuation of the school, which otherwise would have closed due to having no home [215]
His room was used for the Coorow State School from February 1921 to May 1922 when an official school building was erected [215]
Railway Ganger for the Midland Railway Company in Gunyidi 1921-1924 [44] [215]
By 1925 he was living in retirement at 45 Tuam Street in the Perth suburb of Victoria Park [50]
During the 1920s sold his 7 Yarra Street, Carnamah to A. Leslie TROTTER who built a house, shop and bakery on the block [3]
Sold his 8 Yarra Street, Carnamah to the North Midland Farmer's Co-operative Company who built a shop on the block [3]
He remained the owner of his other two blocks in Carnamah, 9 Yarra Street and 10 Yarra Street, until his death in 1929 [3]
Resided in the Perth suburb of Victoria Park until his death in 1929 [2]
Died 24 April 1929; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Anglican, UC, 176) [2]
Rate notices for his 9 and 10 Yarra Street were sent to his wife Mary until her death and then to his stepson Paul ATTWOOD [3]
In 1952 the Carnamah District Road Board sold by auction the two blocks to recover £5/2/6 owing in unpaid rates [4: 2-Aug-1952]
9 Yarra Street was sold to David I. M. BOWMAN and 10 Yarra Street was to Mrs Stella M. REYNOLDS, both of Carnamah [3]
Mrs Mary SIMPTON
Second wife of John SIMPTON; see Mrs Mary ATTWOOD
Miss Elsie SIMS
Attended the Masquerade Ball at the Carnamah Hall on Saturday evening 7 December 1935 as a "Holy Friar" [5: 13-Dec-1935]
Member of the Coorow Tennis Club in 1935-36 [5: 24-Jan-1936]
Attended Miss Olive W. KAU's 21st birthday at Meadowdale Farm in Coorow on Saturday evening 18 January 1936 [5: 24-Jan-1936]
Attended the Leap Year Ball at the Carnamah Hall on 29 February 1936, wearing pale pink satin with flowers at neckline [5: 6-Mar-1936]
Supplier of music at the Dance in aid of the Anglican Church held in Waddy Forest on Saturday 20 June 1936 [5: 26-Jun-1936]
Attended the Anglican Church's Mid-Winter Ball at the Carnamah Hall on Saturday 11 July 1936 dressed in pink taffeta [5: 17-Jul-1936]
Supplied the musical extras at the Carnamah Football Club's Dance at the Carnamah Hall on Saturday 8 August 1936 [5: 14-Aug-1936]
Attended the Coorow Tennis Club's Back to Childhood Ball at the Coorow Hall on Saturday 22 August 1936 [5: 28-Aug-1936]
Herself and Ivy L. BINGHAM received the prize for the Best Dressed Couple at the Back to Childhood Ball [5: 28-Aug-1936]
Attended the Ball after the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in Coorow on 3 September 1936 dressed in green taffeta [5: 11-Sep-1936]
Ernest George SINCLAIR
Contractor in Nugadong, East Gunyidi 1911-1916 [19]
Pearl Frances SINFIELD
Born 1911 in England [21]
Daughter of Cyril Edward SINFIELD and Daisy Laura WILLISON [21] [70]
Departed Liverpool, England with her mother on the Magentic and arrived in Fremantle, Western Australia on 13 February 1920 [70]
Later in 1920 her mother married Coorow farmer "Dan" Daniel Philip FARLEY [66]
Resided with her mother and stepfather on farmland in Coorow 1920-1928 [6] [19] [215]
Student at the Coorow State School held from a room at Coorow House on Victoria Location 385 in Coorow in 1920 [215]
Married William Edward TUCKER in Perth in 1931 [66]
In 1936 her husband was working as a railway employee and they were living on Urch Street in Geraldton [50]
Also known as Pearl Frances FARELEY [215]
Joy Lorraine SINGLETON
Born 25 September 1949 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia [45]
Daughter of "Ted" Edward George and Marjorie Phyllis SINGLETON [45]
Student at the Carnamah State School in 1960 [7: page 90]
Member of the Carnamah Girl Guides 1960-1964 [137]
Married Barry Edgar FOWLER in 1970 [45]
Following their marriage they initially resided in a house on MORCOMBE's farm in Waddy Forest [P120]
Resided with her husband in the house on Lot M1300 of Glen Waddi Farm in Waddy Forest 1971-2002 [P120]
Member of the Waddy Forest Land Conservation District Committee [45]
Mother of Jason, Raelene and Vanessa [45]
Died 29 August 2004 at Glen Waddi Farm in Coorow; cremated at the Pinnaroo Valley Memorial Park, Perth WA [45]
Elsie Ina SIVYER
Born 1916 [15]
Married (1) "Bill" William John OLDFIELD in Perth in 1938 [66]
Presumably resided with her husband in Gunyidi in 1940 [16]
Married (2) Leslie Albert FENNELL in 1947 [66]
Mrs Clara SMITH
Resided in Gunyidi 1911-1914 [19] [50]
Eliza Mabel Perry SMITH
Born 1891 in Jeparit, Victoria, Australia [54]
Daughter of Benjamin SMITH and Louisa ABBOTT [54]
Married John LAMPARD on 16 October 1911 in Dimboola, Victoria, Australia [P147]
Along with her husband and children left Victoria in 1921 and shifted to virgin land in Waddy Forest, Western Australia [P147]
Resided with her family on farmland in Waddy Forest 1921 onwards [P147]
Herself and John were the recipients of a Surprise Party on 24 May 1930, when 50 locals visited them at their home [4: 31-May-1930]
Organised a Bazaar which was held on 20 September 1930 in the Coorow Hall in aid of hospital funds [4: 4-Oct-1930]
Won 1st prize for a Collection of Flowers and 2nd for a Vase of Flowers at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1933 [5: 15-Sep-1933]
Along with her husband and daughter departed Waddy Forest on 14 January 1934 for six weeks holidays in Cottesloe [5: 19-Jan-1934]
Won 1st for Pansies and 2nd prizes for Germaniums and Iceland Poppies at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1934 [5: 7-Sep-1934]
Departed Waddy Forest with her husband and daughter on Sunday 6 January 1935 for an extended holiday at the beach [5: 11-Jan-1935]
Organised ladies to provide the supper for the Coorow Cricket Club's Dance at the Coorow Hall on 13 April 1935 [5: 19-Apr-1935]
Member of the Coorow Golf Club in 1935, 1936 and 1937 [5: 2-Aug-1935, 19-Jun-1936, 11-Jun-1937]
Won the Ladies Stepping 100 Yards at the Coorow-Waddy Sports & Dance in Coorow on Saturday 9 November 1935 [5: 15-Nov-1935]
Won the Married Ladies Race at the Athletic Sports Meeting at Maley Park in Coorow on New Year's Day 1 January 1936 [5: 3-Jan-1936]
Herself and her husband travelled from Waddy Forest to Perth on Wednesday 8 January 1936 [5: 10-Jan-1936]
Attended the 25th Wedding Anniversary of Malcolm L. and Irene S. PATTON in Waddy Forest on 1 April 1936 [5: 3-Apr-1936]
Attended the Carnamah Golf Club's 1936 season Opening Day at Centenary Park in Carnamah on Sunday 26 April 1936 [5: 1-May-1936]
During May 1936 Mrs RECKETTS and small daughter Roina spent an extended holiday staying with her in Waddy Forest [5: 8-May-1936]
Attended the Opening Day of the Coorow Golf Club for the 1936 season in Coorow on Sunday 17 May 1936 [5: 22-May-1936]
Herself and Carnamah police constable Maurice PLUNKETT won the 9-hole Handicap Mixed Foursomes played on the day [5]
Herself and her husband returned to Waddy Forest on Monday 25 May 1936 after spending a few days in Perth [5: 29-May-1936]
Won 2nd prize for Jams at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show held in Coorow on Thursday 3 September 1936 [5: 11-Sep-1936]
Attended the Coorow Golf Club's Annual Ball & Presentation of Trophies at the Coorow Hall on 17 October 1936 [5: 30-Oct-1936]
Received the trophy for winning the 1936 Associate Championship, and her husband the trophy for the Men's Championship [5]
Attended Roy M. PATTON's birthday at the dam on Longforest Farm in Waddy Forest on Sunday 8 November 1936 [5: 13-Nov-1936]
After a holiday in the Perth suburb of Cottesloe herself and her husband returned to Waddy Forest on 10 March 1937 [5: 12-Mar-1937]
Attended and competed at the Carnamah Golf Club's Season Opening at Centenary Park in Carnamah on 2 May 1937 [5: 7-May-1937]
Won the Ladies Approach and Putt at the Coorow Golf Club's Season Opening in Coorow on Sunday 16 May 1937 [5: 21-May-1937]
Attended the Silver Wedding Anniversary of Guy & Maude GREENWOOD at Manell Farm in Waddy on 1 June 1937 [5: 4-Jun-1937]
Attended the Surprise Linen Tea for Miss Mary E. GREENWOOD at Maryland Farm in Waddy Forest on 22 July 1937 [5: 23-Jul-1937]
Attended Albert E. MILES and Mary E. GREENWOOD's wedding breakfast at the Coorow Hotel on 18 August 1937 [5: 20-Aug-1937]
Won 1st prize for Cream Puffs in the Confectionary section of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1937 [5: 10-Sep-1937]
Sent a wreath for the funeral of Coorow stationmaster William C. Cox at the Karrakatta Cemetery on 4 November 1937 [5: 12-Nov-1937]
Later resided in the Perth suburb of Cottesloe [2]
Mother of Benjamin and Agnes [P147]
Died 21 October 1967; ashes interred Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Crematorium Rose Gardens, B, 103) [2]
George Charles SMITH
Railway Fettler in Gunyidi 1911-1913 [19] [50]
Leslie Norman SMITH
Born 30 September 1912 in Hamilton, Victoria, Australia [16] [54]
Son of William Henry SMITH and Annie GREENHILL [54]
Married Eileen Eunice McCAGH in Perth in 1942 [66]
Resided in the Perth suburb of North Perth prior to enlisting in the Australia Army on 19 January 1943 [16]
Private WX22279 in the Australian Army's 37 Company AASC during the Second World War [16]
Discharged from the Australian Army on 18 February 1946 [16]
By 1951 he was the farmer of 2,700 acres on the Waddy Estate [3]
His 2,700 acres was on the Waddy Estate and was a portion of Victoria Location 9970 [3]
Member of the Coorow-Waddy Forest branch of the Farmers' Union of WA in 1951 [4: 7-Apr-1951]
Member of the Coorow Golf Club in 1956 [4: 3-Aug-1956]
Had the telephone connected in 1961 - was telephone number Carnamah East 204 [60]
Farmer in Carnamah until his death in 1967 [P22]
Died 17 September 1967; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Baptist, AA, 300A) [2]
Percy William SNEYD
Born 8 May 1909 in Staffordshire, England [16]
Departed London, England on the Beltana and arrived in Fremantle, Western Australia on 15 March 1929 [63]
Employee on F. W. G. LIEBE's Waddi Farm in Waddy Forest in 1935 [88]
Resided in Perth prior to enlisting in the Australian Army on 29 January 1942 [16]
Gunner W51203 in the Australian Army's W/C Fixed Defences during the Second World War [16]
Discharged from the Australian Army on 4 June 1946 [16]
Resided of late in the Perth suburb of Dalkeith [2]
Died 30 December 1994; buried Pinnaroo Valley Memorial Park, Perth suburb of Padbury (Hovea Court, 708) [2]
"Spanner" Albert Frank Robinson SPENCER
Born 5 June 1915 in Northam, Western Australia [16]
Son of Clarence and Clara SPENCER [17]
Farmhand for Frederick J. KAU on Meadowdale Farm in Coorow for a number of years [P15]
Resided in the men's quarters on Meadowdale Farm in Coorow [P15]
Member of the Coorow Tennis Club in 1936-37 [5: 4-Dec-1936]
Competed in the Carnamah Tennis Club's Easter Tennis Tournament at Centenary Park in Carnamah in March 1937 [5: 2-Apr-1937]
Played for the victorious Single Men in a cricket match against Married Men in Coorow on Sunday 6 December 1936 [5: 11-Dec-1936]
Member of the Coorow Football Club in 1937 [5: 14-May-1937]
Donated a trophy for the Most Improved & Fairest Player to the Coorow Football Club in 1937 [5: 16-Apr-1937]
Worked in the Coorow and Waddy Forest districts for a considerable time [0: image 03998]
Member of the No. 2 Troop of the "C" Squadron of the 25th Light Horse Machine Gun Militia Regiment in 1939 [P15]
The No. 2 Troop was made of people from the North Midlands and trained in Carnamah once a fortnight [P15]
Enlisted in the Australian Army on 4 December 1939 [16]
He was one of the first people from the Coorow district to enlist in the Australian Army following the outbreak of war [0: image 03998]
Prior to embarking overseas he married "Joy" Joyce CROFT of Coorow in Perth in 1940 [0: image 03998] [66]
Corporal WX1135 in the Australian Army's 2/11 Australian Infantry Battalion during the Second World War [16]
Killed in Action in Greece on 20 April 1941 [18]
Buried Phaleron War Cemetery near Athens in Greece (3, D, 20) [17]
His name is on Carnamah's Roll of Honour and the Carnamah War Memorial (although with the incorrect initial) [35]
From The North Midland Times newspaper, May 1941:
"Obituary - Private A. Spencer Killed in Action. The horrors of modern war-fare was borne forcibly upon local residents late last week when it was made known that Private A. ("Spanner") Spencer, of Coorow, had paid the supreme sacrifice. The late Private Spencer was well and favourably known throughout the Coorow and Waddy Forest districts, and was amongst the first men from these districts to answer the call to arms. Prior to enlisting in the A.I.F. Private Spencer had been employed in the districts for some considerable time, and during that period he had become a well known figure, particularly in football circles. Before sailing for overseas he was married to Miss Joy Croft of Coorow, and the sympathy of the whole district goes out to the young widow in her sudden and sad bereavement."
Irene Mary SPICE
Born 21 April 1921 [45]
Son of Herbert and Mabel SPICE [45]
Married Brian Moody MORCOMBE in Perth in 1945 [66]
Resided on Wynmara Farm at Waddy Forest in the Coorow district in 1952 [45]
Later resided in Albany and Busselton [45]
Mother of Rosemary, Ian and Flora [45]
Died 2 January 2006; her funeral service was held at the Baptist Church in Albany on 9 January 2006 [45]
"Irene" Annie Irene SPICER
Born 13 June 1896 in Adelaide, South Australia [55]
Daughter of "Alf" John James Alford SPICER and "Maggie" Margaret RYAN [55]
Resided with her parents in Marchagee 1911-1915 and in Gunyidi 1916-1919 [19] [44] [50]
Married "Gilly" Gilbert Townsend ELLISON in 1919 [66]
Resided with her husband and children on farmland in Gunyidi 1919-1927 [19] [44] [50]
They later resided at 185 Beaufort Street in Perth and at 36 Brookman Street in North Perth [P361]
Resided of late in the Perth suburb of Manning [2]
Mother of Gladys, Dorothy, Allen, Constance, Nellie, Hilda and Joyce [P361]
Died 6 December 1983; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Anglican, FA, 131) [2]
"Ivy" Gwendoline Mary SPICER
Born 8 June 1913 in Perth, Western Australia [P361]
Daughter of "Alf" John James Alford SPICER and "Maggie" Margaret RYAN [55]
Resided with her parents in Marchagee 1913-1915 and in Gunyidi 1916-1919 [19] [44] [50]
Student at the Coorow State School held at a makeshift hessian and iron room near the railway station in Coorow in 1921 [215]
Mother of Eric Spicer BARRETT and later had three sons and three daughters with "Stan" Stanley Edwin LEWIS [P361]
Married "Stan" Stanley Edwin LEWIS [P361]
Resided of late in the southern Perth suburb of Mandurah [2]
Died 18 September 1985; ashes interred Fremantle Cemetery, Perth suburb of Palmyra (Niche Wall, T, 18) [2]
"Alf" John James Alford SPICER
Born 30 November 1865 in Woodside, South Australia [55]
Son of John Thomas SPICER and Ann ALFORD [55]
Married "Maggie" Margaret RYAN on 28 November 1894 at the residence of the Archbishop in Adelaide, South Australia [55]
Miner at the Treasure Lease near Kamballie in Kalgoorlie-Boulder in Western Australia in 1903 [50]
In 1906 he was working as a Fireman and living at 50 George Street in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia [50]
Farmhand in Marchagee, Western Australia 1911-1915 [19] [50]
Farmer in Gunyidi, Western Australia 1916-1920 [19] [44]
His farm in Gunyidi was the 998 acre Victoria Location 3947, which he sold to John T. GLOWREY in about 1920 [44]
After selling his farm in Gunyidi he appears to have leased and farmed a property in Coorow [10: 23-Mar-1923]
Held a clearing sale in Coorow at 12 noon on Friday 5 April 1923 to sell his livestock, plant, household effects and sundries [10]
Livestock sold at the sale consisted of 14 horses - ten team horses, two buggy horses, a 2-year old hack, and a Draught filly [10]
Plant and machinery included a spring dray and harness, scoop, 5-ton table top wagon, 10-twin-disc McKay plough, [10]
two 200-gallon tanks, one 30-gallon tanks; and a double buggy complete with pole, shafts and harness [10]
Household items sold included a double iron bedstead, singe iron bedstead, Duchess chest, washstand, large dresser, bookshelf, [10]
two meat safes, stool, two tables, four chairs, large desk, chair, four small deck chairs, crockery, glassware, and a Dover stove [10]
During the 1920s he bred and sold horses while living at Lot 35 Station Street in the Coorow townsite [P66]
One of such horses, named Ghandi, he sold to John READ of Tokyngton Farm in Coorow [P66]
Later resided in Dalwallinu and then Wongan Hills [P361]
He was carting hay with a wagon and team of three horses when some of the hay fell from the wagon and scared the horses [P361]
The frightened horses bolted and he managed to cling to the shafts of the wagon for about 40 yards before falling off [P361]
When he fell from the wagon two of its wheels passed over him, and it was believed that he was probably killed instantly [P361]
Father of "Irene" Annie Irene and "Ivy" Gwendoline Mary [P361]
Died 25 March 1935 on WALKER's farm in Wongan Hills; buried in the Anglican portion of the Northam Cemetery in Northam [P361]
From a newspaper clipping, date and newspaper unknown:
"Sand-plain Farming - What can be grown on sand plain is illustrated on Mr Spicer's farm at Gunyidi. Commencing on December 5th two years ago, Mr Spicer, with two men, had 700 acres of virgin sand plain cleared and the crop in before the end of seeding time. Harvest time saw a return of 2,700 bags of wheat and 540 bags of oats. This harvest, the second crop, was not so good, but the respectable total of 2,100 bags of wheat and 450 of oats was harvested. The reward for proper farming was illustrated by 30 acres of well-worked land returning as much as 150 acres of equal class land just run over. This year, in common with many other farmers, Mr Spicer is fallowing part of his block , and is getting more of the heavy land ready for the plough."
