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Mrs Lilian Sarah BINGHAM
Wife of Fred BINGHAM; see Lilian Sarah REYNOLDS
"TJ" Trevor Wells BIRCH
Born 5 May 1922 in Adelaide, South Australia [55]
Son of Cyril James BIRCH and Myrtle Margaret THOMSON [55]
Resided in Maya, Western Australia prior to enlisting in the Royal Australian Air Force in Perth on 6 June 1946 [16]
Warrant Officer 415298 in the Royal Australian Air Force's 114 Air Sea Rescue Flight during the Second World War [16]
During the war he flew on catalinas, which were American-Canadian built flying boats [45]
Discharged from the Royal Australian Air Force on 6 June 1946 [16]
Farmer in Coorow, Western Australia [19]
Member of the Coorow Parents & Citizens Association - was President in the 1950s [P361]
Later resided in the Perth suburb of South Perth [2]
Member of the Como Bowling Club [45]
Member and Secretary of the Como Sub-Branch of the Returned Soldiers League [45]
Husband of Mary [45]
Father of Rodney and Malcolm [45]
Died 24 April 2006; cremated at the Pinnaroo Valley Memorial Park, Perth WA [2]
Archibald Richard William BIRT
Farmhand on the Mamboobie Estate in Marchagee in 1921 [50]
John BISSETT
Labourer in Coorow 1911-1921 [19]
"Ted" Edward Thomas BLACKWELL
Born 30 May 1905 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England [16]
In England he worked for the sports company Grays in Cambridge and later for Slazengers in London [5: 16-Oct-1936]
Departed London, England on the steamship Baradine and arrived in Fremantle, Western Australia on 13 May 1929 [63]
While working as a farmhand he met his future wife who was working on the same farm [266]
Married Lorna Robina LIZARS in 1935 [66]
His wife borrowed two bags of flour from her stepmother and some bakehouse tins and they shifted to Calingiri [266]
They reopened the closed bakehouse in Calingiri but couldn't make a living from it so shifted to Coorow [266]
Baker in Coorow 1936-1949 [5: 6-Nov-1936, 16-Apr-1937] [6] [19]
Leased and later purchased the butcher's shop at Lots 93-94 on Main Street in the Coorow townsite from Robert J. WELLS [3]
Advertised in The North Midland Times in October 1936 that he re-strung tennis rackets with quality gut for 27/6 [5: 16-Oct-1936]
Alerted the Carnamah District Road Board to the bad state of the septic tank at the Coorow Hotel in October 1936 [5: 6-Nov-1936]
After being thrown from a horse he went to remount when the horse fell onto him breaking his leg on Saturday 10 April 1937 [5]
Following his broken leg he was treated by Carnamah doctor Cecil P. ROSENTHAL at the Carnamah Private Hospital [5: 16-Apr-1937]
Private W72121 in Coorow's local Volunteer Defence Corps during the Second World War [16]
Resided of late in the Perth suburb of Morley Park [2]
Died 13 February 1956; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Wesleyan, IC, 474) [2]
Mrs Lorna Robina BLACKWELL
Wife of Edward Thomas BLACKWELL; see Loran Robina LIZARS
Margaret Oliver BLAKE
Born 25 June 1885 in Balaklava, South Australia [55]
Daughter of Walter BLAKE and Marian SMITH [55]
Married Ivor Blyth ROBERTS on 10 June 1911 in Balaklava, South Australia [55]
Resided with her husband on Barokee Farm in Waddy Forest, Western Australia for at least the years 1933-1949 [4: 27-Aug-1949] [19]
In mid October 1932 she was conveyed from Coorow to Perth for an immediate operation [5: 14-Oct-1932]
Captain SNOOK was in Carnamah with a parachutist however cancelled the event so he could get her to hospital [5]
In 1932 was the owner of a Chevrolet truck registered with the Carnamah District Road Board with license plate CA-55 [4: 12-Nov-1932]
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 prize for Iceland Poppies at the Carnamah Agricultural Show at Centenary Park on Thursday 6 September 1934 [5: 14-Sep-1934]
Returned to Waddy Forest on Monday 20 May 1935 after spending a number of weeks in Broome Hill and Perth [5: 24-May-1935]
Member of the Coorow Golf Club 1935-1937 [5: 12-Jul-1935, 19-Jun-1936, 11-Jun-1937]
Won 1st prize for Wheatmeal Cookery at the Carnamah Agricultural Show held on Thursday 12 September 1935 [5: 20-Sep-1935]
Rev. Alfred J. and Mrs Myra TOOMEY of Three Springs stayed with them in Waddy Forest in late October 1935 [5: 8-Nov-1935]
Sold four bales of wool at 16¾d. per pound through Westralian Farmers Ltd on Monday 13 January 1936 [5: 17-Jan-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]
Won the Ladies Putting Competition at the Opening Day of the Coorow Golf Club for the 1936 season on 17 May 1936 [5: 22-May-1936]
Herself and Ivor celebrated their Silver Wedding Anniversary with friends at their home on Thursday 11 June 1936 [5: 19 & 26-Jun-1936]
The celebration took the form of a Card Evening, and doubled as a farewell for herself who was about to leave for a holiday [5]
Left Perth by train for Adelaide on Saturday 18 June 1936 to spend some months with friends and relatives in South Australia [5]
After spending three months in Adelaide and its suburbs she arrived back in Waddy Forest on 23 September 1936 [5: 25-Sep-1936]
Attended Roy M. PATTON's birthday at the dam on Longforest Farm in Waddy Forest on Sunday 8 November 1936 [5: 13-Nov-1936]
Sold four bales of wool at 18d. per pound through Elder Smith & Co Ltd at the Perth Wool Sale on 23 November 1936 [5: 27-Nov-1936]
With her husband and younger children holidayed on the riverfront in the Perth suburb of Claremont in February 1937 [5: 12-Feb-1937]
Committee Member of the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts Agricultural Society in 1937 [5: 20-Nov-1936]
Member of the North Midlands Anglican Church Vestry in 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]
Later resided in the Perth suburb of Mount Lawley [2]
Mother of John, Peter and Mary [P84]
Died 31 August 1972; ashes scattered to the wind at Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA [2]
Lyle BLIGHT
Born C.1943 [2]
Resided of late in Coorow [2]
Died 10 November 1996; ashes interred Fremantle Cemetery, Perth suburb of Palmyra (Crematorium A, A, 179) [2]
Edward McGill BLYTHE
Born 1883 in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia [15]
Son of Edward BLYTHE and Helen MCGILL [15]
Married Margaret Kate HUME in 1907 [66]
He was the manager of the drapery firm Economic Ltd at 111 High Street in the Perth suburb of Fremantle [6]
Resided in Shenton Road, Claremont 1909-1911, and then in Wolseley Gardens, Richmond / East Fremantle in 1912 [6]
Resided in Silas Street, Plympton 1913-1915; and then at 49 Colin Street, Perth in 1916 [6]
Resided at 25 Osborne Road in Richmond / East Fremantle 1917-1936 [6]
Purchased remnants of Coorow Station in Coorow from Francis H. R. THOMAS during the 1911-12 financial year [44]
The land was 262 acres of first class freehold land and 520 acres of two Conditional Purchase leases and a Homestead Lease [44]
The 262 acres of freehold land consisted of Victoria Locations 385, 995, 996, 1116 and 1274 [44]
The 520 acres of two Conditional Purchase leases and one Homestead Lease became Victoria Locations 2732, 2927 and 2997 [44]
On his Victoria Location 385 was Coorow House, the old homestead of the LONG family who had arrived in Coorow in 1862 [135]
Coorow House was of mud brick and jarrah wood construction with a galvanised iron roof [P147]
Took up a further 2,227 acres adjoining his Victoria Locations 2732, 2927 and 2997 in Coorow, taking his land up to 3,009 acres [3] [44]
The 2,227 acres consisted of Victoria Locations 3058, 3059, 3350, 3351, 3355, 3370, 3483, 3500 and 3502 [44]
His land in Coorow is said to have been purchased by his father, and was managed by his uncle James MCGILL 1911-1916 [P147]
His uncle James MCGILL and his uncle's family resided at Coorow House on his Victoria Location 385 [P147]
He owned a building used for storage in Coorow which he offered to provide for the proposed Coorow State School in 1911 [215]
He sold the building, however the school was later held from two rooms of Coorow House where his uncle was living [215]
Rates for his land in Coorow were initially sent to Subiaco, presumably to his father who lived at 116 Subiaco Road, Subiaco [6] [44]
Rates were later sent to 7 Outram Road, Perth in 1913-14 and 1915-16, and were then sent to Coorow [44]
In 1911 he was appointed Vice President, an honorary type of position, of the Coorow Farmers' Progress Association [39: 4-Aug-1911]
Some of his land in Coorow was leased for a time by Thomas BONHAM [44] [61]
Appears to have sold 140 of his acres, Victoria Locations 385 and 1274, to Angus A. MCGILP during the 1917-18 financial year [44]
Remained the owner of his remaining acreage until about 1919, when he sold most of it to Francis A. LATHAM [10: 12-Sep-1919] [44]
Appears to have sold his 40 acre Victoria Location 995 to Thomas GREGORY [44]
Resided of late in the Perth suburb of Claremont [2]
Father of Jean [84]
Died 27 May 1961; ashes buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Presbyterian, CA, 23) [2]
L. BOAG
Resided in Marchagee in 1934 [300: page 42]
Paid £5/17/6 by the Carnamah District Road Board in 1934 for helping control vermin by killing 19 foxes, a dog and an eagle [300]
Thomas Cavanagh BOGUE
Born 1896 in Bunbury, Western Australia [15]
Son of Frederick Aloysious BOGUE and Mary Angela KINSELLA [15]
Manager of the Savoy Hotel at 636-638 Hay Street in Perth in 1936 [50]
In January 1937 took over the license and management of the Coorow Hotel in Coorow from Hector T. A. JAMES [5: 29-Jan-1937]
Member of the Coorow Golf Club in 1937 [5: 16-Apr-1937]
First Aid Man for the Coorow Football Club in 1937 [5: 16-Apr-1937]
In 1937 donated a trophy to the Coorow Football Club [5: 16-Apr-1937]
Sang a song at the Carnamah Repertory Club's Social Evening at the Carnamah Hall on Friday 25 June 1937 [5: 2-Jul-1937]
Member of the Carnamah Repertory Club in 1937 [5: 2-Jul-1937]
Most Original Gent as "Mae West" at the Carnamah Girls Club's Masquerade Ball at the Carnamah Hall on 24 July 1937 [5: 30-Jul-1937]
Sang a song to the crowd of over 300 at the Community Concert at the Carnamah Hall on Wednesday 11 August 1937 [5: 13-Aug-1937]
Represented the Coorow Football Club at some meetings of the North Midlands Football Association in 1937 [5: 27-Aug-1937]
Attended the funeral of Coorow stationmaster William C. Cox at the Karrakatta Cemetery in Perth on 4 November 1937 [5: 12-Nov-1937]
Later resided in Kellerberrin [2]
Died 5 July 1944; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Roman Catholic, BA, 386B) [2]
Nicholas BOLAND
Contractor in Watheroo in 1911 [19]
Labourer in Coorow 1933-1935 [19]
Paid £14/2/9 by the Carnamah District Road Board in June 1934 for clearing stones on Read Road in Coorow [300: page 70]
James BOLLARD
Fettler in Latham in 1921 [50]
T. BOND
Grew 350 acres of wheat crop in Coorow in 1917 [10: 19-Jun-1917]
Sarah BONHAM
Born 31 August 1872 in Clare, South Australia [55]
Daughter of Daniel BONHAM and Jane HUNTER [55]
Married Alexander Ray Porter GRANT on 10 November 1897 in Adelaide, South Australia [55]
In 1915 was living at 16 Laura Street in Stepney, South Australia [94]
Resided with her husband on farmland in Coorow, Western Australia from 1923 until her death in 1938 [9] [19]
Her brother "Tom" Thomas BONHAM resided in Coorow from 1911 until his death in 1945 [19]
She was the owner of 2814 acres of farmland in Coorow being Victoria Locations 8282 and 8734 [3]
Attended the Official Opening of the Coorow Agricultural Hall in Coorow on Thursday 1 February 1923 [9: 23-Feb-1923]
Donated to the Coorow Hall Committee a beautiful oil painting she had painted, which was sold at the opening for £12/5/- [9]
Won 1st prize for a female White Turkey and 2nd for a female Bronzewing Turkey at the Coorow Show in 1933 [5: 15-Sep-1933]
Member of the Coorow Tennis Club in 1933-34 [5: 3-Nov-1933]
Resided in Coorow until her death in 1938 [2]
Mother of Clem Hunter Porter, Roy Percival Marcus and Jack McDonald GRANT [55]
Died 9 December 1938; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Anglican, LB, 156) [2]
"Tom" Thomas BONHAM
Born 18 November 1859 in Adelaide, South Australia [55]
Son of Daniel BONHAM and Jane HUNTER [55]
Contractor in Moora, Western Australia in 1909 and 1910 [19]
Contractor, then Farmer and later Retiree in Coorow, Western Australia 1911-1945 [3] [19] [44]
It was said he had the best and most advanced crop in all the country between Coorow and Mingenew in July 1914 [10: 17-Jul-1914]
Farmed 1,781 acres in Coorow belonging to Edward M. BLYTHE in 1915 and 1916 [44]
In 1919 farmed 3,363 acres in Coorow in partnership with Francis A. LATHAM as "Bonham & Latham" [44]
They farmed 3,523 acres - Victoria Locations 2927, 2997, 3058, 3059, 3350, 3351, 3355, 3370, 3483, 3500, 3502, 3732, 5464 [44]
The land was possibly owned by Francis A. LATHAM and had previously been owned by Edward M. BLYTHE [10: 12-Sep-1919] [44]
Around October of 1920 [215] he purchased 295 acres of his own land in Coorow from Angus A. N. MCGILP [44]
The 340 acres was Victoria Location 385, a portion of Victoria Location 1274, and Lot M634 of Victoria Location 2023 [3] [44]
He lived in the old house on Victoria Location 385 which had been the home of the LONG family who pioneered Coorow [P361]
In later years he lived in mainly just one large room of the house which contained an enormous table [P361]
On 15 May 1926 extended his farm by 130 acres with purchase of Lot M1640 of Victoria Location 2023 [27]
The 130 acres was purchased from the Midland Railway Company and cost £130, payable by instalments over four years [27]
His horse Lady Folly won the Maiden Plate and Forced Handicap races at the Carnamah Picnic Races on 1 April 1918 [10: 12-Apr-1918]
Four days later Lady Folly won the Midland Handicap at the Moora Race Club's Annual Races on Friday 5 April 1918 [10: 12-Apr-1918]
His horse Birdie won the Hurry Scurry race at the Peace Day Celebrations in Carnamah on Saturday 19 July 1919 [10: 25-Jul-1919]
At the Moora Races on 19 March 1920 his horse Lady Folly came 3rd in the Midland Handicap of seven furlongs [9: 26-Mar-1920]
His horse Olderfeet won the Hack Race and came 2nd in the Maiden Plate at the Carnamah Races on 28 March 1921 [10: 1-Apr-1921]
By February 1924 his brother-in-law and sister Alexander R. P. and Sarah GRANT had settled in Coorow [19]
His horses Don Mac and Moidore ran at the Carnamah Race Club's Annual Race Meeting in Carnamah on 10 April 1924 [10: 3-Apr-1924]
Vice President of the Carnamah Race Club in 1927 [9: 8-Apr-1927]
Purchased a new McCormick-Deering harvester from Carnamah agent Charles ROBERTSON in October 1928 [4: 20-Oct-1928]
Won 2nd prize for White Hen Eggs at the first Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show at Maley Park on 8 September 1932 [5: 16-Sep-1932]
Received 1st prizes for both male and female White Leghorns and for White Hen Eggs at the Coorow Show in 1933 [5: 15-Sep-1933]
During the 1933-34 financial year sold his farm in Coorow to Angus A. N. MCGILP [3]
The MCGILP family kindly allowed him to continue residing in the house on the farm following its sale [P8]
Won 1st prize for a Thoroughbred Mare exhibited in the Horse section of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1934 [5: 7-Sep-1934]
Also received 1st prize for White Hen Eggs, 2nd prize for male White Leghorn, and 2nd prize for female White Leghorn [5]
Awarded 1st prize for White Hen Eggs in the Farm Produce section of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1936 [5: 11-Sep-1936]
The JOHNS children of Coorow used to visit him, at which time he neat white beard and rode a white horse [P361]
Resided in Coorow until his death in 1945 [1]
Died 8 August 1945 in Three Springs; buried Winchester Cemetery, Carnamah (Row D, Plot 14) [1]
Tom MORCOMBE of Coorow officiated at his funeral, which was undertaken by Henry Parkin & Son of Carnamah [1]
His headstone reads "Thomas Bonham, Died 8th August 1945, aged 86 years, A Pioneer at Rest, Erected by the McGilp Family" [14]
From The North Midland Times newspaper, Friday 24 August 1945:
"Thomas Bonham. The funeral of the late Thomas Bonham, of Coorow, took place at the Winchester Cemetery on the 10th inst., and was conducted by Mr. Tom Morcombe, of Coorow. Deceased, who was one of the oldest residents of the Coorow district, was 86 years at the time of his death. The pall bearers were Messrs. A. McGilp, B. D. Bothe, C. C. Bothe, G. Hutchcraft, G. Lambert, and G. Greenwood."
"Bert" Albert Joseph BONSER
Born 6 August 1893 in Northam, Western Australia [16]
Son of William James BONSER and Bridget MCMAHON [15]
Bricklayer in Meckering, Western Australia in 1916 [94]
Lance Corporal 6223 in the Australian Imperial Force's 16th Battalion during the First World War [94]
Married Dorothy Mabel CLEGGETT in 1922 [66]
Contractor in Waddy Forest 1929-1934 [5] [19]
He had a small farm in Waddy Forest, but not with many acres cleared, and worked out as a builder and contractor [P32]
Built a house for Philip T. MORCOMBE on Minaru Farm in Waddy Forest [P32]
With Bill BONSER built a mud brick house for George N. GREENWOOD on Maryland Farm, Waddy Forest for £1100 in 1928 [P280]
In November 1929 purchased a new Ford truck from Carnamah dealer Rupert H. LAFFAN [4: 16-Nov-1929]
Played the drums at the Coorow Anglican Church's Dance at the Coorow Hall on Saturday 7 April 1934 [5: 13-Apr-1934]
Along with his wife and children left Waddy Forest in April 1934 [5: 13-Apr-1934]
In 1942 was living in the Perth suburb of Queens Park [16]; and later resided in the Perth suburb of East Victoria Park [2]
Died 6 May 1958; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Roman Catholic, ZD, 228) [2]
Mrs Dorothy Mabel BONSER
Wife of "Bert" Albert Joseph BONSER; see Dorothy Mabel CLEGGETT
Kathleen BONSER
Born 1897 in Northam, Western Australia [15]
Daughter of William James BONSER and Bridget MCMAHON [15]
Married James Andrew ANDERSON in 1919 [66]
Resided in Waddy Forest 1927-1935 [19]
Resided on Lake Nedo Farm in Latham in 1936 and 1937 [50]
Resided in Latham in 1938, Buntine in 1939 and Wubin 1941-1948 [19]
Sidney Francis BONSER
Born 1904 in Northam, Western Australia [15]
Son of William James BONSER and Bridget MCMAHON [15]
Farmhand for John J. PEARSE in North Cunderdin in 1925 [50]
Labourer in Coorow 1929-1932 [19]
Married Janet Alice THOMPSON in 1934 [66]
Farmhand in Meckering in 1936 [50] [84]
Father of Thea [84]
"Bill" Albert Charles BOTHE
Born 11 August 1920 in Perth, Western Australia [16]
Son of Charles Cleaver BOTHE and Margaret MCGILL [P98]
Spent his childhood on his father's Glenfield Farm in Coorow [P98]
Educated at Christ Church Grammar School in Perth 1927-1929 [P98]
Educated at the Coorow State School 1930-1932 and then at the Perth Boys School 1933-1936 [P98]
Attended the Children's Fancy Dress Ball held in Coorow in July 1933 dressed as a "Shiek" [4: 29-Jul-1933]
Received a 1st prize for Handwork at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show on Thursday 7 September 1933 [5: 15-Sep-1933]
A week later, on Thursday 14 September 1933, won a 2nd prize for Wood/Fretwork at the Carnamah Agricultural Show [5: 22-Sep-1933]
After completing his schooling Perth he returned to Coorow and worked with his father on Glenfield Farm [P98]
Member of the Coorow Cricket Club in 1935-36 [5: 14-Feb-1936]
Attended his cousin Olive W. KAU's 21st birthday at Meadowdale Farm in Coorow on Saturday evening 18 January 1936 [5: 24-Jan-1936]
Attended the surprise 75th birthday for her grandfather Heinrich W. BOTHE in Coorow on Tuesday 13 April 1937 [5: 16-Apr-1937]
Member of the Coorow Football Club in 1937 [5: 18-Jun-1937]
One of the Stewards of the Sheep section of the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts Agricultural Society's Annual Show in 1937 [150]
Member of the No. 2 Troop of the "C" Squadron of the motorised 25th Light Horse Machine Gun Regiment in 1939 [P15]
The No. 2 Troop was a local militia unit made of people from the North Midlands and trained in Carnamah once a fortnight [P15]
Later served full time with the 25th Machine Gun Regiment at Canning Weir WA [P98]
Enlisted in the Australian Army at Canning Weir on 17 December 1940 [16]
Sergeant W1224 in the Australian Army's 25 Reconnaissance Battalion during a portion of the Second World War [16]
On 21 September 1942 transferred from the Australian Army to the Royal Australian Air Force [16]
Flight Lieutenant 427780 in the Royal Australian Air Force's 9 Aircrew Holding Unit during the Second World War [16]
Discharged from the Royal Australian Air Force on 7 December 1945 [16]
After the war initially farmed with his father on Glenfield Farm in Coorow [P98]
Committee Member of the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts Agricultural Society in 1946 [150]
Became a member of the Carnamah Masonic Lodge No.150 WAC on 19 July 1946 - was Worshipful Master in 1957 [96] [153]
He remained a member of the Carnamah Masonic Lodge for over 55 years, and was later also a member of the Epworth Lodge [45]
Assistant Steward of the Sheep section at the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts Agricultural Society's Tenth Annual Show in 1947 [150]
Married Hettie Isabel FRANKLIN in Three Springs on 3 February 1948 [P98]
Farmer of Clerklands Farm at Billeroo, East Winchester in the Carnamah district 1948-1994 [P98]
Clerklands Farm was 2,534 acres in size and consisted of Lots M1075, M1088 and M1089 of Victoria Locations 1937 and 1938 [3]
Employed the services of Coorow builder E. Clive HUNTER to build him a new house on the farm [P320]
His home was telephone number Carnamah-9D from 1949 to 1960 and was then number Carnamah East 209 [60]
Vestryman on the North Midlands Anglican Church Vestry 1949-1951 [167]
Member of the Winchester Tennis Club in 1950-51 [4: 9-Dec-1950]
An infant child of his died on 29 December 1953 and was buried at the Karrakatta Cemetery in Perth (Wesleyan, FA, 81A) [2]
Member of Carnamah's branch of the Farmers Union [P98]
Financial Member of the Carnamah District Agricultural Society 1958-1971 [13]
Member of the Carnamah Bowling Club [P98]
Served on the Carnamah Shire Council representing the Billeroo & Winchester Ward for 17 years 1962-1979 [7: page 112] [45]
Sold his Clerklands Farm in Carnamah to Gavin BROWN [P98]
Left the Carnamah district on 14 February 1994 and retired with his wife Hettie to 8 Coode Street in South Perth [P98]
Resided in the Perth suburb of South Perth until his death in 2003 [2]
Father of Allen [P98]
Died 14 June 2003; buried Pinnaroo Valley Memorial Park, Perth WA (Melaleuca Court, 1933) [2]
From The West Australian newspaper, Saturday 14 August 1920:
"Births - BOTHE - On August 11 at Nurse Bevan's Private Hospital, Kialla, 419 Newcastle-street, Perth, to Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Bothe, of Inglewood, Coorow - a son. Both well."