Mrs "Maggie" Margaret SPICER
Wife of "Alf" John James Alford SPICER; see Margaret RYAN
Walter STAFF
Labourer in Coorow in 1921 and 1922 [50]
Mrs Daisy STARLING
Wife of "Jim" James Joseph STARLING; see Daisy JACKSON
Charles Edward STARLING
Born 11 September 1914 in Coomberdale, Western Australia [16]
Son of Charles Frederick STARLING and Mary Jane FARRELL [--]
Resided with his parents in Coomberdale in 1914, in Coorow in 1917, and in Carnamah in 1919 and 1920 [6] [19]
Came 2nd in the 4-6 years Boys Running Race at the Peace Day Celebrations in Carnamah on Saturday 19 July 1919 [10: 25-Jul-1919]
Resided in Geraldton prior to enlisting in the Australian Army on 4 December 1940 [16]
Private WX9647 in the Australian Army's AIF Headquarters during the Second World War [16]
Discharged from the Australian Army on 25 April 1944 [16]
Resided of late in the Perth suburb of Alexander Heights [2]
Died 10 February 2003; ashes interred Pinnaroo Valley Memorial Park, Perth WA (Cassia Court, Niche Wall, W23, 49) [2]
Charles Frederick STARLING
Born 1881 in Greenough, Western Australia [15]
Son of Robert STARLING and Beulah Emily CRIPPIN [15]
His grandfather Joseph CRIPPIN had arrived in Western Australia as a convict under the alias of James OSBORNE in 1861 [20] [21] [107]
His father died at the age of 58 years in 1882, and in 1885 his mother married "Frank" Francis Henry Reeves THOMAS [15]
Railway Fettler in Yalgoo 1903-1906 [50]
Married Mary Jane FARRELL in 1911 [66]
Railway Fettler in Coomberdale in 1914 [19]
Railway Fettler in Coorow in 1917 [6] [50]
Railway Fettler / Ganger in Carnamah in 1919 and 1920 [6] [19]
Railway Fettler in Arrino in 1921 [50]
Length Runner in Dongara 1923-1925, in Mingenew in 1929 and 1930, and in Walkaway in 1932 [19] [50]
Member of the Mingenew Rifle Club in 1930 [4: 19-Jul-1930]
Died 5 January 1932; buried Utakarra Cemetery, Geraldton WA [26]
"Jim" James Joseph STARLING
Born 1879 in Greenough, Western Australia [15]
Son of Robert STARLING and Beulah Emily CRIPPIN [15]
His grandfather Joseph CRIPPIN had arrived in Western Australia as a convict under the alias of James OSBORNE in 1861 [20] [21] [107]
His father died at the age of 58 years in 1882, and in 1885 his mother married "Frank" Francis Henry Reeves THOMAS [15]
Married Daisy JACKSON in Northampton in 1900 [15]
Their first child, Florence May, was born in 1900 in Northampton and died at the age of two months [15]
Their second child, James Joseph, was born in Mount Magnet in 1901 and passed away aged just one day [15]
Labourer at the 9-Mile Camp near Geraldton in 1903 [50]
Railway Ganger at Wolla Wolla near Yalgoo in 1906 [50]
Railway Ganger in Three Springs in 1907 [6]
Railway Ganger in Wannamal in 1908 [6]
Railway Ganger in Coorow 1908-1913 [19] [50]
His mother and stepfather were also in Coorow - on Coorow Station and then Jun Jun Farm [6] [19] [44] [50]
Guaranteed to contribute to the teacher's salary if the attendance fell below ten at the proposed Coorow State School in 1911 [215]
His daughters Gladys and Pearl were listed as prospective students of the proposed school, but their ages were exaggerated up [215]
Attended the Coorow Farmers' Progress Association's Picnic & Sports Meeting in Coorow on 7 October 1911 [39: 12-Oct-1911]
Won the Sheffield Handicap, Half-mile Handicap, Putting the Weight; 2nd in Hop Step & Jump, Live Wheelbarrow Race [39]
Railway Night Officer in Dongara in 1914 and 1915 [19] [50]
They resided at the Railway Cottages in Dongara [50]
Railway Stationmaster in Coorow in 1916 [50]
Stationmaster of the Railway Station in Coorow and then of the Railway Station in Arrino in 1917 [6] [30: item 8090793]
Enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force (A.I.F.) in Perth on 18 May 1917 [30: item 8090793]
Upon enlistment he was 5 feet 9 inches tall, weighed 196 pounds and had blue eyes, fair hair and a fresh complexion [30]
Gave his wife Mrs Daisy STARLING as his next of kin, her address being Arrino, Midland Railway, Western Australia [30]
Private and later Trooper during Light Horse camp training at Blackboy Hill in the Perth hills from 2 July 1917 [30]
After he entered camp his wife and children appear to have Arrino and moved to the Perth suburb of Midland Junction [30]
Regretfully applied for his discharge on 6 September 1917 as his pay wasn't sufficient to support his wife and six children [30]
His wife wrote to the A.I.F. reiterating her distress at surviving with six daughters aged between 11 years and 20 months [30]
Owing the size of his family and ages of his children his request was recommended for approval and was subsequently granted [30]
He had to pay for the kit he'd been issued with, but was discharged from the Australian Imperial Force on 14 September 1917 [30]
Railway Fettler in Carnamah in 1919 [19]
Donated 5/- to the Three Springs Saint Patrick's Day Committee in 1919 [124]
Following an absence shifted back to Carnamah on 29 January 1921 [9: 4-Feb-1921]
Railway Stationmaster in Carnamah from 1 February 1921 until June 1921 [9: 8-Jul-1921]
Member of the Carnamah Football Club in 1921 [9: 8-Jul-1921]
The Carnamah Football Club held a function to bid him farewell on the evening of Monday 18 June 1921 [9: 8-Jul-1921]
At his farewell remarked that he regretted leaving and that "the people of Carnamah as a whole would long live in his memory" [9]
Left Carnamah in June 1921 after being promoted to the position of Stationmaster of the railway station in Dongara [9]
Railway Stationmaster in Dongara in 1921 and 1922 [50]
Railway Stationmaster in Three Springs 1923-1925 [6] [9] [19]
Judge of the horse races at the Saint Patrick's Day Celebrations in Three Springs on Thursday 15 March 1923 [9: 13-Apr-1923]
Member of the Three Springs Football Club - was Secretary in 1923 [9: 4-May-1923]
Represented the Three Springs Football Club at meetings of the North Midlands Football Association in 1923 [9: 4-May-1923]
Member of the Three Springs Lodge of the Manchester Unity of Oddfellows Friendly Society [9: 24-Jul-1925]
He was farewelled by the residents of Three Springs and presented with a cheque on the evening of Friday 17 July 1925 [9]
At his farewell Archie BASTIAN, Evander FRANKLIN and Fred JAMES testified to "his many good qualities and popularity" [9]
Left Three Springs in July 1925 following his transfer to Midland Junction, but by later 1925 was in Dongara [9: 24-Jul-1925]
Railway Stationmaster in Dongara 1925-1929 [6] [50]
Railway Ganger in Gunyidi later in 1929 and in 1930 [6] [19]
Resided at 12 Spring Park Road in the Perth suburb of Midland Junction from 1931 until his death in 1933 [6] [50]
Died 29 January 1933; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Anglican, NA, 424) [2]
Mrs Mary Jane STARLING
Wife of Charles Frederick STARLING; see Mary Jane FARRELL
"Chris" Christian STARICK
Contractor in Coorow 1912-1914 [50]
Contractor in Winchester 1916-1921 [19]
In August 1916 cleared for the Midland Railway Company 15 acres on Lot M923 in Winchester for 12/- an acre [34]
Otto STARRICK
Labourer in Coorow 1912-1914 [50]
Beatrice Mary STEPHENS
Born 1876 [5: 12-Jun-1936]
Married "Bob" Arthur Harvey WILLIAMS in 1902 in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia [15]
She gave birth to their daughter Mona Irene on 12 May 1904 at Moonta Mines in South Australia [55]
Within a year they had returned to Western Australia, where their daughter Mona passed away at the age of nine months [15]
Resided with her husband on Gauntley Farm in Waddy Forest 1911-1936 [5] [19] [61]
Won 1st prizes for Plain Scones and Pickles at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show on Thursday 8 September 1932 [5: 16-Sep-1932]
Travelled from Coorow to Perth on Sunday 30 September 1934 and on the following Tuesday left for Melbourne by train [5: 5-Oct-1934]
Returned to Coorow on 3 March 1935 after a holiday with her husband, daughter and son-in-law in the South West [5: 8-Mar-1935]
Along with her husband and daughter Mrs Mora CHAPMAN travelled from Waddy Forest to Perth on 3 October 1935 [5: 11-Oct-1935]
During March 1936 she was in Perth receiving medical treatment [5: 13-Mar-1936]
Her 60th birthday was celebrated with 25 guests at their home on Gauntley Farm in Waddy on Saturday 6 June 1936 [5: 12-Jun-1936]
Won 1st prize for Brown Bread at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show at Maley Park, Coorow on 3 September 1936 [5: 11-Sep-1936]
Later resided in the Perth suburb of Mosman Park [2]
Mother of Mora [4: 8-Mar-1930]
Died 20 August 1962; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Wesleyan, FC, 51) [2]
Francis Allan Quinton STEPHENS
Farmer of Pindarra Farm in Coorow 1914-1916 [19] [50]
Thomas Knight STEPHENS
Labourer on Oaklyn Farm in Coorow in 1911 and 1912 [19] [50]
Florence May STRAHAN
Born 1895 in Guildford, Western Australia [15]
Daughter of James STRAHAN and Mary Ann BISHOP; step-daughter of George COUSINS [15]
Following the death of her father and later stepfather resided with her mother in Walkaway and then on farmland in Arrino [P2]
Married William Charles COX in 1918 [66]
Came 3rd in the Married Ladies Race at the Arrino Railway Picnic Day held in Arrino on Saturday 29 November 1919 [9: 5-Dec-1919]
Resided with her husband in Coorow, where he was the local Railway Stationmaster 1925-1937 [5: 5-Nov-1937] [19]
Hosted a social evening at her home on 21 May 1930 to further Ivy BINGHAM in the local Popular Girl Competition [4: 31-May-1930]
Attended the evening Ball after the Carnamah Races on Thursday 2 October 1930 in a dress of apricot lace [4: 18-Oct-1930]
Exhibited in the Fancywork section of the first Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show on Thursday 8 September 1932 [5: 16-Sep-1932]
Won 2nd prize for a White Table Centre or Supper Cloth and both 1st and 2nd prizes for an Embroidered Cushion [5]
Won 2nd prize for Sweet Peas in the Flower section of the Fourth Three Springs Agricultural Show in 1932 [5: 30-Sep-1932]
Attended the Official Opening of the Carnamah Golf Course at Centenary Park in Carnamah on Sunday 23 July 1933 [5: 28-Jul-1933]
Received 1st prizes for White Bread, 12 Sweet Peas, Six Sweet Peas and Lady's Bouquet at the Coorow Show in 1933 [5: 15-Sep-1933]
Exhibited in the Confectionary, Flower and Fancy Work sections of the Carnamah Agricultural Show on 14 September 1933 [5]
Won 1st prizes for Fruit Cake, Pastry and a Embroidered Cushion; and 2nd prizes for Pansies and Three Doyleys [5: 22-Sep-1933]
Awarded 1st prize for Pansies and 2nd for Sweet Peas at the Three Springs Agricultural Show on 21 September 1933 [5: 29-Sep-1933]
Member of the Coorow Tennis Club in 1933-34, 1935-36 and 1936-37 [5: 3-Nov-1933, 25-Oct-1935, 18-Dec-1936]
Conducted the Afternoon Tea stall at the Church of England Bazaar held in Coorow on 18 November 1933 [5: 3-Nov-1933]
Awarded 1st prize for Sweet Peas in the Flower section of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show on 30 August 1934 [5: 7-Sep-1934]
Attended the Official Opening of the Coorow Golf Club's golf course in Coorow on Sunday 23 June 1935 [5: 28-Jun-1935]
Member of the Coorow Golf Club in 1935, 1936 and 1937 [5: 12-Jul-1935, 19-Jun-1936, 11-Jun-1937]
Won 1st prizes for Sweet Peas and Six Pansies at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show on Thursday 5 September 1935 [5: 13-Sep-1935]
Played for the combined Winchester-Waddy-Coorow tennis team against Carnamah-Parkinson on Sunday 5 April 1936 [5: 3-Apr-1936]
Their son Stan spent a holiday staying with herself and her husband in Coorow during May 1936 [5: 15-May-1936]
Won 1st prize for Fruit Cake and 2nd for Six Pansies at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show on Thursday 3 September 1936 [5]
Received the W. H. Melvin Trophy for Fruit Cake, and attended the Show Ball dressed in black net [5: 11-Sep-1936, 20-Nov-1936]
After spending an enjoyable holiday in Perth herself and her husband returned to Coorow on Wednesday 4 October 1936 [5: 6-Nov-1936]
Winner of the Ladies Approach & Put at the Carnamah Golf Club's Season Opening in Carnamah on 2 May 1937 [5: 7-May-1937]
Won 1sts for Coffee Sponge Sandwich, Six Pansies and Bowl of Garden Flowers at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1937 [5]
At the Show Ball received the Bushells Ltd Trophy for winning 1st prize for Coffee Sponge Sandwich [5: 10-Sep-1937]
In 1960 she was living at 18 Ninth Avenue in the Perth suburb of Maylands [30: item 3437535]
Resided in the Perth suburb of Maylands until her death in 1967 [2]
Mother of Stanley [5: 5-Nov-1937]
Died 12 October 1967; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Anglican, ZC, 80) [2]
William STYLER
Farmhand for Alexander C. LAWRENCE in Latham in 1921 and 1922 [50]
Edgar SUGDEN
Farmer in Latham in 1916 [19] [50]
He gave his address at the time as Latham's Rock, Coorow [50]
Edward SULLIVAN
Railway Labourer in Coorow 1904-1909 [19] [50]
Frank SUMMERS
Farmer in Latham 1914-1923 [19]
His postal address was initially Coorow [19]
Frederick James SUNLEY
Teamster in Nugadong, East Gunyidi in 1914 [50]
Alexander Forbes SUTHERLAND
Born C.1907 [2]
Farmhand in Coorow 1935-1939 [5] [19]
Member of the Coorow Football Club 1935-1937 [5: 14 & 21-Jun-1935, 22-May-1936, 28-May-1937]
Attended the Coorow-Waddy Sports & Dance held Coorow on Saturday 9 November 1935 [5: 15-Nov-1935]
At 73 feet he was the winner of the Throwing Hammer competition, and also came 2nd in the 75 Yards Sprint [5]
Member of the Coorow Cricket Club in 1935-36 [5: 13-Dec-1935]
Came 2nd in both the 75 Yards Spring and Obstacle Race at the Athletic Sports Meeting in Coorow on 1 January 1936 [5: 3-Jan-1936]
Played for the victorious Single Men in a cricket match against Married Men in Coorow on Sunday 11 April 1937 [5: 16-Apr-1937]
Wheat Bin Attendant in Arrino in 1941 [19]
Resided of late in the Perth suburb of Guildford [2]
Died 16 November 1992; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Lawn, L, 162) [2]
Arthur Henry SWEETAPPLE
Born 2 April 1892 in Collingwood, Victoria, Australia [16] [54]
Son of Alfred Henry SWEETAPPLE and Lilian HEGINBOTHAM [54]
Married Violet Mary DILLON in Perth in 1915 [66]
Captain of the Australian Imperial Force's 10th Light Horse Regiment during the First World War [18]
Worked in the Lands Department of the Midland Railway Company's office in Perth [34]
Purchased 1,000 acres of virgin land in Coorow from the Midland Railway Company on 31 March 1921 [27]
The 1,000 acres was Lot M1312 of Victoria Location 2023 and cost him £125/2/3 (2/6 per acre), payable by instalments [27]
Purchased the land under an offer by his employer to sell 1,000 acres of land to their Perth office staff at a nominal price [34]
On 20 June 1925 he purchased another 1,253 acres of virgin land in Coorow from the Midland Railway Company for £313/6/10 [27]
The 1,253 acres consisted of Victoria Location 1116 and Lots M1311 and M1528 of Victoria Location 2023 [27]
This purchase may also have been through another offer from his employer as it was at roughly half the normal price [27]
Later sold all of his land in Coorow to William H. MELVIN & Sons [3]
During a portion of the 1920s he was the owner of 19 Caron Street in the Carnamah townsite (Lot 27 of Victoria Location 1936) [34]
Had purchased the vacant quarter acre 19 Caron Street from Samuel LEAN and by mid 1932 had sold it to Robert MACKIE [3] [34]
He was living in the Perth suburb of Bentley in 1942 [16]
Lieutenant Colonel W47917 of the Australian Army's Volunteer Defence Corps during the Second World War [16]
Resided of late in the Perth suburb of Nedlands [2]
Died 6 October 1949; ashes scattered over the rose garden at the Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA [2]
Douglas William SYMINGTON
Farm Manager of the Marchagee Estate in Marchagee in 1917 [50]
Mrs Emma Elizabeth SYMINGTON
Resided on the Marchagee Estate in Marchagee in 1917 [50]
TTT
Arthur Philip David TAMBLYN
Born 1906 [15]
Son of Harry TAMBLYN and Elizabeth Ellen OAKEY [14]
Resided with his parents on Oakblyn Farm in Latham [19] [152]
In 1920 himself and his siblings Gordon and Rosie boarded with Mrs Annie M. BATTERSBY on Wattle Vale Farm in Coorow [215]
Student at the Coorow State School from a room of Coorow House on Victoria Location 385 in Coorow in 1920 [215]
Farmer of Oakblyn Farm in Latham 1927-1973 [19]
Resided in the Perth suburb of Victoria Park in 1974 [2]
Died 27 August 1974; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (General, Lawn 2, 233) [2]
Mrs Elizabeth Ellen TAMBLYN
Wife of Harry TAMBLYN; see Elizabeth Ellen OAKEY
"Rosie" Elva Rose Elizabeth TAMBLYN
Born 1909 in Long Gully, Victoria, Australia [54]
Daughter of Harry TAMBLYN and Elizabeth Ellen OAKEY [54]
Resided with her parents on Oakblyn Farm in Latham, Western Australia [19] [152]
In 1920 herself and her brothers Arthur and Gordon boarded with Mrs Annie M. BATTERSBY on Wattle Vale Farm in Coorow [215]
Student at the Coorow State School from a room of Coorow House on Victoria Location 385 Coorow in 1920 [215]
Married "Charlie" Charles BOYS in Perth in 1926 [66]
Gordon Royal Anthony TAMBLYN
Born 1907 [15]
Son of Harry TAMBLYN and Elizabeth Ellen OAKEY [14]
Resided with his parents on Oakblyn Farm in Latham, Western Australia [19] [152]
In 1920 himself and his siblings Arthur and Rosie boarded with Mrs Annie M. BATTERSBY on Wattle Vale Farm in Coorow [215]
Student at the Coorow State School from a room of Coorow House on Victoria Location 385 in Coorow in 1920 [215]
Farmer in Latham, and later Labourer in Latham and Coorow [1] [19]
Married May LATHAM in 1942 [66]
Summonsed to appear at the Carnamah Police Court on 4 December 1950 for driving International truck CA-80 without a license [22]
Died 19 February 1957 in Latham; buried Winchester Cemetery, Carnamah (Row F, Plot 7) [1]
Harry TAMBLYN
Born C.1865 [2]
Married Elizabeth Ellen OAKEY in Kalgoorlie in 1902 [15]
Settled on prospective farmland in Latham in 1910 [152]
Farmer of Oakblyn Farm in Latham 1910-1929 [2] [19] [152]
His farm was 2,160 acres in size and consisted of Victoria Locations 4352, 4618 and 4712 [44]
The farm appears to have been named using the start of his wife's maiden surname 'Oak' and the end of his surname 'blyn' [--]
In August 1910 wrote to the Upper Irwin Road Board requesting the closure of a road that went through his property [9: 26-Aug-1910]
The Road Board responded that they were agreeable to closing the road provided no objections were made from other settlers [9]
A month later the Board informed him they would not recommend the road be closed, as they had received objections [9: 30-Sep-1910]
Paid rates for his farmland to the Upper Irwin Road Board in Mingenew until 1916, and then to the Perenjori-Morawa Road Board [44]
After seven years on the farm 450 acres were cleared of which 300 were cropped, and 250 acres were fenced [152]
In 1916 himself and his family were living in a four roomed house made out of hessian and iron [152]
Gave evidence to the Royal Commission on the Agricultural Industries of Western Australia in Latham on 24 November 1916 [152]
Signed the petition and financial guarantee in 1917 for the Midland Railway Company to provide a resident doctor at Three Springs [34]
Resided in Latham until his death in 1929 [2]
Father of Teddy, Arthur, Gordon, Rosie and Mary [14]
Died 19 May 1929; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Anglican, ZA, 332) [2]
From the Progress Report of the Royal Commission on the
Agricultural Industries of Western Australia on the Wheat-Growing Portion of the South-West Division of the State:
Friday 24 November 1916 at Latham
"HARRY TAMBLYN, Tamblyn Bros, Farmers, Latham, sworn and examined:
We have been seven years in this district and hold 2,140 acres, of which 1,700 acres was 5s. 9d., for 200 acres 10s., the balance is a homestead block. We have 10 miles carting west from the railway station. We have 450 acres cleared, 250 fenced, two wells and two bores. The wells give a fairly good supply; one of them is drinking water and the other not. We have a dam of 500 cubic yards and another of about 120 cubic yards. I am a married man and have a house of four rooms constructed of hessian and iron, stables and machinery shed, 40 x 40, of iron. With the exception of a harvester I have all necessary farming implements. We have 10 draught horses and 13 other sorts. I had previous experience of farming in Yorke's Peninsula, and when we came here I had £2,000 capital, but this has been found insufficient to carry on with. The Agricultural Bank advanced £550, but I cannot say what is due to the Industries Assistance Board.
Were last year's advances cleared out of [the proceeds] of your wheat? No.
I have 300 acres under crop, but none of it was fallowed; it was all ploughed. Still I believe in fallow. This year I have fallowed about 50 acres for next year. Last year I had 50 acres fallowed. It shows a splendid crop, far better than the rest. I would have fallowed more this year, but I had to let the horses go in the paddock. My highest yield has been 18 bushels. That in the first year I came here, 1910. In 1911 I got 58 bags from 130 acres. I think that the average for the district, including the two bad seasons, would be about 10 bushels. I should think it would take about 12 bushels to pay the cost of putting in and taking off [the crop]. I sow about a bushel to the acre and 60lbs. of super. I use a big Shearer disc cultivating plough with eight discs. It takes six big horses to pull it and sometimes seven, and I do eight or nine acres a day. I have a Massey-Harris drill which does 13 acres and I do about 14 acres a day with it. I have done 15 or 16 acres. I use a May's stripper and can do about seven acres [a day] with it, it has a 5ft. comb. I employ a man, but not all the time; in fact last year I put in the crop on my own.
Do you think a man working under similar conditions to yours could reduce costs by using the largest possible machinery? Certainly he could. This year I have hired a 7-ft. harvester to do my work. About bulk handling [of wheat] I know nothing, but the duty on implements is too high.
Last year we had blight' there was no wheat in the crop. I pickle my wheat. Last year I was late in getting the crop off on account of the bad weather, and this year the crop is not very good. It is light and short. I have not tried artificial grasses or fodder crops, but vegetables do well, and I think fruit trees ought to. I have to hand-feed my pigs, and I grow green stuff for them. We have poultry for our own use. When I employ a man I pay him £2 a well and keep in the harvest time and 30s. a week and keep in the ploughing season, but in these [war] times men cannot be obtained for that money. The average working hours are none or 10 hours a day. No man should have less than 2,000 acres to make a living out of in this district, and he should be able to handle [cropping] 300 acres himself. I have not given the question of co-operation among the farmers any thought, but so far as the land regulations are concerned I consider that the farmer has far too much to pay. He should have his land in this part of the country for nothing. Sandplain here is no good whatever, and it is dearer to clear than the timber land.
Would it be rushed if the Government gave it away? I do not know a single farmer which has paid his way yet; I know we have not. If a man went on the Agricultural Bank and did more clearing he would be able to do more cropping. I think we should be given an extension of time in which to pay rents on this land. We should have 40 or 50 years instead of 20 to pay it off. I intent to go in for sheep, but at present dogs are a great trouble. We hold a pastoral lease of 3,000 acres in addition, and my intention is to get a few hundred sheep and some old man to look after them. Mixed farming is a far better proposition than wheat growing."
Mrs May TAMBLYN
Wife of Gordon Royal Anthony TAMBLYN; see May LATHAM
Thomas Sydney TAMBLYN
Farmer in Latham [44]
As early as 1910 he was the owner of the 160 acre Victoria Location 4353 in Latham [44]
Paid rates for his 160 acres to the Upper Irwin Road Board in Mingenew until 1916 and then to the Perenjori-Morawa Road Board [44]
Resided in Latham until 1917 [19]
Arthur TAYLOR
Farmer in Coorow in 1913 and 1914 [50]
Farmer in Latham 1915-1921 [50]
Hugh TAYLOR
Farmhand on Waddy Waddy Farm in Coorow 1917 [50]
Isaac James TAYLOR
Surveyor of Mayfield Farm in Gunyidi 1911-1913 [19] [50]
Mrs Kathleen Henrietta TAYLOR
Resided on Maryvale Farm in Latham in 1922 [50]
Margaret TAYLOR
Resided on Glenview Farm in Latham 1913-1915 [50]
Percy James TAYLOR
Farmer of Mayfield Farm in Gunyidi 1911-1916 [19]
Walter Henry TAYLOR
Farmer of Maryvale Farm in Latham 1910-1949 [19] [152]
In mid 1912 he had plans to sell his farm in Latham and take up farming in Coorow, in part so his children could go to school [215]
Gave evidence to the Royal Commission on the Agricultural Industries of Western Australia in Latham on 24 November 1916 [152]
Kate Louisa TAYSON
Born C.1887 [2]
Married James UNDERWOOD in 1913 [66]
Resided with her husband in Latham in 1921 and 1922 and then on Hill Crest Farm in Coorow 1923-1944 [6] [19] [44]
One of the three costume judges at the Children's Fancy Dress Ball held in Coorow on Saturday 6 July 1935 [5: 12-Jul-1935]
Attended the Surprise Linen Tea for Miss Mary E. GREENWOOD at Maryland Farm in Waddy Forest on 22 July 1937 [5: 23-Jul-1937]
Later resided in the Perth suburb of Bentley [2]
Died 28 August 1994; ashes interred Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Lance Howard Memorial Gardens, Niche Wall, W23, 2) [2]
Mrs Beulah Emily THOMAS
Wife of "Frank" Francis Henry Reeves THOMAS; see Beulah Emily CRIPPIN
Beulah Emily THOMAS
Born 1891 in Greenough, Western Australia [15]
Daughter of "Frank" Francis Henry Reeves THOMAS and Beulah Emily CRIPPIN [15]
Her grandfather Joseph CRIPPIN had arrived in Western Australia as a convict under the alias of James OSBORNE in 1861 [20] [21] [107]
Married Michael Valmont MURNANE in Perth in 1913 [15]
Resided with her husband at Boyagarra in East Brookton and then in Capel [50]
Later resided with her husband at 252 Rutland Avenue in the Perth suburb of Carlisle [3]
Her father, who had been a long time resident of the Coorow district [19], passed away at the age of 80 years in 1939 [2]
Following her father's death in 1939 she briefly owned his Victoria Locations 682 and 1096 in Coorow [3]
Both were 40 acres, and Victoria Location 682 contained Nabappie Spring while Victoria Location 1096 contained Jun Jun Spring [P17]
During the 1941-42 financial year she appears to have sold both Victoria Locations 685 and 1096 to Ernest A. LONG of Coorow [3]
Resided of late in the Perth suburb of Victoria Park [2]
Died 13 May 1960; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Seventh Day Adventist, AA, 128) [2]
"Frank" Francis Henry Reeves THOMAS
Born 1862 in York, Western Australia [15]
Son of Henry THOMAS and Mary FITZGERALD [15]
Married widow Mrs Beulah Emily STARLING in Greenough in 1885 [15]
In 1896 his brother John Fitzgerald THOMAS married his wife's daughter Eliza Elizabeth STARLING [15]
Owner & Grazier of Coorow Station in Coorow 1903-1911 [19] [44] [50]
He was the owner of 358 acres of first class freehold land in Victoria Locations 385, 682, 995, 996, 1096, 1116, 1274 and 2407 [44]
On Victoria Location 385 was Coorow House, the old homestead of the LONG family who had arrived in Coorow in 1862 [135]
His Victoria Location 682 contained Nabappie Spring while Victoria Location 1096 contained Jun Jun Spring [P17]
Also had 520 acres in two Conditional Purchase leases and a Homestead Lease (later Victoria Locations 2732, 2927 and 2997) [44]
He went before the Police Court in Mingenew on 28 March 1906 for inflicting grievous bodily harm on Francis A. LATHAM [39]
The accused offence had occurred on 7 March 1906 and he was committed for trial but allowed bail [39: 29-Mar-1906]
He went before the Court of Quarter Sessions in Geraldton on 6 September 1906 on a charge of stabling Francis A. LATHAM [39]
The charge was that he had stabbed LATHAM in Coorow, however the jury found him not guilty [39: 8-Sep-1906]
During the 1911-12 financial year sold 782 acres of his land in Coorow to Edward M. BLYTHE [44]
Sold Victoria Locations 385, 995, 996, 1116, 1274, 2732, 2927 and 2997, but kept Victoria Locations 682, 1096 and 2407 [44]
Farmer & Grazier of Jun Jun Farm in Coorow 1912-1938 [6] [19] [44]
Farmer in Gunyidi 1926-1933 [6] [19]
He had been a patient at the North Midlands District Hospital in Three Springs until being discharged in early February 1936 [5]
After leaving hospital he stayed with his daughter Mrs Celia B. CARR at Bluff Point in Geraldton [5: 7-Feb-1936]
Later resided in Perth [2]
Father of Mary Agnes, Celia Blanche, Beulah Emily, "Jack" John Fitzgerald and "Frank" Francis Henry William [15]
Died 26 August 1939; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Roman Catholic, KA, 307) [2]
"Frank" Francis Henry William THOMAS
Born 1897 in Greenough, Western Australia [15]
Son of "Frank" Francis Henry Reeves THOMAS and Beulah Emily CRIPPIN [15]
His grandfather Joseph CRIPPIN had arrived in Western Australia as a convict under the alias of James OSBORNE in 1861 [20] [21] [107]
Resided with his parents on Coorow Station in Coorow 1903-1911 and then on Jun Jun Farm in Coorow 1912 onwards [19] [44] [50]
He was a big man who came from a well respected family of the Coorow district [P32]
Farmed Jun Jun Farm in Coorow with his father and elder brother "Jack" John Fitzgerald THOMAS [P15]
He was accused of stealing food from the railway station yard in Carnamah, pleaded innocent but was sentenced by police [P10]
Following his conviction he said in future the government would have to support him [P10]
Alternatively it was stated that his brother received a good education and to his anger he didn't, after which he "went bush" [P300]
He was "a local boy gone wrong" who had "got somehow on the wrong side of the police, and had taken to the bush" [P5]
Settlers, storekeepers, tradesmen and railway officials along the Midland Railway line complained to police about thefts [39: 14-Jan-1920]
In time it became known he was responsible, and his crimes were reported to have begun around December 1918 [39: 14-Jan-1920]
He regularly stole food, clothes, blankets and horses from Coorow, Carnamah and surrounding districts [P10] [P15]
It was reported in the press that he "went about from district to district, living on the proceeds of his unlawful traffic" [39: 14-Jan-1920]
He raided railway sidings and homes, and took horses which he let loose after riding them for as far as he wanted to go [39: 14-Jan-1920]
Among the items he stole from a farmhouse on one occasion included meat, potatoes, onions and milk [39: 14-Jan-1920]
It was said that he also stole sheep which he killed, cooked and ate [39: 14-Jan-1920]
He is said to have operated as such along the Midland Railway Company's railway line but also the Wongan Hills railway line [P300]
After a period of time it was known he was responsible but "he was cunning enough to elude all efforts to capture him" [39: 14-Jan-1920]
Locally he became known as "Thomas the Bushranger" and "Frank Thomas the Bushranger" [P10]
He was constantly sought after by police but rarely caught [P10] and was "the most talked about topic in the district" [P300]
His ability to elude capture was attributed to him having grown up locally and that he knew every inch of the country [39: 14-Jan-1920]
Despite his crimes he was often wrongly blamed for stolen or missing livestock in the Coorow and Carnamah districts [P15]
"To the womenfolk he was behind every bush, and felt unable to cope" while "men just swore about what a pest he'd become" [P5]
Details of his crimes in Winchester were given to local Justice of the Peace, Louis P. PARKER, who relayed them to police [P5]
One of his regular habits was to jump on goods trains and when in a quiet stretch to throw out cases of goods [39: 14-Jan-1920]
He'd then later return to the side of the railway tracks, go through them, take what he wanted and leave the rest there [39: 14-Jan-1920]
Items he didn't like including whiting, sauce, vinegar, boot polish, essence, pickles and glassware were found by the tacks [39]
It was also stated he'd go through the contents on the train and throw canned food out, and then go back and collect it later [P15]
On one occasion opened cases from a recent train were found at small clearing in the scrub at Winchester [P5]
From the opened cases all the food had been taken but remaining were items such corsets for Mrs Mathilve HÄUSSLER [P5]
Stories of his exploits became imbedded in local folklore with a degree of hearsay as to which were fact and which fiction [P6]
On one occasion police are said to have come upon his camp where he was cooking a chicken on a fire [7: page 49]
He took off and they followed in hot pursuit but he got away from them so they decided to go back and eat the cooked chook [7]
When they arrived back he had already doubled back and taken the chook [7]
Constable "Charlie" Carl F. W. KROSCHEL of Three Springs is said to have captured him and handcuffed him to a tree [P6]
Charlie left him there, on the west side of the Yarra Yarra Lakes, probably while he went to secure assistance to convey him [P6]
When the constable returned he was nowhere to be seen - to the amazement of the constable and many others [P6]
Apparently when he was later caught he still had the handcuffs on his arms, but no one could work out how he'd done it [P6]
One moonlit night his father is said to have hung some mutton up in a shed and knew his son was in the area [P15]
His father kept watch on the mutton expecting and waiting for his son to take it, however it seemed to no avail [P15]
His father dozed off for a moment near dawn and when he woke there was no sign of the mutton [P15]
While being chased on horseback by police one day his hat fell off, however he circled around a hill, and back to the hat [P32]
He jumped off his horse, picked up his hat, got back on the horse and as usual managed to get away [P32]
Constable KROSCHEL reputedly locked the railway station yard in Carnamah which was well fenced with large white gates [P6]
He is said to have then stolen KROSCHEL's horse from within the yards and jumped over the gates [P6]
It was a feat as apparently no one believed a horse would be able to jump over the gates, least of all KROSCHEL's horse [P6]
Mrs Kate C. GARTH travelled into the Carnamah townsite by horse and buggy one day, and her horse shied at something [7: page 49]
When she got to town and said what had happened a storekeeper said she should be thankful as "the bushranger" was about [7]
On one occasion a racehorse had arrived in Carnamah and was at the stockyards of the railway station [7: page 49]
The story goes that the police watched the horse as they knew he was about and that he'd probably try and steal it [7]
He still managed to steal the horse, named Karara Boy, and after tracking him to Perenjori they found the horse [7]
Mrs Ettie PARKER thought she heard whip cracks as a horse galloped behind her home at 5 Macpherson Street, Carnamah [P6]
The noise, it was said, was in fact Constable KROSCHEL shooting at him [P6]
Mrs E. Maude W. GREENWOOD of Waddy Forest carried a matchbox of pepper when out in case she encountered a bushranger [5]
Her theory was that she "would be a missing quantity by the time the bushranger stopped sneezing" [5: 18-Apr-1947]
There were stories that meetings were held at Winchester to discuss how best to capture him but he listened in from underneath [P6]
It was also said that in one instance when he was being searched for that he was up a tree watching the search [P300]
Apparently he often poked his finger through packaged food to see what it was and if he'd like it, as he couldn't read [P6]
He was successfully captured on 29 December 1919, after twelve months living the life of "an audacious thief" [39: 14-Jan-1920]
He was captured by Constable "Charlie" Carl F. W. KROSCHEL of Three Springs and another police constable [39]
At the time of his capture and arrest he was in possession of some stolen goods and a stolen horse [39]
He was interviewed by the Criminal Investigation Department on 6 January 1920, at which time he gave a voluntary statement [39]
On 10 January 1920 in Geraldton he pleaded guilty to charges of stealing, unlawful possession and unlawfully using a horse [39]
The Resident Magistrate in Geraldton sentenced him to two years hard labour [39: 14-Jan-1920]
After being released from his two year jail sentence he returned to Coorow in 1922 and was soon wanted by the police [10: 12-May-1922]
He was accused of stealing a horse and two cases of stores from a railway truck in the Three Springs district [39: 12-May-1922]
He was pursued by Constable Carl F. W. KROSCHEL of Three Springs and a Constable MATTHEWS [10: 12-May-1922] [39: 12-May-1922]
The two constables, through freezing weather, had searched and chased him for about two weeks before finally catching him [10]
With an Aboriginal tracker the constables followed tracks from the railway siding in Winchester to nine miles north of Coorow [39]
The tracks got obliterated by rain, but they later picked up more which led them to a camp of a fire and some of the stolen stores [39]
Tracks from the camp were followed to another camp about 16 miles east of Coorow, from which they saw smoke from a fire [39]
The constables charged the bush but the closest they got was to see him gallop away on a horse and follow him for six miles [39]
He leapt off his horse, got the saddle and bridle, and got over a dog-proof fence and then escaped into the bush [39]
After searching the constables found him sleeping under a quantity of bags in a stable of a farm, and he was arrested [39]
He made no attempt at resisting arrest and was removed to the goal in Geraldton in early May 1922 [39: 10-May-1922]
The Moora Herald And Midland Districts Advocate reported him as the "Coorow bread and butter bushranger" [10: 10-May-1922]
The West Australian later reported he'd "earned notoriety... as the result of being chased across country by police" [39: 2-Jun-1922]
At the time of his arrest, which was during the first few days of May 1922, he was "Wanted" on various charges [39: 4-May-1922]
He was in the lock-up at Geraldton awaiting trial when after about two weeks he escaped on the afternoon of 23 May 1922 [39: 2-Jun-1922]
When the lock-up keeper realised he was missing they found an exit from the exercise yard was open with its lock picked [39]
Once clear of Geraldton he is said to have raided districts between the Midland and Wongan Hills railing lines [39: 15-Nov-1922]
He was a brilliant horseman and for almost six months stole valuable horses and considerable quantities of stores [39: 15-Nov-1922]
He stole a horse from a lady at a shop in Perenjori, after which she came out with a shotgun if she heard a noise at night [7: page 49]
He was fond of fine horses and would help himself to the best in the district [P32]
Stole the well bred horse Brylass which had recently been purchased by William G. MORCOMBE of Waddy Forest [P32]
Mounted police soon arrived on the scene and with the help of an Aboriginal tracker were able to follow his tracks [P32]
After a couple of days they found Brylass exhausted at a neighbour's property where he had taken another horse [P32]
He stole MORCOMBE's horse Brylass several time so Will made a separate little yard for the horse right against his house [P32]
Will also kept a 22 firearm beside him to protect his horse, however he still managed to steal it without waking anyone [P32]
Police made many fruitless attempts to recapture him [39: 20-Nov-1922] while he "pursued the career of a bushranger" [39: 13-Nov1922]
After 140 days on the run he was recaptured by Constable WREFORD in Perenjori on Friday 10 May 1922 [39: 13 & 15-Nov-1922]
His recapture on 10 November 1922 was noted at the top of one of the pages of the diary of Coorow pioneer Ernest A. LONG [168]
En route to imprisonment, following his recapture, he again escaped from custody from the lock-up in Buntine [39: 14, 15 & 21-Nov-1922]
The West Australian newspaper called him "A Bird of Freedom" on account of his multiple escapes from custody [39]
Days later his tracks led to near Perenjori with police from Mingenew, Three Springs and Goomalling searching for him [39]
Police from other centres joined the search and on 16 November 1922 they heard that he was in the Carnamah district [39: 20-Nov-1922]
Constables MILLS and REYNOLDS proceeded from Mingenew to Carnamah by car and kept a watch on the railway station [39]
After the Perth express train passed through he entered a shed where one of them was watching and he was called to surrender [39]
He bolted with the two constables in hot pursuit and after a chase of about 300 yards they caught up to him and he was arrested [39]
It was said that when the constable yelled he dropped a box of groceries he was about to steal and fell over the points charger [P300]
The fall was said to have injured him and he was caught behind Henry PARKIN's premises in Yarra Street, Carnamah [P300]
He apparently had with him a saddle and bridle that he had stolen from Carnamah farmer James K. FORRESTER [P300]
The West Australian newspaper labelled him a "Fugitive from Justice" [39: 15-Nov-1922]
The paper remarked that his bushranging exploits were almost of "equally excellent material" as that of the historic Kelly gang [39]
He was sentenced to twelve months imprisonment in Geraldton on 20 November 1922 [39: 21-Nov-1922]
He pleaded guilty to charges of stealing in the Midland and Victoria districts, improperly using horses and of escaping custody [39]
His defence claimed he needed special consideration as "he had never really had a chance in life" and couldn't read or write [39]
He'd never had an incentive to learn and had inclinations to take what he needed and get away from those who chased him [39]
The magistrate declared he'd previously been imprisoned for 18 months which should have taught him not to do such things [39]
If the suggestion were made to send him to an Aboriginal settlement in the North-West, the magistrate said he would support it [39]
That may have eventuated as he was at one time sentenced to work on a station owned by the Government in the North-West [P300]
There were about a further 45 charges against him which police didn't proceed with [39: 21-Nov-1922]
After being caught for the last time he was imprisoned at the Claremont Asylum for the Insane and remained there until his death [P17]
Died 23 April 1960; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Roman Catholic, ZE, 470) [2]
John THOMAS
Born 7 November 1862 in Kadina, South Australia [55]
Son of Edward Tregloan THOMAS and Elizabeth PARSONS [55]
Shifted to Western Australia where he worked for the Midland Railway Company [P376]
Railway Stationmaster in Moora in 1897 [6]
Married (1) Frances Ellen HILL in Gingin in 1897 [15]
Railway Stationmaster in Gingin 1898-1901 [6]
His wife gave birth to twins John and Frances at the railway station in Gingin in late June 1899 [39: 29-Jun-1899]
Days later on 6 July 1899, at the railway station in Gingin, his wife passed away at the age of 21 years [39: 3-Aug-1899]
Their son John passed away at the age of three months later in 1899 [15]
Married (2) Lydia CAHILL in Perth in 1902 [15]
Railway Stationmaster in Mingenew 1902-1913 [6] [19] [50] [84]
Goods Agent of Elvire Street in the Perth suburb of Midland Junction 1914-1920 [6]
Railway Stationmaster in Mingenew 1921-1923 [6] [19]
Railway Stationmaster in Coorow 1923-1925 [6] [9: 23-Feb-1923] [50]
Railway Stationmaster in Dongara 1925-1933 [6] [19] [50]
Resided at 32 Elvire Street in the Perth suburb of Midland Junction in 1936 and 1937 [6] [50]
Father of John, Frances, Jack, Horace, Harold, Donald and Jean [P376]
Died 1 May 1937; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Wesleyan, FC, 677) [2]
"Jack" John Fitzgerald THOMAS
Born 1894 in Greenough, Western Australia [15]
Son of "Frank" Francis Henry Reeves THOMAS and Beulah Emily CRIPPIN [15]
His grandfather Joseph CRIPPIN had arrived in Western Australia as a convict under the alias of James OSBORNE in 1861 [20] [21] [107]
Resided with his parents on Coorow Station in Coorow 1903-1911 and then on Jun Jun Farm in Coorow 1912 onwards [19] [44] [50]
Farmed Jun Jun Farm in Coorow with his father and younger brother Frank until his brother became the local bushranger [P15]
Farmer in Coorow [19]
Rode his horse from Coorow to Winchester to see Miss Doris BELL [P17]
Married Doris Una BELL in Perth in 1924 [66]
His wife passed away on 28 June 1925 [2] after giving birth to twin daughters named Alleyne Una and June Hope [P17]
June passed away at the age of 20 days on 7 July 1925 and was buried at the Three Springs General Cemetery [24]
Alleyne grew up in the Perth suburb of Victoria Park under the care of her maternal grandparents Edward and Una BELL [P17]
Later left his farm in Coorow and took up virgin land west of the railway line north of Gunyidi, which he later sold [P17]
After selling the property in Gunyidi, which was rather poor land, he purchased a farm in Marchagee [P17]
Farmer of Seldomseen Farm in Marchagee [P17]
Travelled to Round Hill to play football in the early 1930s prior to the formation of the Coorow Football Club [P361]
Others to do so were William H. JOHNS and Harry F. C. KAU of Coorow and Peter W. THOMSON of Marchagee [P361]
Committee Member of the Sports organised for the opening of the East Marchagee Hall on Saturday 11 November 1933 [5: 17-Nov-1933]
Signatory to a letter sent in January 1934 expressing confidence in the Carnamah Road Board and their member [5: 19-Jan-1934]
Master of Ceremonies at the dance held at the Marchagee Hall on Saturday 20 April 1935 [5: 26-Apr-1935]
The proceeds of the dance, which was well attended and a great financial success, went to the Marchagee Hall's buildings fund [5]
In August 1936 applied for the Carnamah District Road Board to provide a road as an outlet from his farm in Marchagee [5: 28-Aug-1936]
The following month the Road Board called for tenders for the clearing of about five miles of the road at 16 feet wide [5: 25-Sep-1936]
Master of Ceremonies of the Show Ball held after the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in Coorow on 2 September 1937 [5: 10-Sep-1937]
Later resided in the Perth suburb of Subiaco [2]
Died 14 March 1986; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Anglican, MA, 247) [2]
Mrs Lydia THOMAS
Wife of John THOMAS; see Lydia CAHILL
Ethel Rose THOMPSON
Resided in Gunyidi in 1915 [50]
James THOMPSON
Medical Practitioner in Gunyidi in 1915 [50]
Myrtle May THOMPSON
Resided in Coorow in 1915 and 1916 [50]
Stephen James THOMPSON
Farmer in Coorow in 1913 and 1914 [19] [50]
Farmer in Maya in 1933 [19]
"Sandy" Alexander Welsh THOMSON
Born 6 April 1918 in Ivanhoe, Victoria, Australia [16]
Son of James Fowler THOMSON and Nellie Simpson WELSH [108]
Resided with his parents on Anster Farm in Marchagee, Western Australia [108]
Came 2nd in the Walk, Trot & Gallop in the Ring Events at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show on Thursday 7 September 1933 [5]
Also received 1st prize for a Border Collie sheep dog or bitch in the Sheep Dog section of the show [5: 15-Sep-1933]
Came 2nd in the 12-stone Gent's Hack in the Ring Events at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1936 [5: 11-Sep-1936]
Resident of Kew, Victoria, Australia where he enlisted in the Australian Army on 20 May 1940 [16]
Lieutenant VX15794 in the Australian Army's 2/14 Australian Infantry Battalion during the Second World War [16]
Discharged from the Australian Army on 6 December 1945 [16]
Arthur John THOMSON
Married Ellen HAYES in Perth in 1898 [15]
Store Manager in Coorow in 1916 [50]
Mrs Elizabeth Jessie THOMSON
Resided in Nugadong, East Gunyidi 1911-1916 [19]
Mrs Ellen THOMSON
Wife of Arthur John THOMSON; see Ellen HAYES
"Gray" Grace Welsh THOMSON
Born 31 March 1920 in Largo, Fife, Scotland [16]
Daughter of James Fowler THOMSON and Nellie Simpson WELSH [108]
Resided with her parents on Anster Farm in Marchagee, Western Australia [108]
Best Girl Rider under 14 years and came 2nd in the Lady's Hack at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1933 [5: 15-Sep-1933]
Attended the Ball at the East Marchagee Hall after the Marchagee-Gunyidi Picnic & Sports Day on 14 September 1935 [5: 27-Sep-1935]
Came 2nd in both the Walk Trot & Gallop and the Open Trot Handicap at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1936 [5: 11-Sep-1936]
Attended the Ball after the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show on 3 September 1936 dressed in floral chiffon organdie [5: 11-Sep-1936]
Won 1st for Lady's Hack and 2nd for Trotting Horse and 12-stone Gent's Hack at the 1936 Carnamah Agricultural Show [5: 18-Sep-1936]
Competed in the Carnamah Tennis Club's Easter Tennis Tournament at Centenary Park in Carnamah in March 1937 [5: 2-Apr-1937]
Attended the Coronation Ball at the Carnamah Hall on 12 May 1937 in "brown cire spot taffeta with gold lame" [5: 14-May-1937]
Part of the Best Set as "Arabians" at the Carnamah Girls Club's Masquerade Ball at the Carnamah Hall on 24 July 1937 [5: 30-Jul-1937]
Exhibited in the Ring Events at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show at Maley Park in Coorow on 2 September 1937 [5]
Awarded four 2nd prizes for the Flag Race, Swerving Race, Open Trot and the Walk, Trot & Gallop [5: 10-Sep-1937]
Won 1st for Trotting Horse and 2nd for Lady's Hack and Best Lady Rider at the Carnamah Agricultural Show in 1937 [5: 17-Sep-1937]
Resided in the Melbourne suburb of Kew prior to enlisting in the Australian Army on 13 April 1942 [16]
Captain VF345268 in the Australian Army's Australian Women's Army Service during the Second World War [16]
Discharged from the Australian Army on 18 April 1946 [16]
James Fowler THOMSON
Born 1884 in Kilrenny, Fife, Scotland [28]
Son of draper Peter THOMSON and Elizabeth GREIG [20] [28]
Resided with his parents and siblings at Comley Bank in the village of Cellardyke in Kilrenny, Fife, Scotland [20]
He was the youngest of eight children with elder siblings John, Annie, Robert, Peter, Jessie, Lizzie and Ella [20] [28]
Departed from London, England on the steamship Sumatra on 22 March 1913 bound for Singapore [203]
Married his first cousin once removed Nellie Simpson WELSH in Singapore [P1]
By 1914 they had left Singapore and were living at 187 George Street in East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia [50]