Baxter Diedrich BOTHE
Born 12 June 1891 in Walkerville, South Australia [16]
Son of Heinrich Wilhelm BOTHE and Eliza Wilhelmina NEWMAN [55]
Shifted with his parents from South Australia to Western Australia in 1896 [4: 25-Feb-1950]
Educated at the Perth Boys School in Perth, where he won a Book Prize one year [P342]
Farmer in Wagerup, Western Australia [44]
In 1909 travelled from Wagerup to Coorow to inspect prospective land with his brother Charles and Fred KAU [P15]
Settled in Coorow with his parents, sister May and brother Charles in 1910 [5: 29-Nov-1935] [110]
Farmer in Coorow from 1910 until his death in 1950 [1] [19] [110]
Farmer and Grazier in Coorow in partnership with his brother Charles C. BOTHE as "Bothe Bros" 1915-1925 [27] [44]
From 1910 to 1914 he was the owner of 158 acres, his brother Charles 224 acres and their father 246 acres in Coorow [44]
In 1915 farmed their 1,222 acres (Victoria Locations 3956, 3960 and 6619) and their father's 246 acre Victoria Location 3957 [44]
In February 1916 they sold 50 bags of Gluyas wheat to the Midland Railway Company [34]
The Midland Railway Company paid them £48.7.0, or 8/- an acre, to strip 119 acres of crop on Lot M963 in Coorow in 1916 [34]
In 1917 had 450 acres of wheat crop - the third highest acreage in crop for the Coorow district that year [10: 19-Jun-1917]
"These men are very good farmers" was the comment of a Midland Railway Company official in 1918 [34]
Extended their farmland with three purchases of land in Coorow from the Midland Railway Company [27]
Purchased the 1,101 acre Lot M1068 of Victoria Location 2023 for £770/19/7 (14/- per acre) on 11 October 1918 [27]
Purchased the 1,477 acre Lot M1142 of Victoria Location 2023 for £923/7/4 (12/6 per acre) on 10 February 1919 [27]
Purchased 800 acres in Lots M960 and M962 of Victoria Location 2023 for £2400 (£3 per acre) on 29 June 1922 [27]
Lots M1068 and M1142 were purchased as virgin bush, while Lots M960 and M962 were developed farmland [27]
In 1923 they used 150 pounds of superphosphate to the acre on their wheat crops [10: 6-Mar-1924]
By mid 1924 they had also purchased the 390 acre Victoria Location 7246, which took their farmland to a total of 5236 acres [44]
Appear to have dissolved their partnership in 1925, when they split their farmland between themselves [3] [27] [44]
He took 2,959 acres (Victoria Locations 3956, 3957, 3960, 6619, 7246 and Lot M1068 of Victoria Location 2023) [27]
His brother Charles became the owner of 2,277 acre (Lots M960, M962 and M1142 of Victoria Location 2023) [27]
Purchased his first tractor in 1918 - which was a belt-driven single cylinder diesel model [193]
In 1920 he was the first person to own a car in Coorow [110]
Married Blanche Amelia BROAD on 28 July 1923 at Saint George's Cathedral in Perth [10: 16-Aug-1923]
Following their marriage they held their wedding reception with fifty guests at the Piccadilly Reception Rooms in Perth [10]
After their wedding reception they left by motor car to spend their honeymoon in Kalamunda [10]
Member of the Coorow Hall Committee - was Chairman in 1923 [9: 23-Feb-1923]
Farmer of Inglewood Farm in Coorow [19]
By 1931 his farm was 5,024 acres in size and consisted of Victoria Locations 3058, 3355, 3370, 3483, 3956, 3957, [3]
3960, 5648, 7246, 7513, 7517, 7528, 7581, 8551, 8552, 6619, part of 2997 and Lot M1068 of Victoria Location 2023 [3]
Attended the Coorow Farmers' Progress Association's Picnic & Sports Meeting in Coorow on 7 October 1911 [39: 12-Oct-1911]
Won the Pillow Fight with his brother Charles coming second, and together himself and Charles won the Siamese Race [39]
Vice President of the Picnic Race Meeting held in Three Springs on Saint Patrick's Day Tuesday 17 March 1925 [124]
Served on the Carnamah District Road Board representing the Coorow Ward 1929-1933 and 1935-1950 [7: page 111]
Vice Chairman of the Carnamah District Road Board from 1929 to 1933 [7: page 111]
Following the resignation of the Coorow Member in mid 1935 he was elected unopposed on 9 July 1935 [5: 12-Jul-1935]
Attended his first meeting of his second term on the Carnamah District Road Board on Wednesday 21 August 1935 [5: 23-Aug-1935]
Represented the Carnamah Road Board at the Vermin Conference of Road Boards in Moora on 20 September 1935 [5: 20-Sep-1935]
Leading to the expiration of his term at the Coorow Member in 1936 he was re-elected unopposed [5: 10-Apr-1936]
Member of the Coorow Cricket Club - was Chairman in 1929-30 [4: 31-Aug-1929]
Served on the Board of the North Midlands District Hospital in Three Springs from 1929 to 1937 [109] [120: 26-Dec-1929]
Member in 1930 and Chairman in 1934 of the Coorow and Waddy Progress Association [4: 4-Oct-1930] [5: 8-Jun-1934]
With Kenneth E. JONES interviewed the Minister for Health about the establishment of a hospital in Coorow in 1930 [4: 23-Aug-1930]
Attended and spoke at the Welcome Home held in Coorow for Dr. W. P. SHANAHAN on 13 September 1930 [4: 27-Sep-1930]
Won the Royal Agricultural Society's 50 acre Crop Competition for Zone 1 in 1930 [4: 13-Dec-1930]
Over the 1930-31 summer he allowed the public to swim in a pool of water on his farm in Coorow [4: 13 & 20-Dec-1930]
The pool became very popular on weekends, and on the first weekend of December 1930 there were four canoes at the pool [4]
Attended the funeral of "Father of Carnamah" Donald MACPHERSON at the Winchester Cemetery on 14 August 1931 [4: 22-Aug-1931]
Financial Member of the Carnamah District Agricultural Society 1932-1939 and 1946-1948; donated 10/6 to the Society in 1932 [13]
In 1932 was the owner of a Fiat car and a Bean truck with licence plates CA-25 and CA-145 [4: 12-Nov-1932]
Foundation Treasurer and Committee Member of the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts Agricultural Society in 1932 [4: 9-Apr-1932]
Committee Member 1933-1939, President in 1937 and Treasurer 1946-1949 [5: 23-Dec-1932, 10-Nov-1933, 20-Nov-1936] [150]
Provided a revolver and a sheep for the Weight Guessing Competition at the Society's Annual Show in 1937 [5: 20-Aug-1937]
In July 1932 was appointed a Justice of the Peace for the Victoria Magisterial District [4: 30-Jul-1932] [5: 29-Jul-1932]
Proposed one of the toasts at the dinner following the Official Opening of the new Carnamah Post Office on 30 June 1932 [5: 8-Jul-1932]
Exhibited and won prizes in five sections of the inaugural Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show on Thursday 8 September 1932 [5]
Won 1st prizes for a Broad Mare in the Horse section and for a Jersey Cow in the Cattle section [5: 16-Sep-1932]
In Grain & Fodder won 1st prizes for Merredin Wheat, Wheat (open) and 2nd prizes for Oats, Oaten Chaff and Wheaten Chaff [5]
Won 2nd prizes for Southdown Ram and Three Fat Lambs in the Sheep section; and 2nd for female Black Orpington in Poultry [5]
The following week, on Thursday 15 September 1932, exhibited a number of items in the Carnamah Agricultural Show [5: 23-Sep-1932]
Won 2nd prize for Three Fat Lambs Suitable for Export in the Sheep section and 2nd for Oats in the Grain & Fodder section [5]
Awarded 1st prizes for both Jersey Cow and All Round Dairy Cow in the Cattle section [5]
Won 1st prizes for Carrots and for the Best Collection of Vegetables and also for Peas in the Vegetable section [5]
A week later, on Thursday 22 September 1932, exhibited in three sections of Three Springs Agricultural Show [5: 30-Sep-1932]
Won 1st and 2nd for Jersey Cow, 2nd for Dairy Cow, 1st for White Oats, 1st for Parsnips and 2nd for Collection of Vegetables [5]
A week later again won 1st and 2nd prizes for Jersey Cows at the Agricultural Show in Three Springs [5: 30-Sep-1932]
With a plot of Bencubbin wheat came 3rd in the Carnamah Agricultural Society's 50 acre crop competition in 1932 [5: 20-Jan-1933]
Attended the Valedictory Dinner tendered to Alexander B. GLOSTER at the Coorow Hotel on Monday 3 July 1933 [5: 7-Jul-1933]
Member of Coorow's Maley Park Management Committee in 1933 [5: 23-Dec-1932]
Attended the Official Opening of the Carnamah Golf Course at Centenary Park in Carnamah on Sunday 23 July 1933 [5: 28-Jul-1933]
Exhibited in five sections of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Society's Second Annual Show on Thursday 7 September 1933 [5]
Won both 1st and 2nd prizes for Jersey Cow and Best Dairy Cow in the Cattle section; also won 1st and 2nd for Sheep Skins [5]
Awarded 1st prize for a Bushel of Oats and 2nd prize for a Sheaf of Green Oats for Hay in the Grain & Fodder section [5]
In the Sheep section won 1st for Dorset Horn Ram, 3 Fat Lambs and 3 Lambs suitable for export, 2nd for Southdown Ram, [5]
1st and 2nd for Southdown Ewe; also won 2nd prize for a Draught Mare of Gelding in the Horse section [5: 15-Sep-1933]
The next week, on Thursday 14 September 1933, exhibited in four sections of the Carnamah Agricultural Show [5: 22-Sep-1933]
Won 1st prizes for Jersey Cow, Potatoes and White Oats; received both 1st and 2nd prizes for Onions [5]
Also won 2nd prizes for Dairy Cow, Southdown Ram, Three Fat Lambs Down breed and Sheaf of Green Oats for Hay [5]
The following week, on Thursday 21 September 1933, exhibited in five sections of the Three Springs Agricultural Show [5: 29-Sep-1933]
In the Cattle section received 1st prize for Dairy Cow, 2nd for Jersey Cow, and both 1st and 2nd for Best Butter Fat Yield [5]
Won 1st prize for Dorset Horn Ram, 2nd for Three Fat Lambs and 2nd for Sheep Skin in Full Wool [5]
Awarded 1st prize for White Oats in the Grain & Fodder section; and 1st for Potatoes and 2nd for Onions in Vegetables [5]
Paid the Carnamah District Road Board 5/- on 7 August 1933 for two gate licenses allowing gates to go over roads [300: page 19]
Won the trophy for "three lambs suited for the London market" in the Sheep section of the 1933 Royal Show in Perth [5: 20-Oct-1933]
In October 1933 purchased a new Sunshine harvester [5: 3-Nov-1933]
Received 1st prize for Zone 1 in the Royal Agricultural Society's 50-acre Crop Competition in 1933 [5: 22-Dec-1933]
In 1934 won the Carnamah District Agricultural Society's 50 acre Crop Competition with a plot of Bencubbin wheat [5: 21-Dec-1934]
The same plot of Bencubbin wheat also won him 1st prize for Zone 1 of the Royal Agricultural Society's crop competition [5]
Attended the Annual Ratepayers meeting of the Carnamah District Road Board in Carnamah in February 1934 [5: 2-Mar-1934]
Member of the Coorow Waddy Forest Progress Association - was elected Chairman in March 1934 [5: 16-Mar-1934]
The Carnamah District Road Board paid him £2/10/- on 24 April 1934 for the hire of a sulky and a plough [300: page 27]
Loaned machinery and spent considerable time helping make the Coorow Rifle Range in July 1934 [5: 20-Jul-1934]
Won the President's Cup and W. H. Melvin Trophy at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show on 30 August 1934 [5: 7-Sep-1934]
Won 1st prizes for a Kelpie Sheep Dog/Bitch and for a Dorset Horn Ram; and 2nd for a Sheep Skin and a Thoroughbred Mare [5]
Received 1st prizes for Medium Strong White Mid-season Wheat, White Oats and Oaten Chaff in the Grain & Fodder section [5]
In the Cattle section was awarded 1st prize for a Jersey Heifer and 1st and 2nd prizes for the Best Dairy Cow of Any Breed [5]
Awarded 2nd prizes in the Cattle section for Jersey Cow, Illawarra Shorthorn Cow, Illawarra Shorthorn Bull and Best Bull [5]
Attended the funeral of Mrs Christina B. D. FORRESTER of Carnamah at the Winchester Cemetery on 31 August 1934 [4: 8-Sep-1934]
Attended the Official Opening of the Coorow Rifle Club's Rifle Range on Saturday 8 September 1934 [5: 14-Sep-1934]
Organiser of a display from the Coorow-Waddy Forest district in a pavilion at the Perth Royal Show in 1934 [5: 19-Oct-1934]
Exhibited in the Grain section of the Royal Show in Perth in 1934 and was awarded 1st prize for Oats [5: 19-Oct-1934]
Member of the Coorow Golf Club - was President in 1935 and 1936 [5: 17-May-1935, 27-Mar-1936]
Attended the Official Opening of the Coorow Golf Club's golf links in Coorow on Sunday 23 June 1935 [5: 28-Jun-1935]
Declared the Coorow Golf Club's links officially open at their 1936 season Opening Day on Sunday 17 May 1936 [5: 22-May-1936]
Member of the Coorow Rifle Club in 1935 and 1936, and a Committee Member in 1937-38 [5: 1-Nov-1935, 31-Jul-1936, 30-Jul-1937]
Exhibited in the Horse, Cattle, Wool, Vegetable and Grain & Fodder sections of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1935 [5]
Awarded four 1st prizes for Wheaten Hay, Oaten Hay, Sheepskin, and Jersey Cow [5: 13-Sep-1935]
Received nine 2nd prizes for Best Pony 14 hands or under, Beetroot, Yearling Draught Colt/Filly, Best Dairy Cow, [5]
Illawarra Shorthorn Cow, Illawarra Shorthorn Bull, Strong Wool Merino Fleece, Australian Strong White Wheat and White Oats [5]
Won 2nd prize for Australian Premium Wheat at the Carnamah Agricultural Show on Thursday 12 September 1935 [5: 20-Sep-1935]
Sold eight bales of wool at 13d. per pound through Elder Smith & Co Ltd at the Wool Sale in Perth on 7 October 1935 [5: 11-Oct-1935]
Oversaw the fencing of the Coorow West Road for the Carnamah District Road Board during the last months of 1935 [5: 25-Oct-1935]
Attended the Coorow Rifle Club's Grand Ball held at the Coorow Hall on Saturday 26 October 1935 [5: 1-Nov-1935]
In November 1935 sold one of his horses to the Police Department via Carnamah constable Alan O. FIEBIG [88]
Won the Nail Driving Competition at the Coorow-Waddy Sports & Dance in Coorow on Saturday 9 November 1935 [5: 15-Nov-1935]
Sold 14 pigs through Elder Smith & Co Ltd at the Midland Market on Wednesday 13 November 1935 [5: 15-Nov-1935]
The 14 pigs consisted of 2 sold at £1/6/-, 1 at £1/15/-, 2 at £1/11/6, 3 at £1/1/6, 2 at £1/7/6, and 4 at 14/6 per head [5]
Among those who met with the Commonwealth Grants Commission in Carnamah and Coorow on 21 November 1935 [5: 22 & 29-Nov-1935]
Sold four bales of wool at 16d. per pound through Elder Smith & Co Ltd at a Wool Sale in Perth on 25 November 1935 [5: 29-Nov-1935]
Attended the funeral of Miss "May" Mary L. LANG of Carnamah at the Winchester Cemetery on 26 November 1935 [5: 29-Nov-1935]
Came 5th in the Carnamah District Agricultural Society's 50-acre Crop Competition in 1935, with a plot of Sutton wheat [5: 20-Dec-1935]
Proposed the toast at the 21st birthday of his niece Olive W. KAU at Meadowdale Farm in Coorow on 18 January 1936 [5: 24-Jan-1936]
Represented the Carnamah District Road Board in a deputation to the General Manager of the Midland Railway Company [5: 24-Jan-1936]
The deputation took place at the office of Joseph J. POYNTON in Perth on 27 January 1936 and was about rail stock trucks [5]
After spending a fortnight in Perth he returned to Coorow on Thursday 6 February 1936 [5: 7-Feb-1936]
Himself and his brother Charles held a Surplus Sale on Charles' Glenfield Farm in Coorow at 12 p.m. on Friday 28 February 1936 [5]
They were curtailing their farming operations and held the sale to sell off surplus livestock, farming plant and machinery [5]
Sold 35 Draught horses consisting of mares, geldings, fillies, yearlings, foals and hacks; 13 of which they'd bred themselves [5]
Sold ten cattle consisting of nine cows and heifers, and the pedigree milking strain Shorthorn bull named Polaris Prince [5]
Sold 500 Merino ewes between 2½ and 4½ years which were mated to Border Leicester rams, and 100 wethers and hoggets [5]
Plant and Machinery up for sale included a 10-foot McKay harvester, two 16-run Massey combines, 16-run McKay combine, [5]
35-tyne McKay cultivator, 15-tyne Standard scarifier, 12-disc Shearer twin disc plough, 12-disc Sun General twin disc plough, [5]
6-furrow Shearer mouldboard plough, I.H.C. steel wheel lorry, 7-ton wagon, 20-run Massey disc drill, 8-foot Mitchell drill, [5]
21-run Massey Harris drill, Horwood Bagshaw header, 6-furrow McKay disc plough, 4-furrow Shearer mouldboard plough, [5]
17-run 12-furrow twin Shearer mouldboard skim plough, 10-disc Shearer cultivating plough, 30-tyne McKay cultivator, [5]
8½-inch mouth Salmon chaffcutter, Eclipse feed grinder, two sets of Shearer drill harrows, two 10-horse McKay leading sets, [5]
4-ton Trewhella jack, set of 8 McKay harrows, hay rake, two 10-horse sets of swingle trees and spreader bars, [5]
1½-horsepower Lister engine, 4½-horsepower Lister engine, and harness and chains for 25 horses [5: 14 & 21-Feb-1936, 6-Mar-1936]
Their sale attracted a "record attendance" of buyers from as far away as Northampton and Goomalling who paid top prices [5]
Purchased a new 16/33 Horwood Bagshaw rigid tyne combine from Westralian Farmers Ltd in March 1936 [5: 20-Mar-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]
As President of the Coorow Golf Club he thanked the Carnamah Club for a pleasant days sport and enjoyable refreshments [5]
Attended the meeting in Carnamah on 6 May 1936 at which the North Midlands Stud Breeders Association was formed [5: 8-May-1936]
Sold seven baconers through Elder Smith & Co Ltd at the Midland Market on 8 July 1936 - 1 at £2/11/- and 6 at £3/2/6 [5: 10-Jul-1936]
Competed at the Official Opening of the Three Springs Rifle Club's rifle range in Three Springs on Thursday 23 July 1936 [5: 31-Jul-1936]
He was among the 200 farmers who attended the meeting in Carnamah on 31 July 1936 about local Bulk Wheat Handling [5: 7-Aug-1936]
A shearing record for the Coorow-Waddy Forest districts was claimed to have been set on his farm on 1 September 1936 [5: 11-Sep-1936]
On that day R. C. GILES and J. N. PRENDERGAST shore 323 sheep, and had regularly shorn over 300 sheep in one day [5]
Later that month the record was rivalled in the Morawa district when two shearers shore 401 sheep in eight hours [5: 2-Oct-1936]
He was the second most successful exhibitor of the agricultural sections of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1936 [5: 11-Sep-1936]
Awarded 1st for Australian Strong White Wheat, 1st and 2nd for Malting Barley, 2nd for Oaten Hay, and 2nd for White Oats [5]
Won 1st for Best Pony 14 hands or under in Ring Events, and in Cattle won 1st and 2nd for Jersey Cow and 2nd for Dairy Cow [5]
Awarded 1st prize for Australian Premier Wheat and 2nd prize for Oats at the Carnamah Agricultural Show in 1936 [5: 11 & 18-Sep-1936]
The next week he won 1st prize for White Oats at the Three Spring Agricultural Show on 17 September 1936 [5: 25-Sep-1936]
Sold one baconer at £3/10/6 per head through Elder Smith & Co Ltd at the Midland Market on 7 October 1936 [5: 9-Oct-1936]
Won 1st prize for Australian Premier Strong White Wheat for Zone 2 at the Perth Royal Show in 1936 [5: 16-Oct-1936]
Attended Roy M. PATTON's birthday at the dam on Longforest Farm in Waddy Forest on Sunday 8 November 1936 [5: 13-Nov-1936]
Tied for 8th place in the Royal Agricultural Society's Perpetual Executors Export Lamb Competition in 1936 [5: 11-Dec-1936]
Part of an overland trip to the uninhabited coast at Jurien Bay, which departed on Monday 15 February 1937 [5: 26-Feb-1937]
The 12 other members of the party were Angus A. N. MCGILP of Waddy Forest; and William A. T. SARGENT of Carnamah; [5]
Frank R. BRYANT, Walter G. FENNELL, W. Frank FENNELL and C. Jock BRAYNT of Marchagee; David TODD, [5]
William J. GAUNT, Donald S. GRANT, George HUTCHCRAFT, Fred BINGHAM and John S. READ of Coorow [5]
They travelled in two trucks and two cars and from Moora they drove over 54 miles of road and 30 miles of sand [5]
They erected a shed and tables and were able to get good reception on a wireless Fred BINGHAM had taken along [5]
They fished every day, visited caves nine miles from their camp at Jurien Bay and visited Sandy Cape and North Head [5]
Himself, William J. GAUNT and Angus A. N. MCGILP returned home in MCGILP's car on Thursday 18 February 1937 [5]
Decided to switch to tractor power so held a Surplus Sale at his Inglewood Farm in Coorow on Thursday 25 February 1937 [5]
At the sale, conducted by Elder Smith & Co Ltd, he sold 22 horses, 240 sheep, 10 cattle and some farm plant and machinery [5]
The horses were "in excellent condition, well grown and weighty farm sorts," the younger of which he had bred himself [5]
The horses consisted of eight Draught geldings, six Draught fillies and six Draught mares, blood mare with colt foal at foot, and [5]
the Clydesdale stallion "Yorkdale Glen" by "Koojan Glen" while the sheep were 100 crossbred ewes mated to Southdown rams [5]
and 140 Merino ewes of 1½, 2½ and 3½ years mated to Border Leicester rams; and the 10 head of cattle consisted of [5]
two pedigree A.I.S. bulls aged four and two years, one pedigree A.I.S. cow aged five years, four fat steers and heifers, [5]
prize winning Jersey cow with calf due in May/July, and two Jersey/Shorthorn cross cows due to have their second calves [5]
Plant and Machinery, no longer needed in switching from horses to tractors, included harness for 20 horses, two wagon saddles, [5]
three sets of leading chains and spiders, 20 sets of plough chains, 3-ton spring table-top wagon ideal for hay carting, [5]
8-horse set McKay Tandem roller chains, 30 single and double swings, 8-horse set McKay tandem swings, [5]
quantity of swings and eveners, King of Road sulky harness and traces, and numerous sundries [5: 19-Feb-1937]
His farmhouse was telephone number Coorow-4 [5: 2-Apr-1937]
Borrowed the Carnamah District Road Board's grader to remove sand from his fences after bad dust storms in early 1937 [5: 19-Mar-1937]
Advertised "Wanted" in April 1937 a general employee to assist with all duties with wages of 15/- per week [5: 2-Apr-1937]
Attended his father's surprise 75th birthday in Coorow on Tuesday evening 13 April 1937 [5: 16-Apr-1937]
Played for the defeated Married Men in a cricket match against Single Men in Coorow on Sunday 11 April 1937 [5: 16-Apr-1937]
Obtained the exceptional price of 29/7 per head for Southdown cross lambs at the first export lamb sale in Coorow in 1937 [5: 27-Aug-1937]
Exhibited in the Sheep and Grain & Fodder sections of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1937 [5: 10-Sep-1937]
Awarded 1st prizes for shorn Southdown Ram and Australian Strong White Wheat, and 2nd for Southdown Ram [5: 10-Sep-1937]
Travelled to Perth on 20 September 1937 and returned to Coorow the next day after purchasing a new Vauxhall Sedan car [0: image 03692]
District Representative for Coorow for the Coastal Districts' Display at the Perth Royal Show in 1939 [150]
Won a number of prizes in the Grain section of the 1939 Perth Royal Show [0: image 03858]
Member of the Coorow Home Guard in 1941 [4: 9-Aug-1941]
Attended the funeral of Waddy Forest farmer Stanley L. FOLLAND at the Moora Cemetery on Monday 25 August 1941 [4: 30-Aug-1941]
Private in the local Australian Army Volunteer Defence Corps during the Second World War [16]
Pallbearer at the funeral of Thomas BONHAM on 10 August 1945 at the Winchester Cemetery in Carnamah [0]
Treasurer of the Coorow-Waddy Forest Agricultural Society and Patriotic Funds Committee in 1945 [0: image 04320]
Sheep Breeder of the "Coorow Park" Southdown Stud in 1946 and 1947 [150]
He is said to have established his Southdown Sheep Stud in the 1930s [193]
"Selected and Flock Rams - Coorow Park Southdowns are noted for breeding the ideal export type of lamb" [150]
"For Particulars Apply to B. D. Bothe or Recognised Stock Agent" [150]
Representative in Coorow for Bankers & Traders Insurance Company Limited in 1946 and 1947 [150]
"Transacts All Classes of Insurance - Fire, Growing Crops (Fire and Hail), Motor Vehicle, Compulsory Third Party, Personal [150]
Accident, Workers' Compensation, Pluvius (Rain), etc. etc. - Local Representative - Baxter D. Bothe, Phone No. 4, Coorow [150]
Insure with this progressive Australian Company and ensure that your premiums stay and circulate in Australia" [150]
Pallbearer at the funeral of Mrs Edith Maude GREENWOOD on 5 April 1947 at the Winchester Cemetery in Carnamah [0: 19-Apr-1947]
Member of the Coorow-Waddy Forest branch of the Farmer's Union of WA in 1949 [4: 18-Mar-1950]
As a Justice of the Peace presided as Magistrate at criminal and traffic cases that went before the Carnamah Police Court [22]
Presided over his first case at the Carnamah Police Court on 3 February 1950 [22]
Father of Richard and Lloyd [1]
Died 22 February 1950 in Coorow; buried Winchester Cemetery, Carnamah (Row D, Plot 12) [1]
His estate was valued for probate at £15,560/7/8 to the benefit of his wife and two sons, as directed in his will [39: 3-Oct-1950]
From The Irwin Index newspaper, Saturday 25 February 1950:
Death of Mr. B. D. Bothe - Well Known Coorow Farmer - Man of Many Interests
"Widely known in the North Midland, Mr. Baxter Dietrich Bothe (58), of "Inglewood" Farm, near the township of Coorow, collapsed at his residence last Wednesday morning and died. He had intended to leave that day on a holiday. Deceased is survived by his widow and two sons. Resident about forty years in the [Coorow] district, the late Mr. Bothe was a man of wide interests. Born in Adelaide, he reached Western Australia as a small boy in 1896. A successful wheat and sheep grower and noted as a lamb breeder, he took numerous prizes at agricultural shows - particularly in the sheep as well as the grain and fodder sections. Illustrative of his community outlook was his association with a variety of organisations. At the time of his demise he was vice-chairman of the Carnamah Road Board - a position to which he was elected to in 1946. He was a member of the Board - save for a period of two years - since May, 1929, representing the Coorow Ward. The late Mr. Bothe was President of the Coorow Golf Club and the Coorow Tennis Club and honorary treasurer and past president of the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts Agricultural Society and, in addition, a member of the West Australian Barley Board. With his brother and his late parents he was one of the earliest settlers at Coorow, where - both for his fine personal qualities and his unflagging efforts to advance the interests of the district - his loss will be keenly felt. The funeral took place at the Winchester cemetery on Thursday afternoon."
From The North Midland Times newspaper, Thursday 2 March 1950:
"Vale the Late B. D. Bothe. The death occurred very suddenly on Wednesday morning February 22 of Mr. Baxter Diedrich Bothe (58) of Inglewood Farm, Coorow. The deceased is survived by his widow and two sons. The late Mr. Bothe was one of the earliest settlers in the district, being president of the Coorow Golf Club and Coorow Tennis Club and past president of the Coorow-Waddy Forest District Agricultural Society and also a member of the Westralian Barley Board. With the exception of a short period of two years Mr. Bothe had represented Coorow Ward on the Carnamah Road Board since 1929. The death of the late Mr. Bothe will be keenly felt throughout the district and sincere sympathy is extended to Mrs. Bothe and her family in their sad loss. The funeral took place the following afternoon at Winchester Cemetery the Rev. Gunning and Rev. Northern officiating. The carriers were: J. F. Thomas, P. W. Johnson. H. E. Jones and W. T. White. The bearers were D. Brand, M.L.A., F. Lucas, A. McGilp, F. R. Bryant, A. C. Bierman, C. Gronow, K. E. Jones and P. T. Morcombe."
Mrs Blanche Amelia BOTHE
Wife of Baxter Diedrich BOTHE; see Blanche Amelia BROAD
"Charlie" Charles Cleaver BOTHE
Born 4 October 1887 in Walkerville, South Australia [55]
Son of Heinrich Wilhelm BOTHE and Eliza Wilhelmina NEWMAN [55]
Resided with his parents at the Kensington Hotel at 182 Wellington Street in Perth, Western Australia [6]
Farmer in Wagerup 1908-1910 [6] [44]
Settled in Coorow with his parents, sister May and brother Baxter in 1910 [110]
In 1909 he had travelled from Wagerup to Coorow to inspect prospective land with his brother Baxter and Fred KAU [110]
Farmer in Coorow [19]
Farmer and Grazier in Coorow in partnership with his brother Baxter D. BOTHE as "Bothe Bros" 1915-1925 [27] [44]
From 1910 to 1914 he was the owner of 224 acres, his brother Baxter 158 acres and their father 246 acres in Coorow [44]
In 1915 farmed their 1,222 acres (Victoria Locations 3956, 3960 and 6619) and their father's 246 acre Victoria Location 3957 [44]
In February 1916 they sold 50 bags of Gluyas wheat to the Midland Railway Company [34]
The Midland Railway Company paid them £48.7.0, or 8/- an acre, to strip 119 acres of crop on Lot M963 in Coorow in 1916 [34]
In 1917 had 450 acres of wheat crop - the third highest acreage in crop for the Coorow district that year [10: 19-Jun-1917]
"These men are very good farmers" was the comment of a Midland Railway Company official in 1918 [34]
Extended their farmland with three purchases of land in Coorow from the Midland Railway Company [27]
Purchased the 1,101 acre Lot M1068 of Victoria Location 2023 for £770/19/7 (14/- per acre) on 11 October 1918 [27]
Purchased the 1,477 acre Lot M1142 of Victoria Location 2023 for £923/7/4 (12/6 per acre) on 10 February 1919 [27]
Purchased 800 acres in Lots M960 and M962 of Victoria Location 2023 for £2400 (£3 per acre) on 29 June 1922 [27]
Lots M1068 and M1142 were purchased as virgin bush, while Lots M960 and M962 were developed farmland [27]
In 1923 they used 150 pounds of superphosphate to the acre on their wheat crops [10: 6-Mar-1924]
By mid 1924 they had also purchased the 390 acre Victoria Location 7246, which took their farmland to a total of 5236 acres [44]
Appear to have dissolved their partnership in 1925, when they split their farmland between themselves [3] [27] [44]
Married Margaret MCGILL in Perth on 19 March 1917 [P98]
Farmer of Glenfield Farm in Coorow [P98]
After dissolving partnership with his brother he was the owner of 2,277 acres in Lots M960, M962 and M1142 [27]
Appears to have sold Lot M1142 to Charles A. NOLAN and purchased Lots M1046 and M1231 from James FARLEY [3] [27] [44]
Later purchased Lots M947, M961 and M1121 from Daniel P. FARLEY and Lot M1548 from Mrs Eliza M. JACKS [3]
This took his farm to 3,801 acres consisting of Lots M947, M960, M961, M962, M1046, M1121, M1231 and M1548 [3]
Foundation Chairman of the Coorow Farmers' Progress Association in 1911 [39: 4-Aug-1911]
Attended the Coorow Farmers' Progress Association's Picnic & Sports Meeting in Coorow on 7 October 1911 [39: 12-Oct-1911]
Won the High Jump, with his brother Baxter won the Siamese Race, and came 2nd after his brother Baxter in the Pillow Fight [39]
On behalf of the people of Coorow made a presentation to Donald M. and Isabella BAIN at their farewell in March 1916 [9: 10-Mar-1916]
Member of the Coorow Hall Committee - was Chairman in 1921 and Secretary in 1923 [9: 23-Feb-1923] [215]
In a secret ballot at a public meeting those present decided to build the hall on the east side of the Coorow townsite [215]
Wrote to the Education Department in May 1921 encouraging them to build their school on the east side of the Coorow townsite [215]
The Midland Railway Company had provided a block for the school right next to the site of the proposed Coorow Hall [215]
He informed them this block was also more centrally situated, had better drainage and would be more easily cleared [215]
An Education Inspector concurred with his comments and the school was erected on the Midland block in May 1922 [215]
Member of the Coorow Progress Association - was Secretary in 1923 [34]
In April 1924 requested that the Carnamah District Road Board work on roads in Coorow, especially the Jun Jun Road [10: 1-May-1924]
His request and one from the Coorow Progress Association resulted in tenders being called for work on the road [10: 26-Jun-1924]
He visited the Education Department in Perth in November 1929 and requested that the Coorow State School be reopened [215]
He wanted his children to be at home rather than at boarding school, especially as his daughter was outgrowing her strength [215]
After getting the paperwork completed by local residents he officially requested the school be reopened on 8 January 1930 [215]
His request was promptly granted and arrangements were made for him to take delivery of furniture and stock upon its arrival [215]
Furniture and some stock for the school was railed from Mingenew with a supply of registers and books being railed from Perth [215]
The Coorow State School was reopened by Miss Eileen F. NOLAN on 10 February 1930 with 15 students [215]
Attended the funeral of "Father of Carnamah" Donald MACPHERSON at the Winchester Cemetery on 14 August 1931 [4: 22-Aug-1931]
Foundation Committee Member of the Coorow-Waddy Forest District Agricultural Society 1932-1939 [4: 9-Apr-1932] [150]
Pallbearer at the funeral of Mrs Janet Allison RAFFAN of Winchester on 26 February 1932 at the Winchester Cemetery [4: 5-Mar-1932]
Exhibited in the Cattle and Horse sections of the inaugural Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show on 8 September 1932 [5: 16-Sep-1932]
Awarded 2nd prizes for a Jersey Heifer in the Cattle section and for a Draught Stallion and a Brood Male in the Horse section [5]
Member for Coorow on the Carnamah-Coorow Anglican Church Vestry in 1933 [5: 2-Jun-1933]
Attended the Valedictory Dinner tendered to Alexander B. GLOSTER at the Coorow Hotel on Monday 3 July 1933 [5: 7-Jul-1933]
Won 2nd prizes for Draught Brood Mare and 3 Ewes for Breeding Export Lambs at the Coorow-Waddy Show in 1933 [5: 15-Sep-1933]
In October 1933 purchased a new Sunshine harvester [5: 3-Nov-1933]
Loaned machinery and spent considerable time helping construct the Coorow Rifle Range in July 1934 [5: 20-Jul-1934]
Won 1st prize for Illawarra Shorthorn Cow and 2nd for Crossbred Ewe & Twin Lambs at the Coorow-Waddy Show 1934 [5: 7-Sep-1934]
Attended the funeral of Mrs Christina B. D. FORRESTER of Carnamah at the Winchester Cemetery on 31 August 1934 [4: 8-Sep-1934]
Represented Coorow at meetings in Carnamah of the amalgamated Coorow-Three Springs Anglican Parish in 1934 [5: 16-Nov-1934]
Rector's Warden of the South Section of the North Midlands Anglican Church in 1935 [5: 17-May-1935]
Sold 71 lambs for between 13/1 and 17/10 and eleven wethers for 22/4 each at the Midland Market on 17 July 1935 [5: 19-Jul-1935]
Exhibited in the Horses in Action, Horse, Cattle, Sheep and Poultry sections of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1935 [5]
Awarded two 1st prizes for Best Pony 14 Hands & Under and Two Year Old Gelding bred by exhibitor [5: 13-Sep-1935]
Won 2nd prizes for 2 Year Old Filly bred by exhibitor, Illawarra Shorthorn Heifer, Southdown Ram, and female White Leghorn [5]
Member of the Coorow Golf Club in 1935 [5: 9-Aug-1935]
Attended the Ratepayers Meeting of the Carnamah District Road Board in Carnamah on Wednesday 23 October 1935 [5: 25-Oct-1935]
Sold six bales of wool at 14½d. per pound through Elder Smith & Co Ltd at the Wool Sale in Perth on 28 October 1935 [5: 1-Nov-1935]
At about 3 p.m. on Sunday 3 November 1935 a Dodge truck suddenly left the road and crashed into a gum tree near his farm [5]
He conveyed the injured two men to the Carnamah Private Hospital, after being alerted to the accident by one of his employees [5]
The truck was driven by T. POLLETT of the Department of the Interior with Mr W. F. BARKER as a passenger [5: 8-Nov-1935]
Sold a pig for £3/3/3, one for £2/10/- and two for £2/2/- per head through Elder Smith & Co Ltd on 13 November 1935 [5: 15-Nov-1935]
Attended the entertainment for the Commonwealth Grants Commission at the Coorow Hotel on 21 November 1935 [5: 29-Nov-1935]
Attended the funeral of Miss "May" Mary L. LANG of Carnamah at the Winchester Cemetery on 26 November 1935 [5: 29-Nov-1935]
Waddy Forest farmer Lionel R. GRONOW and himself comprised the Coorow Anglican Church Vestry in 1936 [5: 25-Sep-1936]
Himself and his brother Baxter held a Surplus Sale on his Glenfield Farm in Coorow at 12 p.m. on Friday 28 February 1936 [5]
They were curtailing their cropping operations and held the sale to sell off surplus livestock, farming plant and machinery [5]
Sold 35 Draught horses consisting of mares, geldings, fillies, yearlings, foals and hacks; 13 of which they'd bred themselves [5]
Sold ten cattle consisting of nine cows and heifers, and the pedigree milking strain Shorthorn bull named Polaris Prince [5]
Sold 500 Merino ewes between 2�� and 4½ years which were mated to Border Leicester rams, and 100 wethers and hoggets [5]
Plant and Machinery up for sale included a 10-foot McKay harvester, two 16-run Massey combines, 16-run McKay combine, [5]
35-tyne McKay cultivator, 15-tyne Standard scarifier, 12-disc Shearer twin disc plough, 12-disc Sun General twin disc plough, [5]
6-furrow Shearer mouldboard plough, I.H.C. steel wheel lorry, 7-ton wagon, 20-run Massey disc drill, 8-foot Mitchell drill, [5]
21-run Massey Harris drill, Horwood Bagshaw header, 6-furrow McKay disc plough, 4-furrow Shearer mouldboard plough, [5]
17-run 12-furrow twin Shearer mouldboard skim plough, 10-disc Shearer cultivating plough, 30-tyne McKay cultivator, [5]
8½-inch mouth Salmon chaffcutter, Eclipse feed grinder, 2 sets of Shearer drill harrows, two 10-horse McKay leading sets, [5]
4-ton Trewhella jack, set of 8 McKay harrows, hay rake, two 10-horse sets of swingle trees and spreader bars, [5]
1½-horsepower Lister engine, 4½-horsepower Lister engine, and harness and chains for 25 horses [5: 14 & 21-Feb-1936, 6-Mar-1936]
Their sale attracted a "record attendance" of buyers from as far away as Northampton and Goomalling who paid top prices [5]
During April 1936 purchased a new 16.33 rigid tyne combine from Westralian Farmers Ltd [5: 10-Apr-1936]
Attended the meeting in Carnamah on 6 May 1936 at which the North Midlands Stud Breeders Association was formed [5: 8-May-1936]
Member of the Coorow Rifle Club in 1936, and Treasurer in 1937-38 [5: 31-Jul-1936, 30-Jul-1937]
Exhibited in four sections of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show at Maley Park, Coorow on 3 September 1936 [5: 11-Sep-1936]
In the Poultry section won both 1st and 2nd prizes for male White Leghorn, and in Cattle won 2nd for Illawarra Shorthorn Cow [5]
Won 2nd for Best Pony 14 hands or under in Horses in Action, and in Sheep won 2nd for Three Lambs Suitable for Export [5]
Attended the dinner in Coorow tendered to the Archbishop of Perth Henry F. LE FANU on Sunday 20 September 1936 [5: 25-Sep-1936]
Sold five baconers at £3/10/6 per head through Elder Smith & Co Ltd at the Midland Market on 7 October 1936 [5: 9-Oct-1936]
Attended Roy M. PATTON's birthday at the dam on Longforest Farm in Waddy Forest on Sunday 8 November 1936 [5: 13-Nov-1936]
Attended the Ratepayers Meeting of the Carnamah District Road Board in Coorow on Wednesday 25 November 1936 [5: 27-Nov-1936]
Sold 18 hoggets at 19/10, 15 lambs at 19/10, and 4 lambs at 16/4 through Elder Smith & Co Ltd on 10 February 1937 [5: 12-Feb-1937]
A cloud burst occurred over his farm on 2 March 1937 which resulted in about 60 points of rain falling within a few minutes [5]
The sudden rain was accompanied by heavy hail and filled the dams on his farm [5: 5-Mar-1937]
Attended his father's surprise 75th birthday in Coorow on Tuesday evening 13 April 1937 [5: 16-Apr-1937]
Member of the North Midlands Anglican Church Vestry in 1937 [5: 4-Jun-1937]
Exhibited in the Cattle and Sheep sections of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1937 [5: 10-Sep-1937]
Awarded 1st prize for Illawarra Shorthorn Bull and 2nd for Illawarra Shorthorn Cow in the Cattle section [5]
Won 1st prize for Three Ewes for Breeding Export lambs which the judge said were "of Royal Show standard" [5]
Attended the funeral of Waddy Forest farmer Stanley L. FOLLAND at the Moora Cemetery on Monday 25 August 1941 [4: 30-Aug-1941]
Committee Member of the Coorow-Waddy Forest Agricultural Society and Patriotic Funds Committee in 1945 [0: image 04319]
Private in the local Volunteer Defence Corps during the Second World War [16]
Pallbearer at the funeral of retiree Thomas BONHAM on 10 August 1945 at the Winchester Cemetery in Carnamah [5: 24-Aug-1945]
Pallbearer at the funeral of Waddy Forest farmer Price Willis HUNT on 11 September 1946 at the Winchester Cemetery [0: image 04398]
Became a member of the Carnamah Masonic Lodge No.150 WAC on 20 December 1946 [96]
During the 1947-48 financial year purchased William M. C. LAWSON's 2,354 acre Clerklands Farm in Winchester [3]
Clerklands Farm's 2,534 acres consisted of Lots M1075, M1088 and M1089 of Victoria Locations 1937 and 1938 [3]
His son Ron farmed Glenfield Farm in Coorow and his son Bill farmed Clerklands Farm in Winchester [P98]
Later resided in the Perth suburb of Floreat Park [2]
Father of Thelma, Bill, Ron and Yvonne [14]
Died 39 January 1970; ashes interred Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Crematorium Rose Gardens, 16, 115) [2]
Clayton Mark BOTHE
Born 1976 [1]
Resided with his parents in Waddy Forest [1]
Passed away at the age of five weeks and two days at the North Midlands District Hospital in Three Springs [14] [90]
Died 5 September 1976 in Three Springs; buried Winchester Cemetery, Carnamah (Row N, Plot 14) [1]
Mrs "Mina" Eliza Wilhelmina BOTHE
Wife of Heinrich Wilhelm BOTHE; see "Mina" Eliza Wilhelmina NEWMAN
"Heinie" Heinrich Wilhelm BOTHE
Born 13 April 1862 in Hope Valley, South Australia [55]
Son of Heinrich Wilhelm BOTHE and Lucia BUSSENSCHUTT [55]
Grew up in South Australia, both of his parents originally coming from Germany [P15]
Married "Mina" Eliza Wilhelmina NEWMAN on 26 February 1885 at Saint Andrew's Church in Walkerville, South Australia [55]
Initially ran a hotel in Hampstead and later shifted to one near the Adelaide Hills in South Australia [P15]
His eldest son Heinrich died at the age of seven years on 5 October 1893 in Upper Walkerville, South Australia [55]
Around 1895 shifted with his wife and four surviving children to Perth, Western Australia [P15] [15] [55]
Their youngest son Frederick died during an epidemic [P15] on 22 June 1896 and was buried in the old East Perth Cemetery [231]
Ran the Kensington Hotel at 182 Wellington Street, Perth 1897-1900 and again in 1906 [6]
Poultry Farmer in the Perth suburb of Belmont in later 1906 and in 1907 [6] [50]
Farmer of Brooklyn Farm in Wagerup 1909-1911 [6] [19]
He'd established himself in Wagerup as a horticulturalist of fruit and flowers after retiring from the hotel-keeping business [P15]
Said to have shifted to Coorow, Western Australia with his wife, daughter May and sons Charles and Baxter in 1910 [110]
Farmer with his sons Charles and Baxter of Inglewood Farm in Coorow from 1910 to 1917 [P15]
From 1910 to 1920 was the owner of the 246 acre Victoria Location 3957 in Coorow while further land was owned by his sons [44]
In 1911 himself and his sons acquired the first Massey header to be operated in the Coorow district [110]
Foundation Committee Member of the Coorow Farmers' Progress Association in 1911 [39: 4-Aug-1911]
Came 3rd in the Old Buffers' Race at the Coorow Farmers' Progress Association's Picnic & Sports on 7 October 1911 [39: 12-Oct-1911]
By 1921 his 246 acres of farmland, Victoria Location 3957, was owned by his sons Charles and Baxter [44]
From 1921 was the owner of 160 acres of farmland in Coorow being Victoria Location 5648 (later owned by his son Baxter) [3] [44]
Had a general store, house for himself and his wife, and a small boarding house built in the Coorow townsite in 1916 [110]
Proprietor of a General Store in Coorow 1917-1942 [110]
In 1927 was the Coorow Agent for Harris Scarfe & Sandovers, Atkins & Co and the Royal Insurance Co [4: 25-Jun-1927]
Provided a room in Coorow for the Bank of New South Wales to operate from twice weekly in 1927 [4: 7-May-1927]
In 1928 he built a new store on the site of the previous one [110]
His store in Coorow was telephone number Coorow-12 [5: 18-Dec-1936]
He was the Coorow agent for Shearer implements, Caterpillar tractors and H. J. Wigmore & Co Ltd in 1930 [4: 28-Jun-1930]
Began weekly advertisements for his business in The North Midland Times on Friday 18 December 1936 [5: 18-Dec-1936, 17-Sep-1937]
In 1936 and 1937 he was an agent for H. J. Wigmore & Co (through which he sold Shearer farm implements and diesel tractors), [5]
Bankers & Traders Insurance Co, Grain Pool of WA, Southern Cross Windmills and a sub-agent for Elder Smith & Co Ltd [5]
Resided with his wife Mina in a house adjacent to the shop in the Coorow townsite 1917-1942 [P15]
The boarding house was used by travellers going between Perth and Geraldton and became known as the "Halfway House" [P15]
He had a new dining room and an extra bedroom for their boarding house constructed in 1927 [4: 7-May-1927]
Owned Lots 40 and 42 of the Coorow townsite which respectively contained a residence and a garage [3]
His wife was the owner of Lots 1, 2, 41 and 43 being the shop and their residence, a vacant block and another residence [3]
Signed the petition and financial guarantee in 1917 for the Midland Railway Company to provide a resident doctor at Three Springs [34]
Vice President of the Picnic Race Meeting held in Three Springs on Saint Patrick's Day Tuesday 17 March 1925 [124]
Won 1st prizes for Cauliflower and Late Variety of Cabbage in the Vegetable section of the Carnamah Agricultural Show in 1929 [4]
Judge of the Poultry section at the Carnamah District Agricultural Society's Annual Shows in 1929 and 1930 [4: 28-Sep-1929, 27-Sep-1930]
Purchased a new Ford sports roadster car from Carnamah dealer Rupert LAFFAN in December 1929 [4: 14-Dec-1929]
In 1930 his garden was described as containing all sorts of vegetables and a great variety of flowers grown to perfection [4: 23-Aug-1930]
Member of the Carnamah Race Club - was Vice President in 1930 and 1934 [4: 21-Dec-1929] [5: 24-Nov-1933]
Attended the funeral of "Father of Carnamah" Donald MACPHERSON at the Winchester Cemetery on 14 August 1931 [4: 22-Aug-1931]
Financial Member of the Carnamah District Agricultural Society in 1932 [13]
Member of the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts Agricultural Society - was [4: 9-Apr-1932, 1-Jun-1935] [5: 23-Dec-1932, 10-Nov-1933, 13-Mar-1936]
Inaugural Vice President in 1932, Committee Member 1933-1937, Vice Patron 1933-1939 and Treasurer in 1934 [5: 20-Nov-1936] [150]
Won 1st prizes for Cauliflower and Best Collection of Vegetables at the first Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1932 [5: 16-Sep-1932]
Won 1st prize for Pansies and Geraniums and 2nd for Onions and Peas at the Three Springs Agricultural Show in 1932 [5: 30-Sep-1932]
Member for Coorow on the Board of the North Midlands District Hospital in Three Springs in 1933-34 [5: 14-Jul-1933]
Judged the Poultry section of the Carnamah Agricultural Show at Centenary Park, Carnamah on 14 September 1933 [5: 22-Sep-1933]
In December 1933 received recognition of his beautiful garden in The Irwin Index newspaper [4: 9-Dec-1933]
Foundation President of the Coorow Rifle Club in 1934 and 1935 [5: 5-Jan-1934, 1-Nov-1935]
In February 1934 found an abandoned dog with a note attached reading "My name is D'Arcy, please be kind to me" [5: 23-Feb-1934]
Member of the Coorow-Waddy Forest Progress Association in 1934 [5: 8-Jun-1934]
Attended the funeral of Mrs Christina B. D. FORRESTER of Carnamah at the Winchester Cemetery on 31 August 1934 [4: 8-Sep-1934]
Won the Trophy for the most points gained in the Vegetable section at the Carnamah Agricultural Show in 1934 [5: 14-Sep-1934]
Won 1st prize for a Collection of Vegetables and both 1st and 2nd prizes for Cabbage, Lettuce and Pods of Peas [5]
Also exhibited in the Flower section, winning 1st prizes for Pansies and 2nd for Geraniums and Vase of Flowers [5]
Excavated a well on his property in Coorow town and found water at a depth of six feet in December 1934 [4: 22-Dec-1934]
Erected a Southern Cross windmill to supply water for his garden and to demonstrate the windmill to buyers [4: 22-Dec-1934]
Himself and Mina celebrated their Golden Wedding Anniversary with friends at the Coorow Hotel on 26 February 1935 [5: 1-Mar-1935]
Won 1st prizes for Cabbage and Brown Hen Eggs at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show on 5 September 1935 [5: 13-Sep-1935]
Exhibited in the Vegetable and Flower sections of the Carnamah Agricultural Show on Thursday 12 September 1935 [5]
Won 1st and 2nd prizes for Broad Beans; 1st prizes for Collection of Vegetables, Pansies, Snapdragons, and Carnations; [5]
and 2nd prizes for Cauliflower, Garden Flowers, and Vase of Flowers [5: 20-Sep-1935]
Won 1st prizes for Geraniums and Pansies at the Three Springs Agricultural Show on Thursday 19 September 1935 [5: 27-Sep-1935]
Donated the President's Cup to the Coorow Rifle Club in 1935, which was won by Edgar W. FOWLER [5: 1-Nov-1935]
Attended the Coorow Rifle Club's Grand Ball held at the Coorow Hall on Saturday 26 October 1935 [5: 1-Nov-1935]
Attended the entertainment for the Commonwealth Grants Commission at the Coorow Hotel on 21 November 1935 [5: 29-Nov-1935]
Attended the funeral of Miss "May" Mary L. LANG of Carnamah at the Winchester Cemetery on 26 November 1935 [5: 29-Nov-1935]
Attended the 21st birthday of his grand-daughter Olive W. KAU at Meadowdale Farm in Coorow on 18 January 1936 [5: 24-Jan-1936]
Attended the funeral of Carnamah agent William B. SHERIDAN at the Winchester Cemetery on 27 January 1936 [5: 31-Jan-1936]
Judged the Pig section at the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts Agricultural Society's Annual Show in 1936 [5: 12-Jun-1936, 11-Sep-1936]
Exhibited in the Poultry section of the show where he gained "considerable success" with five 1st and three 2nd prizes [5: 4-Sep-1936]
Won 1st prizes for male Black Orpington, female Black Orpington, Muscovy Drake, Muscovy Duck, and 2nd for Table Bird [5]
The Judge remarked that his male Black Orpington, which also won 1st for Best Male Bird in Show, was "outstanding" [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]
Attended the Ratepayers Meeting of the Carnamah District Road Board in Coorow on Wednesday 25 November 1936 [5: 27-Nov-1936]
His family took him completely by surprise with a party for his 75th birthday in Coorow on Tuesday evening 13 April 1937 [5]
Among those at his birthday were his children and children-in-law Baxter & Blanche BOTHE, Charles & Margaret BOTHE, [5]
and Olive & Fred KAU; and grandchildren Harry and Olive KAU and Thelma, Bill, Ronny, Vonny and Lloyd BOTHE [5]
His grandson Richard was unable to attend due to being at Christian Brothers College in Perth [5: 16-Apr-1937]
In June 1937 it was reported that he was again getting about after being indisposed [5: 25-Jun-1937]
He again judged the Pig section at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show at Maley Park in Coorow on 2 September 1937 [5: 10-Sep-1937]
In Poultry won 1st for male and female Black Orpingtons, Muscovy drake and Best Table Bird; and 2nd in for Muscovy duck [5]
Judge of the Pig section of the Carnamah Agricultural Show at Centenary Park in Carnamah on 9 September 1937 [5: 17-Sep-1937]
Passed away at the age of 80 years at the North Midlands District Hospital in Three Springs [5: 23-Oct-1942]
Father of Heinrich Wilhelm Carl, May Minnie Annie, Charles Cleaver, Baxter Diedrich and Frederick William [55]
Died 17 October 1942 in Three Springs; buried Winchester Cemetery, Carnamah (Row C, Plot 11) [1] [14]
Rev. F. W. GUNNING officiated at his funeral, which was undertaken by Henry Parkin & Son (for £34/3/6 inc. transportation) [1] [53]
Following his and his wife's deaths their shop and adjoining house in Coorow was sold to "Pat" Aeneas and Eva V. CASEY [110]
From The North Midland Times newspaper, Friday 23 October 1942
"Obituary - Late Mr. H. W. Bothe. The death occurred at the North Midlands District Hospital on Saturday last of Mr. Heinrich Wilhelm Bothe, an old and respected resident of the Coorow district. The late Mr. Bothe had not enjoyed the best of health for some considerable time past, nevertheless the news of his death came as a severe shock to his many friends throughout the North Midlands. The late Mr. Bothe and his wife, who predeceased him by two months, were amongst the first settlers of the Coorow district. They were both highly respected personages, who worked hard for the advancement of the Coorow-Waddy Forest district in the early days, and their passing will be mourned by a wide circle of old established friends. Their three children, Charles, May (Mrs. Fred Kau), and Baxter have all settled on farming properties in the Coorow district, and to them is extended out condolences. The deceased gentleman was one of the first storekeepers at Coorow and, despite failing health and advancing years, he continued to conduct an agency business at that centre until a few years ago. When the story is told of the part the early pioneers played in the development of the Midlands the name of 'Heinie' Bothe will not be the least of them. The funeral took place in the Anglican portion of the Winchester cemetery on Monday afternoon and was largely attended. The service at the graveside was conducted by the Rev. F. W. Gunning, of Mt. Hawthorn, who was an old friend of the family."