Engineer for the constructional engineering firm Clayton & Sons who were based in Leeds, Yorkshire, England [108: page 2]
Worked for Clayton & Sons in Perth, Western Australia; Invercargill, New Zealand and then in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia [108]
They were in Perth when their first son was born in 1915, and were back in Melbourne by 1918 when their second son arrived [108]
He was unfit for service during the First World War due to a bad ankle and limp sustained from an industrial accident [108: page 2]
With his wife and two sons returned to Scotland to visit relatives who they'd struggled to communicate with during the war [108: page 2]
They departed Melbourne, Victoria, Australia on the steamship Benalla and arrived in London, England on 27 February 1920 [204]
During their visit they stayed with his mother-in-law Mrs Grace S. WELSH in Largo, Fife, Scotland [108: page 2]
He departed from London, England on the steamship Marathon on 21 October 1920 bound for Melbourne, Victoria, Australia [203]
His wife, sons and daughter departed London, England bound for Melbourne on the steamship Orvieto on 17 September 1921 [203]
Established his own constructional engineering firm J. F. Thomson Pty Ltd [108: page 5]
Following their return they resided for a number of months at Old England Hotel in the Melbourne suburb of Heidelberg [108: page 2]
After buying a house resided with his wife and children on Brown Street in the Melbourne suburb of Heidelberg [108: page 2]
They lived in the most northerly housing development of Heidelberg which at the time bounded paddocks and old orchard [108: page 2]
After a few discussions with Robert S. KEAY, who was the nephew of Scottish friends, they decided to buy a farm together [108: page 5]
Robert S. KEAY travelled to Western Australia to investigate potential areas and properties and chose one in Marchagee [108: page 5]
Purchased 2,027 acres of farmland in Marchagee, Western Australia in partnership with "Bob" Robert S. KEAY in 1928 [3] [19]
The farm had previously belonged to Bertie W. LOVELESS who had acquired it under the Soldier Settlement Scheme [108: page 5]
The farm's 2,037 acres consisted of Victoria Locations 3231, 3232, 3233, 3234, 3235, 3240, 3250, 6383 and 7036 [3]
By late 1928 Robert S. KEAY had settled on and began farming the property [19], while he remained in Melbourne [108: page 5]
Absentee Farmer of Anster Farm in Marchagee in partnership with Robert S. KEAY 1928-1931 [108: page 5]
The financial crash of 1929 and the start of the Great Depression impacted severely on the farm and his Melbourne business [108: page 5]
As work in his constructional engineering business had dwindled he decided to move to the farm to properly assess its potential [108]
Leaving an employee in charge of his office and business in Melbourne himself, his wife and their son Peter left for Marchagee [108]
They travelled to Western Australia by steamship and then from Perth up to Marchagee by train [108: page 6]
The train trip of 150 miles took eight and a half hours including two refreshment stops at Mogumber and Watheroo [108: page 7]
Along with his wife arrived in Marchagee on Wednesday 20 May 1931 [108: page 6]
His son Peter had arrived a week earlier and their younger two children joined them at the end of the 1931 school year [108: pages 6, 19]
Upon their arrival the development of the farm was in a very elementary stage and their initial accommodation was a tent [108: page 6]
There was a gable-roof two room house with front and back verandahs, with half a verandah enclosed for a kitchen [108: page 5, 6]
The house was occupied by the KEAY family and the only other permanent structure was a corrugated iron chaff room [108: pages 6]
Farmer of Anster Farm in Marchagee 1931-1938 [108: pages 5, 6, 20]
Continued to farm in partnership with Robert S. KEAY until 1933 when KEAY left and the partnership ended [108: page 13] [19]
By mid 1934 KEAY no longer had his stake and he had become the sole owner of the farm's 2,027 acres [3]
The farm's 2,037 acres consisted of Victoria Locations 3231, 3232, 3233, 3234, 3235, 3240, 3250, 6383 and 7036 [3]
He was one of the first to commence harvesting in Marchagee in 1933 [5: 17-Nov-1933]
On 16 March 1935 lost a truck tyre and rim between the railway siding and the mailboxes on the East Marchagee Road [5: 29-Mar-1935]
Wrote to the Carnamah District Road Board in April 1935 requesting they enforce the compulsory eradication of turnip weed [5]
He wrote the letter as the wild turnip weed was prevalent on properties adjoining his farm in Marchagee [5: 12-Apr-1935]
A few weeks later he wrote to the Road Board again about why no action had been taken in eradicating turnip weed [5: 3-May-1935]
The Road Board responded sympathising with the issue, but said the cost of endeavouring to control the weed was too high [5]
Received a refund from the Carnamah District Road Board in 1936 after being overcharged on motor vehicle registrations [5: 17-Apr-1936]
Sold 87 sheep suckers through Elder Smith & Co Ltd on 2 September 1936 (36 at 20/7, 15 at 19/4, 18 at 21/1, 18 at 17/4) [5: 4-Sep-1936]
Attended the Inaugural Sale of the North Midlands Stud Stockbreeders Association in Carnamah on Friday 18 September 1936 [5]
At the sale he purchased four Border Leicester rams at 5½ guineas per head from LEISHMAN Bros of Winchester [5: 2-Oct-1936]
Sold 87 ewes through Elder Smith & Co at Midland Market in late 1936 (13 at 9/11, 21 at 8/10, 17 at 7/10, 36 at 4/7) [5: 13 & 20-Nov-1936]
Father of Peter, Sandy and Grace [108]
Died 7 August 1972; cremated at The Necropolis in Springvale, Victoria, Australia [131]
Mrs Nellie Simpson THOMSON
Wife of James Fowler THOMSON; see Nellie Simpson WELSH
Joseph THOMSON
Farmer in Nugadong, East Gunyidi 1911-1919 [19] [50]
Born 1873 in Dromana, Victoria, Australia [15]
Son of Nelson RUDDUCK and Jane Sophia CHAPMAN [15]
Arrived in Western Australia in 1900 and worked in Kalgoorlie and then in Perth [P17]
Married Alice Mary MORTON on 8 June 1903 in the Melbourne suburb of Saint Kilda [P363]
In 1905 he was living in Mends Street in South Perth [6]
Purchased approximately 14,000 acres of land in the Coorow-Waddy Forest district in 1906 [P17]
From 1906 to 1912 travelled to the farm each weekend, catching the train to Coorow and then back to Perth in time for work [P17]
Purchased land surrounding Ytinchie Spring and Pacanmaya Spring from the Benedictine Community of New Norcia in 1910 [68]
Wrote to the Upper Irwin Road Board in April 1910 inquiring about the clearing of road number 3605 in Coorow [9: 29-Apr-1910]
Again wrote to the Upper Irwin Road Board in July 1910 to request the clearing and improvement of roads in Coorow [9: 5-Aug-1910]
In October 1910 requested the closure of a road, the Board advising he advertise its closure in the Government Gazette [9: 4-Nov-1910]
Wrote to the Board in May 1911 requesting a new road be declared in Coorow, and outlining where it was required [9: 2-Jun-1911]
The Board responded that he had to obtain permission of owners for a road to pass through their property before they could act [9]
Foundation President of the Coorow Farmers' Progress Association in 1911 [39: 4-Aug-1911]
In 1912, along with his wife and two children, took up full time residence on his property - which he named Koobabbie [P17]
Farmer of Koobabbie Farm in Waddy Forest / Coorow 1912-1948 [P17]
In 1917 grew 1,100 acres of wheat crop on his farm - the largest acreage to be grown in the Coorow district that year [10: 19-Jun-1917]
His crops of Currawa wheat averaged 30 bushels per acre [9: 25-Jan-1918]
Advertised in The Midlands Advertiser in January 1918 that he had Currawa seed wheat for sale for 5/- per bushel [9: 25-Jan-1918]
The Midland Railway Company purchased 60 bags of his Currawa seed wheat for 5/- per bushel in 1918 [34]
He also owned a parcel of farmland in Marchagee which he sold to the Repatriation Department after the First World War [108: page 5]
The land was divided into two farms and allocated to two ex-servicemen under the Soldier Settlement Scheme [108: page 5]
As it turned out both ex-servicemen were "quite unsuitable on medical grounds and both suffered financial hardship" [108: page 5]
Sold 30 bales of wool in November 1921 - seven at 16¼d. per pound, ten at 16d. per pound, and 13 at 15½d. per pound [10: 11-Nov-1921]
On 19 September 1922 he was appointed honorary caretaker of all timber and vegetation on Jun Jun Road in Coorow [9: 29-Sep-1922]
Winner of the Coorow Farm Competition in 1922 with a crop of Nabawa wheat which yielded 36½ bushels per acre [10: 28-Feb-1924]
His wheat crop successes on his farm in Coorow were attributed to his use of 200 pounds of superphosphate per acre [10: 6-Mar-1924]
He also fostered the growth of trefoil, which enriched his land with nitrates and thus resulted in more pasture for livestock [10]
With more pasture he was able to run greater numbers of sheep whose droppings increased the presence of humus in the soil [10]
This was claimed to be of great assistance as soils in the Western Australian wheatbelt were deficient in humus [10]
His example showed other farmers the way, including BOTHE Bros of Coorow and Mrs Evelyn VANZETTI of Marchagee [10]
Advertised in January 1923 that he had Pedigreed Wheat for Sale, namely Currawa, Gresley and Nabawah [9: 5-Jan-1923]
Wrote a letter to the Carnamah Road Board in August 1924 suggesting improvements to roads in Coorow [9: 28-Aug-1924]
He was granted permission to erect a telephone line along the boundary of the road from Waddy store to his farm in 1925 [9: 27-Nov-1925]
Sold 50 bales of wool on 18 October 1929 - 6 at 12½d., 24 at 12¼d., 11 at 11¾d., 5 at 11d., and 4 at 10½d. per pound [4: 19-Oct-1929]
In 1930 Koobabbie was noted, among other things, for the beautiful roses grown in its gardens [4: 23-Aug-1930]
Competitor in the Victoria District Agricultural Society's Top Dressing of Pasture Competition conducted in 1930 [4: 29-Nov-1930]
Owned a Ford Runabout car registered with the Carnamah District Road Board with license plate CA-396 in 1932 [4: 12-Nov-1932]
Inaugural Patron of the Coorow-Waddy Forest District Agricultural Society 1932-1951 [4: 9-Apr-1932, 7-Apr-1951]
In September 1932 the Minister for Agriculture remarked he had "established one of the show farms of the State" [5: 9-Sep-1932]
Exhibited and won prizes in five sections of first Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show on Thursday 8 September 1932 [5: 16-Sep-1932]
Won 1st prizes for Merino Fleece (strong wool) and Merino Fleece (medium wool) and 2nd for Border Leicester Cross Fleece [5]
In the Cattle and Horse sections won 1st prize for a Shorthorn Cow and 2nd prize for a Team of Two Farm Horses in Harness [5]
Won both 1st and 2nd prizes for "Three ewes suitable for breeding export lambs (in the wool)" in the Sheep section [5]
In the Sheep section also won 1st prizes for Merino Ram (strong wool) and Three Fat Lambs (in wool) [5]
Won 2nd prizes for Dorset Horn Ram and Three Fat Lambs Suitable for Export in the Sheep section [5]
Won 1st prize for the "Best Pair of Bird any other breed" in the Poultry section; also won 2nd for Locally Grown Lemons [5]
Treated at the Carnamah Private Hospital for a dislocated wrist from being thrown from his horse on 30 July 1933 [5: 7-Jul-1933]
In 1933 he was known "as a most methodical and enterprising farmer" [5: 28-Jul-1933]
His property Koobabbie was described as a model farm that was well known of throughout the North Midlands [120: 5-Oct-1933]
Purchased and imported six Aberdeen Angus heifers from the Eastern States of Australia in July 1933 [5: 28-Jul-1933]
The previous year he had purchased an Aberdeen Angus Bull and crossed it with beef strain Shorthorn cows [5]
He intended going in for the beef and fat lamb markets and was gradually phasing out her Merinos and introducing crossbreds [5]
Received seven 1st and seven 2nd prizes for exhibits entered in the Second Annual Agricultural Show held in Coorow in 1933 [5]
Won 1st for a Draught Mare/Gelding and 2nd prizes for Draught Stallion, Team of 2 Farm Horses and Team of 4 Farm Horses [5]
In the Cattle section received 1st prizes for Shorthorn Cow milking strain, Jersey Heifer and One Fat Beast [5]
Won 1st prizes for Border Leicester Ram, Crossbred Ewe with twin lambs and both 1st and 2nd for strong wool Merino Ewe [5]
Won 2nd prizes for Three Fat Crossbred Sheep, a Merino Fleece and for a Border Collie Sheep Dog or Bitch [5: 15-Sep-1933]
In October 1933 sold four bales of wool at 15¾d. per pound, 10 bales at 15¼d.,13 bales at 14¾ and 5 bales at 14½d. [5: 13-Oct-1933]
Patron in 1933 and Vice Patron 1935-1938 of the Carnamah District Agricultural Society [5: 26-Apr-1935, 22-Nov-1935, 22-Jan-1937] [13]
Gave seeds for Sturt Desert Peas to the Waddy Forest and Waddy Well State School and offered a prize for the first flower [5]
Joan MANNING and Anne GREENWOOD were the only ones who kept their plants alive, the latter being the winner [5: 25-May-1934]
Patron of the Coorow Football Club in 1934 and 1937 [5: 20-Apr-1934, 16-Apr-1937]
Successfully exhibited in four sections of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show held at Maley Park, Coorow on 30 August 1934 [5]
Received two 1st prizes in the Wool section for Border Leicester Merino Cross Fleece and for a Sheep Skin [5: 7-Sep-1934]
1st prizes for Draught Stallion and Brood Mare/Gelding and 2nd for Draught Brood Mare and Team of Two Farm Horses [5]
1st prize for 2½ year Merino Ewe and 2nd for Three Ewes for Breeding Export Lambs and a Border Collie Sheep Dog/Bitch [5]
In 1934-35 he was the owner of the registered six year old draught stallion by the name of Victoria Shamrock [5: 25-Jan-1935]
Sold 176 suckers through Westralian Farmers Ltd at the Midland Market on Wednesday 4 September 1935 [5: 6-Sep-1935]
Out of the 176 suckers sold 78 at 16/4 per head, 58 at 17/4 per head, 16 at 15/7 per head, and 24 at 15/1 per head [5]
Exhibited in the Wool and Horse section of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show held on Thursday 5 September 1935 [5: 13-Sep-1935]
Won 1st prizes for Border Leicester-Merino Cross Fleece, Brood Mare, and Yearling Draught; and 2nd for Draught Stallion [5]
Sold nine bales of wool at 13d. per pound and four bales at 12d. per pound at the Perth Wool Sale on 7 October 1935 [5: 11-Oct-1935]
Attended the entertainment for the Commonwealth Grants Commission at the Coorow Hotel on 21 November 1935 [5: 29-Nov-1935]
Sent a floral tribute for the grave of Miss "May" Mary L. LANG at the Winchester Cemetery on 26 November 1935 [5: 29-Nov-1935]
His nephew and niece Jack and Rene RUDDUCK of Melbourne visited himself and his wife at Koobabbie in May 1936 [5: 29-May-1936]
Sold 370 suckers (200 at 21/10 and 170 at 20/7, a total of £363/5/10) at the Midland Market on 19 August 1936 [5: 21-Aug-1936]
Exhibited in the Sheep, Wool and Sheep Dog sections of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1936 [5: 11-Sep-1936]
Came 2nd after his son for "three ewes first-cross long-wool suitable for breeding export lambs bred by exhibitor" [5]
and also received 2nd prizes for Border Leicester Merino Cross Fleece and for Kelpie Dog or Bitch [5]
Sold eight bales of wool through Westralian Farmers Ltd in 1936 - four bales at 15¾d. and 4 bales at 13½d. per pound [5: 16-Oct-1936]
Wrote to the Carnamah District Road Board in December 1936 conditionally agreeing to the closure of a road [5: 24-Dec-1936]
He agreed to the closure of the road that cut the corner of Victoria Location 8671 and went through Victoria Location 8187 [5]
He agreed subject to a new road being made along the south of Location 8671 and continuing along the west of Location 8187 [5]
It was then to go east and north to connect to the road to Maya, and the old road to stay open until the new one was cleared [5]
Received 15 points of rain from stormy weather in Waddy Forest on Wednesday 17 March 1937 [5: 19-Feb-1937]
Purchased a new Buick sedan car through Arthur W. G. A. POTTS of Three Springs in March 1937 [5: 25-Mar-1937]
Sold 16 ewes at 27/10 per head through Westralian Farmers Ltd at the Midland Market on Wednesday 14 July 1937 [5: 16-Jul-1937]
Financial Member of the Carnamah District Agricultural Society 1937-1939 [13]
Donated £5/5/- to the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts Agricultural Society to assist them with their Annual Show in 1937 [150]
Exhibited in the Horse, Cattle, Sheep Dog and Grain & Fodder sections of the Society's Annual Show in 1937 [5: 10-Sep-1937]
Awarded 1st prizes for Draught Gelding, Yearling Draught Colt or Filly and 2-year Filly; and 2nd for Draught Stallion [5]
Won 1st for Best Beef Breed Bull and Green Wheat for Hay; and 2nd for Green Oats for Hay and Kelpie dog or bitch [5]
Won a number of prizes in the cattle section of the 1939 Royal Show in Perth [0: image 03858]
Patron of the Coorow-Waddy Forest Agricultural Society and Patriotic Funds Committee in 1945 [0: image 04320]
In late 1948 left Koobabbie and retired to South Perth [4: 5-Feb-1949]
Prior to his departure he and his wife were presented with a solid silver salver from the residents of the Coorow district [4: 5-Feb-1949]
Resided at 26 Ridge Street in South Perth 1949-1952 [P17]
Father of Arnold and Muriel [P363]
Died 31 October 1952; cremated at the Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA [2]
From The Western Mail newspaper, Friday 20 December 1928:
Country Towns and Districts - Carnamah-Coorow - Rapid Development
"Mr S. B. Rudduck has 1,800 of his 10,030 acres under crop. The property is mostly heavy soil, but there is some rough country. His sowing policy is 100 lb. of super for grass and 200 lb. through the drill for crops. The property carries 4,000 sheep and cattle; Koonoona merinos have been crossed with Border Leicester rams for the needs of the fat lamb trade. Mr Rudduck grows Wimmera rye grass as fodder, and top dresses pastures heavily with super. The farm is exceptionally well equipped, electric light being supplied to the homestead and farm buildings. There is also an unusually large permanent dam."
Vera Kathleen Craig RUTLAND
Born 1901 in Midland, Western Australia [15]
Daughter of James Mathew RUTLAND and Jane Isabelle CRAIG [15]
Resided with her husband Clifford Clyde CROCKER on Glenhurst Farm in Coorow [19]
Received 2nd prizes for a female White Leghorn and for Beetroot at the first Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1932 [5: 16-Sep-1932]
Won 1st prizes for Onions in the Vegetable section of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show on Thursday 30 August 1934 [5: 7-Sep-1934]
Awarded 1st prizes for male and female Bronzewing Turkeys at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1935 [5: 13-Sep-1935]
Sold 48 ewes (20 at 9/10, 14 at 13/1, 14 at 9/1), 40 wethers at 40/1, 1 ram at 10/- and 1 lamb at 14/- in January 1936 [5: 8 & 22-Jan-1937]
Later resided in Bullsbrook [2]
Died 1 September 1992; buried Midland Cemetery, Midland WA (General, B, 73) [2]
Thomas RUFFLEY
Farmer in Gunyidi in 1911 and 1912 [19] [50]
"Maggie" Margaret RYAN
Born 25 November 1865 in Moonta, South Australia [55]
Daughter of John RYAN and Catherine O'BRIEN [55]
Married "Alf" John James Alford SPICER on 28 November 1894 at the residence of the Archbishop in Adelaide, South Australia [55]
Resided with her husband and children in Marchagee 1911-1915 and then in Gunyidi 1916-1920 [19] [44] [50]
For a period they lived at Lot 35 Station Street in the Coorow townsite [P66]
Later resided in Dalwallinu [P361]
Mother of "Irene" Annie Irene and "Ivy" Gwendoline Mary [P361]
Died suddenly in Dalwallinu on 29 May 1929 [P361]
"Maude" Edith Maude Wilcocks RYOTT
Born 1877 in Belmont, Durham, England [20] [21]
Daughter of Anthony Elliot RYOTT and Amelia Ann WILCOCKS [20] [21]
Baptised on 25 February 1877 in Belmont, Durham, England [33]
In the 1880s and 1890s her father was an Ironworks Clerk and Commercial Clerk however by 1901 was a Private School Tutor [20]
At the time of the 1881 British Census was living with her parents and sister Millicent at Carrville in Saint Giles, Durham, England [20]
By 1891 her mother had died and she was living with her father and sister Millicent at Eden Villa in Saint Giles, Durham, England [20]
Later resided with her father and stepmother Margaret at Woodspeen House in Newbury, Berkshire, England [20]
Married "Guy" Michael Guy GREENWOOD in 1912 [66]
Resided with her husband on Brooklands Farm in Southern Brook near Northam 1912-1922 [P141]
In 1922 shifted with her husband to prospective farmland at Waddy Forest that had been purchased the previous year [P141]
Resided on Manell Farm in Waddy Forest 1922-1942 [0: images 04183, 04462]
Wrote to the Carnamah District Road Board in August 1934 requesting the clearing of the road from Waddy to their farm [5: 31-Aug-1934]
Herself and her daughter travelled from Waddy to Perth in early October 1935, and returned home on Saturday 5 October [5: 4-Oct-1935]
Sold 19 lambs at 12/- per head and 27 lambs at 7/10 per head through Elder Smith & Co Ltd on 2 October 1935 [5: 4-Oct-1935]
Less than a week later sold 55 suckers (41 at 10/10, 12 at 12/10 and 2 at 18/1 per head) through Westralian Farmers Ltd [5: 11-Oct-1935]
Sold a steer for £3/12/6 through Elder Smith & Co Ltd at the Midland Market on Wednesday 23 October 1935 [5: 25-Oct-1935]
Attended the 25th Wedding Anniversary of Malcolm L. and Irene S. PATTON in Waddy Forest on 1 April 1936 [5: 3-Apr-1936]
Herself and her husband travelled from Coorow by train for a short holiday in Perth on Friday 19 June 1936 [5: 26-Jun-1936]
Won 1st for Snapdragons and 2nd for Six Geraniums in the Flower section of the 1936 Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show [5: 11-Sep-1936]
During later September 1936 she spent a holiday in Perth [5: 25-Sep-1936]
Sold 42 sheep (24 suckers at 14/10, 14 suckers at 10/10, 4 ewes at 18/- per head) at the Midland Market in October 1936 [5: 16-Oct-1936]
Sold 45 sheep (21 lambs at 15/10, 20 lambs at 13/10, 4 ewes at 12/- per head) at the Midland Market in November 1936 [5: 20-Nov-1936]
At the Midland Market on 6 January 1937 she sold 21 lambs at 13/7 and 24 lambs at 10/- through Elder Smith & Co Ltd [5: 8-Jan-1937]
Herself and her husband celebrated their Silver Wedding Anniversary at their farmhouse on Tuesday night 1 June 1937 [5: 4-Jun-1937]
Family and friends at the celebration included her husband's brother and sister-in-law George N. & Mary F. S. GREENWOOD; [5]
John & Eliza M. P. LAMPARD; Fred & Lilian S. BINGHAM; Miss H. Verna FOWLER; Miss Ivy L. BINGHAM; [5]
their nephew Roy M. PATTON; and nephew and nieces Harry C., Mary E., M. Marjory M. and Anne P. GREENWOOD [5]
Herself and her husband departed Waddy Forest on Tuesday 15 June 1937 for a short holiday in Perth [5: 18-Jun-1937]
Attended the wedding in Carnamah and breakfast in Coorow of Mary E. GREENWOOD and Albert E. MILES on 18 August 1937 [5]
As aunt of the bride she was reported as "gowned in grey silk marocain with red trimmings and hand-made lace front" [5: 20-Aug-1937]
Sent a wreath for the funeral of Coorow stationmaster William C. Cox at the Karrakatta Cemetery on 4 November 1937 [5: 12-Nov-1937]
Following the death of her husband she left Waddy Forest and shifted to Busselton and resided there 1943-1947 [5: 18-Apr-1947]
Following her husband's death leased and later sold Manell Farm in Waddy Forest to their nephew Harry C. GREENWOOD [3]
Mother of Millicent [14]
Died 4 April 1947 in Busselton; buried Winchester Cemetery, Carnamah (Row D, Plot 8) [1] [14]
From The North Midland Times newspaper, Friday 18 April 1947:
"Obituary - Vale Mrs. E. M. Greenwood. The death occurred at Busselton on April 4 of Mrs Edith Maude Greenwood, aged 70 years. Since the death of her late husband, Mr. Michael Guy Greenwood in November, 1942, Mrs. Greenwood has been living in retirement in Busselton to be nearer her daughter and only child Mrs. S. Carroll. The late Mrs. Greenwood was a woman greatly beloved by the early settlers of Waddy Forest. The daughter of an Oxford tutor, she was brought up in a refined atmosphere, and was meticulous in her abservance of the conventions of her age. To be transplanted to the pioneering districts of Western Australia, first at Southern Brook and then at Waddy Forest, was a big change. But Mrs. Greenwood demonstrated that an English lady can reign in a settler's cottage. Though timid by nature and some times the subject of good natured Australian mirth she was dauntless in her courage when others needed help. She would think nothing of walking miles along a bush track to succour a sick neighbour or child. Her chief dread was to meet a bushranger and her armament consisted of a match box full of pepper. To use her own words she "would be a missing quantity by the time the bushranger stopped sneezing." A good conversationalist with a keen sense of humour and withal a firm Christian faith, Mrs. Greenwood had the art of endearing herself to all. Many were the notes that her daughter Millie carried to and from school as she kept in touch with other mothers. Right up to the time of her sudden death, she still wrote often to many friends in the district. The funeral was held at Winchester where the Anglican Rector, Rev. Foss officiated at the graveside in the presence of a large gathering of friends. The chief mourners were Mr. G. N. Greenwood (brother-in-law), Mrs. G. N. Greenwood (sister-in-law), Mrs. Miles (niece), Messrs. H. Greenwood, N. Patton and R. Patton (nephews). The ball bearers were:- Messrs. B. D. Bothe, A. M. McGilp, C. Gronow, D. McCann, B. Lampard, G. Underwood, E. W. Fowler, J. Morcombe. Floral tributes were received from the following:- Millie, Stewart [Carroll] and family; Jim, Marge, Jill and Jimmy [Hopkins]; George, Dolly, Harry and Dorothy [Greenwood]; Bert, Anne, Kaye and Janice [Jones]; Marge, Jim and family; Bert and Mary [Miles]; Lydia, Charles [Hyde] and family; Eleanor and Margaret Gronow; Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Melvin and family; Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Peters; Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Rudduck; Mr. and Mrs. R. Wallace and family; Mr. and Mrs. A. McGilp and family; Mr. and Mrs. Baxter Bothe, Dick and Lloyd; The Read Family; The Fowler Twins; Mr. and Mrs. Cole, Fred and Gordon; Irene, Roy, Norman, Mary and Joyce [Patton]; Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Fowler; Clarice and Arnold Rudduck; Ben, Nancy [Lampard] and family; Mr. and Mrs. Tim Melvin and family; Elsie and Frank Bradley; Mrs. Folland, Nance, Gilbert and Fay; Tom and Betty Morcombe; Edgar and Dorcas [Fowler]; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bothe and family; Mr. and Mrs. F J. and H. Kau; Mr. and Mrs. N. G. Hyde and family."