Mrs Margaret BOTHE
Wife of "Charlie" Charles Cleaver BOTHE; see Margaret MCGILL
May Minnie Annie BOTHE
Born 1 November 1889 in Hampstead, South Australia [55]
Daughter of Heinrich Wilhelm BOTHE and Eliza Wilhelmina NEWMAN [55]
Resided with her parents in Hampstead and later near the Adelaide Hills in South Australia where her father ran a hotel [P15]
Around 1894 shifted with her parents and brothers to Western Australia [P15]
Resided at various localities in Perth while her father continued running hotels and then on a farming property in Wagerup WA [P15]
In 1910 shifted from Wagerup to Coorow with her parents and brothers Charles and Baxter [P15]
Resided on Inglewood Farm in Coorow 1910-1914 [P15]
Came 3rd in the Single Ladies' Race at the Coorow Farmers' Progress Association's Picnic & Sports on 7 October 1911 [39: 12-Oct-1911]
Married "Fred" Frederick John KAU in Perth in 1914 [66]
Resided with her husband on Meadowdale Farm in Coorow from 1914 until the Second World War [P15]
Assisted the Coorow Hall Committee with the Official Opening of the Coorow Agricultural Hall on 1 February 1923 [9: 23-Feb-1923]
Won 2nd prize for Cakes at the Carnamah Agricultural Show at Centenary Park, Carnamah on 18 September 1930 [4: 27-Sep-1930]
By 1932 was the owner of 781 acres of farmland in Coorow being Victoria Locations 5791, 5792 and 5793 [3]
Her 781 acres made up part of Meadowdale Farm and around 1953 was transferred into her son Harry's name [3]
Hosted a 21st birthday for her daughter Olive at their home on Meadowdale Farm on Saturday evening 18 January 1936 [5: 24-Jan-1936]
Attended her father's surprise 75th birthday in Coorow on Tuesday evening 13 April 1937 [5: 16-Apr-1937]
Advertised in April 1937 that she wanted a "General Help" for her good home with wages of 15/- per week [5: 23-Apr-1937]
During the Second World War she left Coorow and shifted to 10th Avenue in the Perth suburb of Inglewood [P15]
Resided in the Perth suburb of Inglewood from then until her death in 1978 [2]
Mother of Olive and Harry [14]
Died 1 May 1978 in Perth WA; ashes interred Winchester Cemetery, Carnamah (Row R, Plot 7) [1] [P15]
"Dick" Richard Baxter BOTHE
Born 10 June 1924 in Moora, Western Australia [16]
Son of Baxter Diedrich BOTHE and Blanche Amelia BROAD [14]
Resided with his parents on Inglewood Farm in Coorow [19]
He was listed by his father as a prospective student in applications to reopen the closed Coorow State School in January 1930 [215]
Began his schooling at the reopened Coorow State School in Coorow on 10 March 1930 [215]
Won a 2nd prize for Writing in the Education section of the inaugural Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1932 [5: 16-Sep-1932]
At the Carnamah Agricultural Show on Thursday 14 September 1933 he won a 1st prize for Sealing Wax Work [5: 22-Sep-1933]
Attended the Children's Fancy Dress Ball in Coorow on Saturday 6 July 1935 dressed as "Speed" [5: 12-Jul-1935]
Won a 1st prize for Handwork in the Educational section of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show on 5 September 1935 [5: 13-Sep-1935]
Attended the Children's Fancy Dress Ball at the Carnamah Hall on Saturday 2 November 1935, also dressed as "Speed" [5: 8-Nov-1935]
Won a 1st prize for Handwork in the Educational section of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show on 3 September 1936 [5: 11-Sep-1936]
Student at Christian Brothers College in Perth in 1937 [5: 16-Apr-1937]
Farmer in Coorow [19]
Volunteer in the local Volunteer Defence Corps during the Second World War [16]
On 15 December 1943 was fined £2 at the Carnamah Police Court for drinking at the Coorow Hotel at an hour outside its license [22]
Member of the Waddy Forest Tennis Club in 1945 [0: image 04316]
Assistant Secretary of the Coorow-Waddy Forest Agricultural Society and Patriotic Funds Committee in 1945 [0: image 04319]
Celebrated his 21st birthday on Saturday 9 June 1945 with 60 of his friends at the Coorow Town Hall [0: image 04343]
Committee Member of the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts Agricultural Society 1946-1951 [4: 7-Apr-1951] [150]
Financial Member of the Carnamah District Agricultural Society 1946-1948 [13]
Assistant Steward of the Sheep section at the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts Agricultural Society's Tenth Annual Show in 1947 [150]
Member of the Coorow Golf Club in 1948 [0: image 04509]
Member of the Coorow Tennis Club 1950-1952 [0: image 04687] [4: 9-Dec-1950]
Served on the Coorow Shire Council representing the Town/Rural Ward from 1963 to 1981 [284]
Member of the Coorow Rotary Club [254]
Member of the Winchester Cemetery Management and Advisory Committee 1985-1989 [254]
Resided of late at 31 Spain Street in Coorow [1]
Husband of Pauline [14]
Father of Baxter, Richelle, Maureeta, Richard, Paula, Bernadette, Michael and Catherine [14]
Died 4 June 1997 at the Royal Perth Hospital, Perth; ashes buried Winchester Cemetery, Carnamah (Row M, Plot 2) [1]
Richard Michael BOTHE
Born May 1953 [14]
Son of Richard Baxter and Pauline Monica BOTHE [14]
Resided with his parents in Coorow 1953-1955 [1] [19]
Passed away at the age of two years at the North Midlands District Hospital in Three Springs [1]
Died 31 May 1955 in Three Springs; buried Winchester Cemetery, Carnamah (Row M, Plot 2) [1]
Albert Henry BOULTON
Born 24 September 1909 in Gloucestershire, England [16]
Married Geneva Albertha SMITH in 1936 in Perth, Western Australia [66]
Farmhand in Coorow in 1939 and 1940 [16] [50]
Resided in Coorow until enlisting in the Royal Australian Air Force on 24 September 1940 [16]
Leading Aircraftman 17731 in the Royal Australian Air Force's 1 Reserve Personnel Pool during the Second World War [16]
Discharged from the Royal Australian Air Force on 17 December 1944 [16]
Resided of late in the Perth suburb of Dalkeith [2]
Died 23 December 1972; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Anglican, PD, 349) [2]
Bettie Patricia BOWHAY
Born C.1928 [2]
Resided on the farm of Samuel A. RUDDUCK in Coorow in 1949 [19]
Later resided in the southern Perth suburb of Rockingham [2]
Died 16 March 1993; ashes buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Anglican, LN6, 1) [2]
John Hugh BOYD
Fettler in Marchagee 1909 [50]
Fettler of Moore's Paddock in Mingenew in 1910 [50]
Farmer in Marchagee in 1911 [19]
Railway Fettler in Mingenew 1913-1914 [50]
"Charlie" Charles BOYS
Married "Rosie" Elva Rose Elizabeth TAMBLYN in Perth in 1926 [66]
Farmhand on Waddy Waddy Farm in Coorow 1924-1933 [19]
Resided in Winchester in 1927 and 1928 [53]
During his sojourn in Winchester he lived in a tent on the Winchester Reserve [P89]
Had an account with Carnamah blacksmith, wheelwright and motor mechanics Henry Parkin & Son in 1927 and 1928 [53]
In early 1932 was a contestant in the first boxing tournament to be held in Carnamah [4: 6-Feb-1932]
Mrs "Rosie" Elva Rose Elizabeth BOYS
Wife of "Charlie" Charles BOYS; see "Rosie" Elva Rose Elizabeth TAMBLYN
Mrs Ethel May May BRADSHAW
Resided on the Mamboobie Estate in Marchagee in 1916 [19]
Resided in Coorow in 1917 [50]
William Foster BRADSHAW
Farmer of the Mamboobie Estate in Marchagee in 1916 [19]
Farm Manager in Coorow in 1917 [50]
"Myrtle" Deborah Myrtle BRAND
Born 1905 in Cookernup, Western Australia [15]
Daughter of George David BRAND and Elizabeth Sarah CLARKSON [15]
Married "Vic" Victor Walwin BROUN in 1933 [66]
Resided with her husband on farmland in Coorow 1933-1973 [19]
Won 2nd prize for Fancy Scones at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show at Maley Park, Coorow on 3 September 1936 [5: 11-Sep-1936]
Sang a song and gave a recitation at the Social Evening at the Waddy Forest Hall on Tuesday 15 December 1936 [5: 18-Dec-1936]
Committee Member of the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts Agricultural Society in 1937 [5: 20-Nov-1936]
Exhibited in the Confectionary, Preserves and Farm Produce sections of the Society's Annual Show on 10 September 1937 [5]
Won 1st prizes for Biscuits, Marmalade and Non-White Hen Eggs; and 2nd prizes for Fruit Cake and Madeira Cake [5: 10-Sep-1937]
Steward of the Preserves section at the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts Agricultural Society's Annual Show in 1939 [150]
Herself and her husband conducted the Sunday School in Coorow for many years in the 1930s and 1940s [P361]
Later resided in the Perth suburb of Bentley [2]
Mother of Adrian [84]
Died 31 March 1981; ashes interred Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (IC Section, Rose Memorial, CA, 5) [2]
Maxwell Alexander BRECHIN
Teacher of the Waddy Well State School in Waddy Forest 1938-1940 [19] [73]
Received an annual salary of £241 in 1938 and £310 in 1939 and 1940 [73]
Mrs Ellen Watson BREEN
Wife of John BREEN; see Ellen Watson WALLACE
"Jock" John BREEN
Born 5 March 1869 in New Kilpatrick, Dunbarton, Scotland [28]
Son of Thomas BREEN and Letitia RANKIN [28]
Married Ellen Watson WALLACE on 17 April 1896 at the Burgh Hall, Milngavie in New Kilpatrick, Dunbarton, Scotland [28]
Railway Fettler and later Railway Ganger in Coorow, Western Australia 1911-1917 [19] [24]
His wife and daughter Letitia departed London on the steamship Demosthenes to join him Western Australia on 14 August 1913 [203]
Railway Fettler in Mogumber 1919-1922 [50]
Railway Fettler in Wannamal 1919-1942 [114]
In About 1928 himself and his wife shifted from the railway siding in Wannamal to the then vacant Wannamal Store [114]
They re-opened the Wannamal Store and ran it while he continued working as a fettler in Wannamal [114]
Along with his wife and daughter Mary returned to Wannamal in February 1928 after a holiday in Albany [114]
Resided in Wannamal until his death in 1942 [2]
Father of Letitia, Margaret and Mary [24] [114] [203]
Died 22 July 1942; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Presbyterian, IA, 399) [2]
John BREEN Jnr
Farmhand in Coorow 1919-1922 [50]
"Letty" Letitia Rankin BREEN
Born 18 October 1906 at Milngavie in New Kilpatrick, Dunbarton, Scotland [28]
Daughter of John BREEN and Ellen Watson WALLACE [28]
Departed London, England with her mother on the steamship Demosthenes for Fremantle, Western Australia on 14 August 1913 [203]
Resided with her parents in Coorow 1913-1917 [19]
Her name was put forward as an expected student for the proposed reopening of the Coorow State School in October 1913 [215]
She presumably attended the Coorow State School following its reopening as a half-time school on 3 December 1913 [215]
Resided with her parents in Wannamal 1919-1935 [114]
Came 3rd in the Singles Ladies Race at the Sports Meeting held in Wannamal on 31 March 1923 [9: 20-Apr-1923]
Married George William GRAY in Perth in 1935 [66]
Herself and her husband resided in Wannamal, for a few years in Dalwallinu and then once more in Wannamal [114]
Resided of late in the Perth suburb of Balga [2]
Died 10 January 1983; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Presbyterian, DC, 612) [2]
Margaret Buchanan BREEN
Born 1915 in Perth, Western Australia [15]
Daughter of John BREEN and Ellen Watson WALLACE [24]
Resided with her parents in Coorow in 1915 and 1916 [19] [24]
Died 4 July 1916 at the railway station yard in Coorow; buried Three Springs General Cemetery, Three Springs [24]
Alan David BREEZE
Farmhand in Marchagee 1931-1935 [19] [50]
Wilfred Hermann BRIAND
Born 28 February 1907 in Blackpool, Lancashire, England [16] [21]
Prior to leaving England he worked as a Manufacturing Jeweller [203]
Departed London, England on the steamship Esperance Bay on and arrived in Fremantle, Western Australia on 29 March 1928 [70]
Farmhand in the Coorow-Waddy Forest district of Western Australia 1928-1962 [19]
Attended the Coorow Golf Club's Opening Day for the 1936 season in Coorow on Sunday 17 May 1936 [5: 22-May-1936]
Member of the Coorow Golf Club in 1936 and 1937 [5: 3 & 24-Jul-1936, 23-Jul-1937]
He was among those from Waddy Forest who travelled to Perth for the Perth Royal Show in October 1936 [5: 16-Oct-1936]
Attended Albert E. MILES and Mary E. GREENWOOD's wedding breakfast at the Coorow Hotel on 18 August 1937 [5: 20-Aug-1937]
Resided in Coorow until enlisting in the Australian Army in Perth on 4 December 1940 [16]
Corporal WX9545 in the Australian Army's 8th Australian Advanced Workshop during the Second World War [16]
Married Eileen Margaret SMITH in Perth in 1941 [66]
Discharged from the Australian Army on 24 October 1945 and returned to Coorow [16] [19]
Later resided in the Perth suburb of North Beach [2]
Died 25 October 1999; cremated at the Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA [2]
Norman Walter BRITT
Born 1890 in Arthington, Yorkshire, England [20] [21]
Son of butler Edward BRITT and Elizabeth CLARKE [20] [21]
In 1891 was living with his parents, sister Lily and brother Charles at Creskeld Hall in Arthington, Yorkshire, England [20]
His mother passed away at the age of 43 years in 1892 and in 1898 his father was married to Annie JACKSON [21]
In 1901 was living with his father, stepmother, and siblings Charles and Mabel at Undale Cottage in Mears Ashby, Northampton [20]
Departed London, England on the steamship Orotava and arrived in Fremantle, Western Australia on 8 April 1909 [70]
Farmer in Latham, Western Australia 1911-1915 [19]
Initially he gave his address as Latham's Rock via Coorow [19]
Farmed in Latham until enlisting in the Australian Imperial Force in Perth on 29 June 1915 [30: item 3125410]
Upon enlistment he was 5 feet 8 inches tall, weighed 131 pounds and had blue eyes, light brown hair and a fair complexion [30]
He gave his next of kin as his stepmother Mrs Annie BRITT of 56 Thorne Road in Doncaster, Yorkshire, England [30]
After training at Blackboy Hill in the Perth Hills he was appointed to 3rd Reinforcements of the 28th Battalion on 21 August 1915 [30]
Embarked from Fremantle, Western Australia for active service abroad on the H.M.A.T. A68 Anchises on 2 September 1915 [18]
Private 1905 in the Australian Imperial Force's 28th Battalion on the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey during the First World War [30]
Wounded in Action at Gallipoli on 13 October 1915 with reported gunshot wounds to his arm and back [30]
He was evacuated on the H.M.H.S. Valdivia on 18 October 1915 for medical treatment in Alexandria, Egypt [30]
Returned to duty in Egypt on 10 January 1916 and on 16 March 1916 proceeded to France [30]
Private 1905 in the Australian Imperial Force's 28th Battalion in France during the First World War [30]
He was reported Missing in Action in France on 29 July 1916 [30]
A court of inquiry on 4 January 1917 concluded that he had been Killed in Action in France on 29 July 1916 [30]
His stepmother received his effects: a silk handkerchief, badges, gift box, gospel, testament, letters, cards, pouch and cigarette case [30]
His estate was divided equally between his brother Charles William BRITT and his sister Mabel Ann BRITT [30]
The Australian Imperial Force sent his Memorial Plaque and Memorial Scroll to his stepmother Mrs Annie BRITT [30]
Received the 1914-15 Star, the British War Medal and the Victory Medal - which were sent to his brother and sister [30]
Memorialised on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial at the Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery in Villers-Bretonneux, France [17]
Alfred Samuel BROAD
Born 20 February 1891 in Staplehurst, Kent, England [16]
Son of William BROAD and Elizabeth WIMBLE [20] [21]
He was one of eight children siblings Clara, Sarah, George, Ellen, William, Louie and Evelyn [20]
Resided with his parents and siblings in Staplehurst, Kent, England where his father worked as a farmhand and carter [20]
His mother passed away at the age of 38 years in 1893 [21]
In 1901 was living with his parents and siblings at Reed Court Cottages in Marden, Kent, England [20]
Departed London, England on the steamship Hobsons Bay for Fremantle, Western Australia on 23 November 1923 [203]
Resided in the Perth suburb of Carlisle prior to enlisting in the Australian Army on 2 April 1941 [16]
Private W25456 in the Australian Army's 5th Garrison Battalion during the Second World War [16]
Discharged from the Australian Army on 10 October 1941 [16]
Farmhand for Charles C. BOTHE on Glenfield Farm in Coorow 1950-1952 [19]
Resided of late in the Perth suburb of Carlisle [16]
Died 29 October 1977; ashes scattered to the wind at the Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA [2]
Blanche Amelia BROAD
Born 27 April 1893 in Round Hill, Western Australia [193]
Daughter of Richard BROAD and "Millie" Amelia Ann BARRETT [193]
As a child resided with her parents in Round Hill [193]
Began her schooling at the Sisters of Mercy Convent in the Perth suburb of Guildford [193]
While attending the Convent she boarded in Guildford with her half-sister Isabella and brother-in-law Henry SEYMOUR [193]
Later attended the Beaconsfield State School and then the Indarrie Sate School which was later renamed Bindi Bindi State School [193]
Shifted with her parents to Moora on their retirement when she was 18 years old [193]
Shop Assistant at Padbury's Stores in Moora [193]
Managed the drapery, millinery and boot departments of the store when it became the Central Midlands Co-operative Company [193]
Dressmaker in Moora 1917-1922 [50]
In 1922 she successfully applied for a position at Coyne's Store in Yalgoo, however after three months returned to Moora [193]
Operated as a Seamstress in Moora, creating numerous types of garments including elaborate wedding outfits [193]
At a dance she attended in Coorow she met local farmer Baxter BOTHE, and in 1923 they decided to get married [193]
Married Baxter Diedrich BOTHE on 28 July 1923 at Saint George's Cathedral in Perth [10: 16-Aug-1923]
Entered the cathedral on the arm of her half brother "Harry" Henry D. BROAD [10]
She wore a graceful gown of ivory brocaded crepe de chine with draping of rich silk and silver lace [10]
Her bridesmaid was her sister Miss "Pearl" Pearly Agnes BROAD, who wore a dress of mauve georgette and satin [10]
They held their wedding reception at the Piccadilly Reception Rooms in Perth and spent their honeymoon in Kalamunda [10]
Resided with her husband and children on Inglewood Farm in Coorow [19]
In August 1930 her garden was described as "exceptionally attractive" in The Irwin Index newspaper [4: 23-Aug-1930]
Won 2nd prizes for Butter and Cream Puffs at the Carnamah Agricultural Show on Thursday 18 September 1930 [4: 27-Sep-1930]
Exhibited in the Vegetable and Confectionary sections of the inaugural Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show on 8 September 1932 [5]
Won 1st prize for Parsnips and 2nd prizes for Carrots, Peas and for the Best Collection of Vegetables [5]
Won both 1st and 2nd prizes for Sponge Sandwich and also 2nd prize for Marmalade in the Confectionary section [5: 16-Sep-1932]
The next week won 1st prize for Sponge Sandwich and 2nd for a Collection of Pickles at the Carnamah Show [5: 23-Sep-1932]
Along with her husband and sons spent a holiday in Rockingham 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]
Committee Member of the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts Agricultural Society 1933-1948 [5: 23-Dec-1932, 3-May-1935] [150]
Very successfully exhibited in six sections of the second annual Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show on 7 September 1933 [5: 15-Sep-1933]
Won 1st for Swedes, Onions, Potatoes, Radishes and for the Best Collection of Vegetables and 2nd for Turnips and Onions; [5]
In the Flower section won 1st prizes for a Collection of Roses and Three Cut Roses and 2nd prize for Gent's Buttonhole [5]
Won 1st prizes for Home Cured Bacon and Middle of Bacon and 2nd prize for Dressed Fowl in the Dairy Produce section [5]
Won 1st for Sponge Sandwich, Collection of Jams and Pickles; 2nd for Fancy Scones, Plain Scones, Fruit Cake, Cream Puffs [5]
Received both 1st and 2nd prize for Shortbread; and in the Photography section won 2nd prize for Half Dozen Snaps [5]
Received 1st prize for Plain Cake and 2nd prizes for Pickles and Middle of Bacon at the Carnamah Show in 1933 [5: 22-Sep-1933]
During April 1934 a Miss SEYMOUR of Miling spent a holiday staying with her in Coorow [5: 4-May-1934]
Exhibited in the Vegetable, Farm Produce, Flower and Photography sections of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1934 [5]
Awarded 2nd prize for Beetroot and both 1st and 2nd prizes for Turnips, Carrots, Parsnips and Home Made Soap [5: 7-Sep-1934]
1st for Collection of Roses, Three Cut Roses, Gent's Buttonhole, Middle of Bacon; 2nd for Ham and Best Half Dozen Snaps [5]
Sent a wreath for the grave of Christina B. D. FORRESTER of Carnamah at the Winchester Cemetery on 31 August 1934 [4: 8-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]
Exhibited in the Vegetable, Farm Produce, Flower and Photography sections at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1935 [5]
In the Vegetable section won 1st prizes for Cauliflower and Peas, and 2nd prizes for Parsnips and Collection of Vegetables [5]
Received four 1st prizes in the Farm Produce section - for Dressed Fowl, Bacon, Pickled Pork, and Home Made Soap [5]
Won 1st prizes for Roses and Cut Roses, and 2nd prizes for Stocks and Gent's Buttonhole in the Flower section [5]
Wrapped up her winnings with 2nd prize for "Best Half Dozen Snaps" in the Photography section [5: 13-Sep-1935]
Awarded The North Midland Times Trophy at the Carnamah Agricultural Show on Thursday 12 September 1935 [5: 20-Sep-1935]
Received 1st prizes for Midland of Bacon and Ham, and both 1st and 2nd for Home Made Soap in the Farm Produce section [5]
Won 1st prize for Radish in the Vegetable section; 1st for Pickles and 2nd for Sponge Sandwich in the Confectionary section [5]
Attended the funeral of Miss "May" Mary L. LANG of Carnamah at the Winchester Cemetery on 26 November 1935 [5: 29-Nov-1935]
Attended the 21st birthday of her niece Olive W. KAU at Meadowdale Farm in Coorow on Saturday 18 January 1936 [5: 24-Jan-1936]
Attended the Coorow Golf Club's Opening Day for the 1936 season in Coorow on Sunday 17 May 1936 [5: 22-May-1936]
She "beautifully decorated" the afternoon tea tables with prize rose blooms which received much admiration by those present [5]
Member of the Coorow Golf Club in 1936 [5: 24-Jul-1936]
She was a "prominent winner" in the Confectionary section of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show on 3 September 1936 [5]
Won 1st prizes for Fancy Scones, Jams and Marmalade, 1st and 2nd for Pickles, and 2nd for Plain Scones and Fruit Cake [5]
In the Farm Produce section won 1st prize for Home Made Soap and 2nd prizes for Middle Bacon and Pickled Pork [5]
Won 1st prize for Parsnips in the Vegetable section and attended the Show Ball dressed in block and floral georgette [5: 4 & 11-Sep-1936]
Winner of The North Midland Times Trophy for the Farm Produce section of the Carnamah Agricultural Show in 1936 [5: 18-Sep-1936]
In Farm Produce she won 1st and 2nd prizes for Butter and Home Made Soap, and 2nd for Middle of Bacon and Ham [5]
Won 1st prize for Fancy Scones and 2nd prizes for Sponge Sandwich, Marmalade and Pickles in the Confectionary section [5]
In the Flower section won 1st for Iceland Poppies and Stocks, 1st and 2nd for Roses, and 2nd for Snapdragons and Carnations [5]
Advertised in November 1936 that she was looking for a girl for domestic work in her "good home with all conveniences" [5: 6-Nov-1936]
Attended Roy M. PATTON's birthday at the dam on Longforest Farm in Waddy Forest on Sunday 8 November 1936 [5: 13-Nov-1936]
Along with her husband and sons travelled to Perth during the third weekend of January 1937 for a three week holiday [5: 22-Jan-1937]
Attended the surprise 75th birthday for her father-in-law Heinrich W. BOTHE in Coorow on Tuesday 13 April 1937 [5: 16-Apr-1937]
At the 1937 Carnamah Show won the trophy for both the Confectionary and Farm Produce sections [0: image 03690]
Donated the trophy for the Farm Produce section of the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts Agricultural Society's Show in 1937 [150]
Exhibited in the Confectionary, Farm Produce, Vegetable, Preserves and Flower sections of the Show and won three trophies [5]
Received the Mrs W. J. Melvin Trophy for the Preserves section and the Stewart Dawson Trophy for the Confectionary section [5]
Awarded both 1st and 2nd prizes for Fancy Scones, Candied Peel and Home Made Soap [5]
Also received 1st prizes for Fruit Cake, Madeira Cake, Wheatmeal Brad, Preserved Fruits and Pickles [5]
Received 2nd prizes for Peas, Parsnips, Cream Puffs, Shortbread, Pot Plant, Bulbous Flowers and Stocks [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]
At the 1938 Carnamah Show was the outstanding exhibitor in the Farm Produce, Vegetable and Flower sections [0: image 03730]
Attended the funeral of Waddy Forest farmer Stanley L. FOLLAND at the Moora Cemetery on Monday 25 August 1941 [4: 30-Aug-1941]
Committee Member of the Coorow-Waddy Forest branch of the Red Cross Society in 1942 [0: image 04107]
Committee Member of the Coorow-Waddy Forest Agricultural Society and Patriotic Funds Committee in 1945 [0: image 04319]
Member of the Coorow-Waddy Forest branch of the Country Women's Association - was Treasurer in 1946 and 1947 [0: image 04412] [173]
Judge of the Cookery section at the Carnamah District Agricultural Society's Annual Show in 1947 [13]
Following her husband's death she left Coorow and shifted to Perth [193]
Resided of late at 112 Todd Avenue in the Perth suburb of Como [1]
Mother of Richard and Lloyd [14]
Died 13 September 1982; buried Winchester Cemetery, Carnamah (Row M, Plot 1) [1]
Ellen Eustace BROAD
Resided in Waddy Forest in 1935 and 1936 [19] [50]
"Pearl" Pearly Agnes BROAD
Born 19 January 1898 in Round Hill, Western Australia [193]
Daughter of Richard BROAD and "Millie" Amelia Ann BARRETT [193]
Resided with her parents in Round Hill and then Moora, and was educated at Saint Gertrude's College in New Norcia [193]
Worked at the bakery in Moora and later at the teashop within Boan's Department Store in Perth [193]
Bridesmaid at the wedding of her sister Blanche to Coorow farmer Baxter D. BOTHE in Perth on 28 July 1923 [10: 16-Aug-1923]
Married Gerald Davey WILLIAMS on 26 November 1925 at the Roman Catholic Church in Mount Hawthorn [193]
They resided at 93 Harold Street in the Perth suburb of Highgate Hill in 1926 [6], and then in the Perth suburb of Daglish [193]
Herself and her husband lived in a cottage on her brother-in-law's Inglewood Farm in Coorow 1929-1932 [19] [193]
They lived in a tent out from Kalgoorlie during which time her husband worked on the railways [193]
Resided in Perth and cared for her elderly mother while her husband served in the Australian Army during the Second World War [193]
Her husband was captured a Prisoner of War in Singapore in 1942, and she never heard from him until the war ended [193]
Resided on Roberts Road in the Perth suburb of Como [193]
Died 27 November 1858; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Roman Catholic, Lawn 2, G12) [2]
George John BRONICKIS
Born C.2003 [2]
Resided of late in Coorow [2]
Died 26 January 2003; cremated at Pinnaroo Valley Memorial Park in the Perth suburb of Padbury [2]
Barry George BROOKES
Born C.1940 [2]
Resided of late in Coorow [2]
Died 8 February 1999; cremated at the Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA [2]
Eric Dewson BROOKES
Born 1909 in England [21]
Departed London, England on the Largs Bay and arrived in Fremantle, Western Australia on 4 February 1927 [63]
Farmhand in Gunyidi 1930-1932 [4] [19]
Member of the Gunyidi-Marchagee Cricket Club in 1930-31 [4: 22-Nov-1930]
Farmhand in Waddy Forest 1938-1943 [19]
Florence Evelyn BROOKS
Resided in Latham in 1921 and 1922 [50]
William Edward BROOKS
Farmer in Latham in 1921 and 1922 [50]
Walter Francis BROSNAN
Born 23 September 1921 in Perth, Western Australia [16]
Son of Thomas BROSNAN and Maria Agnes O'DWYER [2] [16]
Resided in the Perth suburb of Morley prior to enlisting in the Australian Army in Merredin on 24 August 1942 [16]
Trooper WX32586 in the Australian Army's 25th Cavalry Regiment during the Second World War [16]
Discharged from the Australian Army on 8 September 1944 [16]
Cook in the employ of F. W. Gustav LIEBE in Bunjil in 1950 [19]
Resided of late in the Perth suburb of East Guildford [2]
Died 23 August 1997; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Lawn, J, 84) [2]
Alma Dorothea BROUN
Born 1912 [15]
Daughter of Charles McBryde BROUN and Mary Charlotte ALLEN [5: 26-Jan-1934]
Resided with her parents in Pingelly [5: 26-Jan-1934]
She had been engaged to someone in Pingelly however called it off after meeting Keith while visiting her brother in Coorow [P32]
Her engagement to Keith MORCOMBE of Wynmara Farm in Waddy Forest was announced during January 1934 [5: 26-Jan-1934]
In August 1934 spent a two week holiday staying with her husband-to-be and his parents in Waddy Forest [5: 3-Aug-1934]
Married (1) "Keith" Frank Keith MORCOMBE on Thursday 20 February 1936 at Saint Luke's Church in Pingelly [5: 28-Feb-1936]
Wore closely fitting heavy ivory satin with a long train inlet to the skirt, beautifully shirred corsage and soft roll collar [5]
Her veil was of hand-worked Brussels net and was held in place with orange blossoms [5]
Her bridesmaids were her sister Miss Beryl BROUN and Keith's sister Miss Eileen G. MORCOMBE [5]
Arrived in Waddy Forest with her husband on Friday 6 March 1936 and began settling into her new home [5: 13-Mar-1936]
Resided with her husband and later children on farmland in Waddy Forest 1936-1947 [19]
Won 2nd prize for Hand-Painted Article in the Fancy Work section of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1936 [5: 11-Sep-1936]
Exhibited in the Arts section of the Three Springs Agricultural Show in Three Springs on Thursday 17 September 1936 [5]
Awarded 1st prize for Water Colour and received 2nd prize for Pen Painted Table Centre [5: 25-Sep-1936]
Attended the Surprise Linen Tea for Miss Mary E. GREENWOOD at Maryland Farm in Waddy Forest on 22 July 1937 [5: 23-Jul-1937]
Won 1st and 2nd for Hand-Painted Article in the Fancy Work section of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1937 [5: 10-Sep-1937]
Married (2) "Jim" James T. MATHEWS in 1948 [66]
Resided with her second husband in the outer Perth suburb of Armadale where her husband had a trucking business [P403]
Later resided in a nursing home in Armadale [P403]
Resided of late in the Perth suburb of Salter Point [2]
Mother of Michael and Suellen [P32]
Died 21 June 2005; ashes interred Fremantle Cemetery, Perth suburb of Palmyra (Crematorium R, Rose Memorial, 5, 14) [2]
"Clinton" Alaric Clinton BROUN
Born 1904 in Nourambine, Western Australia [15]
Son of Charles McBryde BROUN and Mary Charlotte ALLEN [15]
Purchased from the Midland Railway Company 1500 acres of virgin land in Coorow on 26 February 1926 [27]
The 1500 acres was Lot M1625 of Victoria Location 2023 and cost £825.6.2 (11/- per acre), which he paid over 17 years [27]
Farmer in Coorow 1926-1941 [3] [19] [27]
Honorary Secretary of the Annual Sports Meeting at the Recreation Ground in Coorow on Saturday 26 October 1929 [4: 19-Oct-1929]
Member of the Coorow Cricket Club in 1929-30 [4: 19-Oct-1929]
Married Mary Ridgway MORCOMBE in 1930 [66]
Member of the Coorow Sports Committee - was Secretary in 1930 [215]
Member of the Coorow-Waddy Forest Progress Association - was Assistant Secretary in 1931 [4: 13-Dec-1930]
Won 1st prize for Medium Strong White Wheat at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show on Thursday 30 August 1934 [5: 7-Sep-1934]
Member of the Waddy Forest Group of Toc H 1934-1937 [5: 21-Sep-1934, 2-Jul-1937]
Organiser of the Toc H Dance held at the Coorow Hall on Saturday 29 September 1934 [5: 21-Sep-1934]
Produced and played Billings in the play "The Wrong Flat" at the Toc H Social at the Coorow Hall on 24 June 1937 [5: 2-Jul-1937]
Goal Umpire for the Coorow Football Club in 1935 [5: 3-May-1935]
Won 1st prize for Oaten Chaff at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show held on Thursday 5 September 1935 [5: 13-Sep-1935]
Member of the committee who organised the Coorow-Waddy Sports & Dance in Coorow on Saturday 9 November 1935 [5: 15-Nov-1935]
Through Elder Smith & Co Ltd sold seven bales of wool at 16½d. per pound at a Wool Sale on 16 December 1935 [5: 20-Dec-1935]
In January 1936 advertised that he had a 12-disc Shearer plough in fair order for sale for £20 [5: 31-Jan-1936]
Advertised in The North Midland Times in June 1936 that he had a tractor, plough and engine for sale, all in good order [5: 26-Jun-1936]
They were: 18-32 Case tractor for £50, 12-disc Shearer bridle draught plough for £15, and 2-horsepower Cooper engine for £10 [5]
Sold 237 sheep through Elder Smith & Co Ltd with four consignments to the Midland Market between August and October 1936 [5]
The 237 sheep consisted of 84 lambs (40 at 15/1, 17 at 12/10, 5 at 12/7, 22 at 11/10), 52 shorn suckers (16 at 14/7, 36 at 13/1), [5]
56 ewes (13 at 25/1, 27 at 16/7, 16 at 11/1) and 45 undisclosed sheep (31 at 11/4, 14 at 10/1) [5: 7-Aug-1936, 18-Sep-1936, 9 & 23-Oct-1936]
Attended the funeral of his uncle-in-law Stanley Lorraine FOLLAND at the Moora Cemetery on Monday 25 August 1941 [4: 30-Aug-1941]
By June 1942 had left Coorow and was living in the Perth suburb of Gosnells [3]
Retained ownership of his farm until selling it to McBryde Clement BROUN during the second half of the 1940s [3]
Later resided in the Perth suburb of Forrestfield [2]
Died 6 September 1982; ashes interred Pinnaroo Valley Memorial Park, Perth WA (Banksia Court, Memorial Garden, G3B, 5) [2]
Clinton Andrew BROUN
Born 23 July 1976 [14]
Son of Noel and Lorraine BROUN [14]
Brother of Terry, Ted, Jenny, Susie, Carolyn, Robin, Linda, Kathy and Yasmin [14]
Resided with his parents on Damper Downs in Moora WA [1]
Passed away at the age of nine years at the North Midlands District Hospital in Three Springs [1]
Died 26 December 1985 in Three Springs WA; buried Winchester Cemetery, Carnamah (Row L, Plot 7) [1]
Mrs "Myrtle" Deborah Myrtle BROUN
Wife of "Vic" Victor Walwin BROUN; see Deborah Myrtle BRAND
Ivan Clement BROUN
Born C.1937 [1]
Son of "Clem" McBryde Clement and Mary BROUN [14]
Attended the Coorow Children's Fancy Dress Ball in 1945 dressed as an "Egg" and won the prize for Most Original Boy [0: image 04331]
Came 2nd in the 8-9 years Boys Running Race at the annual Carnamah Show in 1945 [0: image 04367]
Farmer of Springfield Farm in Coorow in 1961 [19]
Died 13 June 1961 in Coorow; buried Winchester Cemetery, Carnamah (Row P, Plot 13) [1]
Mrs Mary Agnes BROUN
Wife of "Clem" McBryde Clement BROUN; see Mary Agnes O'DWYER
Mrs Mary Ridgway BROUN
Wife of "Clinton" Alaric Clinton BROUN; see Mary Ridgway MORCOMBE
"Clem" McBryde Clement BROUN
Born 15 January 1907 in Pingelly, Western Australia [16]
He was a great grandson of Peter N. BROUN who was the first Colonial Secretary of the Swan River Colony [79: 23-Aug-1973, page 16]
On 14 July 1926 purchased 1,241 acres of virgin land in Coorow for 8/- per acre from the Midland Railway Company [27]
The 1,241 acres was Lot M1651 of Victoria Location 2023 and cost £496/8/6, which he paid for by instalments over 16 years [27]
Farmer in Coorow 1926-1950 [19] [27]
Member of the Coorow Cricket Club from 1928-29 to 1930-31 [4: 19-Oct-1928, 26-Jan-1929, 13-Nov-1930]
Married (1) Mary Agnes O'DWYER in Perth in 1933 [66]
Member of the Coorow Tennis Club in 1934-35 [5: 16-Nov-1934]
Commenced hay-cutting on Friday 6 August 1935 and was the first in the district to start hay-cutting for the 1935 season [5: 16-Aug-1935]
The hay-cutting took place in a brilliant oat crop, which stood as high as five feet, from which he got 1½ to 2 tons of hay per acre [5]
In September 1935 sold 86 lambs (33 at 17/7, 48 at 15/7 and 5 at 12/10 per head) and three ewes at 26/- per head [5: 13-Sep-1935]
Three weeks later in October 1935 sold another 26 suckers at 15/1 per head, 1 lamb for 8/-, and 12 ewes at 7/10 per head [5: 1-Nov-1935]
Sold 36 ewes through Elder Smith & Co Ltd on 15 January 1936 - 22 at 9/7 per head and 14 at 11/1 per head [5: 17-Jan-1936]
Financial Member of the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts Agricultural Society in 1936 [150]
Sold 31 sheep through Elder Smith & Co Ltd at the Midland Market in October 1936 - 13 at 9/7 and 18 at 8/4 per head [5: 23-Oct-1936]
In 1936 he harvested the newsworthy amount of 200 bags of Comeback premium wheat from 40 acres of sandplain country [5]
The wheat was sold to the Great Southern Flour Mills for 5/7½d. per bushel and returned a profit of £4/4/- an acre [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]
Sold 39 lambs through Elder Smith & Co Ltd at the Midland Market on 8 September 1937 - 28 at 19/10 and 11 at 19/1 [5: 10-Sep-1937]
Attended the funeral of Waddy Forest farmer Stanley L. FOLLAND at the Moora Cemetery on Monday 25 August 1941 [4: 30-Aug-1941]
Private W72117 in Coorow's Australian Army Volunteer Defence Corps during the Second World War [16]
During the 1940s extended his farmland with the purchase of the 1,500 acre Lot M1625 from Alaric Clinton BROUN [3]
Left Coorow and resided on Orrong Road in the Perth suburb of Carlisle before shifting back to Coorow [3]
Farmer of Springfield Farm in Coorow in 1967 and 1968, and of Arbordene Farm in Coorow 1970-1980 [19]
Later resided at 31 Station Street in the Coorow townsite [1]
Husband of (2) Doris [14]
Father of Noel, Ivan, Julie and Graham [14]
Passed away at the age of 82 years at the North Midlands District Hospital in Three Springs [1]
Died 17 April 1989 in Three Springs; buried Winchester Cemetery, Carnamah (Row U, Plot 7) [1]
"Vic" Victor Walwin BROUN
Born 3 September 1905 in Pingelly, Western Australia [16]
Son of Charles McBryde BROUN and Mary Charlotte ALLEN [15]
Purchased from the Midland Railway Company 2,377 acres of virgin land in Coorow on 2 August 1926 [27]
The 2,377 acres of land was Lot M1664 of Victoria Location 2023 and cost £1084/10/3, which he paid for over 17 years [27]
1,787 acres of the land cost 9/- per acre while the remaining 590 acres cost 9/6 per acre [27]
Farmer in Coorow [19]
In 1932 he owned a Ford truck registered with the Carnamah District Road Board with license plate CA-282 [4: 12-Nov-1932]
Married "Myrtle" Deborah Myrtle BRAND in 1933 [66]
Vestry Member, Rectors Warden and Synod Representative of the Carnamah-Coorow Anglican Church in 1933 [5: 2-Jun-1933]
Won 2nd prize for Lettuce in the Vegetable section of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show on Thursday 30 August 1934 [5: 7-Sep-1934]
Represented Coorow at meetings in Carnamah of the amalgamated Coorow-Three Springs Anglican Parish in 1934 [5: 16-Nov-1934]
Member of the Waddy Forest Group of Toc H - was its Pilot [P32]
Secretary of the South Section of the North Midlands Anglican Church Parish in 1934 [5: 17-May-1935]
Committee Member of the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts Agricultural Society 1935-1946 [5: 3-May-1935, 13-Mar-1936] [150]
Sold 40 suckers and one ewe at 8/4 per head through Elder Smith & Co Ltd at the Midland Market on 30 October 1935 [5: 1-Nov-1935]
His next sale of sheep at the Midland Market was of 18 ewes at 21/7 and 14 ewes at 16/7 per head on 12 August 1936 [5: 14-Aug-1936]
Won 1st prizes for Oaten Chaff, Oaten Hay and Green Oats for Grain at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1936 [5: 11-Sep-1936]
Attended the Inaugural Sale of the North Midlands Stud Stockbreeders Association in Carnamah on 18 September 1936 [5: 2-Oct-1936]
Purchased a Merino ram for 8 guineas from the Wongyarra Stud operated by Carnamah farmer William A. T. SARGENT [5]
Despite the below average harvest it was reported that he obtained the impressive yield of 17 bushels per acre for some of his crop [5]
The crop in questions was 320 acres wheat from which he harvested 5,000 bushels of marketable wheat [5: 15-Jan-1937]
Sold 105 sheep through Elder Smith & Co Ltd with consignments to the Midland Market in early 1937: [5: 29-Jan-1937, 19-Feb-1937, 19-Mar-1937]
68 hoggets (12 at 16/7, 19 at 16/1, 37 at 15/7), 18 ewes (12 at 11/1, 6 at 10/-), 14 lambs at 12/7 and 5 wethers at 15/- [5]
Head Steward of the Sheep section at the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts Agricultural Society's Annual Shows 1939-1946 [150]
Attended the funeral of Waddy Forest farmer Stanley L. FOLLAND at the Moora Cemetery on Monday 25 August 1941 [4: 30-Aug-1941]
Private in the local Volunteer Defence Corps during the Second World War [16]
Financial Member of the Carnamah District Agricultural Society in 1948 [13]
Farmer in Coorow until at least 1970 [19]
Later resided in the Perth suburb of Menora [2]
Father of Adrian [84]
Died 26 December 1995; ashes interred Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (IC Section, Rose Memorial, CA, 5) [2]
Charles Benge BROWN
Born C.1865 [2]
Railway Fettler in Gunyidi 1922-1927 [19]
Resided in the Perth suburb of West Midland in 1928 [2]
Died 2 March 1928; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Presbyterian, GA, 204) [2]
Eric Arthur BROWN
Born 1914 [15]
Farmer in Bunjil in 1936 [50]
Married Isabel May COLE in Perth in 1937 [66]
Resided in Coorow in 1938 [84]
Later resided in Gutha [2]
Father of Desmond [84]
Died 25 August 1980; ashes interred Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (EC Section, Garden of Remembrance, 26, 218) [2]
Eva Harriett BROWN
Born C.1870
Married Philip FARLEY in 1887 in Bengal, India [171]
Departed Calcutta, India with Philip and children on the Hymettus and arrived in Fremantle, Western Australia on 26 April 1911 [70]
Resided with her husband and children on Dartmouth Farm in Coorow 1912-1925 [19] [27] [215]
Organised a Welcome Home for her son James FARLEY at their home in Coorow on Thursday 10 July 1919 [10: 18-Jul-1919]
Assisted by helpers she decorated the room with his battalion colours, and borrowed a piano from Mrs Lillian E. MCNAMARA [10]
The evening was reported to have been "the best and brightest function yet head in that old established place Coorow" [10]
A large crowd from Coorow, Carnamah and Three Springs attended, many of whom travelled boggy roads to be present [10]
Donated pan turkeys for the Luncheon Booth at the Picnic Race Meeting in Three Springs on Saint Patrick's Day 17 March 1920 [124]
Resided of late in the Perth suburb of Fremantle [2]
Died 14 November 1936; buried Fremantle Cemetery, Perth suburb of Palmyra (Anglican, A5, 205) [2]
Henry Joseph BROWN
Farmer of Cudimera Farm in Gunyidi 1911-1939 [19]
He was the owner of the 400 acre Victoria Location 7085 in Gunyidi [3]
In September 1935 he applied with the Carnamah District Road Board to fill holes in payments of his rates and taxes [5: 27-Sep-1935]
His application was to fill holes on the road in Gunyidi from Hector M. RODDA's gate to the Gunyidi State School [5: 27-Sep-1935]
Mrs Isabel May BROWN
Wife of Eric Arthur BROWN; see Isabel May COLE
James Stanley BROWN
Well Sinker in Waddy Forest 1929-1935 [19]
John Henry BROWN
Labourer in Coorow in 1933 [19]
Lily BROWN
Born 1904 in Dongara, Western Australia [15]
Daughter of Michael BROWN and Alice Amelia READ [15]
Resided with her parents on Woopenatty Station in Arrino, in Three Springs, and on farms in Perenjori and Bowgada [193]
Married James FARLEY in Perth in 1921 [66]
Resided with her husband on farmland in Coorow 1921-1928 [6] [19]
They resided in Perenjori 1929-1935, and on farmland in Bowgada 1938-1942 [16] [19]
Resided on farmland in Perenjori 1948-1958 [19]
Resided of late in the Perth suburb of City Beach [2]
Died 24 December 1995; cremated at the Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA [2]
Michael BROWN
Farmer in Gunyidi 1932-1934 [19] [300: pages 42, 79]
Cleared some of Vanzetti Road in Marchagee, for which the Carnamah District Road Board paid him £3/2/6 on 8 May 1934 [300]
Paid a 10/- Vermin Bonus by the Carnamah District Road Board in June 1934 for helping to control vermin by killing a wild dog [300]
Charles BROWNE
Clearer in Marchagee in 1916 [50]
Herbert Josiah BROXUP
Farmhand at Latham's Rock east of Coorow in 1916 [19]
In 1916 he also worked as an Engine Fitter & Erector while living at the Salvation Army Home in the Perth suburb of Subiaco [50]
By 1919 he was working as a Labourer and living at 18 Allen Street in Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia [50]
Alice Christina BRYANT
Born 1908 in Greenbushes, Western Australia [14] [90]
Married (1) Walter George FENNELL in Perth in 1926 [14] [66]
Resided with her husband on farmland in Marchagee 1926-1955 [14] [19]
Won 2nd prize for a Coloured Toilet Set in the Fancy Work section of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1934 [5: 7-Sep-1934]
Awarded 1st prize for Beetroot in the Vegetable section of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1936 [5: 11-Sep-1936]
Her husband Walter passed away at the age of 47 years on 27 February 1955 and was buried at the Winchester Cemetery [1] [14]
Married (2) COLLINS [90]
Resided at Lot 104 Bristol Street in the Coorow townsite 1967-1986 [19]
Prior to and up until her death resided at the Victoria Park Nursing Home in the Perth suburb of Victoria Park [1]
Passed away at the age of 85 years from acute myocardia infarct ischaemic heart disease [90]
Mother of Frank, Kevin, Barry and Graham [14]
Died 3 January 1994 the Perth suburb of Victoria Park; ashes buried Winchester Cemetery, Carnamah (Row F, Plot 2) [1]
Mrs Charlotte BRYANT
Wife of Frank Ringol BRYANT; see Charlotte HOLMES
"Jock" Clarence Jock BRYANT
Born 13 May 1914 in Bridgetown, Western Australia [16]
Farmhand on Yorkdale Farm in Marchagee 1935-1943 and Farmer in Waddy Forest 1947-1956 [19]
Became a member of the Carnamah Masonic Lodge No.150 WAC on 13 December 1935 [96]
Part of an overland trip to the uninhabited coast at Jurien Bay, which departed on Monday 15 February 1937 [5: 26-Feb-1937]
The 12 other members of the party were Frank R. BRYANT, Walter G. FENNELL and W. Frank FENNELL of Marchagee; [5]
Baxter D. BOTHE, William J. GAUNT, George HUTRCHRAFT, Donald S. GRANT, David TODD, Fred BINGHAM, [5]
and John S. READ of Coorow; Angus A. N. MCGILP of Waddy Forest; and William A. T. SARGENT of Carnamah [5]
They travelled in two trucks and two cars and from Moora they drove over 54 miles of road and 30 miles of sand [5]
They erected a shed and tables and were able to get good reception on a wireless Fred BINGHAM had taken along [5]
They took a boat with them and fished every day, and paid a visit to caves situated nine miles from their camp at Jurien Bay [5]
The party also visited Sandy Cape and North Head and after an enjoyable stay returned home on Friday 19 February 1937 [5]
Married Muriel COOPER in Perth in 1942 [66]
Enlisted in the Australian Army on 8 December 1942 [16]
Corporal WX35807 in the Australian Army's 11th Australian MC GP during the Second World War [16]
Discharged from the Australian Army on 15 January 1946 [16]
Later resided in Buntine and in the southern Perth suburb of Waikiki [45]
Father of Chris, Steven, Vince and Russell [45]
Died 10 August 2006; cremated at the Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA on 17 August 2006 [45]
Mrs Eleanor Wylde BRYANT
Wife of Lawrence Alexander R. BRYANT; see Eleanor Wylde PIERCY
Frank Ringol BRYANT
Born 17 July 1881 in Quorn, South Australia [55]
Son of William Henry BRYANT and Caroline MILLS [55]
Married Charlotte HOLMES in 1906 [66]
Farmer in Marchagee, Western Australia 1921-1949 [6] [120: 5-Oct-1933]
Farmer of the Mamboobie Estate in Marchagee 1921-1935 [19] [5: 15-Feb-1935]
The Mamboobie Estate was 5,355 acres consisting of Victoria Locations 3190, 3220 to 3227, 3219 and 5474 [3] [5: 15-Feb-1935]
He is said to have managed the Mamboobie Estate in Marchagee for Paterson & Company Ltd [108: page 6]
He appears to have leased and later purchased the majority of the estate from Griffith G. JOHN and Duncan W. PATERSON [3] [44]
He later also took up a large parcel of sandplain country in Marchagee which he established into Yorkdale Farm [108: page 6]
Yorkdale Farm was 8,098 acres in size and consisted of Victoria Locations 8298 and 8382 [3] [120: 5-Oct-1933]
He then farmed Yorkdale Farm in Marchagee in conjunction with the Mamboobie Estate in Marchagee [120: 5-Oct-1933]
His 5,355 acre Mamboobie Estate was situated ten miles east of the Marchagee Railway Siding [5: 1-Mar-1935]
In 1935 his Mamboobie Estate was divided into 20 paddocks and of its acreage 4,596 were cleared acres and 500 were on fallow [5]
The property included four wells, two dams, a six room homestead, workmen's quarters, sheds, stables, workshop and yards [5]
Mamboobie contained a shearing shed and a number of Marchagee farmers took their sheep there to be shorn each year [108: page 6]
Following the sale of his Mamboobie Estate in 1935-36 he continued farming Yorkdale Farm in Marchagee until 1949 [3] [6]
Foundation Member of the Carnamah District Road Board in 1923 [7: page 111]
Represented the South Ward of the Carnamah District Road Board 1923-1925, retiring in April 1925 [7: page 111] [9: 30-Jan-1925]
Once more served on the Carnamah District Road Board representing the South Ward from 1926-27 to 1945-46 [7: page 111]
Represented the Carnamah Road Board at the Vermin Conference of Road Boards in Moora on 20 September 1935 [5: 20-Sep-1935]
Said to have been 'the' very important person of the Marchagee district who was "the undisputed authority on everything" [108: page 6]
He was the accepted authority or rallying point for any serious activity such as fire control, local services and problems [108]
His equivalent in neighbouring districts was said to be Angus A. N. MCGILP for Coorow and John BOWMAN for Carnamah [108]
In July 1925 he unsuccessfully requested that the road between Victoria Locations 3227 and 5475 be closed [9: 14-Aug-1925]
He produced 9,000 of the 25,000 bags of wheat grown in Marchagee in 1927 [4: 10-Mar-1928]
In 1932 had licensed with the Carnamah District Road Board a Reo truck with license plate CA-57 [4: 12-Nov-1932]
He was the owner of shop premises at Gov Lot 4 in the Marchagee townsite in 1932 [3]
Proposed one of the toasts at the dinner following the official opening of the new Carnamah Post Office on 30 June 1932 [5: 8-Jul-1932]
Travelled to Carnamah to attend the monthly meeting of the Carnamah District Road Board on Tuesday 13 June 1933 [5: 16-Jun-1933]
On that day the trip to Carnamah was 55 miles in length on a bad road, including two half mile stretches of floodwaters [5]
After the meeting he was unable to return home due to rapidly rising floodwaters at Winchester so spent the night in Carnamah [5]
Attended the Valedictory Dinner tendered to Alexander B. GLOSTER at the Coorow Hotel on Monday 3 July 1933 [5: 7-Jul-1933]
He was the first Marchagee farmer to deliver wheat to the railway siding in Marchagee for the 1933 harvest [5: 17-Nov-1933]
Attended the Official Opening of the East Marchagee Hall in Marchagee on Saturday 11 November 1933 [5: 17-Nov-1933]
He organised a sports day which was held on the same day as the opening, and also donated the children's prizes and sweets [5]
Prior to the building of the East Marchagee Hall he had annually organised a sports day held at the Meelyah Reserve [5]
Vice Patron 1933-1939 and Committee Member in 1937 of the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts Agricultural Society [5: 23-Dec-1932] [150]
In 1934 and 1937 he was the distributor for Marchagee for the Carnamah District Road Board's rabbit poison [5: 5-Jan-1934, 22-Jan-1937]
Used kerosene tins on their side four high as retaining for sand, and it was standing strong over eight years later in 1934 [5: 12-Jan-1934]
His camp for his employees who worked outback was made out of iron and on wheels so it could be moved by tractor [5: 12-Jan-1934]
In January 1934 six Marchagee farmers expressed their appreciation of him as their member on the Carnamah Road Board [5: 19-Jan-1934]
Accompanied by Rev. A. W. CURTIS of Coorow travelled from Marchagee to the coast at Sandy Cape in February 1934 [5]
The journey from Marchagee to Sandy Cape (west of Watheroo) was about 90 miles in distance and took six hours [5]
They travelled to Sandy Cape to see his four sons and son-in-law who had been camping there [5: 16-Feb-1934]
With a tractor and plough he had cleared 59 miles of the road from Marchagee as far as Spring Hill River a few years earlier [5]
Attended the funeral of Mrs Christina B. D. FORRESTER of Carnamah at the Winchester Cemetery on 31 August 1934 [4: 8-Sep-1934]
Elder Smith & Co Ltd and Paterson & Co Ltd conducted a dispersal sale of his Mamboobie Estate on Friday 8 March 1935 [5]
The sale was to sell his 5,355 acre Mamboobie Estate consisting of Victoria Locations 3190, 3220 to 3227, 3219 and 5474 [3] [5]
His plant, machinery, 600 sheep, 11 horses, 15 cattle and five pigs were sold by auctioned regardless of whether the land sold [5]
Among the machinery sold at the dispersal sale was an eight foot Gibbons header, six furrow Mouldboard Shearer ploughs, [5]
16 run McKay combine, large wagon table top, large dray, tip dray, Rushton Proctor steam engine, Hart-Parr tractor, [5: 15-Feb-1935]
33 tyne McKay cultivator, and a quantity of harnesses, collars, hames, winkers, chains, swings and blacksmithing tools [5: 1-Mar-1935]
The property itself possibly didn't sell as it was still in his name in rate books at the start of the 1935-36 financial year [3]
By mid 1936 his former 5,355 acre Mamboobie Estate was owned by Griffith G. JOHN of Paterson & Company Ltd in Perth [3]
Farmer of Yorkdale Farm on the south side of the Buntine-Marchagee Road in Marchagee 1936-1949 [3] [62]
Yorkdale Farm was 8,098 acres in size and consisted of Victoria Locations 8298 and 8382 [3] [120: 5-Oct-1933]
Later extended Yorkdale to 9,876 acres with the purchase of the adjoining 1,778 acre Victoria Location 9493 [3]
Costume Judge at the Children's Fancy Dress Ball held in Coorow on Saturday 6 July 1935 [5: 12-Jul-1935]
Judged the Sheep Dogs at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Shows in Coorow in 1935, 1936 and 1937 [5: 13-Sep-1935, 11-Sep-1936, 10-Sep-1937]
Also judged the Sheep Dogs at the Carnamah District Agricultural Shows in 1935, 1936 and 1937 [5: 20-Sep-1935, 4-Sep-1936, 17-Sep-1937]
From September 1935 he held the keys for the East Marchagee Hall on behalf of the Carnamah District Road Board [5: 27-Sep-1935]
Attended the entertainment for the Commonwealth Grants Commission at the Coorow Hotel on 21 November 1935 [5: 29-Nov-1935]
Himself and his son were engaged in burning rubbish on fallow on his farm in Marchagee on Tuesday 17 March 1936 [5]
He picked up a bush when he noticed something move, and as he dropped the bush realised it was a Death Adder snake [5]
At the same time his son saw another snake at his feet, which he quickly dealt with through the use of an axe [5: 20-Mar-1936]
On 27 July 1936 wrote a letter to the Carnamah Police Station stating that when he mustered his sheep 350 were missing [88]
Although he believed they could have strayed off his property he had made inquiries for them and couldn't locate them [88]
Constable Maurice PLUNKETT of Carnamah received his letter on 28 July 1936 and left for Marchagee that same day [88]
Over 16 days PLUNKETT and two Perth detectives made numerous inquiries and unsuccessful attempts to locate the sheep [88]
It was reported in The North Midland Times on 7 August 1936 that thorough investigations were being continued [5: 7-Aug-1936]
Attended the Inaugural Sale of the North Midlands Stud Stockbreeders Association in Carnamah on Friday 18 September 1936 [5]
Purchased four Border Leicester rams at 5 guineas per head, or a total of £21, from LEISHMAN Bros of Winchester [5: 2-Oct-1936]
Despite the unfavourable season he obtained a good cut of hay of about two tons per acre in October 1936 [5: 30-Oct-1936]
He cut his hay from an oat crop which stood approximately seven feet high - its hight making it difficult to cut [5: 30-Oct-1936]
Organiser of an overland trip to the uninhabited coast at Jurien Bay, which departed on Monday 15 February 1937 [5: 26-Feb-1937]
The 12 other members of the party were C. Jock BRYANT, Walter G. FENNELL and W. Frank FENNELL of Marchagee; [5]
Baxter D. BOTHE, William J. GAUNT, George HUTRCHRAFT, Donald S. GRANT, David TODD, Fred BINGHAM, [5]
and John S. READ of Coorow; Angus A. N. MCGILP of Waddy Forest; and William A. T. SARGENT of Carnamah [5]
The crew, of which he was "Captain," travelled via Moora in two trucks and two cars and arrived the following day [5]
From Moora they drove over 54 miles of road and 30 miles of sand to their camping spot on the beach at Jurien Bay [5]
They erected a shed and tables and were able to get good reception on a wireless Fred BINGHAM had taken along [5]
They took a boat with them and fished every day, and paid a visit to caves situated nine miles from their camp at Jurien Bay [5]
The party also visited Sandy Cape and North Head and after an enjoyable stay returned home on Friday 19 February 1937 [5]
In April 1937 the Carnamah District Road Board recommended he be appointed a Justice of the Peace [5: 30-Apr-1937, 21-May-1937]
Inspected freshwater pools at Gunyidi in 1937 for their suitability as a swimming pool for the Carnamah District Road Board [5]
The Road Board planned to get a particularly suitable pool vested in the board for recreation purposes [5: 21-May-1937, 20-Aug-1937]
In 1937 took six children from Marchagee to Carnamah so they could get their free diphtheria injections [5: 20-Aug-1937]
He had a depot in Marchagee for grasshopper baits for the southern end of the Carnamah District Road Board in 1937 [5: 20-Aug-1937]
Attended the meeting in Coorow to discuss constructing a road from Coorow to the coast on 11 September 1937 [5: 17-Sep-1937]
Financial Member of the Carnamah District Agricultural Society in 1938 [13]
One of the two judges at the Coorow Flower and Vegetable Show in 1940 [0: image 03904]
Pallbearer at the funeral of Winchester farmer William John PETHICK on 21 March 1941 at the Winchester Cemetery [5]
Pallbearer at the funeral of Mrs Eliza Wilhelmina BOTHE at the Winchester Cemetery on 24 August 1942 [5]
Judge of the Ring Events section at the Carnamah District Agricultural Society's Victory Show on 13 September 1945 [13]
Pallbearer at the funeral of Carnamah farmer Carl OLSEN at the Winchester Cemetery on 21 March 1946 [5]
He lost his place on the Carnamah District Road Board after he was defeated in an election in 1946 [7: page 99]
On 15 May 1946 the Carnamah District Road Board sent him a letter of appreciation after a service of nearly 23 years [7]
Himself and retiring Road Board member James K. FORRESTER were the joint guests of honour at a Complimentary Dinner [7]
Sold 8,098 acres of his Yorkdale Farm (Victoria Locations 8298 and 8382) to "Hal" Albert P. HUNT in March 1949 [3]
Sold his remaining 1,778 acres in Marchagee (Victoria Location 9493) to W. Frank FENNELL in January 1950 [3]
Pallbearer at the funeral of Coorow farmer Baxter Diedrich BOTHE on 23 February 1950 at the Winchester Cemetery [0]
By 1951 he had left Marchagee and was living in Stratham Street in the Perth suburb of East Cannington [3]
Resided in Coorow in retirement in 1955 and 1956 [19]
Later resided in the northern agricultural district of Maya, situated between Latham and Wubin [2]
Died 19 November 1957; ashes interred Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Crematorium Rose Gardens, S, 4) [2]
From The Western Mail newspaper, Friday 20 December 1928:
Country Towns and Districts - Carnamah-Coorow - Rapid Development - Marchagee
"The best results obtained by Mr F. R. Bryant, on his 3,100 acres of crop at Mamboobie, came from Dollar wheat. At the present rate 2,000 bags will come off 420 acres. On 5,330 acres of land, including 1,800 acres of crop, 3,700 Koonoona sheep, 30 horses and 30 head of cattle are being carried, the main feed being burr clover and 600 acres of sand plain are down with rye and subterranean clover. Lucerne has proved successful in small patches and two acres of orchard planted fifteen months ago are thriving."