SSS
"Patricia" Frances Patricia SACHSE
Born 28 January 1921 in Cottesloe, Western Australia [215]
Daughter of Herbert Frank SASCHE and Mary Agnes NOLAN [215]
Resided with her parents on Monomeath Farm, Lot M1046 of Victoria Location 2023, in Coorow in 1930 and 1931 [215]
Following the reopening of the Coorow State School she was the tenth student enrolled on its opening day on 10 February 1930 [215]
Student at the Coorow State School in Coorow in 1930 and 1931 [215]
Resided with her parents in Three Springs in 1932 [98]
Student at the Dominican Convent School in Three Springs from 8 February 1932 until the end of 1932 [98] [99]
Won 2nd prize for Scones made with Anchor Baking Power at the Three Springs Agricultural Show in 1932 [5: 30-Sep-1932]
Enrolled as a student at the Dominican Ladies College in Dongara on 15 February 1933 [99]
She became a Dominican nun and was also known as Sister Mary Anthony [2]
Resided of late in the Perth suburb of Scarborough [2]
Died 12 June 2008; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Roman Catholic, IC, 1G) [2]
Herbert Frank SACHSE
Born 12 May 1898 in Boulder, Western Australia [16]
Son of "John" Johann Gottlieb SACHSE and Emma Minnie GROSSMAN [15]
Married (1) Mary Agnes NOLAN in 1920 [66]
Farmer of Monomeath Farm in Coorow in 1930 and 1931 [215]
The farm was the 1,477 acre Lot M1046 of Victoria Location 2023 which belonged to the Estate of the Late Charles A. NOLAN [215]
Listed his three elder children in applications for the closed Coorow State School to be reopened in early January 1930 [215]
Confectioner in Three Springs in 1932 [98]
Cook in Geraldton in 1933 [99]
He was living in the Perth suburb of Nedlands when he enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Force in Perth on 21 March 1942 [16]
Corporal 46872 of the Royal Australian Air Force's 5 Personnel Depot Staff during the Second World War [16]
Married (2) Ellen Margaret STAPLETON in Perth in 1944 [66]
Discharged from the Royal Australian Air Force on 8 February 1946 [16]
Resided of late in the Perth suburb of Embleton [2]
Father of Patricia, Margaret, Nancy and Robert [98] [215]
Died 1 April 1974; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Roman Catholic, PG, 100) [2]
Margaret Mary SACHSE
Born 18 September 1922 in Kwelkan, Western Australia [98]
Daughter of Herbert Frank SACHSE and Mary Agnes NOLAN [98]
Resided with her parents on Monomeath Farm, Lot M1046 of Victoria Location 2023, in Coorow in 1930 and 1931 [215]
Following the reopening of the Coorow State School she was the 16th student enrolled on its opening day on 10 February 1930 [215]
Student at the Coorow State School in Coorow in 1930 and 1931 [215]
Resided with her parents in Three Springs in 1932 [98]
Enrolled as a student at the Dominican Convent School in Three Springs on 8 February 1932 [98]
Resided with her parents Geraldton in 1933 [99]
Student at a convent in Geraldton before being enrolled at the Dominican Ladies College in Dongara on 28 September 1933 [99]
Resided in the Perth suburb of Nedlands prior to enlisting in the Royal Australian Air Force on 2 June 1943 [16]
Aircraftwoman 103888 at the Royal Australian Air Force's Station at Pearce during the Second World War [16]
Discharged from the Royal Australian Air Force on 21 January 1946 [16]
Married Eric WELLER in 1946 [66]
Died 26 January 1994; buried Utakarra Cemetery in Geraldton, Western Australia [26]
Mrs Mary Agnes SACHSE
Wife of Herbert Frank SACHSE; see Mary Agnes NOLAN
"Nancy" Mary Irene SACHSE
Born 21 February 1924 in Kellerberrin, Western Australia [215]
Daughter of Herbert Frank SASCHE and Mary Agnes NOLAN [215]
Resided with her parents on Monomeath Farm, Lot M1046 of Victoria Location 2023, in Coorow in 1930 and 1931 [215]
Following the reopening of the Coorow State School she was the 17th student enrolled on its opening day on 10 February 1930 [215]
Student at the Coorow State School in Coorow in 1930 and 1931 [215]
After her parents left Coorow she attended a school in Kununoppin and then a convent in Trayning [99] [215]
Enrolled as a student at the Dominican Ladies College in Dongara on 4 July 1934 [99]
Resided in the Perth suburb of Nedlands prior to enlisting in the Royal Australian Air Force in Perth on 5 June 1943 [16]
Aircraftwoman 103931 in the Royal Australian Air Force's 87 Operational Base Unit during the Second World War [16]
Discharged from the Royal Australian Air Force on 23 August 1945 [16]
Married "Ken" Laurence Kenneth WINTON in Perth in 1947 [66]
Resided of late in the Perth suburb of Trigg [2]
Died 28 December 2003; ashes interred Pinnaroo Valley Memorial Park, Perth suburb of Padbury (Banksia Court, 45, 165T) [2]
Stella Alison SAGE
Born 7 April 1887 in Angaston, South Australia [55]
Daughter of Samuel SAGE and Helen FROBES [55]
Married "Phil" Philip Thomas MORCOMBE on 6 July 1915 in Port Lincoln, South Australia [55]
Resided with her husband on farmland in Ceduna, South Australia [P86]
In 1921 her husband purchased and shifted to prospective farmland in Waddy Forest, Western Australia [P86]
Shifted with her son to Waddy Forest in 1923 to join her husband [P86]
Resided on Minaru Farm in Waddy Forest [P86]
Attended Charles ROBERTSON and Winifred LANG's wedding dance on 27 March 1928 at the Carnamah Hall [4: 31-Mar-1928]
Awarded 1st prize for Cakes at the Carnamah Show and Sports Carnival on Thursday 4 October 1928 [4: 13-Oct-1928]
Won 1st prizes for Six Varieties of Cakes and for Sponge Sandwich at the Carnamah Agricultural Show in 1929 [4: 28-Sep-1929]
In August 1930 her garden was described as "exceptionally attractive" in The Irwin Index newspaper [4: 23-Aug-1930]
Won 1st for Sponge Sandwich in the Confectionary section of the Carnamah Agricultural Show on 18 September 1930 [4: 27-Sep-1930]
Exhibited and won prizes in three sections of Coorow-Waddy's First Agricultural Show held on Thursday 8 September 1932 [5]
Won 2nd prizes for Cauliflower, Pickles and for a Decorative Vase of Garden Flowers [5: 16-Sep-1932]
Along with her husband and two children spent a holiday in Bunbury in January 1933 [5: 27-Jan-1933]
Attended the Official Opening of the Carnamah Golf Course at Centenary Park in Carnamah on Sunday 23 July 1933 [5: 28-Jul-1933]
Won 1st prizes for Plain Scones, Vase of Flowers and Pansies and 2nd for Marmalade at the 1933 Coorow-Waddy Show [5: 15-Sep-1933]
Committee Member of the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts Agricultural Society 1933, 1935 and 1937 [5: 23-Dec-1932, 3-May-1935, 20-Nov-1936]
Along with her husband, Stan FOLLAND and Keith MORCOMBE travelled to Perth by car on Friday 16 March 1934 [5: 23-Mar-1934]
Exhibited in the Confectionary and Flower sections of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show on 30 August 1934 [5: 7-Sep-1934]
Received 1st prizes for Fancy Scones, Fruit Cake, Fancy Bread and Collection of Marmalade, and 2nd prize for Madiera Cake [5]
Won 1st prizes for Geraniums, Pansies, Iceland Poppies, and 2nd for Sweet Peas and Artistically Arranged Vase of Flowers [5]
Herself, her husband and daughter Helen travelled from Waddy to Perth by car with Angus MCGILP on 25 June 1935 [5: 28-Jun-1935]
Won 2nd prizes for Sweet Peas and Crochet Woollen Article at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1935 [5: 13-Sep-1935]
Exhibited in the Fancywork section of the Three Springs Agricultural Show on Thursday 19 September 1935 [5: 27-Sep-1935]
Awarded both 1st and 2nd prizes for Doyleys, 1st prize for Worked Toilet Set, and 2nd prize for Pair of Knitted Socks [5]
Herself, her husband and their daughter Helen spent a holiday in the Perth in October 1935, and attended the Royal Show [5: 11-Oct-1935]
Attended the funeral of Miss "May" Mary L. LANG of Carnamah at the Winchester Cemetery on 26 November 1935 [5: 29-Nov-1935]
Along with her husband and children travelled form Waddy to Perth on Tuesday 4 February 1936 [5: 7-Feb-1936]
On Thursday 6 February 1936 herself and her daughter Helen departed on the Manoora for Adelaide, South Australia [5]
After some weeks visiting relatives in South Australia they returned to Western Australia during mid April 1936 [5: 24-Apr-1936]
Her husband travelled to Perth to meet them on 15 April 1936, and they returned to Waddy Forest on Sunday 19 April 1936 [5]
Attended the Coorow Golf Club's Opening Day for the 1936 season in Coorow on Sunday 17 May 1936 [5: 22-May-1936]
After four days as inmates at the Carnamah Private Hospital herself and her daughter returned home on 10 June 1936 [5: 12-Jun-1936]
Herself and her husband travelled to Perth and returned to their home in Waddy during the first week of August 1936 [5: 7-Aug-1936]
Attended the Surprise 21st Birthday of her niece Nance FOLLAND at Enfield Park in Waddy Forest on 17 August 1936 [5: 21-Aug-1936]
Financial Member of the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts Agricultural Society in 1936 [150]
Exhibited in the Confectionary, Fancy Work and Flower sections of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show on 3 September 1936 [5]
Won 1st prizes for Madeira Cake and Crochet Woollen Article, and 2nd for Cream Puffs, Sweet Peas and Gent's Buttonhole [5]
Attended the Show Ball held at the Coorow Hall during the evening wearing black georgette [5: 11-Sep-1936]
Won 1st prize for Sweet Peas in the Flower section of the Carnamah Agricultural Show on Thursday 10 September 1936 [5: 18-Sep-1936]
Judged the Confectionary section of the Three Springs Agricultural Society's Annual Show on 17 September 1936 [5: 25-Sep-1936]
Herself, her husband and their daughter Helen motored from Waddy Forest to Perth on Wednesday 30 September 1936 [5: 2-Oct-1936]
After a brief stay in Perth, during which they attended the Perth Royal Show, they returned to Waddy Forest [5: 16-Oct-1936]
Travelled to Perth in December 1936 to see her son before he went to Port Hedland for Christmas with a school friend [5: 11-Dec-1936]
After an enjoyable few days of camping at Dongara returned to Waddy Forest on Tuesday night 19 January 1937 [5: 22-Jan-1937]
The camping party had consisted of herself, her husband, their daughter Helen, niece Barbara and friend Enid CONWAY [5]
Purchased an Electrolux Kelvinator refrigerator from Carnamah agent W. George MULLIGAN in early 1937 [5: 5-Mar-1937]
Herself, her husband and their children spent "a jolly week" holidaying at Safety Bay in early February 1937 [5: 12-Feb-1937]
Member of the Coorow Golf Club in 1937 [5: 30-Jul-1937]
Attended the Surprise Linen Tea for Miss Mary E. GREENWOOD at Maryland Farm in Waddy Forest on 22 July 1937 [5: 23-Jul-1937]
Edward and Mrs MATTNEY of Adelaide, South Australia holidayed with them in Waddy Forest in September 1937 [5: 3-Sep-1937]
Donated a trophy for the Flower section and 16/- to the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts Agricultural Society's Show in 1937 [150]
Exhibited in the Farm Produce and Flower sections and won 2nd prizes for Lemons and Sweet Peas [5: 10-Sep-1937]
Sent a wreath for the funeral of Coorow stationmaster William C. Cox at the Karrakatta Cemetery on 4 November 1937 [5: 12-Nov-1937]
While in Carnamah on 20 May 1938 she was bitten on the foot by a dog, and received treatment at the Carnamah Private Hospital [88]
By 1958 herself and her husband and left Waddy Forest and shifted to 10 Helm Street in Mount Pleasant WA [30: item 7986382]
Herself and her husband later moved back to South Australia [P86]
Mother of Jim and Helen [P86]
Thomas Wilfred SALE
Born 1899 in Hamstall, Staffordshire, England [20] [21]
Son of farmer William SALE Jnr and Ellen SLATER [20] [21]
In 1901 he was living with his parents and siblings Mary, Rupert and Ernest on Hay End Farm in Hamstall, Staffordshire [20]
Departed London, England on the Ormuz and arrived in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia on 24 June 1924 [63]
Farmhand on A. Hamlet JONES' Turipa Farm in Coorow, Western Australia in 1928 [4: 22-Sep-1928]
He was among the 400 people who attended the Matrons and Benedicts Ball held in Three Springs on 31 August 1928 [4: 8-Sep-1928]
Died 11 September 1928 in Coorow; buried Winchester Cemetery, Carnamah (Row A, Plot 5) [1] [4]
Undertaker of his funeral was Henry Parkin & Son of Carnamah and the officiating minister was Rev. JAQUET of Three Springs [1]
From The Irwin Index newspaper, Saturday 22 September 1928:
The Coorow Tragedy - Inquest and Verdict - Some Remarkable Features
"Details of the accident at Coorow whereby Thomas Wilfred Sale lost his life under tragic circumstances make sad reading. From the evidence of Senior Constable Street, of Three Springs, taken at the inquest held at Coorow before Mr. F. Bingham J.P., as Acting Coroner, on September 12, it appears that on September 11 Sale, who was a native of Staffordshire, England, an apparently about 23 years of age, was working a tractor to which a disc plough was attached at "Turipa," Coorow, the property of Mr. A. H. Jones, for whom he had worked for about nine months. At about 7 p.m. on that day it was noticed that deceased had not returned from the paddock in which he had been working, and thinking that something was wrong, Jones and another employee named George Alexander Melville went to look for him. They found the tractor stopped, and no one in charge. Returning to the house for a light, they made a search, and found the body. Being unable to get in touch with the Three Springs police on account of the telephone office being closed, they communicated with the Moora police through the railways. Receiving a message from Moora early the next morning, Constable Street proceeded to the scene of the tragedy. A careful investigation revealed tracks from which it appeared evident that the unfortunate young man had stopped the tractor and attempted to do something to the discs. Being apparently unsuccessful in his object, he had restarted the machine and walked behind with the intention of adjusting the discs while the plough was in motion. He had then, it appeared attempted to get back to his seat again by getting in between the plough and the tractor, and had been caught by the plough and dragged under, the wheel of the plough passing over his head. The body had been dragged for 408 paces, and was shockingly mutilated, but the neck seemed to be broken and the constable was of the opinion that deceased was killed almost instantaneous. Both arms and legs were broken and the neck and other parts of the badly had been badly gashed by the discs. The Acting Coroner returned a verdict to the effect that deceased was killed by falling between a tractor and plough while same was in motion. Remarkable Features - Some remarkable features of the case were noted by Constable Street. After dragging the body of Sale for nearly a quarter of a mile, the discs on the plough had struck a root and released it. The machine had then gone on working for about four hours unattended, stopping finally when headed straight for the body, within 50 yards of it, as the result of a piece of grit becoming lodged the petrol pipe and checking the supply. On three occasions the tractor has passed close to the body, twice on one side, and once on the other. Once it just missed a tree. At another time it passed within six feet of the fence. On one occasion it had been heading straight for the fence, but had then turned and gone along parallel with it at a distance of about 15 feet. A deep patch of sand had been traversed almost as though some person were controlling the machine. Those who saw how it has been working [from its tracks], always turning and keeping in the paddock on each occasion when it had been heading in a direction leading out of it, were unanimous in describing the occurrence as the most marvellous thing they had ever seen. The Funeral - The funeral took place in the Anglican portion of the Winchester Cemetery on Thursday, the Rev. E. G. Jaquet, of Three Springs, officiating. The funeral arrangements were carried out by Messrs Henry Parkin and Son of Carnamah. Members of Mr. Jones' family attended, also deceased's mate, Mr. Melville, who was visibly affected. The late Mr. Sale was of sober habits, and in fairly good financial circumstance. He came to Australia in 1924 and had no relatives in this country so far as could be ascertained. Mr. Jones thought highly of him, and he had been treated as one of the family."
"Vic" Victor Richard SALES
Born 1906 [15]
Farmhand in Waddy Forest [5: 19-Oct-1934]
Member of the Waddy Forest Tennis Club in 1933-34 and 1934-35 [5: 20-Oct-1933, 19-Oct-1934]
Represented Waddy Forest at meetings of the Carnamah-Winchester-Coorow Tennis Association in 1934-35 [5: 7-Sep-1934]
Farewelled by his friends at Belper Farm in Waddy Forest on Tuesday 8 January 1935 [5: 11-Jan-1935]
Left Waddy Forest in January 1935 after purchasing a property near Brunswick Junction [5: 11-Jan-1935]
Married Evelyn RIDLEY, who had worked at the general store in Waddy Forest [P84]
Later resided in Bunbury WA [2]
Died 30 August 1992; ashes interred Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Crematorium Rose Gardens, O, 184) [2]
Richard SAUNDERS
Farmhand for Patterson & Company on the Mamboobie Estate in Marchagee in 1917 [50]
W. Arnold SAYER
Farmer in Gunyidi [3]
Farmed the 500 acre Victoria Location 8799 in Gunyidi, which he began leasing on 21 August 1930 [3]
Member of the Gunyidi-Marchagee Cricket Club in 1930-31 [4: 13-Dec-1930]
Samuel SCOTT
Farmer of Meelyah Farm in Gunyidi 1914-1917 [19]
His farm name was spelt Mulgah on the Commonwealth Electoral Roll of 1917 [50]
Joseph SCRIMGEOUR
Repairer in Marchagee in 1913 and 1914 [19] [50]
Harold Thomas SEYMOUR
Born 27 October 1906 in Moora, Western Australia [16]
Son of Henry SEYMOUR and "Bella" Isabella Jane BROAD [192]
Resided with his parents on Cowalcarra Farm in Moora from his birth until 1909 when they shifted to Woodbine Farm in Miling [P371]
Educated at the Moora State School 1914-1917 and then at the Round Hill State School in 1917 and 1918 [P371]
Did further schooling by correspondence classes at home on the farm which were supervised by his elder sister Evelyn [P371]
Following the conclusion of his schooling he farmed Woodbine Farm in Miling with his father and brothers [P371]
He was a nephew of Mrs Blanche A. BOTHE of Coorow and cousin of Richard B. BOTHE and Lloyd D. BOTHE of Coorow [192]
Won 1st prize for Southdown Ram at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in Coorow on Thursday 5 September 1935 [5: 13-Sep-1935]
Won the 100 yards Sheffield Handicap at the Easter Sports Meeting at Centenary Park in Carnamah on 13 April 1936 [5: 17-Apr-1936]
Best man at the wedding of George A. RAFFAN of Inchgower and Mavis S. PETHICK of Petan in Winchester in 1936 [5: 23-Oct-1936]
Came 3rd in the 75 Yards Sprint at Boxing Day Sports Meeting at Maley Park in Coorow on Saturday 26 December 1936 [5: 8-Jan-1937]
Married Alice Maud PETHICK of Winchester on Thursday 8 July 1937 at Saint George's Anglican Hall in Carnamah [5: 9-Jul-1937]
His best man was at his wedding was his brother Stanley G. SEYMOUR, who was also a Farmer in Miling [5: 9-Jul-1937] [50]
Farmer of Meridale Farm in Miling 1937-1951 [P371]
Member of the Miling Football Club, Miling Tennis Club and Miling Golf Club [P371]
Member of the Round Hill Rifle Club [P371]
Member of the Miling Pasture Improvement Group and the Miling Progress Association [P371]
Corporal W75151 in Moora's Australian Army Volunteer Defence Corps during the Second World War [16]
Drowned after being washed off rocks by a king wave while fishing at Goats Gulch in Kalbarri [P371]
Father of Desmond and Beryl [P371]
Died 29 June 1951 in Kalbarri; buried Moora Cemetery, Moora [P371]
Following his death his farm in Miling was run by his wife with assistance from his brother Richard H. SEYMOUR [P371]
Patrick William SHANAHAN
Medical Practitioner in Coorow in 1931 [50]
William George SHAW
Labourer in Coorow 1911-1914 [19]
Grace Emily SHEARS
Born 1877 in Pyrford, Surrey, England [20] [21]
Daughter of William SHEARS and Ellen INGRAM [20] [21]
On the night of the 1881 census she was with her parents and brother Harold at 2 Tinkers Lane in Woking, Surrey, England [20]
Her father was the farmer of 660 acres in 1881 and at that time employed 30 labourers, 11 boys and 9 women [20]
In 1891 was living with her parents, siblings May, Blanch, Mary and Harold and uncle James SHEARS at Lees Farm in Pyrford [20]
In 1901 was living with her parents, brother Harold and sisters May and Mary on Lees Farm in Pyrford, Sussex, England [20]
Married John READ in 1906 in Middlesex, England [21]
Resided with her husband and later also children on farmland in Wembley, Middlesex, England [P66]
Along with husband and children departed London, England on the Esperance Bay on 5 December 1922 [P66]
Arrived in Fremantle, Western Australia on the Esperance Bay on 5 January 1923 [P66]
On arrival in Western Australia resided in Fremantle for three months before shifting to Coorow [P66]
Resided on Tokyngton Farm in Coorow from 1923 until 1951 [P66]
Along with her daughter Joan, son Tom and Edgar FOWLER travelled to Perth by car on Tuesday 13 March 1934 [5: 16-Mar-1934]
Had Mr and Mrs BIRMINGHAM of West Perth as guests at their home in Coorow during early July 1936 [5: 3-Jul-1936]
Financial Member of the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts Agricultural Society in 1936 [150]
Passed away at the North Midlands District Hospital in Three Springs [1]