From The Western Mail newspaper, Thursday 5 October 1933:
Country Towns and Districts - Three Springs and Carnamah - Rich Pastoral and Wheat Lands - A Progressive Community
"Mr F. R. Bryant, the senior member of the Carnamah Road Board, owns a fine property well known throughout the district as Mamboobie, comprising 5,083 acres of splendid agricultural and pastoral land. It was acquired by its present owner 12 years ago and has since been added to by the purchase of the adjoining property known as Yorkdale, which comprises another 8,098 acres. The property is well watered by dams and wells to cover all requirements, and the water is reticulated to the homestead and its many outbuildings. The property is subdivided into 27 convenient paddocks, which permits the constant transfer of stock to facilitate their preparation for the Midland stock market, to which regular supplies are forwarded. The average acreage cropped on this property over the years is said to be 2,500 acres, but this season, principally owing to the abnormal rains occurring in July, it will be somewhat less. The land is tilled on a three year rotation system, and the wheat grown is Merredin, Nabawa and Canberra; the latter generally giving the best results. The pasture lands grow trefoil, barley and rye grass luxuriantly, and the pastures are not overtaxed while maintaining one sheep to the acre all the year round. At the present time property is said to be carrying 4,000 Merinos of Kanoona blood, which last year gave an average clip of 8½ lb., while it is claimed that one fleece at 18 lb. In addition to sheep, it carries 45 horses and a herd of 30 Illawarra Shorthorn cattle, which are marketed to the beef trade."
Wife of Fred BINGHAM; see Lilian Sarah REYNOLDS
"TJ" Trevor Wells BIRCH
Born 5 May 1922 in Adelaide, South Australia [55]
Son of Cyril James BIRCH and Myrtle Margaret THOMSON [55]
Resided in Maya, Western Australia prior to enlisting in the Royal Australian Air Force in Perth on 6 June 1946 [16]
Warrant Officer 415298 in the Royal Australian Air Force's 114 Air Sea Rescue Flight during the Second World War [16]
During the war he flew on catalinas, which were American-Canadian built flying boats [45]
Discharged from the Royal Australian Air Force on 6 June 1946 [16]
Farmer in Coorow, Western Australia [19]
Member of the Coorow Parents & Citizens Association - was President in the 1950s [P361]
Later resided in the Perth suburb of South Perth [2]
Member of the Como Bowling Club [45]
Member and Secretary of the Como Sub-Branch of the Returned Soldiers League [45]
Husband of Mary [45]
Father of Rodney and Malcolm [45]
Died 24 April 2006; cremated at the Pinnaroo Valley Memorial Park, Perth WA [2]
Archibald Richard William BIRT
Farmhand on the Mamboobie Estate in Marchagee in 1921 [50]
John BISSETT
Labourer in Coorow 1911-1921 [19]
"Ted" Edward Thomas BLACKWELL
Born 30 May 1905 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England [16]
In England he worked for the sports company Grays in Cambridge and later for Slazengers in London [5: 16-Oct-1936]
Departed London, England on the steamship Baradine and arrived in Fremantle, Western Australia on 13 May 1929 [63]
While working as a farmhand he met his future wife who was working on the same farm [266]
Married Lorna Robina LIZARS in 1935 [66]
His wife borrowed two bags of flour from her stepmother and some bakehouse tins and they shifted to Calingiri [266]
They reopened the closed bakehouse in Calingiri but couldn't make a living from it so shifted to Coorow [266]
Baker in Coorow 1936-1949 [5: 6-Nov-1936, 16-Apr-1937] [6] [19]
Leased and later purchased the butcher's shop at Lots 93-94 on Main Street in the Coorow townsite from Robert J. WELLS [3]
Advertised in The North Midland Times in October 1936 that he re-strung tennis rackets with quality gut for 27/6 [5: 16-Oct-1936]
Alerted the Carnamah District Road Board to the bad state of the septic tank at the Coorow Hotel in October 1936 [5: 6-Nov-1936]
After being thrown from a horse he went to remount when the horse fell onto him breaking his leg on Saturday 10 April 1937 [5]
Following his broken leg he was treated by Carnamah doctor Cecil P. ROSENTHAL at the Carnamah Private Hospital [5: 16-Apr-1937]
Private W72121 in Coorow's local Volunteer Defence Corps during the Second World War [16]
Resided of late in the Perth suburb of Morley Park [2]
Died 13 February 1956; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Wesleyan, IC, 474) [2]
Mrs Lorna Robina BLACKWELL
Wife of Edward Thomas BLACKWELL; see Loran Robina LIZARS
Margaret Oliver BLAKE
Born 25 June 1885 in Balaklava, South Australia [55]
Daughter of Walter BLAKE and Marian SMITH [55]
Married Ivor Blyth ROBERTS on 10 June 1911 in Balaklava, South Australia [55]
Resided with her husband on Barokee Farm in Waddy Forest, Western Australia for at least the years 1933-1949 [4: 27-Aug-1949] [19]
In mid October 1932 she was conveyed from Coorow to Perth for an immediate operation [5: 14-Oct-1932]
Captain SNOOK was in Carnamah with a parachutist however cancelled the event so he could get her to hospital [5]
In 1932 was the owner of a Chevrolet truck registered with the Carnamah District Road Board with license plate CA-55 [4: 12-Nov-1932]
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 prize for Iceland Poppies at the Carnamah Agricultural Show at Centenary Park on Thursday 6 September 1934 [5: 14-Sep-1934]
Returned to Waddy Forest on Monday 20 May 1935 after spending a number of weeks in Broome Hill and Perth [5: 24-May-1935]
Member of the Coorow Golf Club 1935-1937 [5: 12-Jul-1935, 19-Jun-1936, 11-Jun-1937]
Won 1st prize for Wheatmeal Cookery at the Carnamah Agricultural Show held on Thursday 12 September 1935 [5: 20-Sep-1935]
Rev. Alfred J. and Mrs Myra TOOMEY of Three Springs stayed with them in Waddy Forest in late October 1935 [5: 8-Nov-1935]
Sold four bales of wool at 16¾d. per pound through Westralian Farmers Ltd on Monday 13 January 1936 [5: 17-Jan-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]
Won the Ladies Putting Competition at the Opening Day of the Coorow Golf Club for the 1936 season on 17 May 1936 [5: 22-May-1936]
Herself and Ivor celebrated their Silver Wedding Anniversary with friends at their home on Thursday 11 June 1936 [5: 19 & 26-Jun-1936]
The celebration took the form of a Card Evening, and doubled as a farewell for herself who was about to leave for a holiday [5]
Left Perth by train for Adelaide on Saturday 18 June 1936 to spend some months with friends and relatives in South Australia [5]
After spending three months in Adelaide and its suburbs she arrived back in Waddy Forest on 23 September 1936 [5: 25-Sep-1936]
Attended Roy M. PATTON's birthday at the dam on Longforest Farm in Waddy Forest on Sunday 8 November 1936 [5: 13-Nov-1936]
Sold four bales of wool at 18d. per pound through Elder Smith & Co Ltd at the Perth Wool Sale on 23 November 1936 [5: 27-Nov-1936]
With her husband and younger children holidayed on the riverfront in the Perth suburb of Claremont in February 1937 [5: 12-Feb-1937]
Committee Member of the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts Agricultural Society in 1937 [5: 20-Nov-1936]
Member of the North Midlands Anglican Church Vestry in 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]
Later resided in the Perth suburb of Mount Lawley [2]
Mother of John, Peter and Mary [P84]
Died 31 August 1972; ashes scattered to the wind at Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA [2]
Lyle BLIGHT
Born C.1943 [2]
Resided of late in Coorow [2]
Died 10 November 1996; ashes interred Fremantle Cemetery, Perth suburb of Palmyra (Crematorium A, A, 179) [2]
Edward McGill BLYTHE
Born 1883 in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia [15]
Son of Edward BLYTHE and Helen MCGILL [15]
Married Margaret Kate HUME in 1907 [66]
He was the manager of the drapery firm Economic Ltd at 111 High Street in the Perth suburb of Fremantle [6]
Resided in Shenton Road, Claremont 1909-1911, and then in Wolseley Gardens, Richmond / East Fremantle in 1912 [6]
Resided in Silas Street, Plympton 1913-1915; and then at 49 Colin Street, Perth in 1916 [6]
Resided at 25 Osborne Road in Richmond / East Fremantle 1917-1936 [6]
Purchased remnants of Coorow Station in Coorow from Francis H. R. THOMAS during the 1911-12 financial year [44]
The land was 262 acres of first class freehold land and 520 acres of two Conditional Purchase leases and a Homestead Lease [44]
The 262 acres of freehold land consisted of Victoria Locations 385, 995, 996, 1116 and 1274 [44]
The 520 acres of two Conditional Purchase leases and one Homestead Lease became Victoria Locations 2732, 2927 and 2997 [44]
On his Victoria Location 385 was Coorow House, the old homestead of the LONG family who had arrived in Coorow in 1862 [135]
Coorow House was of mud brick and jarrah wood construction with a galvanised iron roof [P147]
Took up a further 2,227 acres adjoining his Victoria Locations 2732, 2927 and 2997 in Coorow, taking his land up to 3,009 acres [3] [44]
The 2,227 acres consisted of Victoria Locations 3058, 3059, 3350, 3351, 3355, 3370, 3483, 3500 and 3502 [44]
His land in Coorow is said to have been purchased by his father, and was managed by his uncle James MCGILL 1911-1916 [P147]
His uncle James MCGILL and his uncle's family resided at Coorow House on his Victoria Location 385 [P147]
He owned a building used for storage in Coorow which he offered to provide for the proposed Coorow State School in 1911 [215]
He sold the building, however the school was later held from two rooms of Coorow House where his uncle was living [215]
Rates for his land in Coorow were initially sent to Subiaco, presumably to his father who lived at 116 Subiaco Road, Subiaco [6] [44]
Rates were later sent to 7 Outram Road, Perth in 1913-14 and 1915-16, and were then sent to Coorow [44]
In 1911 he was appointed Vice President, an honorary type of position, of the Coorow Farmers' Progress Association [39: 4-Aug-1911]
Some of his land in Coorow was leased for a time by Thomas BONHAM [44] [61]
Appears to have sold 140 of his acres, Victoria Locations 385 and 1274, to Angus A. MCGILP during the 1917-18 financial year [44]
Remained the owner of his remaining acreage until about 1919, when he sold most of it to Francis A. LATHAM [10: 12-Sep-1919] [44]
Appears to have sold his 40 acre Victoria Location 995 to Thomas GREGORY [44]
Resided of late in the Perth suburb of Claremont [2]
Father of Jean [84]
Died 27 May 1961; ashes buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Presbyterian, CA, 23) [2]
L. BOAG
Resided in Marchagee in 1934 [300: page 42]
Paid £5/17/6 by the Carnamah District Road Board in 1934 for helping control vermin by killing 19 foxes, a dog and an eagle [300]
Thomas Cavanagh BOGUE
Born 1896 in Bunbury, Western Australia [15]
Son of Frederick Aloysious BOGUE and Mary Angela KINSELLA [15]
Manager of the Savoy Hotel at 636-638 Hay Street in Perth in 1936 [50]
In January 1937 took over the license and management of the Coorow Hotel in Coorow from Hector T. A. JAMES [5: 29-Jan-1937]
Member of the Coorow Golf Club in 1937 [5: 16-Apr-1937]
First Aid Man for the Coorow Football Club in 1937 [5: 16-Apr-1937]
In 1937 donated a trophy to the Coorow Football Club [5: 16-Apr-1937]
Sang a song at the Carnamah Repertory Club's Social Evening at the Carnamah Hall on Friday 25 June 1937 [5: 2-Jul-1937]
Member of the Carnamah Repertory Club in 1937 [5: 2-Jul-1937]
Most Original Gent as "Mae West" at the Carnamah Girls Club's Masquerade Ball at the Carnamah Hall on 24 July 1937 [5: 30-Jul-1937]
Sang a song to the crowd of over 300 at the Community Concert at the Carnamah Hall on Wednesday 11 August 1937 [5: 13-Aug-1937]
Represented the Coorow Football Club at some meetings of the North Midlands Football Association in 1937 [5: 27-Aug-1937]
Attended the funeral of Coorow stationmaster William C. Cox at the Karrakatta Cemetery in Perth on 4 November 1937 [5: 12-Nov-1937]
Later resided in Kellerberrin [2]
Died 5 July 1944; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Roman Catholic, BA, 386B) [2]
Nicholas BOLAND
Contractor in Watheroo in 1911 [19]
Labourer in Coorow 1933-1935 [19]
Paid £14/2/9 by the Carnamah District Road Board in June 1934 for clearing stones on Read Road in Coorow [300: page 70]
James BOLLARD
Fettler in Latham in 1921 [50]
T. BOND
Grew 350 acres of wheat crop in Coorow in 1917 [10: 19-Jun-1917]
Sarah BONHAM
Born 31 August 1872 in Clare, South Australia [55]
Daughter of Daniel BONHAM and Jane HUNTER [55]
Married Alexander Ray Porter GRANT on 10 November 1897 in Adelaide, South Australia [55]
In 1915 was living at 16 Laura Street in Stepney, South Australia [94]
Resided with her husband on farmland in Coorow, Western Australia from 1923 until her death in 1938 [9] [19]
Her brother "Tom" Thomas BONHAM resided in Coorow from 1911 until his death in 1945 [19]
She was the owner of 2814 acres of farmland in Coorow being Victoria Locations 8282 and 8734 [3]
Attended the Official Opening of the Coorow Agricultural Hall in Coorow on Thursday 1 February 1923 [9: 23-Feb-1923]
Donated to the Coorow Hall Committee a beautiful oil painting she had painted, which was sold at the opening for £12/5/- [9]
Won 1st prize for a female White Turkey and 2nd for a female Bronzewing Turkey at the Coorow Show in 1933 [5: 15-Sep-1933]
Member of the Coorow Tennis Club in 1933-34 [5: 3-Nov-1933]
Resided in Coorow until her death in 1938 [2]
Mother of Clem Hunter Porter, Roy Percival Marcus and Jack McDonald GRANT [55]
Died 9 December 1938; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Anglican, LB, 156) [2]
"Tom" Thomas BONHAM
Born 18 November 1859 in Adelaide, South Australia [55]
Son of Daniel BONHAM and Jane HUNTER [55]
Contractor in Moora, Western Australia in 1909 and 1910 [19]
Contractor, then Farmer and later Retiree in Coorow, Western Australia 1911-1945 [3] [19] [44]
It was said he had the best and most advanced crop in all the country between Coorow and Mingenew in July 1914 [10: 17-Jul-1914]
Farmed 1,781 acres in Coorow belonging to Edward M. BLYTHE in 1915 and 1916 [44]
In 1919 farmed 3,363 acres in Coorow in partnership with Francis A. LATHAM as "Bonham & Latham" [44]
They farmed 3,523 acres - Victoria Locations 2927, 2997, 3058, 3059, 3350, 3351, 3355, 3370, 3483, 3500, 3502, 3732, 5464 [44]
The land was possibly owned by Francis A. LATHAM and had previously been owned by Edward M. BLYTHE [10: 12-Sep-1919] [44]
Around October of 1920 [215] he purchased 295 acres of his own land in Coorow from Angus A. N. MCGILP [44]
The 340 acres was Victoria Location 385, a portion of Victoria Location 1274, and Lot M634 of Victoria Location 2023 [3] [44]
He lived in the old house on Victoria Location 385 which had been the home of the LONG family who pioneered Coorow [P361]
In later years he lived in mainly just one large room of the house which contained an enormous table [P361]
On 15 May 1926 extended his farm by 130 acres with purchase of Lot M1640 of Victoria Location 2023 [27]
The 130 acres was purchased from the Midland Railway Company and cost £130, payable by instalments over four years [27]
His horse Lady Folly won the Maiden Plate and Forced Handicap races at the Carnamah Picnic Races on 1 April 1918 [10: 12-Apr-1918]
Four days later Lady Folly won the Midland Handicap at the Moora Race Club's Annual Races on Friday 5 April 1918 [10: 12-Apr-1918]
His horse Birdie won the Hurry Scurry race at the Peace Day Celebrations in Carnamah on Saturday 19 July 1919 [10: 25-Jul-1919]
At the Moora Races on 19 March 1920 his horse Lady Folly came 3rd in the Midland Handicap of seven furlongs [9: 26-Mar-1920]
His horse Olderfeet won the Hack Race and came 2nd in the Maiden Plate at the Carnamah Races on 28 March 1921 [10: 1-Apr-1921]
By February 1924 his brother-in-law and sister Alexander R. P. and Sarah GRANT had settled in Coorow [19]
His horses Don Mac and Moidore ran at the Carnamah Race Club's Annual Race Meeting in Carnamah on 10 April 1924 [10: 3-Apr-1924]
Vice President of the Carnamah Race Club in 1927 [9: 8-Apr-1927]
Purchased a new McCormick-Deering harvester from Carnamah agent Charles ROBERTSON in October 1928 [4: 20-Oct-1928]
Won 2nd prize for White Hen Eggs at the first Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show at Maley Park on 8 September 1932 [5: 16-Sep-1932]
Received 1st prizes for both male and female White Leghorns and for White Hen Eggs at the Coorow Show in 1933 [5: 15-Sep-1933]
During the 1933-34 financial year sold his farm in Coorow to Angus A. N. MCGILP [3]
The MCGILP family kindly allowed him to continue residing in the house on the farm following its sale [P8]
Won 1st prize for a Thoroughbred Mare exhibited in the Horse section of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1934 [5: 7-Sep-1934]
Also received 1st prize for White Hen Eggs, 2nd prize for male White Leghorn, and 2nd prize for female White Leghorn [5]
Awarded 1st prize for White Hen Eggs in the Farm Produce section of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1936 [5: 11-Sep-1936]
The JOHNS children of Coorow used to visit him, at which time he neat white beard and rode a white horse [P361]
Resided in Coorow until his death in 1945 [1]
Died 8 August 1945 in Three Springs; buried Winchester Cemetery, Carnamah (Row D, Plot 14) [1]
Tom MORCOMBE of Coorow officiated at his funeral, which was undertaken by Henry Parkin & Son of Carnamah [1]
His headstone reads "Thomas Bonham, Died 8th August 1945, aged 86 years, A Pioneer at Rest, Erected by the McGilp Family" [14]
From The North Midland Times newspaper, Friday 24 August 1945:
"Thomas Bonham. The funeral of the late Thomas Bonham, of Coorow, took place at the Winchester Cemetery on the 10th inst., and was conducted by Mr. Tom Morcombe, of Coorow. Deceased, who was one of the oldest residents of the Coorow district, was 86 years at the time of his death. The pall bearers were Messrs. A. McGilp, B. D. Bothe, C. C. Bothe, G. Hutchcraft, G. Lambert, and G. Greenwood."
"Bert" Albert Joseph BONSER
Born 6 August 1893 in Northam, Western Australia [16]
Son of William James BONSER and Bridget MCMAHON [15]
Bricklayer in Meckering, Western Australia in 1916 [94]
Lance Corporal 6223 in the Australian Imperial Force's 16th Battalion during the First World War [94]
Married Dorothy Mabel CLEGGETT in 1922 [66]
Contractor in Waddy Forest 1929-1934 [5] [19]
He had a small farm in Waddy Forest, but not with many acres cleared, and worked out as a builder and contractor [P32]
Built a house for Philip T. MORCOMBE on Minaru Farm in Waddy Forest [P32]
With Bill BONSER built a mud brick house for George N. GREENWOOD on Maryland Farm, Waddy Forest for £1100 in 1928 [P280]
In November 1929 purchased a new Ford truck from Carnamah dealer Rupert H. LAFFAN [4: 16-Nov-1929]
Played the drums at the Coorow Anglican Church's Dance at the Coorow Hall on Saturday 7 April 1934 [5: 13-Apr-1934]
Along with his wife and children left Waddy Forest in April 1934 [5: 13-Apr-1934]
In 1942 was living in the Perth suburb of Queens Park [16]; and later resided in the Perth suburb of East Victoria Park [2]
Died 6 May 1958; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Roman Catholic, ZD, 228) [2]
Mrs Dorothy Mabel BONSER
Wife of "Bert" Albert Joseph BONSER; see Dorothy Mabel CLEGGETT
Kathleen BONSER
Born 1897 in Northam, Western Australia [15]
Daughter of William James BONSER and Bridget MCMAHON [15]
Married James Andrew ANDERSON in 1919 [66]
Resided in Waddy Forest 1927-1935 [19]
Resided on Lake Nedo Farm in Latham in 1936 and 1937 [50]
Resided in Latham in 1938, Buntine in 1939 and Wubin 1941-1948 [19]
Sidney Francis BONSER
Born 1904 in Northam, Western Australia [15]
Son of William James BONSER and Bridget MCMAHON [15]
Farmhand for John J. PEARSE in North Cunderdin in 1925 [50]
Labourer in Coorow 1929-1932 [19]
Married Janet Alice THOMPSON in 1934 [66]
Farmhand in Meckering in 1936 [50] [84]
Father of Thea [84]
"Bill" Albert Charles BOTHE
Born 11 August 1920 in Perth, Western Australia [16]
Son of Charles Cleaver BOTHE and Margaret MCGILL [P98]
Spent his childhood on his father's Glenfield Farm in Coorow [P98]
Educated at Christ Church Grammar School in Perth 1927-1929 [P98]
Educated at the Coorow State School 1930-1932 and then at the Perth Boys School 1933-1936 [P98]
Attended the Children's Fancy Dress Ball held in Coorow in July 1933 dressed as a "Shiek" [4: 29-Jul-1933]
Received a 1st prize for Handwork at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show on Thursday 7 September 1933 [5: 15-Sep-1933]
A week later, on Thursday 14 September 1933, won a 2nd prize for Wood/Fretwork at the Carnamah Agricultural Show [5: 22-Sep-1933]
After completing his schooling Perth he returned to Coorow and worked with his father on Glenfield Farm [P98]
Member of the Coorow Cricket Club in 1935-36 [5: 14-Feb-1936]
Attended his cousin Olive W. KAU's 21st birthday at Meadowdale Farm in Coorow on Saturday evening 18 January 1936 [5: 24-Jan-1936]
Attended the surprise 75th birthday for her grandfather Heinrich W. BOTHE in Coorow on Tuesday 13 April 1937 [5: 16-Apr-1937]
Member of the Coorow Football Club in 1937 [5: 18-Jun-1937]
One of the Stewards of the Sheep section of the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts Agricultural Society's Annual Show in 1937 [150]
Member of the No. 2 Troop of the "C" Squadron of the motorised 25th Light Horse Machine Gun Regiment in 1939 [P15]
The No. 2 Troop was a local militia unit made of people from the North Midlands and trained in Carnamah once a fortnight [P15]
Later served full time with the 25th Machine Gun Regiment at Canning Weir WA [P98]
Enlisted in the Australian Army at Canning Weir on 17 December 1940 [16]
Sergeant W1224 in the Australian Army's 25 Reconnaissance Battalion during a portion of the Second World War [16]
On 21 September 1942 transferred from the Australian Army to the Royal Australian Air Force [16]
Flight Lieutenant 427780 in the Royal Australian Air Force's 9 Aircrew Holding Unit during the Second World War [16]
Discharged from the Royal Australian Air Force on 7 December 1945 [16]
After the war initially farmed with his father on Glenfield Farm in Coorow [P98]
Committee Member of the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts Agricultural Society in 1946 [150]
Became a member of the Carnamah Masonic Lodge No.150 WAC on 19 July 1946 - was Worshipful Master in 1957 [96] [153]
He remained a member of the Carnamah Masonic Lodge for over 55 years, and was later also a member of the Epworth Lodge [45]
Assistant Steward of the Sheep section at the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts Agricultural Society's Tenth Annual Show in 1947 [150]
Married Hettie Isabel FRANKLIN in Three Springs on 3 February 1948 [P98]
Farmer of Clerklands Farm at Billeroo, East Winchester in the Carnamah district 1948-1994 [P98]
Clerklands Farm was 2,534 acres in size and consisted of Lots M1075, M1088 and M1089 of Victoria Locations 1937 and 1938 [3]
Employed the services of Coorow builder E. Clive HUNTER to build him a new house on the farm [P320]
His home was telephone number Carnamah-9D from 1949 to 1960 and was then number Carnamah East 209 [60]
Vestryman on the North Midlands Anglican Church Vestry 1949-1951 [167]
Member of the Winchester Tennis Club in 1950-51 [4: 9-Dec-1950]
An infant child of his died on 29 December 1953 and was buried at the Karrakatta Cemetery in Perth (Wesleyan, FA, 81A) [2]
Member of Carnamah's branch of the Farmers Union [P98]
Financial Member of the Carnamah District Agricultural Society 1958-1971 [13]
Member of the Carnamah Bowling Club [P98]
Served on the Carnamah Shire Council representing the Billeroo & Winchester Ward for 17 years 1962-1979 [7: page 112] [45]
Sold his Clerklands Farm in Carnamah to Gavin BROWN [P98]
Left the Carnamah district on 14 February 1994 and retired with his wife Hettie to 8 Coode Street in South Perth [P98]
Resided in the Perth suburb of South Perth until his death in 2003 [2]
Father of Allen [P98]
Died 14 June 2003; buried Pinnaroo Valley Memorial Park, Perth WA (Melaleuca Court, 1933) [2]
From The West Australian newspaper, Saturday 14 August 1920:
"Births - BOTHE - On August 11 at Nurse Bevan's Private Hospital, Kialla, 419 Newcastle-street, Perth, to Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Bothe, of Inglewood, Coorow - a son. Both well."