Mother of John, Joan, Elizabeth and Thomas [P66]
Died 13 April 1951 in Three Springs WA; buried Winchester Cemetery, Carnamah WA (Row F, Plot 11) [1]
"Gertrude" Evelyn Gertrude SHEEHAN
Teacher of the Turipa State School on JONES' Turipa Farm in Coorow in 1919 [215]
Herself and "Trix" Sarah A. E. JONES held a dance at the JONES' home on Turipa Farm on 17 May 1919 [9: 30-May-1919]
In late June 1919 the Education Department decided to move her to Coorow to reopen the closed Coorow State School [215]
Reopened the Coorow State School from a room of Coorow House on Victoria Location 385 in Coorow on 19 August 1919 [215]
Teacher of the Coorow State School from two rooms of the unoccupied Coorow House in Coorow in 1919 and 1920 [215]
Left Coorow and shifted to Perth on 5 November 1920 [215]
She left partly on account of illness and also because there was no building available to conduct the school from [215]
Called upon the Education Department in Perth on 8 November 1920 and encouraged them to continue with the school in Coorow [215]
At that time there were 14 schoolchildren and Coorow was likely to go ahead as there were surveyors busily surveying new farms [215]
John SHEPPERD
Farmer in Marchagee in 1911 [19]
Farmhand in Marchagee 1912-1914 [50]
Robert SHERRY
Groom in Coorow in 1917 [50]
Clinton Archibald SIBLEY
Born C.1890 [1]
Resided in Marchagee [1]
Died 12 February 1964 in Marchagee; buried Winchester Cemetery, Carnamah (Row R, Plot 13) [1]
Alfred SIMMS
Contractor in Coorow in 1909 [50]
John SIMPTON
Born C.1847 [2]
Married (1) Lily [19]
Ganger for the Midland Railway Company at the 162 Mile Siding in Winchester in 1911-1913 [19] [50]
Line Repairer / Fettler for the Midland Railway Company in Carnamah 1913-1918 [6] [39: 13 & 14-Aug-1913] [44]
Purchased from the Midland Railway Company for £40 two vacant blocks in the Carnamah townsite on 24 September 1914 [27]
The two blocks were 7 Yarra Street (Lot 11 of Victoria Location 1936) and 8 Yarra Street (Lot 12 of Victoria Location 1936) [27]
Later purchased 9 Yarra Street (Lot 13 of Victoria Location 1936) and 10 Yarra Street (Lot 14 of Victoria Location 1936) [27]
Purchased the then vacant 9 Yarra Street, Carnamah from the Midland Railway Company for £20 on 24 August 1916 [27]
Purchased the also then vacant 10 Yarra Street, Carnamah from the Midland Railway Company for £20 on 15 May 1918 [27]
He completed paying for all four townsite blocks, which each came payable by instalments over two years [27]
Sang a song at the "Carnamah Concert" held in the railway goods shed in Carnamah on Friday 19 February 1915 [10: 26-Feb-1915]
His wife Lily passed away at the age of 57 years on 15 September 1917 and was buried at the Karrakatta Cemetery in Perth [2]
Married (2) Mrs Mary ATTWOOD in 1919 [66]
Fettler / Ganger for the Midland Railway Company in Coorow 1919-1921 [6] [50] [215]
His stepson Paul ATTWOOD was a student at the Coorow State School during their time in Coorow [215]
The school was conducted from two rooms of Coorow House until later 1920 when it became unavailable and the school closed [215]
He built a makeshift room of about 25 feet long and 12 feet wife with hessian sides, an iron roof, fireplace and two windows [215]
The Coorow State School was then conducted from his room which he rented to the Education Department for £1 per month [215]
The first teacher to use the room found it "of very rough description" with its open gable ends and the floor being of sleepers [215]
Nonetheless his building resulted in the continuation of the school, which otherwise would have closed due to having no home [215]
His room was used for the Coorow State School from February 1921 to May 1922 when an official school building was erected [215]
Railway Ganger for the Midland Railway Company in Gunyidi 1921-1924 [44] [215]
By 1925 he was living in retirement at 45 Tuam Street in the Perth suburb of Victoria Park [50]
During the 1920s sold his 7 Yarra Street, Carnamah to A. Leslie TROTTER who built a house, shop and bakery on the block [3]
Sold his 8 Yarra Street, Carnamah to the North Midland Farmer's Co-operative Company who built a shop on the block [3]
He remained the owner of his other two blocks in Carnamah, 9 Yarra Street and 10 Yarra Street, until his death in 1929 [3]
Resided in the Perth suburb of Victoria Park until his death in 1929 [2]
Died 24 April 1929; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Anglican, UC, 176) [2]
Rate notices for his 9 and 10 Yarra Street were sent to his wife Mary until her death and then to his stepson Paul ATTWOOD [3]
In 1952 the Carnamah District Road Board sold by auction the two blocks to recover £5/2/6 owing in unpaid rates [4: 2-Aug-1952]
9 Yarra Street was sold to David I. M. BOWMAN and 10 Yarra Street was to Mrs Stella M. REYNOLDS, both of Carnamah [3]
Mrs Mary SIMPTON
Second wife of John SIMPTON; see Mrs Mary ATTWOOD
Miss Elsie SIMS
Attended the Masquerade Ball at the Carnamah Hall on Saturday evening 7 December 1935 as a "Holy Friar" [5: 13-Dec-1935]
Member of the Coorow Tennis Club in 1935-36 [5: 24-Jan-1936]
Attended Miss Olive W. KAU's 21st birthday at Meadowdale Farm in Coorow on Saturday evening 18 January 1936 [5: 24-Jan-1936]
Attended the Leap Year Ball at the Carnamah Hall on 29 February 1936, wearing pale pink satin with flowers at neckline [5: 6-Mar-1936]
Supplier of music at the Dance in aid of the Anglican Church held in Waddy Forest on Saturday 20 June 1936 [5: 26-Jun-1936]
Attended the Anglican Church's Mid-Winter Ball at the Carnamah Hall on Saturday 11 July 1936 dressed in pink taffeta [5: 17-Jul-1936]
Supplied the musical extras at the Carnamah Football Club's Dance at the Carnamah Hall on Saturday 8 August 1936 [5: 14-Aug-1936]
Attended the Coorow Tennis Club's Back to Childhood Ball at the Coorow Hall on Saturday 22 August 1936 [5: 28-Aug-1936]
Herself and Ivy L. BINGHAM received the prize for the Best Dressed Couple at the Back to Childhood Ball [5: 28-Aug-1936]
Attended the Ball after the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in Coorow on 3 September 1936 dressed in green taffeta [5: 11-Sep-1936]
Ernest George SINCLAIR
Contractor in Nugadong, East Gunyidi 1911-1916 [19]
Pearl Frances SINFIELD
Born 1911 in England [21]
Daughter of Cyril Edward SINFIELD and Daisy Laura WILLISON [21] [70]
Departed Liverpool, England with her mother on the Magentic and arrived in Fremantle, Western Australia on 13 February 1920 [70]
Later in 1920 her mother married Coorow farmer "Dan" Daniel Philip FARLEY [66]
Resided with her mother and stepfather on farmland in Coorow 1920-1928 [6] [19] [215]
Student at the Coorow State School held from a room at Coorow House on Victoria Location 385 in Coorow in 1920 [215]
Married William Edward TUCKER in Perth in 1931 [66]
In 1936 her husband was working as a railway employee and they were living on Urch Street in Geraldton [50]
Also known as Pearl Frances FARELEY [215]
Joy Lorraine SINGLETON
Born 25 September 1949 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia [45]
Daughter of "Ted" Edward George and Marjorie Phyllis SINGLETON [45]
Student at the Carnamah State School in 1960 [7: page 90]
Member of the Carnamah Girl Guides 1960-1964 [137]
Married Barry Edgar FOWLER in 1970 [45]
Following their marriage they initially resided in a house on MORCOMBE's farm in Waddy Forest [P120]
Resided with her husband in the house on Lot M1300 of Glen Waddi Farm in Waddy Forest 1971-2002 [P120]
Member of the Waddy Forest Land Conservation District Committee [45]
Mother of Jason, Raelene and Vanessa [45]
Died 29 August 2004 at Glen Waddi Farm in Coorow; cremated at the Pinnaroo Valley Memorial Park, Perth WA [45]
Elsie Ina SIVYER
Born 1916 [15]
Married (1) "Bill" William John OLDFIELD in Perth in 1938 [66]
Presumably resided with her husband in Gunyidi in 1940 [16]
Married (2) Leslie Albert FENNELL in 1947 [66]
Mrs Clara SMITH
Resided in Gunyidi 1911-1914 [19] [50]
Eliza Mabel Perry SMITH
Born 1891 in Jeparit, Victoria, Australia [54]
Daughter of Benjamin SMITH and Louisa ABBOTT [54]
Married John LAMPARD on 16 October 1911 in Dimboola, Victoria, Australia [P147]
Along with her husband and children left Victoria in 1921 and shifted to virgin land in Waddy Forest, Western Australia [P147]
Resided with her family on farmland in Waddy Forest 1921 onwards [P147]
Herself and John were the recipients of a Surprise Party on 24 May 1930, when 50 locals visited them at their home [4: 31-May-1930]
Organised a Bazaar which was held on 20 September 1930 in the Coorow Hall in aid of hospital funds [4: 4-Oct-1930]
Won 1st prize for a Collection of Flowers and 2nd for a Vase of Flowers at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1933 [5: 15-Sep-1933]
Along with her husband and daughter departed Waddy Forest on 14 January 1934 for six weeks holidays in Cottesloe [5: 19-Jan-1934]
Won 1st for Pansies and 2nd prizes for Germaniums and Iceland Poppies at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1934 [5: 7-Sep-1934]
Departed Waddy Forest with her husband and daughter on Sunday 6 January 1935 for an extended holiday at the beach [5: 11-Jan-1935]
Organised ladies to provide the supper for the Coorow Cricket Club's Dance at the Coorow Hall on 13 April 1935 [5: 19-Apr-1935]
Member of the Coorow Golf Club in 1935, 1936 and 1937 [5: 2-Aug-1935, 19-Jun-1936, 11-Jun-1937]
Won the Ladies Stepping 100 Yards at the Coorow-Waddy Sports & Dance in Coorow on Saturday 9 November 1935 [5: 15-Nov-1935]
Won the Married Ladies Race at the Athletic Sports Meeting at Maley Park in Coorow on New Year's Day 1 January 1936 [5: 3-Jan-1936]
Herself and her husband travelled from Waddy Forest to Perth on Wednesday 8 January 1936 [5: 10-Jan-1936]
Attended the 25th Wedding Anniversary of Malcolm L. and Irene S. PATTON in Waddy Forest on 1 April 1936 [5: 3-Apr-1936]
Attended the Carnamah Golf Club's 1936 season Opening Day at Centenary Park in Carnamah on Sunday 26 April 1936 [5: 1-May-1936]
During May 1936 Mrs RECKETTS and small daughter Roina spent an extended holiday staying with her in Waddy Forest [5: 8-May-1936]
Attended the Opening Day of the Coorow Golf Club for the 1936 season in Coorow on Sunday 17 May 1936 [5: 22-May-1936]
Herself and Carnamah police constable Maurice PLUNKETT won the 9-hole Handicap Mixed Foursomes played on the day [5]
Herself and her husband returned to Waddy Forest on Monday 25 May 1936 after spending a few days in Perth [5: 29-May-1936]
Won 2nd prize for Jams at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show held in Coorow on Thursday 3 September 1936 [5: 11-Sep-1936]
Attended the Coorow Golf Club's Annual Ball & Presentation of Trophies at the Coorow Hall on 17 October 1936 [5: 30-Oct-1936]
Received the trophy for winning the 1936 Associate Championship, and her husband the trophy for the Men's Championship [5]
Attended Roy M. PATTON's birthday at the dam on Longforest Farm in Waddy Forest on Sunday 8 November 1936 [5: 13-Nov-1936]
After a holiday in the Perth suburb of Cottesloe herself and her husband returned to Waddy Forest on 10 March 1937 [5: 12-Mar-1937]
Attended and competed at the Carnamah Golf Club's Season Opening at Centenary Park in Carnamah on 2 May 1937 [5: 7-May-1937]
Won the Ladies Approach and Putt at the Coorow Golf Club's Season Opening in Coorow on Sunday 16 May 1937 [5: 21-May-1937]
Attended the Silver Wedding Anniversary of Guy & Maude GREENWOOD at Manell Farm in Waddy on 1 June 1937 [5: 4-Jun-1937]
Attended the Surprise Linen Tea for Miss Mary E. GREENWOOD at Maryland Farm in Waddy Forest on 22 July 1937 [5: 23-Jul-1937]
Attended Albert E. MILES and Mary E. GREENWOOD's wedding breakfast at the Coorow Hotel on 18 August 1937 [5: 20-Aug-1937]
Won 1st prize for Cream Puffs in the Confectionary section of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1937 [5: 10-Sep-1937]
Sent a wreath for the funeral of Coorow stationmaster William C. Cox at the Karrakatta Cemetery on 4 November 1937 [5: 12-Nov-1937]
Later resided in the Perth suburb of Cottesloe [2]
Mother of Benjamin and Agnes [P147]
Died 21 October 1967; ashes interred Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Crematorium Rose Gardens, B, 103) [2]
George Charles SMITH
Railway Fettler in Gunyidi 1911-1913 [19] [50]
Leslie Norman SMITH
Born 30 September 1912 in Hamilton, Victoria, Australia [16] [54]
Son of William Henry SMITH and Annie GREENHILL [54]
Married Eileen Eunice McCAGH in Perth in 1942 [66]
Resided in the Perth suburb of North Perth prior to enlisting in the Australia Army on 19 January 1943 [16]
Private WX22279 in the Australian Army's 37 Company AASC during the Second World War [16]
Discharged from the Australian Army on 18 February 1946 [16]
By 1951 he was the farmer of 2,700 acres on the Waddy Estate [3]
His 2,700 acres was on the Waddy Estate and was a portion of Victoria Location 9970 [3]
Member of the Coorow-Waddy Forest branch of the Farmers' Union of WA in 1951 [4: 7-Apr-1951]
Member of the Coorow Golf Club in 1956 [4: 3-Aug-1956]
Had the telephone connected in 1961 - was telephone number Carnamah East 204 [60]
Farmer in Carnamah until his death in 1967 [P22]
Died 17 September 1967; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Baptist, AA, 300A) [2]
Percy William SNEYD
Born 8 May 1909 in Staffordshire, England [16]
Departed London, England on the Beltana and arrived in Fremantle, Western Australia on 15 March 1929 [63]
Employee on F. W. G. LIEBE's Waddi Farm in Waddy Forest in 1935 [88]
Resided in Perth prior to enlisting in the Australian Army on 29 January 1942 [16]
Gunner W51203 in the Australian Army's W/C Fixed Defences during the Second World War [16]
Discharged from the Australian Army on 4 June 1946 [16]
Resided of late in the Perth suburb of Dalkeith [2]
Died 30 December 1994; buried Pinnaroo Valley Memorial Park, Perth suburb of Padbury (Hovea Court, 708) [2]
"Spanner" Albert Frank Robinson SPENCER
Born 5 June 1915 in Northam, Western Australia [16]
Son of Clarence and Clara SPENCER [17]
Farmhand for Frederick J. KAU on Meadowdale Farm in Coorow for a number of years [P15]
Resided in the men's quarters on Meadowdale Farm in Coorow [P15]
Member of the Coorow Tennis Club in 1936-37 [5: 4-Dec-1936]
Competed in the Carnamah Tennis Club's Easter Tennis Tournament at Centenary Park in Carnamah in March 1937 [5: 2-Apr-1937]
Played for the victorious Single Men in a cricket match against Married Men in Coorow on Sunday 6 December 1936 [5: 11-Dec-1936]
Member of the Coorow Football Club in 1937 [5: 14-May-1937]
Donated a trophy for the Most Improved & Fairest Player to the Coorow Football Club in 1937 [5: 16-Apr-1937]
Worked in the Coorow and Waddy Forest districts for a considerable time [0: image 03998]
Member of the No. 2 Troop of the "C" Squadron of the 25th Light Horse Machine Gun Militia Regiment in 1939 [P15]
The No. 2 Troop was made of people from the North Midlands and trained in Carnamah once a fortnight [P15]
Enlisted in the Australian Army on 4 December 1939 [16]
He was one of the first people from the Coorow district to enlist in the Australian Army following the outbreak of war [0: image 03998]
Prior to embarking overseas he married "Joy" Joyce CROFT of Coorow in Perth in 1940 [0: image 03998] [66]
Corporal WX1135 in the Australian Army's 2/11 Australian Infantry Battalion during the Second World War [16]
Killed in Action in Greece on 20 April 1941 [18]
Buried Phaleron War Cemetery near Athens in Greece (3, D, 20) [17]
His name is on Carnamah's Roll of Honour and the Carnamah War Memorial (although with the incorrect initial) [35]
From The North Midland Times newspaper, May 1941:
"Obituary - Private A. Spencer Killed in Action. The horrors of modern war-fare was borne forcibly upon local residents late last week when it was made known that Private A. ("Spanner") Spencer, of Coorow, had paid the supreme sacrifice. The late Private Spencer was well and favourably known throughout the Coorow and Waddy Forest districts, and was amongst the first men from these districts to answer the call to arms. Prior to enlisting in the A.I.F. Private Spencer had been employed in the districts for some considerable time, and during that period he had become a well known figure, particularly in football circles. Before sailing for overseas he was married to Miss Joy Croft of Coorow, and the sympathy of the whole district goes out to the young widow in her sudden and sad bereavement."
Irene Mary SPICE
Born 21 April 1921 [45]
Son of Herbert and Mabel SPICE [45]
Married Brian Moody MORCOMBE in Perth in 1945 [66]
Resided on Wynmara Farm at Waddy Forest in the Coorow district in 1952 [45]
Later resided in Albany and Busselton [45]
Mother of Rosemary, Ian and Flora [45]
Died 2 January 2006; her funeral service was held at the Baptist Church in Albany on 9 January 2006 [45]
"Irene" Annie Irene SPICER
Born 13 June 1896 in Adelaide, South Australia [55]
Daughter of "Alf" John James Alford SPICER and "Maggie" Margaret RYAN [55]
Resided with her parents in Marchagee 1911-1915 and in Gunyidi 1916-1919 [19] [44] [50]
Married "Gilly" Gilbert Townsend ELLISON in 1919 [66]
Resided with her husband and children on farmland in Gunyidi 1919-1927 [19] [44] [50]
They later resided at 185 Beaufort Street in Perth and at 36 Brookman Street in North Perth [P361]
Resided of late in the Perth suburb of Manning [2]
Mother of Gladys, Dorothy, Allen, Constance, Nellie, Hilda and Joyce [P361]
Died 6 December 1983; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Anglican, FA, 131) [2]
"Ivy" Gwendoline Mary SPICER
Born 8 June 1913 in Perth, Western Australia [P361]
Daughter of "Alf" John James Alford SPICER and "Maggie" Margaret RYAN [55]
Resided with her parents in Marchagee 1913-1915 and in Gunyidi 1916-1919 [19] [44] [50]
Student at the Coorow State School held at a makeshift hessian and iron room near the railway station in Coorow in 1921 [215]
Mother of Eric Spicer BARRETT and later had three sons and three daughters with "Stan" Stanley Edwin LEWIS [P361]
Married "Stan" Stanley Edwin LEWIS [P361]
Resided of late in the southern Perth suburb of Mandurah [2]
Died 18 September 1985; ashes interred Fremantle Cemetery, Perth suburb of Palmyra (Niche Wall, T, 18) [2]
"Alf" John James Alford SPICER
Born 30 November 1865 in Woodside, South Australia [55]
Son of John Thomas SPICER and Ann ALFORD [55]
Married "Maggie" Margaret RYAN on 28 November 1894 at the residence of the Archbishop in Adelaide, South Australia [55]
Miner at the Treasure Lease near Kamballie in Kalgoorlie-Boulder in Western Australia in 1903 [50]
In 1906 he was working as a Fireman and living at 50 George Street in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia [50]
Farmhand in Marchagee, Western Australia 1911-1915 [19] [50]
Farmer in Gunyidi, Western Australia 1916-1920 [19] [44]
His farm in Gunyidi was the 998 acre Victoria Location 3947, which he sold to John T. GLOWREY in about 1920 [44]
After selling his farm in Gunyidi he appears to have leased and farmed a property in Coorow [10: 23-Mar-1923]
Held a clearing sale in Coorow at 12 noon on Friday 5 April 1923 to sell his livestock, plant, household effects and sundries [10]
Livestock sold at the sale consisted of 14 horses - ten team horses, two buggy horses, a 2-year old hack, and a Draught filly [10]
Plant and machinery included a spring dray and harness, scoop, 5-ton table top wagon, 10-twin-disc McKay plough, [10]
two 200-gallon tanks, one 30-gallon tanks; and a double buggy complete with pole, shafts and harness [10]
Household items sold included a double iron bedstead, singe iron bedstead, Duchess chest, washstand, large dresser, bookshelf, [10]
two meat safes, stool, two tables, four chairs, large desk, chair, four small deck chairs, crockery, glassware, and a Dover stove [10]
During the 1920s he bred and sold horses while living at Lot 35 Station Street in the Coorow townsite [P66]
One of such horses, named Ghandi, he sold to John READ of Tokyngton Farm in Coorow [P66]
Later resided in Dalwallinu and then Wongan Hills [P361]
He was carting hay with a wagon and team of three horses when some of the hay fell from the wagon and scared the horses [P361]
The frightened horses bolted and he managed to cling to the shafts of the wagon for about 40 yards before falling off [P361]
When he fell from the wagon two of its wheels passed over him, and it was believed that he was probably killed instantly [P361]
Father of "Irene" Annie Irene and "Ivy" Gwendoline Mary [P361]
Died 25 March 1935 on WALKER's farm in Wongan Hills; buried in the Anglican portion of the Northam Cemetery in Northam [P361]
From a newspaper clipping, date and newspaper unknown:
"Sand-plain Farming - What can be grown on sand plain is illustrated on Mr Spicer's farm at Gunyidi. Commencing on December 5th two years ago, Mr Spicer, with two men, had 700 acres of virgin sand plain cleared and the crop in before the end of seeding time. Harvest time saw a return of 2,700 bags of wheat and 540 bags of oats. This harvest, the second crop, was not so good, but the respectable total of 2,100 bags of wheat and 450 of oats was harvested. The reward for proper farming was illustrated by 30 acres of well-worked land returning as much as 150 acres of equal class land just run over. This year, in common with many other farmers, Mr Spicer is fallowing part of his block , and is getting more of the heavy land ready for the plough."