Baxter Diedrich BOTHE
Born 12 June 1891 in Walkerville, South Australia [16]
Son of Heinrich Wilhelm BOTHE and Eliza Wilhelmina NEWMAN [55]
Shifted with his parents from South Australia to Western Australia in 1896 [4: 25-Feb-1950]
Educated at the Perth Boys School in Perth, where he won a Book Prize one year [P342]
Farmer in Wagerup, Western Australia [44]
In 1909 travelled from Wagerup to Coorow to inspect prospective land with his brother Charles and Fred KAU [P15]
Settled in Coorow with his parents, sister May and brother Charles in 1910 [5: 29-Nov-1935] [110]
Farmer in Coorow from 1910 until his death in 1950 [1] [19] [110]
Farmer and Grazier in Coorow in partnership with his brother Charles C. BOTHE as "Bothe Bros" 1915-1925 [27] [44]
From 1910 to 1914 he was the owner of 158 acres, his brother Charles 224 acres and their father 246 acres in Coorow [44]
In 1915 farmed their 1,222 acres (Victoria Locations 3956, 3960 and 6619) and their father's 246 acre Victoria Location 3957 [44]
In February 1916 they sold 50 bags of Gluyas wheat to the Midland Railway Company [34]
The Midland Railway Company paid them £48.7.0, or 8/- an acre, to strip 119 acres of crop on Lot M963 in Coorow in 1916 [34]
In 1917 had 450 acres of wheat crop - the third highest acreage in crop for the Coorow district that year [10: 19-Jun-1917]
"These men are very good farmers" was the comment of a Midland Railway Company official in 1918 [34]
Extended their farmland with three purchases of land in Coorow from the Midland Railway Company [27]
Purchased the 1,101 acre Lot M1068 of Victoria Location 2023 for £770/19/7 (14/- per acre) on 11 October 1918 [27]
Purchased the 1,477 acre Lot M1142 of Victoria Location 2023 for £923/7/4 (12/6 per acre) on 10 February 1919 [27]
Purchased 800 acres in Lots M960 and M962 of Victoria Location 2023 for £2400 (£3 per acre) on 29 June 1922 [27]
Lots M1068 and M1142 were purchased as virgin bush, while Lots M960 and M962 were developed farmland [27]
In 1923 they used 150 pounds of superphosphate to the acre on their wheat crops [10: 6-Mar-1924]
By mid 1924 they had also purchased the 390 acre Victoria Location 7246, which took their farmland to a total of 5236 acres [44]
Appear to have dissolved their partnership in 1925, when they split their farmland between themselves [3] [27] [44]
He took 2,959 acres (Victoria Locations 3956, 3957, 3960, 6619, 7246 and Lot M1068 of Victoria Location 2023) [27]
His brother Charles became the owner of 2,277 acre (Lots M960, M962 and M1142 of Victoria Location 2023) [27]
Purchased his first tractor in 1918 - which was a belt-driven single cylinder diesel model [193]
In 1920 he was the first person to own a car in Coorow [110]
Married Blanche Amelia BROAD on 28 July 1923 at Saint George's Cathedral in Perth [10: 16-Aug-1923]
Following their marriage they held their wedding reception with fifty guests at the Piccadilly Reception Rooms in Perth [10]
After their wedding reception they left by motor car to spend their honeymoon in Kalamunda [10]
Member of the Coorow Hall Committee - was Chairman in 1923 [9: 23-Feb-1923]
Farmer of Inglewood Farm in Coorow [19]
By 1931 his farm was 5,024 acres in size and consisted of Victoria Locations 3058, 3355, 3370, 3483, 3956, 3957, [3]
3960, 5648, 7246, 7513, 7517, 7528, 7581, 8551, 8552, 6619, part of 2997 and Lot M1068 of Victoria Location 2023 [3]
Attended the Coorow Farmers' Progress Association's Picnic & Sports Meeting in Coorow on 7 October 1911 [39: 12-Oct-1911]
Won the Pillow Fight with his brother Charles coming second, and together himself and Charles won the Siamese Race [39]
Vice President of the Picnic Race Meeting held in Three Springs on Saint Patrick's Day Tuesday 17 March 1925 [124]
Served on the Carnamah District Road Board representing the Coorow Ward 1929-1933 and 1935-1950 [7: page 111]
Vice Chairman of the Carnamah District Road Board from 1929 to 1933 [7: page 111]
Following the resignation of the Coorow Member in mid 1935 he was elected unopposed on 9 July 1935 [5: 12-Jul-1935]
Attended his first meeting of his second term on the Carnamah District Road Board on Wednesday 21 August 1935 [5: 23-Aug-1935]
Represented the Carnamah Road Board at the Vermin Conference of Road Boards in Moora on 20 September 1935 [5: 20-Sep-1935]
Leading to the expiration of his term at the Coorow Member in 1936 he was re-elected unopposed [5: 10-Apr-1936]
Member of the Coorow Cricket Club - was Chairman in 1929-30 [4: 31-Aug-1929]
Served on the Board of the North Midlands District Hospital in Three Springs from 1929 to 1937 [109] [120: 26-Dec-1929]
Member in 1930 and Chairman in 1934 of the Coorow and Waddy Progress Association [4: 4-Oct-1930] [5: 8-Jun-1934]
With Kenneth E. JONES interviewed the Minister for Health about the establishment of a hospital in Coorow in 1930 [4: 23-Aug-1930]
Attended and spoke at the Welcome Home held in Coorow for Dr. W. P. SHANAHAN on 13 September 1930 [4: 27-Sep-1930]
Won the Royal Agricultural Society's 50 acre Crop Competition for Zone 1 in 1930 [4: 13-Dec-1930]
Over the 1930-31 summer he allowed the public to swim in a pool of water on his farm in Coorow [4: 13 & 20-Dec-1930]
The pool became very popular on weekends, and on the first weekend of December 1930 there were four canoes at the pool [4]
Attended the funeral of "Father of Carnamah" Donald MACPHERSON at the Winchester Cemetery on 14 August 1931 [4: 22-Aug-1931]
Financial Member of the Carnamah District Agricultural Society 1932-1939 and 1946-1948; donated 10/6 to the Society in 1932 [13]
In 1932 was the owner of a Fiat car and a Bean truck with licence plates CA-25 and CA-145 [4: 12-Nov-1932]
Foundation Treasurer and Committee Member of the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts Agricultural Society in 1932 [4: 9-Apr-1932]
Committee Member 1933-1939, President in 1937 and Treasurer 1946-1949 [5: 23-Dec-1932, 10-Nov-1933, 20-Nov-1936] [150]
Provided a revolver and a sheep for the Weight Guessing Competition at the Society's Annual Show in 1937 [5: 20-Aug-1937]
In July 1932 was appointed a Justice of the Peace for the Victoria Magisterial District [4: 30-Jul-1932] [5: 29-Jul-1932]
Proposed one of the toasts at the dinner following the Official Opening of the new Carnamah Post Office on 30 June 1932 [5: 8-Jul-1932]
Exhibited and won prizes in five sections of the inaugural Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show on Thursday 8 September 1932 [5]
Won 1st prizes for a Broad Mare in the Horse section and for a Jersey Cow in the Cattle section [5: 16-Sep-1932]
In Grain & Fodder won 1st prizes for Merredin Wheat, Wheat (open) and 2nd prizes for Oats, Oaten Chaff and Wheaten Chaff [5]
Won 2nd prizes for Southdown Ram and Three Fat Lambs in the Sheep section; and 2nd for female Black Orpington in Poultry [5]
The following week, on Thursday 15 September 1932, exhibited a number of items in the Carnamah Agricultural Show [5: 23-Sep-1932]
Won 2nd prize for Three Fat Lambs Suitable for Export in the Sheep section and 2nd for Oats in the Grain & Fodder section [5]
Awarded 1st prizes for both Jersey Cow and All Round Dairy Cow in the Cattle section [5]
Won 1st prizes for Carrots and for the Best Collection of Vegetables and also for Peas in the Vegetable section [5]
A week later, on Thursday 22 September 1932, exhibited in three sections of Three Springs Agricultural Show [5: 30-Sep-1932]
Won 1st and 2nd for Jersey Cow, 2nd for Dairy Cow, 1st for White Oats, 1st for Parsnips and 2nd for Collection of Vegetables [5]
A week later again won 1st and 2nd prizes for Jersey Cows at the Agricultural Show in Three Springs [5: 30-Sep-1932]
With a plot of Bencubbin wheat came 3rd in the Carnamah Agricultural Society's 50 acre crop competition in 1932 [5: 20-Jan-1933]
Attended the Valedictory Dinner tendered to Alexander B. GLOSTER at the Coorow Hotel on Monday 3 July 1933 [5: 7-Jul-1933]
Member of Coorow's Maley Park Management Committee in 1933 [5: 23-Dec-1932]
Attended the Official Opening of the Carnamah Golf Course at Centenary Park in Carnamah on Sunday 23 July 1933 [5: 28-Jul-1933]
Exhibited in five sections of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Society's Second Annual Show on Thursday 7 September 1933 [5]
Won both 1st and 2nd prizes for Jersey Cow and Best Dairy Cow in the Cattle section; also won 1st and 2nd for Sheep Skins [5]
Awarded 1st prize for a Bushel of Oats and 2nd prize for a Sheaf of Green Oats for Hay in the Grain & Fodder section [5]
In the Sheep section won 1st for Dorset Horn Ram, 3 Fat Lambs and 3 Lambs suitable for export, 2nd for Southdown Ram, [5]
1st and 2nd for Southdown Ewe; also won 2nd prize for a Draught Mare of Gelding in the Horse section [5: 15-Sep-1933]
The next week, on Thursday 14 September 1933, exhibited in four sections of the Carnamah Agricultural Show [5: 22-Sep-1933]
Won 1st prizes for Jersey Cow, Potatoes and White Oats; received both 1st and 2nd prizes for Onions [5]
Also won 2nd prizes for Dairy Cow, Southdown Ram, Three Fat Lambs Down breed and Sheaf of Green Oats for Hay [5]
The following week, on Thursday 21 September 1933, exhibited in five sections of the Three Springs Agricultural Show [5: 29-Sep-1933]
In the Cattle section received 1st prize for Dairy Cow, 2nd for Jersey Cow, and both 1st and 2nd for Best Butter Fat Yield [5]
Won 1st prize for Dorset Horn Ram, 2nd for Three Fat Lambs and 2nd for Sheep Skin in Full Wool [5]
Awarded 1st prize for White Oats in the Grain & Fodder section; and 1st for Potatoes and 2nd for Onions in Vegetables [5]
Paid the Carnamah District Road Board 5/- on 7 August 1933 for two gate licenses allowing gates to go over roads [300: page 19]
Won the trophy for "three lambs suited for the London market" in the Sheep section of the 1933 Royal Show in Perth [5: 20-Oct-1933]
In October 1933 purchased a new Sunshine harvester [5: 3-Nov-1933]
Received 1st prize for Zone 1 in the Royal Agricultural Society's 50-acre Crop Competition in 1933 [5: 22-Dec-1933]
In 1934 won the Carnamah District Agricultural Society's 50 acre Crop Competition with a plot of Bencubbin wheat [5: 21-Dec-1934]
The same plot of Bencubbin wheat also won him 1st prize for Zone 1 of the Royal Agricultural Society's crop competition [5]
Attended the Annual Ratepayers meeting of the Carnamah District Road Board in Carnamah in February 1934 [5: 2-Mar-1934]
Member of the Coorow Waddy Forest Progress Association - was elected Chairman in March 1934 [5: 16-Mar-1934]
The Carnamah District Road Board paid him £2/10/- on 24 April 1934 for the hire of a sulky and a plough [300: page 27]
Loaned machinery and spent considerable time helping make the Coorow Rifle Range in July 1934 [5: 20-Jul-1934]
Won the President's Cup and W. H. Melvin Trophy at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show on 30 August 1934 [5: 7-Sep-1934]
Won 1st prizes for a Kelpie Sheep Dog/Bitch and for a Dorset Horn Ram; and 2nd for a Sheep Skin and a Thoroughbred Mare [5]
Received 1st prizes for Medium Strong White Mid-season Wheat, White Oats and Oaten Chaff in the Grain & Fodder section [5]
In the Cattle section was awarded 1st prize for a Jersey Heifer and 1st and 2nd prizes for the Best Dairy Cow of Any Breed [5]
Awarded 2nd prizes in the Cattle section for Jersey Cow, Illawarra Shorthorn Cow, Illawarra Shorthorn Bull and Best Bull [5]
Attended the funeral of Mrs Christina B. D. FORRESTER of Carnamah at the Winchester Cemetery on 31 August 1934 [4: 8-Sep-1934]
Attended the Official Opening of the Coorow Rifle Club's Rifle Range on Saturday 8 September 1934 [5: 14-Sep-1934]
Organiser of a display from the Coorow-Waddy Forest district in a pavilion at the Perth Royal Show in 1934 [5: 19-Oct-1934]
Exhibited in the Grain section of the Royal Show in Perth in 1934 and was awarded 1st prize for Oats [5: 19-Oct-1934]
Member of the Coorow Golf Club - was President in 1935 and 1936 [5: 17-May-1935, 27-Mar-1936]
Attended the Official Opening of the Coorow Golf Club's golf links in Coorow on Sunday 23 June 1935 [5: 28-Jun-1935]
Declared the Coorow Golf Club's links officially open at their 1936 season Opening Day on Sunday 17 May 1936 [5: 22-May-1936]
Member of the Coorow Rifle Club in 1935 and 1936, and a Committee Member in 1937-38 [5: 1-Nov-1935, 31-Jul-1936, 30-Jul-1937]
Exhibited in the Horse, Cattle, Wool, Vegetable and Grain & Fodder sections of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1935 [5]
Awarded four 1st prizes for Wheaten Hay, Oaten Hay, Sheepskin, and Jersey Cow [5: 13-Sep-1935]
Received nine 2nd prizes for Best Pony 14 hands or under, Beetroot, Yearling Draught Colt/Filly, Best Dairy Cow, [5]
Illawarra Shorthorn Cow, Illawarra Shorthorn Bull, Strong Wool Merino Fleece, Australian Strong White Wheat and White Oats [5]
Won 2nd prize for Australian Premium Wheat at the Carnamah Agricultural Show on Thursday 12 September 1935 [5: 20-Sep-1935]
Sold eight bales of wool at 13d. per pound through Elder Smith & Co Ltd at the Wool Sale in Perth on 7 October 1935 [5: 11-Oct-1935]
Oversaw the fencing of the Coorow West Road for the Carnamah District Road Board during the last months of 1935 [5: 25-Oct-1935]
Attended the Coorow Rifle Club's Grand Ball held at the Coorow Hall on Saturday 26 October 1935 [5: 1-Nov-1935]
In November 1935 sold one of his horses to the Police Department via Carnamah constable Alan O. FIEBIG [88]
Won the Nail Driving Competition at the Coorow-Waddy Sports & Dance in Coorow on Saturday 9 November 1935 [5: 15-Nov-1935]
Sold 14 pigs through Elder Smith & Co Ltd at the Midland Market on Wednesday 13 November 1935 [5: 15-Nov-1935]
The 14 pigs consisted of 2 sold at £1/6/-, 1 at £1/15/-, 2 at £1/11/6, 3 at £1/1/6, 2 at £1/7/6, and 4 at 14/6 per head [5]
Among those who met with the Commonwealth Grants Commission in Carnamah and Coorow on 21 November 1935 [5: 22 & 29-Nov-1935]
Sold four bales of wool at 16d. per pound through Elder Smith & Co Ltd at a Wool Sale in Perth on 25 November 1935 [5: 29-Nov-1935]
Attended the funeral of Miss "May" Mary L. LANG of Carnamah at the Winchester Cemetery on 26 November 1935 [5: 29-Nov-1935]
Came 5th in the Carnamah District Agricultural Society's 50-acre Crop Competition in 1935, with a plot of Sutton wheat [5: 20-Dec-1935]
Proposed the toast at the 21st birthday of his niece Olive W. KAU at Meadowdale Farm in Coorow on 18 January 1936 [5: 24-Jan-1936]
Represented the Carnamah District Road Board in a deputation to the General Manager of the Midland Railway Company [5: 24-Jan-1936]
The deputation took place at the office of Joseph J. POYNTON in Perth on 27 January 1936 and was about rail stock trucks [5]
After spending a fortnight in Perth he returned to Coorow on Thursday 6 February 1936 [5: 7-Feb-1936]
Himself and his brother Charles held a Surplus Sale on Charles' Glenfield Farm in Coorow at 12 p.m. on Friday 28 February 1936 [5]
They were curtailing their farming operations and held the sale to sell off surplus livestock, farming plant and machinery [5]
Sold 35 Draught horses consisting of mares, geldings, fillies, yearlings, foals and hacks; 13 of which they'd bred themselves [5]
Sold ten cattle consisting of nine cows and heifers, and the pedigree milking strain Shorthorn bull named Polaris Prince [5]
Sold 500 Merino ewes between 2½ and 4½ years which were mated to Border Leicester rams, and 100 wethers and hoggets [5]
Plant and Machinery up for sale included a 10-foot McKay harvester, two 16-run Massey combines, 16-run McKay combine, [5]
35-tyne McKay cultivator, 15-tyne Standard scarifier, 12-disc Shearer twin disc plough, 12-disc Sun General twin disc plough, [5]
6-furrow Shearer mouldboard plough, I.H.C. steel wheel lorry, 7-ton wagon, 20-run Massey disc drill, 8-foot Mitchell drill, [5]
21-run Massey Harris drill, Horwood Bagshaw header, 6-furrow McKay disc plough, 4-furrow Shearer mouldboard plough, [5]
17-run 12-furrow twin Shearer mouldboard skim plough, 10-disc Shearer cultivating plough, 30-tyne McKay cultivator, [5]
8½-inch mouth Salmon chaffcutter, Eclipse feed grinder, two sets of Shearer drill harrows, two 10-horse McKay leading sets, [5]
4-ton Trewhella jack, set of 8 McKay harrows, hay rake, two 10-horse sets of swingle trees and spreader bars, [5]
1½-horsepower Lister engine, 4½-horsepower Lister engine, and harness and chains for 25 horses [5: 14 & 21-Feb-1936, 6-Mar-1936]
Their sale attracted a "record attendance" of buyers from as far away as Northampton and Goomalling who paid top prices [5]
Purchased a new 16/33 Horwood Bagshaw rigid tyne combine from Westralian Farmers Ltd in March 1936 [5: 20-Mar-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]
As President of the Coorow Golf Club he thanked the Carnamah Club for a pleasant days sport and enjoyable refreshments [5]
Attended the meeting in Carnamah on 6 May 1936 at which the North Midlands Stud Breeders Association was formed [5: 8-May-1936]
Sold seven baconers through Elder Smith & Co Ltd at the Midland Market on 8 July 1936 - 1 at £2/11/- and 6 at £3/2/6 [5: 10-Jul-1936]
Competed at the Official Opening of the Three Springs Rifle Club's rifle range in Three Springs on Thursday 23 July 1936 [5: 31-Jul-1936]
He was among the 200 farmers who attended the meeting in Carnamah on 31 July 1936 about local Bulk Wheat Handling [5: 7-Aug-1936]
A shearing record for the Coorow-Waddy Forest districts was claimed to have been set on his farm on 1 September 1936 [5: 11-Sep-1936]
On that day R. C. GILES and J. N. PRENDERGAST shore 323 sheep, and had regularly shorn over 300 sheep in one day [5]
Later that month the record was rivalled in the Morawa district when two shearers shore 401 sheep in eight hours [5: 2-Oct-1936]
He was the second most successful exhibitor of the agricultural sections of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1936 [5: 11-Sep-1936]
Awarded 1st for Australian Strong White Wheat, 1st and 2nd for Malting Barley, 2nd for Oaten Hay, and 2nd for White Oats [5]
Won 1st for Best Pony 14 hands or under in Ring Events, and in Cattle won 1st and 2nd for Jersey Cow and 2nd for Dairy Cow [5]
Awarded 1st prize for Australian Premier Wheat and 2nd prize for Oats at the Carnamah Agricultural Show in 1936 [5: 11 & 18-Sep-1936]
The next week he won 1st prize for White Oats at the Three Spring Agricultural Show on 17 September 1936 [5: 25-Sep-1936]
Sold one baconer at £3/10/6 per head through Elder Smith & Co Ltd at the Midland Market on 7 October 1936 [5: 9-Oct-1936]
Won 1st prize for Australian Premier Strong White Wheat for Zone 2 at the Perth Royal Show in 1936 [5: 16-Oct-1936]
Attended Roy M. PATTON's birthday at the dam on Longforest Farm in Waddy Forest on Sunday 8 November 1936 [5: 13-Nov-1936]
Tied for 8th place in the Royal Agricultural Society's Perpetual Executors Export Lamb Competition in 1936 [5: 11-Dec-1936]
Part of an overland trip to the uninhabited coast at Jurien Bay, which departed on Monday 15 February 1937 [5: 26-Feb-1937]
The 12 other members of the party were Angus A. N. MCGILP of Waddy Forest; and William A. T. SARGENT of Carnamah; [5]
Frank R. BRYANT, Walter G. FENNELL, W. Frank FENNELL and C. Jock BRAYNT of Marchagee; David TODD, [5]
William J. GAUNT, Donald S. GRANT, George HUTCHCRAFT, Fred BINGHAM and John S. READ of Coorow [5]
They travelled in two trucks and two cars and from Moora they drove over 54 miles of road and 30 miles of sand [5]
They erected a shed and tables and were able to get good reception on a wireless Fred BINGHAM had taken along [5]
They fished every day, visited caves nine miles from their camp at Jurien Bay and visited Sandy Cape and North Head [5]
Himself, William J. GAUNT and Angus A. N. MCGILP returned home in MCGILP's car on Thursday 18 February 1937 [5]
Decided to switch to tractor power so held a Surplus Sale at his Inglewood Farm in Coorow on Thursday 25 February 1937 [5]
At the sale, conducted by Elder Smith & Co Ltd, he sold 22 horses, 240 sheep, 10 cattle and some farm plant and machinery [5]
The horses were "in excellent condition, well grown and weighty farm sorts," the younger of which he had bred himself [5]
The horses consisted of eight Draught geldings, six Draught fillies and six Draught mares, blood mare with colt foal at foot, and [5]
the Clydesdale stallion "Yorkdale Glen" by "Koojan Glen" while the sheep were 100 crossbred ewes mated to Southdown rams [5]
and 140 Merino ewes of 1½, 2½ and 3½ years mated to Border Leicester rams; and the 10 head of cattle consisted of [5]
two pedigree A.I.S. bulls aged four and two years, one pedigree A.I.S. cow aged five years, four fat steers and heifers, [5]
prize winning Jersey cow with calf due in May/July, and two Jersey/Shorthorn cross cows due to have their second calves [5]
Plant and Machinery, no longer needed in switching from horses to tractors, included harness for 20 horses, two wagon saddles, [5]
three sets of leading chains and spiders, 20 sets of plough chains, 3-ton spring table-top wagon ideal for hay carting, [5]
8-horse set McKay Tandem roller chains, 30 single and double swings, 8-horse set McKay tandem swings, [5]
quantity of swings and eveners, King of Road sulky harness and traces, and numerous sundries [5: 19-Feb-1937]
His farmhouse was telephone number Coorow-4 [5: 2-Apr-1937]
Borrowed the Carnamah District Road Board's grader to remove sand from his fences after bad dust storms in early 1937 [5: 19-Mar-1937]
Advertised "Wanted" in April 1937 a general employee to assist with all duties with wages of 15/- per week [5: 2-Apr-1937]
Attended his father's surprise 75th birthday in Coorow on Tuesday evening 13 April 1937 [5: 16-Apr-1937]
Played for the defeated Married Men in a cricket match against Single Men in Coorow on Sunday 11 April 1937 [5: 16-Apr-1937]
Obtained the exceptional price of 29/7 per head for Southdown cross lambs at the first export lamb sale in Coorow in 1937 [5: 27-Aug-1937]
Exhibited in the Sheep and Grain & Fodder sections of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1937 [5: 10-Sep-1937]
Awarded 1st prizes for shorn Southdown Ram and Australian Strong White Wheat, and 2nd for Southdown Ram [5: 10-Sep-1937]
Travelled to Perth on 20 September 1937 and returned to Coorow the next day after purchasing a new Vauxhall Sedan car [0: image 03692]
District Representative for Coorow for the Coastal Districts' Display at the Perth Royal Show in 1939 [150]
Won a number of prizes in the Grain section of the 1939 Perth Royal Show [0: image 03858]
Member of the Coorow Home Guard in 1941 [4: 9-Aug-1941]
Attended the funeral of Waddy Forest farmer Stanley L. FOLLAND at the Moora Cemetery on Monday 25 August 1941 [4: 30-Aug-1941]
Private in the local Australian Army Volunteer Defence Corps during the Second World War [16]
Pallbearer at the funeral of Thomas BONHAM on 10 August 1945 at the Winchester Cemetery in Carnamah [0]
Treasurer of the Coorow-Waddy Forest Agricultural Society and Patriotic Funds Committee in 1945 [0: image 04320]
Sheep Breeder of the "Coorow Park" Southdown Stud in 1946 and 1947 [150]
He is said to have established his Southdown Sheep Stud in the 1930s [193]
"Selected and Flock Rams - Coorow Park Southdowns are noted for breeding the ideal export type of lamb" [150]
"For Particulars Apply to B. D. Bothe or Recognised Stock Agent" [150]
Representative in Coorow for Bankers & Traders Insurance Company Limited in 1946 and 1947 [150]
"Transacts All Classes of Insurance - Fire, Growing Crops (Fire and Hail), Motor Vehicle, Compulsory Third Party, Personal [150]
Accident, Workers' Compensation, Pluvius (Rain), etc. etc. - Local Representative - Baxter D. Bothe, Phone No. 4, Coorow [150]
Insure with this progressive Australian Company and ensure that your premiums stay and circulate in Australia" [150]
Pallbearer at the funeral of Mrs Edith Maude GREENWOOD on 5 April 1947 at the Winchester Cemetery in Carnamah [0: 19-Apr-1947]
Member of the Coorow-Waddy Forest branch of the Farmer's Union of WA in 1949 [4: 18-Mar-1950]
As a Justice of the Peace presided as Magistrate at criminal and traffic cases that went before the Carnamah Police Court [22]
Presided over his first case at the Carnamah Police Court on 3 February 1950 [22]
Father of Richard and Lloyd [1]
Died 22 February 1950 in Coorow; buried Winchester Cemetery, Carnamah (Row D, Plot 12) [1]
His estate was valued for probate at £15,560/7/8 to the benefit of his wife and two sons, as directed in his will [39: 3-Oct-1950]
From The Irwin Index newspaper, Saturday 25 February 1950:
Death of Mr. B. D. Bothe - Well Known Coorow Farmer - Man of Many Interests
"Widely known in the North Midland, Mr. Baxter Dietrich Bothe (58), of "Inglewood" Farm, near the township of Coorow, collapsed at his residence last Wednesday morning and died. He had intended to leave that day on a holiday. Deceased is survived by his widow and two sons. Resident about forty years in the [Coorow] district, the late Mr. Bothe was a man of wide interests. Born in Adelaide, he reached Western Australia as a small boy in 1896. A successful wheat and sheep grower and noted as a lamb breeder, he took numerous prizes at agricultural shows - particularly in the sheep as well as the grain and fodder sections. Illustrative of his community outlook was his association with a variety of organisations. At the time of his demise he was vice-chairman of the Carnamah Road Board - a position to which he was elected to in 1946. He was a member of the Board - save for a period of two years - since May, 1929, representing the Coorow Ward. The late Mr. Bothe was President of the Coorow Golf Club and the Coorow Tennis Club and honorary treasurer and past president of the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts Agricultural Society and, in addition, a member of the West Australian Barley Board. With his brother and his late parents he was one of the earliest settlers at Coorow, where - both for his fine personal qualities and his unflagging efforts to advance the interests of the district - his loss will be keenly felt. The funeral took place at the Winchester cemetery on Thursday afternoon."
From The North Midland Times newspaper, Thursday 2 March 1950:
"Vale the Late B. D. Bothe. The death occurred very suddenly on Wednesday morning February 22 of Mr. Baxter Diedrich Bothe (58) of Inglewood Farm, Coorow. The deceased is survived by his widow and two sons. The late Mr. Bothe was one of the earliest settlers in the district, being president of the Coorow Golf Club and Coorow Tennis Club and past president of the Coorow-Waddy Forest District Agricultural Society and also a member of the Westralian Barley Board. With the exception of a short period of two years Mr. Bothe had represented Coorow Ward on the Carnamah Road Board since 1929. The death of the late Mr. Bothe will be keenly felt throughout the district and sincere sympathy is extended to Mrs. Bothe and her family in their sad loss. The funeral took place the following afternoon at Winchester Cemetery the Rev. Gunning and Rev. Northern officiating. The carriers were: J. F. Thomas, P. W. Johnson. H. E. Jones and W. T. White. The bearers were D. Brand, M.L.A., F. Lucas, A. McGilp, F. R. Bryant, A. C. Bierman, C. Gronow, K. E. Jones and P. T. Morcombe."