Mrs "Maggie" Margaret SPICER
Wife of "Alf" John James Alford SPICER; see Margaret RYAN
Walter STAFF
Labourer in Coorow in 1921 and 1922 [50]
Mrs Daisy STARLING
Wife of "Jim" James Joseph STARLING; see Daisy JACKSON
Charles Edward STARLING
Born 11 September 1914 in Coomberdale, Western Australia [16]
Son of Charles Frederick STARLING and Mary Jane FARRELL [--]
Resided with his parents in Coomberdale in 1914, in Coorow in 1917, and in Carnamah in 1919 and 1920 [6] [19]
Came 2nd in the 4-6 years Boys Running Race at the Peace Day Celebrations in Carnamah on Saturday 19 July 1919 [10: 25-Jul-1919]
Resided in Geraldton prior to enlisting in the Australian Army on 4 December 1940 [16]
Private WX9647 in the Australian Army's AIF Headquarters during the Second World War [16]
Discharged from the Australian Army on 25 April 1944 [16]
Resided of late in the Perth suburb of Alexander Heights [2]
Died 10 February 2003; ashes interred Pinnaroo Valley Memorial Park, Perth WA (Cassia Court, Niche Wall, W23, 49) [2]
Charles Frederick STARLING
Born 1881 in Greenough, Western Australia [15]
Son of Robert STARLING and Beulah Emily CRIPPIN [15]
His grandfather Joseph CRIPPIN had arrived in Western Australia as a convict under the alias of James OSBORNE in 1861 [20] [21] [107]
His father died at the age of 58 years in 1882, and in 1885 his mother married "Frank" Francis Henry Reeves THOMAS [15]
Railway Fettler in Yalgoo 1903-1906 [50]
Married Mary Jane FARRELL in 1911 [66]
Railway Fettler in Coomberdale in 1914 [19]
Railway Fettler in Coorow in 1917 [6] [50]
Railway Fettler / Ganger in Carnamah in 1919 and 1920 [6] [19]
Railway Fettler in Arrino in 1921 [50]
Length Runner in Dongara 1923-1925, in Mingenew in 1929 and 1930, and in Walkaway in 1932 [19] [50]
Member of the Mingenew Rifle Club in 1930 [4: 19-Jul-1930]
Died 5 January 1932; buried Utakarra Cemetery, Geraldton WA [26]
"Jim" James Joseph STARLING
Born 1879 in Greenough, Western Australia [15]
Son of Robert STARLING and Beulah Emily CRIPPIN [15]
His grandfather Joseph CRIPPIN had arrived in Western Australia as a convict under the alias of James OSBORNE in 1861 [20] [21] [107]
His father died at the age of 58 years in 1882, and in 1885 his mother married "Frank" Francis Henry Reeves THOMAS [15]
Married Daisy JACKSON in Northampton in 1900 [15]
Their first child, Florence May, was born in 1900 in Northampton and died at the age of two months [15]
Their second child, James Joseph, was born in Mount Magnet in 1901 and passed away aged just one day [15]
Labourer at the 9-Mile Camp near Geraldton in 1903 [50]
Railway Ganger at Wolla Wolla near Yalgoo in 1906 [50]
Railway Ganger in Three Springs in 1907 [6]
Railway Ganger in Wannamal in 1908 [6]
Railway Ganger in Coorow 1908-1913 [19] [50]
His mother and stepfather were also in Coorow - on Coorow Station and then Jun Jun Farm [6] [19] [44] [50]
Guaranteed to contribute to the teacher's salary if the attendance fell below ten at the proposed Coorow State School in 1911 [215]
His daughters Gladys and Pearl were listed as prospective students of the proposed school, but their ages were exaggerated up [215]
Attended the Coorow Farmers' Progress Association's Picnic & Sports Meeting in Coorow on 7 October 1911 [39: 12-Oct-1911]
Won the Sheffield Handicap, Half-mile Handicap, Putting the Weight; 2nd in Hop Step & Jump, Live Wheelbarrow Race [39]
Railway Night Officer in Dongara in 1914 and 1915 [19] [50]
They resided at the Railway Cottages in Dongara [50]
Railway Stationmaster in Coorow in 1916 [50]
Stationmaster of the Railway Station in Coorow and then of the Railway Station in Arrino in 1917 [6] [30: item 8090793]
Enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force (A.I.F.) in Perth on 18 May 1917 [30: item 8090793]
Upon enlistment he was 5 feet 9 inches tall, weighed 196 pounds and had blue eyes, fair hair and a fresh complexion [30]
Gave his wife Mrs Daisy STARLING as his next of kin, her address being Arrino, Midland Railway, Western Australia [30]
Private and later Trooper during Light Horse camp training at Blackboy Hill in the Perth hills from 2 July 1917 [30]
After he entered camp his wife and children appear to have Arrino and moved to the Perth suburb of Midland Junction [30]
Regretfully applied for his discharge on 6 September 1917 as his pay wasn't sufficient to support his wife and six children [30]
His wife wrote to the A.I.F. reiterating her distress at surviving with six daughters aged between 11 years and 20 months [30]
Owing the size of his family and ages of his children his request was recommended for approval and was subsequently granted [30]
He had to pay for the kit he'd been issued with, but was discharged from the Australian Imperial Force on 14 September 1917 [30]
Railway Fettler in Carnamah in 1919 [19]
Donated 5/- to the Three Springs Saint Patrick's Day Committee in 1919 [124]
Following an absence shifted back to Carnamah on 29 January 1921 [9: 4-Feb-1921]
Railway Stationmaster in Carnamah from 1 February 1921 until June 1921 [9: 8-Jul-1921]
Member of the Carnamah Football Club in 1921 [9: 8-Jul-1921]
The Carnamah Football Club held a function to bid him farewell on the evening of Monday 18 June 1921 [9: 8-Jul-1921]
At his farewell remarked that he regretted leaving and that "the people of Carnamah as a whole would long live in his memory" [9]
Left Carnamah in June 1921 after being promoted to the position of Stationmaster of the railway station in Dongara [9]
Railway Stationmaster in Dongara in 1921 and 1922 [50]
Railway Stationmaster in Three Springs 1923-1925 [6] [9] [19]
Judge of the horse races at the Saint Patrick's Day Celebrations in Three Springs on Thursday 15 March 1923 [9: 13-Apr-1923]
Member of the Three Springs Football Club - was Secretary in 1923 [9: 4-May-1923]
Represented the Three Springs Football Club at meetings of the North Midlands Football Association in 1923 [9: 4-May-1923]
Member of the Three Springs Lodge of the Manchester Unity of Oddfellows Friendly Society [9: 24-Jul-1925]
He was farewelled by the residents of Three Springs and presented with a cheque on the evening of Friday 17 July 1925 [9]
At his farewell Archie BASTIAN, Evander FRANKLIN and Fred JAMES testified to "his many good qualities and popularity" [9]
Left Three Springs in July 1925 following his transfer to Midland Junction, but by later 1925 was in Dongara [9: 24-Jul-1925]
Railway Stationmaster in Dongara 1925-1929 [6] [50]
Railway Ganger in Gunyidi later in 1929 and in 1930 [6] [19]
Resided at 12 Spring Park Road in the Perth suburb of Midland Junction from 1931 until his death in 1933 [6] [50]
Died 29 January 1933; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Anglican, NA, 424) [2]
Mrs Mary Jane STARLING
Wife of Charles Frederick STARLING; see Mary Jane FARRELL
"Chris" Christian STARICK
Contractor in Coorow 1912-1914 [50]
Contractor in Winchester 1916-1921 [19]
In August 1916 cleared for the Midland Railway Company 15 acres on Lot M923 in Winchester for 12/- an acre [34]
Otto STARRICK
Labourer in Coorow 1912-1914 [50]
Beatrice Mary STEPHENS
Born 1876 [5: 12-Jun-1936]
Married "Bob" Arthur Harvey WILLIAMS in 1902 in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia [15]
She gave birth to their daughter Mona Irene on 12 May 1904 at Moonta Mines in South Australia [55]
Within a year they had returned to Western Australia, where their daughter Mona passed away at the age of nine months [15]
Resided with her husband on Gauntley Farm in Waddy Forest 1911-1936 [5] [19] [61]
Won 1st prizes for Plain Scones and Pickles at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show on Thursday 8 September 1932 [5: 16-Sep-1932]
Travelled from Coorow to Perth on Sunday 30 September 1934 and on the following Tuesday left for Melbourne by train [5: 5-Oct-1934]
Returned to Coorow on 3 March 1935 after a holiday with her husband, daughter and son-in-law in the South West [5: 8-Mar-1935]
Along with her husband and daughter Mrs Mora CHAPMAN travelled from Waddy Forest to Perth on 3 October 1935 [5: 11-Oct-1935]
During March 1936 she was in Perth receiving medical treatment [5: 13-Mar-1936]
Her 60th birthday was celebrated with 25 guests at their home on Gauntley Farm in Waddy on Saturday 6 June 1936 [5: 12-Jun-1936]
Won 1st prize for Brown Bread at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show at Maley Park, Coorow on 3 September 1936 [5: 11-Sep-1936]
Later resided in the Perth suburb of Mosman Park [2]
Mother of Mora [4: 8-Mar-1930]
Died 20 August 1962; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Wesleyan, FC, 51) [2]
Francis Allan Quinton STEPHENS
Farmer of Pindarra Farm in Coorow 1914-1916 [19] [50]
Thomas Knight STEPHENS
Labourer on Oaklyn Farm in Coorow in 1911 and 1912 [19] [50]
Florence May STRAHAN
Born 1895 in Guildford, Western Australia [15]
Daughter of James STRAHAN and Mary Ann BISHOP; step-daughter of George COUSINS [15]
Following the death of her father and later stepfather resided with her mother in Walkaway and then on farmland in Arrino [P2]
Married William Charles COX in 1918 [66]
Came 3rd in the Married Ladies Race at the Arrino Railway Picnic Day held in Arrino on Saturday 29 November 1919 [9: 5-Dec-1919]
Resided with her husband in Coorow, where he was the local Railway Stationmaster 1925-1937 [5: 5-Nov-1937] [19]
Hosted a social evening at her home on 21 May 1930 to further Ivy BINGHAM in the local Popular Girl Competition [4: 31-May-1930]
Attended the evening Ball after the Carnamah Races on Thursday 2 October 1930 in a dress of apricot lace [4: 18-Oct-1930]
Exhibited in the Fancywork section of the first Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show on Thursday 8 September 1932 [5: 16-Sep-1932]
Won 2nd prize for a White Table Centre or Supper Cloth and both 1st and 2nd prizes for an Embroidered Cushion [5]
Won 2nd prize for Sweet Peas in the Flower section of the Fourth Three Springs Agricultural Show in 1932 [5: 30-Sep-1932]
Attended the Official Opening of the Carnamah Golf Course at Centenary Park in Carnamah on Sunday 23 July 1933 [5: 28-Jul-1933]
Received 1st prizes for White Bread, 12 Sweet Peas, Six Sweet Peas and Lady's Bouquet at the Coorow Show in 1933 [5: 15-Sep-1933]
Exhibited in the Confectionary, Flower and Fancy Work sections of the Carnamah Agricultural Show on 14 September 1933 [5]
Won 1st prizes for Fruit Cake, Pastry and a Embroidered Cushion; and 2nd prizes for Pansies and Three Doyleys [5: 22-Sep-1933]
Awarded 1st prize for Pansies and 2nd for Sweet Peas at the Three Springs Agricultural Show on 21 September 1933 [5: 29-Sep-1933]
Member of the Coorow Tennis Club in 1933-34, 1935-36 and 1936-37 [5: 3-Nov-1933, 25-Oct-1935, 18-Dec-1936]
Conducted the Afternoon Tea stall at the Church of England Bazaar held in Coorow on 18 November 1933 [5: 3-Nov-1933]
Awarded 1st prize for Sweet Peas in the Flower section of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show on 30 August 1934 [5: 7-Sep-1934]
Attended the Official Opening of the Coorow Golf Club's golf course in Coorow on Sunday 23 June 1935 [5: 28-Jun-1935]
Member of the Coorow Golf Club in 1935, 1936 and 1937 [5: 12-Jul-1935, 19-Jun-1936, 11-Jun-1937]
Won 1st prizes for Sweet Peas and Six Pansies at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show on Thursday 5 September 1935 [5: 13-Sep-1935]
Played for the combined Winchester-Waddy-Coorow tennis team against Carnamah-Parkinson on Sunday 5 April 1936 [5: 3-Apr-1936]
Their son Stan spent a holiday staying with herself and her husband in Coorow during May 1936 [5: 15-May-1936]
Won 1st prize for Fruit Cake and 2nd for Six Pansies at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show on Thursday 3 September 1936 [5]
Received the W. H. Melvin Trophy for Fruit Cake, and attended the Show Ball dressed in black net [5: 11-Sep-1936, 20-Nov-1936]
After spending an enjoyable holiday in Perth herself and her husband returned to Coorow on Wednesday 4 October 1936 [5: 6-Nov-1936]
Winner of the Ladies Approach & Put at the Carnamah Golf Club's Season Opening in Carnamah on 2 May 1937 [5: 7-May-1937]
Won 1sts for Coffee Sponge Sandwich, Six Pansies and Bowl of Garden Flowers at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1937 [5]
At the Show Ball received the Bushells Ltd Trophy for winning 1st prize for Coffee Sponge Sandwich [5: 10-Sep-1937]
In 1960 she was living at 18 Ninth Avenue in the Perth suburb of Maylands [30: item 3437535]
Resided in the Perth suburb of Maylands until her death in 1967 [2]
Mother of Stanley [5: 5-Nov-1937]
Died 12 October 1967; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Anglican, ZC, 80) [2]
William STYLER
Farmhand for Alexander C. LAWRENCE in Latham in 1921 and 1922 [50]
Edgar SUGDEN
Farmer in Latham in 1916 [19] [50]
He gave his address at the time as Latham's Rock, Coorow [50]
Edward SULLIVAN
Railway Labourer in Coorow 1904-1909 [19] [50]
Frank SUMMERS
Farmer in Latham 1914-1923 [19]
His postal address was initially Coorow [19]
Frederick James SUNLEY
Teamster in Nugadong, East Gunyidi in 1914 [50]
Alexander Forbes SUTHERLAND
Born C.1907 [2]
Farmhand in Coorow 1935-1939 [5] [19]
Member of the Coorow Football Club 1935-1937 [5: 14 & 21-Jun-1935, 22-May-1936, 28-May-1937]
Attended the Coorow-Waddy Sports & Dance held Coorow on Saturday 9 November 1935 [5: 15-Nov-1935]
At 73 feet he was the winner of the Throwing Hammer competition, and also came 2nd in the 75 Yards Sprint [5]
Member of the Coorow Cricket Club in 1935-36 [5: 13-Dec-1935]
Came 2nd in both the 75 Yards Spring and Obstacle Race at the Athletic Sports Meeting in Coorow on 1 January 1936 [5: 3-Jan-1936]
Played for the victorious Single Men in a cricket match against Married Men in Coorow on Sunday 11 April 1937 [5: 16-Apr-1937]
Wheat Bin Attendant in Arrino in 1941 [19]
Resided of late in the Perth suburb of Guildford [2]
Died 16 November 1992; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Lawn, L, 162) [2]
Arthur Henry SWEETAPPLE
Born 2 April 1892 in Collingwood, Victoria, Australia [16] [54]
Son of Alfred Henry SWEETAPPLE and Lilian HEGINBOTHAM [54]
Married Violet Mary DILLON in Perth in 1915 [66]
Captain of the Australian Imperial Force's 10th Light Horse Regiment during the First World War [18]
Worked in the Lands Department of the Midland Railway Company's office in Perth [34]
Purchased 1,000 acres of virgin land in Coorow from the Midland Railway Company on 31 March 1921 [27]
The 1,000 acres was Lot M1312 of Victoria Location 2023 and cost him £125/2/3 (2/6 per acre), payable by instalments [27]
Purchased the land under an offer by his employer to sell 1,000 acres of land to their Perth office staff at a nominal price [34]
On 20 June 1925 he purchased another 1,253 acres of virgin land in Coorow from the Midland Railway Company for £313/6/10 [27]
The 1,253 acres consisted of Victoria Location 1116 and Lots M1311 and M1528 of Victoria Location 2023 [27]
This purchase may also have been through another offer from his employer as it was at roughly half the normal price [27]
Later sold all of his land in Coorow to William H. MELVIN & Sons [3]
During a portion of the 1920s he was the owner of 19 Caron Street in the Carnamah townsite (Lot 27 of Victoria Location 1936) [34]
Had purchased the vacant quarter acre 19 Caron Street from Samuel LEAN and by mid 1932 had sold it to Robert MACKIE [3] [34]
He was living in the Perth suburb of Bentley in 1942 [16]
Lieutenant Colonel W47917 of the Australian Army's Volunteer Defence Corps during the Second World War [16]
Resided of late in the Perth suburb of Nedlands [2]
Died 6 October 1949; ashes scattered over the rose garden at the Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA [2]
Douglas William SYMINGTON
Farm Manager of the Marchagee Estate in Marchagee in 1917 [50]
Mrs Emma Elizabeth SYMINGTON
Resided on the Marchagee Estate in Marchagee in 1917 [50]
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Arthur Philip David TAMBLYN
Born 1906 [15]
Son of Harry TAMBLYN and Elizabeth Ellen OAKEY [14]
Resided with his parents on Oakblyn Farm in Latham [19] [152]
In 1920 himself and his siblings Gordon and Rosie boarded with Mrs Annie M. BATTERSBY on Wattle Vale Farm in Coorow [215]
Student at the Coorow State School from a room of Coorow House on Victoria Location 385 in Coorow in 1920 [215]
Farmer of Oakblyn Farm in Latham 1927-1973 [19]
Resided in the Perth suburb of Victoria Park in 1974 [2]
Died 27 August 1974; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (General, Lawn 2, 233) [2]
Mrs Elizabeth Ellen TAMBLYN
Wife of Harry TAMBLYN; see Elizabeth Ellen OAKEY
"Rosie" Elva Rose Elizabeth TAMBLYN
Born 1909 in Long Gully, Victoria, Australia [54]
Daughter of Harry TAMBLYN and Elizabeth Ellen OAKEY [54]
Resided with her parents on Oakblyn Farm in Latham, Western Australia [19] [152]
In 1920 herself and her brothers Arthur and Gordon boarded with Mrs Annie M. BATTERSBY on Wattle Vale Farm in Coorow [215]
Student at the Coorow State School from a room of Coorow House on Victoria Location 385 Coorow in 1920 [215]
Married "Charlie" Charles BOYS in Perth in 1926 [66]
Gordon Royal Anthony TAMBLYN
Born 1907 [15]
Son of Harry TAMBLYN and Elizabeth Ellen OAKEY [14]
Resided with his parents on Oakblyn Farm in Latham, Western Australia [19] [152]
In 1920 himself and his siblings Arthur and Rosie boarded with Mrs Annie M. BATTERSBY on Wattle Vale Farm in Coorow [215]
Student at the Coorow State School from a room of Coorow House on Victoria Location 385 in Coorow in 1920 [215]
Farmer in Latham, and later Labourer in Latham and Coorow [1] [19]
Married May LATHAM in 1942 [66]
Summonsed to appear at the Carnamah Police Court on 4 December 1950 for driving International truck CA-80 without a license [22]
Died 19 February 1957 in Latham; buried Winchester Cemetery, Carnamah (Row F, Plot 7) [1]
Harry TAMBLYN
Born C.1865 [2]
Married Elizabeth Ellen OAKEY in Kalgoorlie in 1902 [15]
Settled on prospective farmland in Latham in 1910 [152]
Farmer of Oakblyn Farm in Latham 1910-1929 [2] [19] [152]
His farm was 2,160 acres in size and consisted of Victoria Locations 4352, 4618 and 4712 [44]
The farm appears to have been named using the start of his wife's maiden surname 'Oak' and the end of his surname 'blyn' [--]
In August 1910 wrote to the Upper Irwin Road Board requesting the closure of a road that went through his property [9: 26-Aug-1910]
The Road Board responded that they were agreeable to closing the road provided no objections were made from other settlers [9]
A month later the Board informed him they would not recommend the road be closed, as they had received objections [9: 30-Sep-1910]
Paid rates for his farmland to the Upper Irwin Road Board in Mingenew until 1916, and then to the Perenjori-Morawa Road Board [44]
After seven years on the farm 450 acres were cleared of which 300 were cropped, and 250 acres were fenced [152]
In 1916 himself and his family were living in a four roomed house made out of hessian and iron [152]
Gave evidence to the Royal Commission on the Agricultural Industries of Western Australia in Latham on 24 November 1916 [152]
Signed the petition and financial guarantee in 1917 for the Midland Railway Company to provide a resident doctor at Three Springs [34]
Resided in Latham until his death in 1929 [2]
Father of Teddy, Arthur, Gordon, Rosie and Mary [14]
Died 19 May 1929; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Anglican, ZA, 332) [2]
From the Progress Report of the Royal Commission on the
Agricultural Industries of Western Australia on the Wheat-Growing Portion of the South-West Division of the State:
Friday 24 November 1916 at Latham
"HARRY TAMBLYN, Tamblyn Bros, Farmers, Latham, sworn and examined:
We have been seven years in this district and hold 2,140 acres, of which 1,700 acres was 5s. 9d., for 200 acres 10s., the balance is a homestead block. We have 10 miles carting west from the railway station. We have 450 acres cleared, 250 fenced, two wells and two bores. The wells give a fairly good supply; one of them is drinking water and the other not. We have a dam of 500 cubic yards and another of about 120 cubic yards. I am a married man and have a house of four rooms constructed of hessian and iron, stables and machinery shed, 40 x 40, of iron. With the exception of a harvester I have all necessary farming implements. We have 10 draught horses and 13 other sorts. I had previous experience of farming in Yorke's Peninsula, and when we came here I had £2,000 capital, but this has been found insufficient to carry on with. The Agricultural Bank advanced £550, but I cannot say what is due to the Industries Assistance Board.
Were last year's advances cleared out of [the proceeds] of your wheat? No.
I have 300 acres under crop, but none of it was fallowed; it was all ploughed. Still I believe in fallow. This year I have fallowed about 50 acres for next year. Last year I had 50 acres fallowed. It shows a splendid crop, far better than the rest. I would have fallowed more this year, but I had to let the horses go in the paddock. My highest yield has been 18 bushels. That in the first year I came here, 1910. In 1911 I got 58 bags from 130 acres. I think that the average for the district, including the two bad seasons, would be about 10 bushels. I should think it would take about 12 bushels to pay the cost of putting in and taking off [the crop]. I sow about a bushel to the acre and 60lbs. of super. I use a big Shearer disc cultivating plough with eight discs. It takes six big horses to pull it and sometimes seven, and I do eight or nine acres a day. I have a Massey-Harris drill which does 13 acres and I do about 14 acres a day with it. I have done 15 or 16 acres. I use a May's stripper and can do about seven acres [a day] with it, it has a 5ft. comb. I employ a man, but not all the time; in fact last year I put in the crop on my own.
Do you think a man working under similar conditions to yours could reduce costs by using the largest possible machinery? Certainly he could. This year I have hired a 7-ft. harvester to do my work. About bulk handling [of wheat] I know nothing, but the duty on implements is too high.
Last year we had blight' there was no wheat in the crop. I pickle my wheat. Last year I was late in getting the crop off on account of the bad weather, and this year the crop is not very good. It is light and short. I have not tried artificial grasses or fodder crops, but vegetables do well, and I think fruit trees ought to. I have to hand-feed my pigs, and I grow green stuff for them. We have poultry for our own use. When I employ a man I pay him £2 a well and keep in the harvest time and 30s. a week and keep in the ploughing season, but in these [war] times men cannot be obtained for that money. The average working hours are none or 10 hours a day. No man should have less than 2,000 acres to make a living out of in this district, and he should be able to handle [cropping] 300 acres himself. I have not given the question of co-operation among the farmers any thought, but so far as the land regulations are concerned I consider that the farmer has far too much to pay. He should have his land in this part of the country for nothing. Sandplain here is no good whatever, and it is dearer to clear than the timber land.
Would it be rushed if the Government gave it away? I do not know a single farmer which has paid his way yet; I know we have not. If a man went on the Agricultural Bank and did more clearing he would be able to do more cropping. I think we should be given an extension of time in which to pay rents on this land. We should have 40 or 50 years instead of 20 to pay it off. I intent to go in for sheep, but at present dogs are a great trouble. We hold a pastoral lease of 3,000 acres in addition, and my intention is to get a few hundred sheep and some old man to look after them. Mixed farming is a far better proposition than wheat growing."
Mrs May TAMBLYN
Wife of Gordon Royal Anthony TAMBLYN; see May LATHAM
Thomas Sydney TAMBLYN
Farmer in Latham [44]
As early as 1910 he was the owner of the 160 acre Victoria Location 4353 in Latham [44]
Paid rates for his 160 acres to the Upper Irwin Road Board in Mingenew until 1916 and then to the Perenjori-Morawa Road Board [44]
Resided in Latham until 1917 [19]
Arthur TAYLOR
Farmer in Coorow in 1913 and 1914 [50]
Farmer in Latham 1915-1921 [50]
Hugh TAYLOR
Farmhand on Waddy Waddy Farm in Coorow 1917 [50]
Isaac James TAYLOR
Surveyor of Mayfield Farm in Gunyidi 1911-1913 [19] [50]
Mrs Kathleen Henrietta TAYLOR
Resided on Maryvale Farm in Latham in 1922 [50]
Margaret TAYLOR
Resided on Glenview Farm in Latham 1913-1915 [50]
Percy James TAYLOR
Farmer of Mayfield Farm in Gunyidi 1911-1916 [19]
Walter Henry TAYLOR
Farmer of Maryvale Farm in Latham 1910-1949 [19] [152]
In mid 1912 he had plans to sell his farm in Latham and take up farming in Coorow, in part so his children could go to school [215]
Gave evidence to the Royal Commission on the Agricultural Industries of Western Australia in Latham on 24 November 1916 [152]
Kate Louisa TAYSON
Born C.1887 [2]
Married James UNDERWOOD in 1913 [66]
Resided with her husband in Latham in 1921 and 1922 and then on Hill Crest Farm in Coorow 1923-1944 [6] [19] [44]
One of the three costume judges at the Children's Fancy Dress Ball held in Coorow on Saturday 6 July 1935 [5: 12-Jul-1935]
Attended the Surprise Linen Tea for Miss Mary E. GREENWOOD at Maryland Farm in Waddy Forest on 22 July 1937 [5: 23-Jul-1937]
Later resided in the Perth suburb of Bentley [2]
Died 28 August 1994; ashes interred Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Lance Howard Memorial Gardens, Niche Wall, W23, 2) [2]
Mrs Beulah Emily THOMAS
Wife of "Frank" Francis Henry Reeves THOMAS; see Beulah Emily CRIPPIN
Beulah Emily THOMAS
Born 1891 in Greenough, Western Australia [15]
Daughter of "Frank" Francis Henry Reeves THOMAS and Beulah Emily CRIPPIN [15]
Her grandfather Joseph CRIPPIN had arrived in Western Australia as a convict under the alias of James OSBORNE in 1861 [20] [21] [107]
Married Michael Valmont MURNANE in Perth in 1913 [15]
Resided with her husband at Boyagarra in East Brookton and then in Capel [50]
Later resided with her husband at 252 Rutland Avenue in the Perth suburb of Carlisle [3]
Her father, who had been a long time resident of the Coorow district [19], passed away at the age of 80 years in 1939 [2]
Following her father's death in 1939 she briefly owned his Victoria Locations 682 and 1096 in Coorow [3]
Both were 40 acres, and Victoria Location 682 contained Nabappie Spring while Victoria Location 1096 contained Jun Jun Spring [P17]
During the 1941-42 financial year she appears to have sold both Victoria Locations 685 and 1096 to Ernest A. LONG of Coorow [3]
Resided of late in the Perth suburb of Victoria Park [2]
Died 13 May 1960; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Seventh Day Adventist, AA, 128) [2]
"Frank" Francis Henry Reeves THOMAS
Born 1862 in York, Western Australia [15]
Son of Henry THOMAS and Mary FITZGERALD [15]
Married widow Mrs Beulah Emily STARLING in Greenough in 1885 [15]
In 1896 his brother John Fitzgerald THOMAS married his wife's daughter Eliza Elizabeth STARLING [15]
Owner & Grazier of Coorow Station in Coorow 1903-1911 [19] [44] [50]
He was the owner of 358 acres of first class freehold land in Victoria Locations 385, 682, 995, 996, 1096, 1116, 1274 and 2407 [44]
On Victoria Location 385 was Coorow House, the old homestead of the LONG family who had arrived in Coorow in 1862 [135]
His Victoria Location 682 contained Nabappie Spring while Victoria Location 1096 contained Jun Jun Spring [P17]
Also had 520 acres in two Conditional Purchase leases and a Homestead Lease (later Victoria Locations 2732, 2927 and 2997) [44]
He went before the Police Court in Mingenew on 28 March 1906 for inflicting grievous bodily harm on Francis A. LATHAM [39]
The accused offence had occurred on 7 March 1906 and he was committed for trial but allowed bail [39: 29-Mar-1906]
He went before the Court of Quarter Sessions in Geraldton on 6 September 1906 on a charge of stabling Francis A. LATHAM [39]
The charge was that he had stabbed LATHAM in Coorow, however the jury found him not guilty [39: 8-Sep-1906]
During the 1911-12 financial year sold 782 acres of his land in Coorow to Edward M. BLYTHE [44]
Sold Victoria Locations 385, 995, 996, 1116, 1274, 2732, 2927 and 2997, but kept Victoria Locations 682, 1096 and 2407 [44]
Farmer & Grazier of Jun Jun Farm in Coorow 1912-1938 [6] [19] [44]
Farmer in Gunyidi 1926-1933 [6] [19]
He had been a patient at the North Midlands District Hospital in Three Springs until being discharged in early February 1936 [5]
After leaving hospital he stayed with his daughter Mrs Celia B. CARR at Bluff Point in Geraldton [5: 7-Feb-1936]
Later resided in Perth [2]
Father of Mary Agnes, Celia Blanche, Beulah Emily, "Jack" John Fitzgerald and "Frank" Francis Henry William [15]
Died 26 August 1939; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Roman Catholic, KA, 307) [2]
"Frank" Francis Henry William THOMAS
Born 1897 in Greenough, Western Australia [15]
Son of "Frank" Francis Henry Reeves THOMAS and Beulah Emily CRIPPIN [15]
His grandfather Joseph CRIPPIN had arrived in Western Australia as a convict under the alias of James OSBORNE in 1861 [20] [21] [107]
Resided with his parents on Coorow Station in Coorow 1903-1911 and then on Jun Jun Farm in Coorow 1912 onwards [19] [44] [50]
He was a big man who came from a well respected family of the Coorow district [P32]
Farmed Jun Jun Farm in Coorow with his father and elder brother "Jack" John Fitzgerald THOMAS [P15]
He was accused of stealing food from the railway station yard in Carnamah, pleaded innocent but was sentenced by police [P10]
Following his conviction he said in future the government would have to support him [P10]
Alternatively it was stated that his brother received a good education and to his anger he didn't, after which he "went bush" [P300]
He was "a local boy gone wrong" who had "got somehow on the wrong side of the police, and had taken to the bush" [P5]
Settlers, storekeepers, tradesmen and railway officials along the Midland Railway line complained to police about thefts [39: 14-Jan-1920]
In time it became known he was responsible, and his crimes were reported to have begun around December 1918 [39: 14-Jan-1920]
He regularly stole food, clothes, blankets and horses from Coorow, Carnamah and surrounding districts [P10] [P15]
It was reported in the press that he "went about from district to district, living on the proceeds of his unlawful traffic" [39: 14-Jan-1920]
He raided railway sidings and homes, and took horses which he let loose after riding them for as far as he wanted to go [39: 14-Jan-1920]
Among the items he stole from a farmhouse on one occasion included meat, potatoes, onions and milk [39: 14-Jan-1920]
It was said that he also stole sheep which he killed, cooked and ate [39: 14-Jan-1920]
He is said to have operated as such along the Midland Railway Company's railway line but also the Wongan Hills railway line [P300]
After a period of time it was known he was responsible but "he was cunning enough to elude all efforts to capture him" [39: 14-Jan-1920]
Locally he became known as "Thomas the Bushranger" and "Frank Thomas the Bushranger" [P10]
He was constantly sought after by police but rarely caught [P10] and was "the most talked about topic in the district" [P300]
His ability to elude capture was attributed to him having grown up locally and that he knew every inch of the country [39: 14-Jan-1920]
Despite his crimes he was often wrongly blamed for stolen or missing livestock in the Coorow and Carnamah districts [P15]
"To the womenfolk he was behind every bush, and felt unable to cope" while "men just swore about what a pest he'd become" [P5]
Details of his crimes in Winchester were given to local Justice of the Peace, Louis P. PARKER, who relayed them to police [P5]
One of his regular habits was to jump on goods trains and when in a quiet stretch to throw out cases of goods [39: 14-Jan-1920]
He'd then later return to the side of the railway tracks, go through them, take what he wanted and leave the rest there [39: 14-Jan-1920]
Items he didn't like including whiting, sauce, vinegar, boot polish, essence, pickles and glassware were found by the tacks [39]
It was also stated he'd go through the contents on the train and throw canned food out, and then go back and collect it later [P15]
On one occasion opened cases from a recent train were found at small clearing in the scrub at Winchester [P5]
From the opened cases all the food had been taken but remaining were items such corsets for Mrs Mathilve HÄUSSLER [P5]
Stories of his exploits became imbedded in local folklore with a degree of hearsay as to which were fact and which fiction [P6]
On one occasion police are said to have come upon his camp where he was cooking a chicken on a fire [7: page 49]
He took off and they followed in hot pursuit but he got away from them so they decided to go back and eat the cooked chook [7]
When they arrived back he had already doubled back and taken the chook [7]
Constable "Charlie" Carl F. W. KROSCHEL of Three Springs is said to have captured him and handcuffed him to a tree [P6]
Charlie left him there, on the west side of the Yarra Yarra Lakes, probably while he went to secure assistance to convey him [P6]
When the constable returned he was nowhere to be seen - to the amazement of the constable and many others [P6]
Apparently when he was later caught he still had the handcuffs on his arms, but no one could work out how he'd done it [P6]
One moonlit night his father is said to have hung some mutton up in a shed and knew his son was in the area [P15]
His father kept watch on the mutton expecting and waiting for his son to take it, however it seemed to no avail [P15]
His father dozed off for a moment near dawn and when he woke there was no sign of the mutton [P15]
While being chased on horseback by police one day his hat fell off, however he circled around a hill, and back to the hat [P32]
He jumped off his horse, picked up his hat, got back on the horse and as usual managed to get away [P32]
Constable KROSCHEL reputedly locked the railway station yard in Carnamah which was well fenced with large white gates [P6]
He is said to have then stolen KROSCHEL's horse from within the yards and jumped over the gates [P6]
It was a feat as apparently no one believed a horse would be able to jump over the gates, least of all KROSCHEL's horse [P6]
Mrs Kate C. GARTH travelled into the Carnamah townsite by horse and buggy one day, and her horse shied at something [7: page 49]
When she got to town and said what had happened a storekeeper said she should be thankful as "the bushranger" was about [7]
On one occasion a racehorse had arrived in Carnamah and was at the stockyards of the railway station [7: page 49]
The story goes that the police watched the horse as they knew he was about and that he'd probably try and steal it [7]
He still managed to steal the horse, named Karara Boy, and after tracking him to Perenjori they found the horse [7]
Mrs Ettie PARKER thought she heard whip cracks as a horse galloped behind her home at 5 Macpherson Street, Carnamah [P6]
The noise, it was said, was in fact Constable KROSCHEL shooting at him [P6]
Mrs E. Maude W. GREENWOOD of Waddy Forest carried a matchbox of pepper when out in case she encountered a bushranger [5]
Her theory was that she "would be a missing quantity by the time the bushranger stopped sneezing" [5: 18-Apr-1947]
There were stories that meetings were held at Winchester to discuss how best to capture him but he listened in from underneath [P6]
It was also said that in one instance when he was being searched for that he was up a tree watching the search [P300]
Apparently he often poked his finger through packaged food to see what it was and if he'd like it, as he couldn't read [P6]
He was successfully captured on 29 December 1919, after twelve months living the life of "an audacious thief" [39: 14-Jan-1920]
He was captured by Constable "Charlie" Carl F. W. KROSCHEL of Three Springs and another police constable [39]
At the time of his capture and arrest he was in possession of some stolen goods and a stolen horse [39]
He was interviewed by the Criminal Investigation Department on 6 January 1920, at which time he gave a voluntary statement [39]
On 10 January 1920 in Geraldton he pleaded guilty to charges of stealing, unlawful possession and unlawfully using a horse [39]
The Resident Magistrate in Geraldton sentenced him to two years hard labour [39: 14-Jan-1920]
After being released from his two year jail sentence he returned to Coorow in 1922 and was soon wanted by the police [10: 12-May-1922]
He was accused of stealing a horse and two cases of stores from a railway truck in the Three Springs district [39: 12-May-1922]
He was pursued by Constable Carl F. W. KROSCHEL of Three Springs and a Constable MATTHEWS [10: 12-May-1922] [39: 12-May-1922]
The two constables, through freezing weather, had searched and chased him for about two weeks before finally catching him [10]
With an Aboriginal tracker the constables followed tracks from the railway siding in Winchester to nine miles north of Coorow [39]
The tracks got obliterated by rain, but they later picked up more which led them to a camp of a fire and some of the stolen stores [39]
Tracks from the camp were followed to another camp about 16 miles east of Coorow, from which they saw smoke from a fire [39]
The constables charged the bush but the closest they got was to see him gallop away on a horse and follow him for six miles [39]
He leapt off his horse, got the saddle and bridle, and got over a dog-proof fence and then escaped into the bush [39]
After searching the constables found him sleeping under a quantity of bags in a stable of a farm, and he was arrested [39]
He made no attempt at resisting arrest and was removed to the goal in Geraldton in early May 1922 [39: 10-May-1922]
The Moora Herald And Midland Districts Advocate reported him as the "Coorow bread and butter bushranger" [10: 10-May-1922]
The West Australian later reported he'd "earned notoriety... as the result of being chased across country by police" [39: 2-Jun-1922]
At the time of his arrest, which was during the first few days of May 1922, he was "Wanted" on various charges [39: 4-May-1922]
He was in the lock-up at Geraldton awaiting trial when after about two weeks he escaped on the afternoon of 23 May 1922 [39: 2-Jun-1922]
When the lock-up keeper realised he was missing they found an exit from the exercise yard was open with its lock picked [39]
Once clear of Geraldton he is said to have raided districts between the Midland and Wongan Hills railing lines [39: 15-Nov-1922]
He was a brilliant horseman and for almost six months stole valuable horses and considerable quantities of stores [39: 15-Nov-1922]
He stole a horse from a lady at a shop in Perenjori, after which she came out with a shotgun if she heard a noise at night [7: page 49]
He was fond of fine horses and would help himself to the best in the district [P32]
Stole the well bred horse Brylass which had recently been purchased by William G. MORCOMBE of Waddy Forest [P32]
Mounted police soon arrived on the scene and with the help of an Aboriginal tracker were able to follow his tracks [P32]
After a couple of days they found Brylass exhausted at a neighbour's property where he had taken another horse [P32]
He stole MORCOMBE's horse Brylass several time so Will made a separate little yard for the horse right against his house [P32]
Will also kept a 22 firearm beside him to protect his horse, however he still managed to steal it without waking anyone [P32]
Police made many fruitless attempts to recapture him [39: 20-Nov-1922] while he "pursued the career of a bushranger" [39: 13-Nov1922]
After 140 days on the run he was recaptured by Constable WREFORD in Perenjori on Friday 10 May 1922 [39: 13 & 15-Nov-1922]
His recapture on 10 November 1922 was noted at the top of one of the pages of the diary of Coorow pioneer Ernest A. LONG [168]
En route to imprisonment, following his recapture, he again escaped from custody from the lock-up in Buntine [39: 14, 15 & 21-Nov-1922]
The West Australian newspaper called him "A Bird of Freedom" on account of his multiple escapes from custody [39]
Days later his tracks led to near Perenjori with police from Mingenew, Three Springs and Goomalling searching for him [39]
Police from other centres joined the search and on 16 November 1922 they heard that he was in the Carnamah district [39: 20-Nov-1922]
Constables MILLS and REYNOLDS proceeded from Mingenew to Carnamah by car and kept a watch on the railway station [39]
After the Perth express train passed through he entered a shed where one of them was watching and he was called to surrender [39]
He bolted with the two constables in hot pursuit and after a chase of about 300 yards they caught up to him and he was arrested [39]
It was said that when the constable yelled he dropped a box of groceries he was about to steal and fell over the points charger [P300]
The fall was said to have injured him and he was caught behind Henry PARKIN's premises in Yarra Street, Carnamah [P300]
He apparently had with him a saddle and bridle that he had stolen from Carnamah farmer James K. FORRESTER [P300]
The West Australian newspaper labelled him a "Fugitive from Justice" [39: 15-Nov-1922]
The paper remarked that his bushranging exploits were almost of "equally excellent material" as that of the historic Kelly gang [39]
He was sentenced to twelve months imprisonment in Geraldton on 20 November 1922 [39: 21-Nov-1922]
He pleaded guilty to charges of stealing in the Midland and Victoria districts, improperly using horses and of escaping custody [39]
His defence claimed he needed special consideration as "he had never really had a chance in life" and couldn't read or write [39]
He'd never had an incentive to learn and had inclinations to take what he needed and get away from those who chased him [39]
The magistrate declared he'd previously been imprisoned for 18 months which should have taught him not to do such things [39]
If the suggestion were made to send him to an Aboriginal settlement in the North-West, the magistrate said he would support it [39]
That may have eventuated as he was at one time sentenced to work on a station owned by the Government in the North-West [P300]
There were about a further 45 charges against him which police didn't proceed with [39: 21-Nov-1922]
After being caught for the last time he was imprisoned at the Claremont Asylum for the Insane and remained there until his death [P17]
Died 23 April 1960; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Roman Catholic, ZE, 470) [2]
John THOMAS
Born 7 November 1862 in Kadina, South Australia [55]
Son of Edward Tregloan THOMAS and Elizabeth PARSONS [55]
Shifted to Western Australia where he worked for the Midland Railway Company [P376]
Railway Stationmaster in Moora in 1897 [6]
Married (1) Frances Ellen HILL in Gingin in 1897 [15]
Railway Stationmaster in Gingin 1898-1901 [6]
His wife gave birth to twins John and Frances at the railway station in Gingin in late June 1899 [39: 29-Jun-1899]
Days later on 6 July 1899, at the railway station in Gingin, his wife passed away at the age of 21 years [39: 3-Aug-1899]
Their son John passed away at the age of three months later in 1899 [15]
Married (2) Lydia CAHILL in Perth in 1902 [15]
Railway Stationmaster in Mingenew 1902-1913 [6] [19] [50] [84]
Goods Agent of Elvire Street in the Perth suburb of Midland Junction 1914-1920 [6]
Railway Stationmaster in Mingenew 1921-1923 [6] [19]
Railway Stationmaster in Coorow 1923-1925 [6] [9: 23-Feb-1923] [50]
Railway Stationmaster in Dongara 1925-1933 [6] [19] [50]
Resided at 32 Elvire Street in the Perth suburb of Midland Junction in 1936 and 1937 [6] [50]
Father of John, Frances, Jack, Horace, Harold, Donald and Jean [P376]
Died 1 May 1937; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Wesleyan, FC, 677) [2]
"Jack" John Fitzgerald THOMAS
Born 1894 in Greenough, Western Australia [15]
Son of "Frank" Francis Henry Reeves THOMAS and Beulah Emily CRIPPIN [15]
His grandfather Joseph CRIPPIN had arrived in Western Australia as a convict under the alias of James OSBORNE in 1861 [20] [21] [107]
Resided with his parents on Coorow Station in Coorow 1903-1911 and then on Jun Jun Farm in Coorow 1912 onwards [19] [44] [50]
Farmed Jun Jun Farm in Coorow with his father and younger brother Frank until his brother became the local bushranger [P15]
Farmer in Coorow [19]
Rode his horse from Coorow to Winchester to see Miss Doris BELL [P17]
Married Doris Una BELL in Perth in 1924 [66]
His wife passed away on 28 June 1925 [2] after giving birth to twin daughters named Alleyne Una and June Hope [P17]
June passed away at the age of 20 days on 7 July 1925 and was buried at the Three Springs General Cemetery [24]
Alleyne grew up in the Perth suburb of Victoria Park under the care of her maternal grandparents Edward and Una BELL [P17]
Later left his farm in Coorow and took up virgin land west of the railway line north of Gunyidi, which he later sold [P17]
After selling the property in Gunyidi, which was rather poor land, he purchased a farm in Marchagee [P17]
Farmer of Seldomseen Farm in Marchagee [P17]
Travelled to Round Hill to play football in the early 1930s prior to the formation of the Coorow Football Club [P361]
Others to do so were William H. JOHNS and Harry F. C. KAU of Coorow and Peter W. THOMSON of Marchagee [P361]
Committee Member of the Sports organised for the opening of the East Marchagee Hall on Saturday 11 November 1933 [5: 17-Nov-1933]
Signatory to a letter sent in January 1934 expressing confidence in the Carnamah Road Board and their member [5: 19-Jan-1934]
Master of Ceremonies at the dance held at the Marchagee Hall on Saturday 20 April 1935 [5: 26-Apr-1935]
The proceeds of the dance, which was well attended and a great financial success, went to the Marchagee Hall's buildings fund [5]
In August 1936 applied for the Carnamah District Road Board to provide a road as an outlet from his farm in Marchagee [5: 28-Aug-1936]
The following month the Road Board called for tenders for the clearing of about five miles of the road at 16 feet wide [5: 25-Sep-1936]
Master of Ceremonies of the Show Ball held after the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in Coorow on 2 September 1937 [5: 10-Sep-1937]
Later resided in the Perth suburb of Subiaco [2]
Died 14 March 1986; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Anglican, MA, 247) [2]
Mrs Lydia THOMAS
Wife of John THOMAS; see Lydia CAHILL
Ethel Rose THOMPSON
Resided in Gunyidi in 1915 [50]
James THOMPSON
Medical Practitioner in Gunyidi in 1915 [50]
Myrtle May THOMPSON
Resided in Coorow in 1915 and 1916 [50]
Stephen James THOMPSON
Farmer in Coorow in 1913 and 1914 [19] [50]
Farmer in Maya in 1933 [19]
"Sandy" Alexander Welsh THOMSON
Born 6 April 1918 in Ivanhoe, Victoria, Australia [16]
Son of James Fowler THOMSON and Nellie Simpson WELSH [108]
Resided with his parents on Anster Farm in Marchagee, Western Australia [108]
Came 2nd in the Walk, Trot & Gallop in the Ring Events at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show on Thursday 7 September 1933 [5]
Also received 1st prize for a Border Collie sheep dog or bitch in the Sheep Dog section of the show [5: 15-Sep-1933]
Came 2nd in the 12-stone Gent's Hack in the Ring Events at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1936 [5: 11-Sep-1936]
Resident of Kew, Victoria, Australia where he enlisted in the Australian Army on 20 May 1940 [16]
Lieutenant VX15794 in the Australian Army's 2/14 Australian Infantry Battalion during the Second World War [16]
Discharged from the Australian Army on 6 December 1945 [16]
Arthur John THOMSON
Married Ellen HAYES in Perth in 1898 [15]
Store Manager in Coorow in 1916 [50]
Mrs Elizabeth Jessie THOMSON
Resided in Nugadong, East Gunyidi 1911-1916 [19]
Mrs Ellen THOMSON
Wife of Arthur John THOMSON; see Ellen HAYES
"Gray" Grace Welsh THOMSON
Born 31 March 1920 in Largo, Fife, Scotland [16]
Daughter of James Fowler THOMSON and Nellie Simpson WELSH [108]
Resided with her parents on Anster Farm in Marchagee, Western Australia [108]
Best Girl Rider under 14 years and came 2nd in the Lady's Hack at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1933 [5: 15-Sep-1933]
Attended the Ball at the East Marchagee Hall after the Marchagee-Gunyidi Picnic & Sports Day on 14 September 1935 [5: 27-Sep-1935]
Came 2nd in both the Walk Trot & Gallop and the Open Trot Handicap at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1936 [5: 11-Sep-1936]
Attended the Ball after the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show on 3 September 1936 dressed in floral chiffon organdie [5: 11-Sep-1936]
Won 1st for Lady's Hack and 2nd for Trotting Horse and 12-stone Gent's Hack at the 1936 Carnamah Agricultural Show [5: 18-Sep-1936]
Competed in the Carnamah Tennis Club's Easter Tennis Tournament at Centenary Park in Carnamah in March 1937 [5: 2-Apr-1937]
Attended the Coronation Ball at the Carnamah Hall on 12 May 1937 in "brown cire spot taffeta with gold lame" [5: 14-May-1937]
Part of the Best Set as "Arabians" at the Carnamah Girls Club's Masquerade Ball at the Carnamah Hall on 24 July 1937 [5: 30-Jul-1937]
Exhibited in the Ring Events at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show at Maley Park in Coorow on 2 September 1937 [5]
Awarded four 2nd prizes for the Flag Race, Swerving Race, Open Trot and the Walk, Trot & Gallop [5: 10-Sep-1937]
Won 1st for Trotting Horse and 2nd for Lady's Hack and Best Lady Rider at the Carnamah Agricultural Show in 1937 [5: 17-Sep-1937]
Resided in the Melbourne suburb of Kew prior to enlisting in the Australian Army on 13 April 1942 [16]
Captain VF345268 in the Australian Army's Australian Women's Army Service during the Second World War [16]
Discharged from the Australian Army on 18 April 1946 [16]
James Fowler THOMSON
Born 1884 in Kilrenny, Fife, Scotland [28]
Son of draper Peter THOMSON and Elizabeth GREIG [20] [28]
Resided with his parents and siblings at Comley Bank in the village of Cellardyke in Kilrenny, Fife, Scotland [20]
He was the youngest of eight children with elder siblings John, Annie, Robert, Peter, Jessie, Lizzie and Ella [20] [28]
Departed from London, England on the steamship Sumatra on 22 March 1913 bound for Singapore [203]
Married his first cousin once removed Nellie Simpson WELSH in Singapore [P1]
By 1914 they had left Singapore and were living at 187 George Street in East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia [50]
Engineer for the constructional engineering firm Clayton & Sons who were based in Leeds, Yorkshire, England [108: page 2]
Worked for Clayton & Sons in Perth, Western Australia; Invercargill, New Zealand and then in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia [108]
They were in Perth when their first son was born in 1915, and were back in Melbourne by 1918 when their second son arrived [108]
He was unfit for service during the First World War due to a bad ankle and limp sustained from an industrial accident [108: page 2]
With his wife and two sons returned to Scotland to visit relatives who they'd struggled to communicate with during the war [108: page 2]
They departed Melbourne, Victoria, Australia on the steamship Benalla and arrived in London, England on 27 February 1920 [204]
During their visit they stayed with his mother-in-law Mrs Grace S. WELSH in Largo, Fife, Scotland [108: page 2]
He departed from London, England on the steamship Marathon on 21 October 1920 bound for Melbourne, Victoria, Australia [203]
His wife, sons and daughter departed London, England bound for Melbourne on the steamship Orvieto on 17 September 1921 [203]
Established his own constructional engineering firm J. F. Thomson Pty Ltd [108: page 5]
Following their return they resided for a number of months at Old England Hotel in the Melbourne suburb of Heidelberg [108: page 2]
After buying a house resided with his wife and children on Brown Street in the Melbourne suburb of Heidelberg [108: page 2]
They lived in the most northerly housing development of Heidelberg which at the time bounded paddocks and old orchard [108: page 2]
After a few discussions with Robert S. KEAY, who was the nephew of Scottish friends, they decided to buy a farm together [108: page 5]
Robert S. KEAY travelled to Western Australia to investigate potential areas and properties and chose one in Marchagee [108: page 5]
Purchased 2,027 acres of farmland in Marchagee, Western Australia in partnership with "Bob" Robert S. KEAY in 1928 [3] [19]
The farm had previously belonged to Bertie W. LOVELESS who had acquired it under the Soldier Settlement Scheme [108: page 5]
The farm's 2,037 acres consisted of Victoria Locations 3231, 3232, 3233, 3234, 3235, 3240, 3250, 6383 and 7036 [3]
By late 1928 Robert S. KEAY had settled on and began farming the property [19], while he remained in Melbourne [108: page 5]
Absentee Farmer of Anster Farm in Marchagee in partnership with Robert S. KEAY 1928-1931 [108: page 5]
The financial crash of 1929 and the start of the Great Depression impacted severely on the farm and his Melbourne business [108: page 5]
As work in his constructional engineering business had dwindled he decided to move to the farm to properly assess its potential [108]
Leaving an employee in charge of his office and business in Melbourne himself, his wife and their son Peter left for Marchagee [108]
They travelled to Western Australia by steamship and then from Perth up to Marchagee by train [108: page 6]
The train trip of 150 miles took eight and a half hours including two refreshment stops at Mogumber and Watheroo [108: page 7]
Along with his wife arrived in Marchagee on Wednesday 20 May 1931 [108: page 6]
His son Peter had arrived a week earlier and their younger two children joined them at the end of the 1931 school year [108: pages 6, 19]
Upon their arrival the development of the farm was in a very elementary stage and their initial accommodation was a tent [108: page 6]
There was a gable-roof two room house with front and back verandahs, with half a verandah enclosed for a kitchen [108: page 5, 6]
The house was occupied by the KEAY family and the only other permanent structure was a corrugated iron chaff room [108: pages 6]
Farmer of Anster Farm in Marchagee 1931-1938 [108: pages 5, 6, 20]
Continued to farm in partnership with Robert S. KEAY until 1933 when KEAY left and the partnership ended [108: page 13] [19]
By mid 1934 KEAY no longer had his stake and he had become the sole owner of the farm's 2,027 acres [3]
The farm's 2,037 acres consisted of Victoria Locations 3231, 3232, 3233, 3234, 3235, 3240, 3250, 6383 and 7036 [3]
He was one of the first to commence harvesting in Marchagee in 1933 [5: 17-Nov-1933]
On 16 March 1935 lost a truck tyre and rim between the railway siding and the mailboxes on the East Marchagee Road [5: 29-Mar-1935]
Wrote to the Carnamah District Road Board in April 1935 requesting they enforce the compulsory eradication of turnip weed [5]
He wrote the letter as the wild turnip weed was prevalent on properties adjoining his farm in Marchagee [5: 12-Apr-1935]
A few weeks later he wrote to the Road Board again about why no action had been taken in eradicating turnip weed [5: 3-May-1935]
The Road Board responded sympathising with the issue, but said the cost of endeavouring to control the weed was too high [5]
Received a refund from the Carnamah District Road Board in 1936 after being overcharged on motor vehicle registrations [5: 17-Apr-1936]
Sold 87 sheep suckers through Elder Smith & Co Ltd on 2 September 1936 (36 at 20/7, 15 at 19/4, 18 at 21/1, 18 at 17/4) [5: 4-Sep-1936]
Attended the Inaugural Sale of the North Midlands Stud Stockbreeders Association in Carnamah on Friday 18 September 1936 [5]
At the sale he purchased four Border Leicester rams at 5½ guineas per head from LEISHMAN Bros of Winchester [5: 2-Oct-1936]
Sold 87 ewes through Elder Smith & Co at Midland Market in late 1936 (13 at 9/11, 21 at 8/10, 17 at 7/10, 36 at 4/7) [5: 13 & 20-Nov-1936]
Father of Peter, Sandy and Grace [108]
Died 7 August 1972; cremated at The Necropolis in Springvale, Victoria, Australia [131]
Mrs Nellie Simpson THOMSON
Wife of James Fowler THOMSON; see Nellie Simpson WELSH
Joseph THOMSON
Farmer in Nugadong, East Gunyidi 1911-1919 [19] [50]