Mrs Blanche Amelia BOTHE
Wife of Baxter Diedrich BOTHE; see Blanche Amelia BROAD
"Charlie" Charles Cleaver BOTHE
Born 4 October 1887 in Walkerville, South Australia [55]
Son of Heinrich Wilhelm BOTHE and Eliza Wilhelmina NEWMAN [55]
Resided with his parents at the Kensington Hotel at 182 Wellington Street in Perth, Western Australia [6]
Farmer in Wagerup 1908-1910 [6] [44]
Settled in Coorow with his parents, sister May and brother Baxter in 1910 [110]
In 1909 he had travelled from Wagerup to Coorow to inspect prospective land with his brother Baxter and Fred KAU [110]
Farmer in Coorow [19]
Farmer and Grazier in Coorow in partnership with his brother Baxter D. BOTHE as "Bothe Bros" 1915-1925 [27] [44]
From 1910 to 1914 he was the owner of 224 acres, his brother Baxter 158 acres and their father 246 acres in Coorow [44]
In 1915 farmed their 1,222 acres (Victoria Locations 3956, 3960 and 6619) and their father's 246 acre Victoria Location 3957 [44]
In February 1916 they sold 50 bags of Gluyas wheat to the Midland Railway Company [34]
The Midland Railway Company paid them £48.7.0, or 8/- an acre, to strip 119 acres of crop on Lot M963 in Coorow in 1916 [34]
In 1917 had 450 acres of wheat crop - the third highest acreage in crop for the Coorow district that year [10: 19-Jun-1917]
"These men are very good farmers" was the comment of a Midland Railway Company official in 1918 [34]
Extended their farmland with three purchases of land in Coorow from the Midland Railway Company [27]
Purchased the 1,101 acre Lot M1068 of Victoria Location 2023 for £770/19/7 (14/- per acre) on 11 October 1918 [27]
Purchased the 1,477 acre Lot M1142 of Victoria Location 2023 for £923/7/4 (12/6 per acre) on 10 February 1919 [27]
Purchased 800 acres in Lots M960 and M962 of Victoria Location 2023 for £2400 (£3 per acre) on 29 June 1922 [27]
Lots M1068 and M1142 were purchased as virgin bush, while Lots M960 and M962 were developed farmland [27]
In 1923 they used 150 pounds of superphosphate to the acre on their wheat crops [10: 6-Mar-1924]
By mid 1924 they had also purchased the 390 acre Victoria Location 7246, which took their farmland to a total of 5236 acres [44]
Appear to have dissolved their partnership in 1925, when they split their farmland between themselves [3] [27] [44]
Married Margaret MCGILL in Perth on 19 March 1917 [P98]
Farmer of Glenfield Farm in Coorow [P98]
After dissolving partnership with his brother he was the owner of 2,277 acres in Lots M960, M962 and M1142 [27]
Appears to have sold Lot M1142 to Charles A. NOLAN and purchased Lots M1046 and M1231 from James FARLEY [3] [27] [44]
Later purchased Lots M947, M961 and M1121 from Daniel P. FARLEY and Lot M1548 from Mrs Eliza M. JACKS [3]
This took his farm to 3,801 acres consisting of Lots M947, M960, M961, M962, M1046, M1121, M1231 and M1548 [3]
Foundation Chairman of the Coorow Farmers' Progress Association in 1911 [39: 4-Aug-1911]
Attended the Coorow Farmers' Progress Association's Picnic & Sports Meeting in Coorow on 7 October 1911 [39: 12-Oct-1911]
Won the High Jump, with his brother Baxter won the Siamese Race, and came 2nd after his brother Baxter in the Pillow Fight [39]
On behalf of the people of Coorow made a presentation to Donald M. and Isabella BAIN at their farewell in March 1916 [9: 10-Mar-1916]
Member of the Coorow Hall Committee - was Chairman in 1921 and Secretary in 1923 [9: 23-Feb-1923] [215]
In a secret ballot at a public meeting those present decided to build the hall on the east side of the Coorow townsite [215]
Wrote to the Education Department in May 1921 encouraging them to build their school on the east side of the Coorow townsite [215]
The Midland Railway Company had provided a block for the school right next to the site of the proposed Coorow Hall [215]
He informed them this block was also more centrally situated, had better drainage and would be more easily cleared [215]
An Education Inspector concurred with his comments and the school was erected on the Midland block in May 1922 [215]
Member of the Coorow Progress Association - was Secretary in 1923 [34]
In April 1924 requested that the Carnamah District Road Board work on roads in Coorow, especially the Jun Jun Road [10: 1-May-1924]
His request and one from the Coorow Progress Association resulted in tenders being called for work on the road [10: 26-Jun-1924]
He visited the Education Department in Perth in November 1929 and requested that the Coorow State School be reopened [215]
He wanted his children to be at home rather than at boarding school, especially as his daughter was outgrowing her strength [215]
After getting the paperwork completed by local residents he officially requested the school be reopened on 8 January 1930 [215]
His request was promptly granted and arrangements were made for him to take delivery of furniture and stock upon its arrival [215]
Furniture and some stock for the school was railed from Mingenew with a supply of registers and books being railed from Perth [215]
The Coorow State School was reopened by Miss Eileen F. NOLAN on 10 February 1930 with 15 students [215]
Attended the funeral of "Father of Carnamah" Donald MACPHERSON at the Winchester Cemetery on 14 August 1931 [4: 22-Aug-1931]
Foundation Committee Member of the Coorow-Waddy Forest District Agricultural Society 1932-1939 [4: 9-Apr-1932] [150]
Pallbearer at the funeral of Mrs Janet Allison RAFFAN of Winchester on 26 February 1932 at the Winchester Cemetery [4: 5-Mar-1932]
Exhibited in the Cattle and Horse sections of the inaugural Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show on 8 September 1932 [5: 16-Sep-1932]
Awarded 2nd prizes for a Jersey Heifer in the Cattle section and for a Draught Stallion and a Brood Male in the Horse section [5]
Member for Coorow on the Carnamah-Coorow Anglican Church Vestry in 1933 [5: 2-Jun-1933]
Attended the Valedictory Dinner tendered to Alexander B. GLOSTER at the Coorow Hotel on Monday 3 July 1933 [5: 7-Jul-1933]
Won 2nd prizes for Draught Brood Mare and 3 Ewes for Breeding Export Lambs at the Coorow-Waddy Show in 1933 [5: 15-Sep-1933]
In October 1933 purchased a new Sunshine harvester [5: 3-Nov-1933]
Loaned machinery and spent considerable time helping construct the Coorow Rifle Range in July 1934 [5: 20-Jul-1934]
Won 1st prize for Illawarra Shorthorn Cow and 2nd for Crossbred Ewe & Twin Lambs at the Coorow-Waddy Show 1934 [5: 7-Sep-1934]
Attended the funeral of Mrs Christina B. D. FORRESTER of Carnamah at the Winchester Cemetery on 31 August 1934 [4: 8-Sep-1934]
Represented Coorow at meetings in Carnamah of the amalgamated Coorow-Three Springs Anglican Parish in 1934 [5: 16-Nov-1934]
Rector's Warden of the South Section of the North Midlands Anglican Church in 1935 [5: 17-May-1935]
Sold 71 lambs for between 13/1 and 17/10 and eleven wethers for 22/4 each at the Midland Market on 17 July 1935 [5: 19-Jul-1935]
Exhibited in the Horses in Action, Horse, Cattle, Sheep and Poultry sections of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1935 [5]
Awarded two 1st prizes for Best Pony 14 Hands & Under and Two Year Old Gelding bred by exhibitor [5: 13-Sep-1935]
Won 2nd prizes for 2 Year Old Filly bred by exhibitor, Illawarra Shorthorn Heifer, Southdown Ram, and female White Leghorn [5]
Member of the Coorow Golf Club in 1935 [5: 9-Aug-1935]
Attended the Ratepayers Meeting of the Carnamah District Road Board in Carnamah on Wednesday 23 October 1935 [5: 25-Oct-1935]
Sold six bales of wool at 14½d. per pound through Elder Smith & Co Ltd at the Wool Sale in Perth on 28 October 1935 [5: 1-Nov-1935]
At about 3 p.m. on Sunday 3 November 1935 a Dodge truck suddenly left the road and crashed into a gum tree near his farm [5]
He conveyed the injured two men to the Carnamah Private Hospital, after being alerted to the accident by one of his employees [5]
The truck was driven by T. POLLETT of the Department of the Interior with Mr W. F. BARKER as a passenger [5: 8-Nov-1935]
Sold a pig for £3/3/3, one for £2/10/- and two for £2/2/- per head through Elder Smith & Co Ltd on 13 November 1935 [5: 15-Nov-1935]
Attended the entertainment for the Commonwealth Grants Commission at the Coorow Hotel on 21 November 1935 [5: 29-Nov-1935]
Attended the funeral of Miss "May" Mary L. LANG of Carnamah at the Winchester Cemetery on 26 November 1935 [5: 29-Nov-1935]
Waddy Forest farmer Lionel R. GRONOW and himself comprised the Coorow Anglican Church Vestry in 1936 [5: 25-Sep-1936]
Himself and his brother Baxter held a Surplus Sale on his Glenfield Farm in Coorow at 12 p.m. on Friday 28 February 1936 [5]
They were curtailing their cropping operations and held the sale to sell off surplus livestock, farming plant and machinery [5]
Sold 35 Draught horses consisting of mares, geldings, fillies, yearlings, foals and hacks; 13 of which they'd bred themselves [5]
Sold ten cattle consisting of nine cows and heifers, and the pedigree milking strain Shorthorn bull named Polaris Prince [5]
Sold 500 Merino ewes between 2�� and 4½ years which were mated to Border Leicester rams, and 100 wethers and hoggets [5]
Plant and Machinery up for sale included a 10-foot McKay harvester, two 16-run Massey combines, 16-run McKay combine, [5]
35-tyne McKay cultivator, 15-tyne Standard scarifier, 12-disc Shearer twin disc plough, 12-disc Sun General twin disc plough, [5]
6-furrow Shearer mouldboard plough, I.H.C. steel wheel lorry, 7-ton wagon, 20-run Massey disc drill, 8-foot Mitchell drill, [5]
21-run Massey Harris drill, Horwood Bagshaw header, 6-furrow McKay disc plough, 4-furrow Shearer mouldboard plough, [5]
17-run 12-furrow twin Shearer mouldboard skim plough, 10-disc Shearer cultivating plough, 30-tyne McKay cultivator, [5]
8½-inch mouth Salmon chaffcutter, Eclipse feed grinder, 2 sets of Shearer drill harrows, two 10-horse McKay leading sets, [5]
4-ton Trewhella jack, set of 8 McKay harrows, hay rake, two 10-horse sets of swingle trees and spreader bars, [5]
1½-horsepower Lister engine, 4½-horsepower Lister engine, and harness and chains for 25 horses [5: 14 & 21-Feb-1936, 6-Mar-1936]
Their sale attracted a "record attendance" of buyers from as far away as Northampton and Goomalling who paid top prices [5]
During April 1936 purchased a new 16.33 rigid tyne combine from Westralian Farmers Ltd [5: 10-Apr-1936]
Attended the meeting in Carnamah on 6 May 1936 at which the North Midlands Stud Breeders Association was formed [5: 8-May-1936]
Member of the Coorow Rifle Club in 1936, and Treasurer in 1937-38 [5: 31-Jul-1936, 30-Jul-1937]
Exhibited in four sections of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show at Maley Park, Coorow on 3 September 1936 [5: 11-Sep-1936]
In the Poultry section won both 1st and 2nd prizes for male White Leghorn, and in Cattle won 2nd for Illawarra Shorthorn Cow [5]
Won 2nd for Best Pony 14 hands or under in Horses in Action, and in Sheep won 2nd for Three Lambs Suitable for Export [5]
Attended the dinner in Coorow tendered to the Archbishop of Perth Henry F. LE FANU on Sunday 20 September 1936 [5: 25-Sep-1936]
Sold five baconers at £3/10/6 per head through Elder Smith & Co Ltd at the Midland Market on 7 October 1936 [5: 9-Oct-1936]
Attended Roy M. PATTON's birthday at the dam on Longforest Farm in Waddy Forest on Sunday 8 November 1936 [5: 13-Nov-1936]
Attended the Ratepayers Meeting of the Carnamah District Road Board in Coorow on Wednesday 25 November 1936 [5: 27-Nov-1936]
Sold 18 hoggets at 19/10, 15 lambs at 19/10, and 4 lambs at 16/4 through Elder Smith & Co Ltd on 10 February 1937 [5: 12-Feb-1937]
A cloud burst occurred over his farm on 2 March 1937 which resulted in about 60 points of rain falling within a few minutes [5]
The sudden rain was accompanied by heavy hail and filled the dams on his farm [5: 5-Mar-1937]
Attended his father's surprise 75th birthday in Coorow on Tuesday evening 13 April 1937 [5: 16-Apr-1937]
Member of the North Midlands Anglican Church Vestry in 1937 [5: 4-Jun-1937]
Exhibited in the Cattle and Sheep sections of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1937 [5: 10-Sep-1937]
Awarded 1st prize for Illawarra Shorthorn Bull and 2nd for Illawarra Shorthorn Cow in the Cattle section [5]
Won 1st prize for Three Ewes for Breeding Export lambs which the judge said were "of Royal Show standard" [5]
Attended the funeral of Waddy Forest farmer Stanley L. FOLLAND at the Moora Cemetery on Monday 25 August 1941 [4: 30-Aug-1941]
Committee Member of the Coorow-Waddy Forest Agricultural Society and Patriotic Funds Committee in 1945 [0: image 04319]
Private in the local Volunteer Defence Corps during the Second World War [16]
Pallbearer at the funeral of retiree Thomas BONHAM on 10 August 1945 at the Winchester Cemetery in Carnamah [5: 24-Aug-1945]
Pallbearer at the funeral of Waddy Forest farmer Price Willis HUNT on 11 September 1946 at the Winchester Cemetery [0: image 04398]
Became a member of the Carnamah Masonic Lodge No.150 WAC on 20 December 1946 [96]
During the 1947-48 financial year purchased William M. C. LAWSON's 2,354 acre Clerklands Farm in Winchester [3]
Clerklands Farm's 2,534 acres consisted of Lots M1075, M1088 and M1089 of Victoria Locations 1937 and 1938 [3]
His son Ron farmed Glenfield Farm in Coorow and his son Bill farmed Clerklands Farm in Winchester [P98]
Later resided in the Perth suburb of Floreat Park [2]
Father of Thelma, Bill, Ron and Yvonne [14]
Died 39 January 1970; ashes interred Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Crematorium Rose Gardens, 16, 115) [2]
Clayton Mark BOTHE
Born 1976 [1]
Resided with his parents in Waddy Forest [1]
Passed away at the age of five weeks and two days at the North Midlands District Hospital in Three Springs [14] [90]
Died 5 September 1976 in Three Springs; buried Winchester Cemetery, Carnamah (Row N, Plot 14) [1]
Mrs "Mina" Eliza Wilhelmina BOTHE
Wife of Heinrich Wilhelm BOTHE; see "Mina" Eliza Wilhelmina NEWMAN
"Heinie" Heinrich Wilhelm BOTHE
Born 13 April 1862 in Hope Valley, South Australia [55]
Son of Heinrich Wilhelm BOTHE and Lucia BUSSENSCHUTT [55]
Grew up in South Australia, both of his parents originally coming from Germany [P15]
Married "Mina" Eliza Wilhelmina NEWMAN on 26 February 1885 at Saint Andrew's Church in Walkerville, South Australia [55]
Initially ran a hotel in Hampstead and later shifted to one near the Adelaide Hills in South Australia [P15]
His eldest son Heinrich died at the age of seven years on 5 October 1893 in Upper Walkerville, South Australia [55]
Around 1895 shifted with his wife and four surviving children to Perth, Western Australia [P15] [15] [55]
Their youngest son Frederick died during an epidemic [P15] on 22 June 1896 and was buried in the old East Perth Cemetery [231]
Ran the Kensington Hotel at 182 Wellington Street, Perth 1897-1900 and again in 1906 [6]
Poultry Farmer in the Perth suburb of Belmont in later 1906 and in 1907 [6] [50]
Farmer of Brooklyn Farm in Wagerup 1909-1911 [6] [19]
He'd established himself in Wagerup as a horticulturalist of fruit and flowers after retiring from the hotel-keeping business [P15]
Said to have shifted to Coorow, Western Australia with his wife, daughter May and sons Charles and Baxter in 1910 [110]
Farmer with his sons Charles and Baxter of Inglewood Farm in Coorow from 1910 to 1917 [P15]
From 1910 to 1920 was the owner of the 246 acre Victoria Location 3957 in Coorow while further land was owned by his sons [44]
In 1911 himself and his sons acquired the first Massey header to be operated in the Coorow district [110]
Foundation Committee Member of the Coorow Farmers' Progress Association in 1911 [39: 4-Aug-1911]
Came 3rd in the Old Buffers' Race at the Coorow Farmers' Progress Association's Picnic & Sports on 7 October 1911 [39: 12-Oct-1911]
By 1921 his 246 acres of farmland, Victoria Location 3957, was owned by his sons Charles and Baxter [44]
From 1921 was the owner of 160 acres of farmland in Coorow being Victoria Location 5648 (later owned by his son Baxter) [3] [44]
Had a general store, house for himself and his wife, and a small boarding house built in the Coorow townsite in 1916 [110]
Proprietor of a General Store in Coorow 1917-1942 [110]
In 1927 was the Coorow Agent for Harris Scarfe & Sandovers, Atkins & Co and the Royal Insurance Co [4: 25-Jun-1927]
Provided a room in Coorow for the Bank of New South Wales to operate from twice weekly in 1927 [4: 7-May-1927]
In 1928 he built a new store on the site of the previous one [110]
His store in Coorow was telephone number Coorow-12 [5: 18-Dec-1936]
He was the Coorow agent for Shearer implements, Caterpillar tractors and H. J. Wigmore & Co Ltd in 1930 [4: 28-Jun-1930]
Began weekly advertisements for his business in The North Midland Times on Friday 18 December 1936 [5: 18-Dec-1936, 17-Sep-1937]
In 1936 and 1937 he was an agent for H. J. Wigmore & Co (through which he sold Shearer farm implements and diesel tractors), [5]
Bankers & Traders Insurance Co, Grain Pool of WA, Southern Cross Windmills and a sub-agent for Elder Smith & Co Ltd [5]
Resided with his wife Mina in a house adjacent to the shop in the Coorow townsite 1917-1942 [P15]
The boarding house was used by travellers going between Perth and Geraldton and became known as the "Halfway House" [P15]
He had a new dining room and an extra bedroom for their boarding house constructed in 1927 [4: 7-May-1927]
Owned Lots 40 and 42 of the Coorow townsite which respectively contained a residence and a garage [3]
His wife was the owner of Lots 1, 2, 41 and 43 being the shop and their residence, a vacant block and another residence [3]
Signed the petition and financial guarantee in 1917 for the Midland Railway Company to provide a resident doctor at Three Springs [34]
Vice President of the Picnic Race Meeting held in Three Springs on Saint Patrick's Day Tuesday 17 March 1925 [124]
Won 1st prizes for Cauliflower and Late Variety of Cabbage in the Vegetable section of the Carnamah Agricultural Show in 1929 [4]
Judge of the Poultry section at the Carnamah District Agricultural Society's Annual Shows in 1929 and 1930 [4: 28-Sep-1929, 27-Sep-1930]
Purchased a new Ford sports roadster car from Carnamah dealer Rupert LAFFAN in December 1929 [4: 14-Dec-1929]
In 1930 his garden was described as containing all sorts of vegetables and a great variety of flowers grown to perfection [4: 23-Aug-1930]
Member of the Carnamah Race Club - was Vice President in 1930 and 1934 [4: 21-Dec-1929] [5: 24-Nov-1933]
Attended the funeral of "Father of Carnamah" Donald MACPHERSON at the Winchester Cemetery on 14 August 1931 [4: 22-Aug-1931]
Financial Member of the Carnamah District Agricultural Society in 1932 [13]
Member of the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts Agricultural Society - was [4: 9-Apr-1932, 1-Jun-1935] [5: 23-Dec-1932, 10-Nov-1933, 13-Mar-1936]
Inaugural Vice President in 1932, Committee Member 1933-1937, Vice Patron 1933-1939 and Treasurer in 1934 [5: 20-Nov-1936] [150]
Won 1st prizes for Cauliflower and Best Collection of Vegetables at the first Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1932 [5: 16-Sep-1932]
Won 1st prize for Pansies and Geraniums and 2nd for Onions and Peas at the Three Springs Agricultural Show in 1932 [5: 30-Sep-1932]
Member for Coorow on the Board of the North Midlands District Hospital in Three Springs in 1933-34 [5: 14-Jul-1933]
Judged the Poultry section of the Carnamah Agricultural Show at Centenary Park, Carnamah on 14 September 1933 [5: 22-Sep-1933]
In December 1933 received recognition of his beautiful garden in The Irwin Index newspaper [4: 9-Dec-1933]
Foundation President of the Coorow Rifle Club in 1934 and 1935 [5: 5-Jan-1934, 1-Nov-1935]
In February 1934 found an abandoned dog with a note attached reading "My name is D'Arcy, please be kind to me" [5: 23-Feb-1934]
Member of the Coorow-Waddy Forest Progress Association in 1934 [5: 8-Jun-1934]
Attended the funeral of Mrs Christina B. D. FORRESTER of Carnamah at the Winchester Cemetery on 31 August 1934 [4: 8-Sep-1934]
Won the Trophy for the most points gained in the Vegetable section at the Carnamah Agricultural Show in 1934 [5: 14-Sep-1934]
Won 1st prize for a Collection of Vegetables and both 1st and 2nd prizes for Cabbage, Lettuce and Pods of Peas [5]
Also exhibited in the Flower section, winning 1st prizes for Pansies and 2nd for Geraniums and Vase of Flowers [5]
Excavated a well on his property in Coorow town and found water at a depth of six feet in December 1934 [4: 22-Dec-1934]
Erected a Southern Cross windmill to supply water for his garden and to demonstrate the windmill to buyers [4: 22-Dec-1934]
Himself and Mina celebrated their Golden Wedding Anniversary with friends at the Coorow Hotel on 26 February 1935 [5: 1-Mar-1935]
Won 1st prizes for Cabbage and Brown Hen Eggs at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show on 5 September 1935 [5: 13-Sep-1935]
Exhibited in the Vegetable and Flower sections of the Carnamah Agricultural Show on Thursday 12 September 1935 [5]
Won 1st and 2nd prizes for Broad Beans; 1st prizes for Collection of Vegetables, Pansies, Snapdragons, and Carnations; [5]
and 2nd prizes for Cauliflower, Garden Flowers, and Vase of Flowers [5: 20-Sep-1935]
Won 1st prizes for Geraniums and Pansies at the Three Springs Agricultural Show on Thursday 19 September 1935 [5: 27-Sep-1935]
Donated the President's Cup to the Coorow Rifle Club in 1935, which was won by Edgar W. FOWLER [5: 1-Nov-1935]
Attended the Coorow Rifle Club's Grand Ball held at the Coorow Hall on Saturday 26 October 1935 [5: 1-Nov-1935]
Attended the entertainment for the Commonwealth Grants Commission at the Coorow Hotel on 21 November 1935 [5: 29-Nov-1935]
Attended the funeral of Miss "May" Mary L. LANG of Carnamah at the Winchester Cemetery on 26 November 1935 [5: 29-Nov-1935]
Attended the 21st birthday of his grand-daughter Olive W. KAU at Meadowdale Farm in Coorow on 18 January 1936 [5: 24-Jan-1936]
Attended the funeral of Carnamah agent William B. SHERIDAN at the Winchester Cemetery on 27 January 1936 [5: 31-Jan-1936]
Judged the Pig section at the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts Agricultural Society's Annual Show in 1936 [5: 12-Jun-1936, 11-Sep-1936]
Exhibited in the Poultry section of the show where he gained "considerable success" with five 1st and three 2nd prizes [5: 4-Sep-1936]
Won 1st prizes for male Black Orpington, female Black Orpington, Muscovy Drake, Muscovy Duck, and 2nd for Table Bird [5]
The Judge remarked that his male Black Orpington, which also won 1st for Best Male Bird in Show, was "outstanding" [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]
Attended the Ratepayers Meeting of the Carnamah District Road Board in Coorow on Wednesday 25 November 1936 [5: 27-Nov-1936]
His family took him completely by surprise with a party for his 75th birthday in Coorow on Tuesday evening 13 April 1937 [5]
Among those at his birthday were his children and children-in-law Baxter & Blanche BOTHE, Charles & Margaret BOTHE, [5]
and Olive & Fred KAU; and grandchildren Harry and Olive KAU and Thelma, Bill, Ronny, Vonny and Lloyd BOTHE [5]
His grandson Richard was unable to attend due to being at Christian Brothers College in Perth [5: 16-Apr-1937]
In June 1937 it was reported that he was again getting about after being indisposed [5: 25-Jun-1937]
He again judged the Pig section at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show at Maley Park in Coorow on 2 September 1937 [5: 10-Sep-1937]
In Poultry won 1st for male and female Black Orpingtons, Muscovy drake and Best Table Bird; and 2nd in for Muscovy duck [5]
Judge of the Pig section of the Carnamah Agricultural Show at Centenary Park in Carnamah on 9 September 1937 [5: 17-Sep-1937]
Passed away at the age of 80 years at the North Midlands District Hospital in Three Springs [5: 23-Oct-1942]
Father of Heinrich Wilhelm Carl, May Minnie Annie, Charles Cleaver, Baxter Diedrich and Frederick William [55]
Died 17 October 1942 in Three Springs; buried Winchester Cemetery, Carnamah (Row C, Plot 11) [1] [14]
Rev. F. W. GUNNING officiated at his funeral, which was undertaken by Henry Parkin & Son (for £34/3/6 inc. transportation) [1] [53]
Following his and his wife's deaths their shop and adjoining house in Coorow was sold to "Pat" Aeneas and Eva V. CASEY [110]
From The North Midland Times newspaper, Friday 23 October 1942
"Obituary - Late Mr. H. W. Bothe. The death occurred at the North Midlands District Hospital on Saturday last of Mr. Heinrich Wilhelm Bothe, an old and respected resident of the Coorow district. The late Mr. Bothe had not enjoyed the best of health for some considerable time past, nevertheless the news of his death came as a severe shock to his many friends throughout the North Midlands. The late Mr. Bothe and his wife, who predeceased him by two months, were amongst the first settlers of the Coorow district. They were both highly respected personages, who worked hard for the advancement of the Coorow-Waddy Forest district in the early days, and their passing will be mourned by a wide circle of old established friends. Their three children, Charles, May (Mrs. Fred Kau), and Baxter have all settled on farming properties in the Coorow district, and to them is extended out condolences. The deceased gentleman was one of the first storekeepers at Coorow and, despite failing health and advancing years, he continued to conduct an agency business at that centre until a few years ago. When the story is told of the part the early pioneers played in the development of the Midlands the name of 'Heinie' Bothe will not be the least of them. The funeral took place in the Anglican portion of the Winchester cemetery on Monday afternoon and was largely attended. The service at the graveside was conducted by the Rev. F. W. Gunning, of Mt. Hawthorn, who was an old friend of the family."
Mrs Margaret BOTHE
Wife of "Charlie" Charles Cleaver BOTHE; see Margaret MCGILL
May Minnie Annie BOTHE
Born 1 November 1889 in Hampstead, South Australia [55]
Daughter of Heinrich Wilhelm BOTHE and Eliza Wilhelmina NEWMAN [55]
Resided with her parents in Hampstead and later near the Adelaide Hills in South Australia where her father ran a hotel [P15]
Around 1894 shifted with her parents and brothers to Western Australia [P15]
Resided at various localities in Perth while her father continued running hotels and then on a farming property in Wagerup WA [P15]
In 1910 shifted from Wagerup to Coorow with her parents and brothers Charles and Baxter [P15]
Resided on Inglewood Farm in Coorow 1910-1914 [P15]
Came 3rd in the Single Ladies' Race at the Coorow Farmers' Progress Association's Picnic & Sports on 7 October 1911 [39: 12-Oct-1911]
Married "Fred" Frederick John KAU in Perth in 1914 [66]
Resided with her husband on Meadowdale Farm in Coorow from 1914 until the Second World War [P15]
Assisted the Coorow Hall Committee with the Official Opening of the Coorow Agricultural Hall on 1 February 1923 [9: 23-Feb-1923]
Won 2nd prize for Cakes at the Carnamah Agricultural Show at Centenary Park, Carnamah on 18 September 1930 [4: 27-Sep-1930]
By 1932 was the owner of 781 acres of farmland in Coorow being Victoria Locations 5791, 5792 and 5793 [3]
Her 781 acres made up part of Meadowdale Farm and around 1953 was transferred into her son Harry's name [3]
Hosted a 21st birthday for her daughter Olive at their home on Meadowdale Farm on Saturday evening 18 January 1936 [5: 24-Jan-1936]
Attended her father's surprise 75th birthday in Coorow on Tuesday evening 13 April 1937 [5: 16-Apr-1937]
Advertised in April 1937 that she wanted a "General Help" for her good home with wages of 15/- per week [5: 23-Apr-1937]
During the Second World War she left Coorow and shifted to 10th Avenue in the Perth suburb of Inglewood [P15]
Resided in the Perth suburb of Inglewood from then until her death in 1978 [2]
Mother of Olive and Harry [14]
Died 1 May 1978 in Perth WA; ashes interred Winchester Cemetery, Carnamah (Row R, Plot 7) [1] [P15]
"Dick" Richard Baxter BOTHE
Born 10 June 1924 in Moora, Western Australia [16]
Son of Baxter Diedrich BOTHE and Blanche Amelia BROAD [14]
Resided with his parents on Inglewood Farm in Coorow [19]
He was listed by his father as a prospective student in applications to reopen the closed Coorow State School in January 1930 [215]
Began his schooling at the reopened Coorow State School in Coorow on 10 March 1930 [215]
Won a 2nd prize for Writing in the Education section of the inaugural Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1932 [5: 16-Sep-1932]
At the Carnamah Agricultural Show on Thursday 14 September 1933 he won a 1st prize for Sealing Wax Work [5: 22-Sep-1933]
Attended the Children's Fancy Dress Ball in Coorow on Saturday 6 July 1935 dressed as "Speed" [5: 12-Jul-1935]
Won a 1st prize for Handwork in the Educational section of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show on 5 September 1935 [5: 13-Sep-1935]
Attended the Children's Fancy Dress Ball at the Carnamah Hall on Saturday 2 November 1935, also dressed as "Speed" [5: 8-Nov-1935]
Won a 1st prize for Handwork in the Educational section of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show on 3 September 1936 [5: 11-Sep-1936]
Student at Christian Brothers College in Perth in 1937 [5: 16-Apr-1937]
Farmer in Coorow [19]
Volunteer in the local Volunteer Defence Corps during the Second World War [16]
On 15 December 1943 was fined £2 at the Carnamah Police Court for drinking at the Coorow Hotel at an hour outside its license [22]
Member of the Waddy Forest Tennis Club in 1945 [0: image 04316]
Assistant Secretary of the Coorow-Waddy Forest Agricultural Society and Patriotic Funds Committee in 1945 [0: image 04319]
Celebrated his 21st birthday on Saturday 9 June 1945 with 60 of his friends at the Coorow Town Hall [0: image 04343]
Committee Member of the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts Agricultural Society 1946-1951 [4: 7-Apr-1951] [150]
Financial Member of the Carnamah District Agricultural Society 1946-1948 [13]
Assistant Steward of the Sheep section at the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts Agricultural Society's Tenth Annual Show in 1947 [150]
Member of the Coorow Golf Club in 1948 [0: image 04509]
Member of the Coorow Tennis Club 1950-1952 [0: image 04687] [4: 9-Dec-1950]
Served on the Coorow Shire Council representing the Town/Rural Ward from 1963 to 1981 [284]
Member of the Coorow Rotary Club [254]
Member of the Winchester Cemetery Management and Advisory Committee 1985-1989 [254]
Resided of late at 31 Spain Street in Coorow [1]
Husband of Pauline [14]
Father of Baxter, Richelle, Maureeta, Richard, Paula, Bernadette, Michael and Catherine [14]
Died 4 June 1997 at the Royal Perth Hospital, Perth; ashes buried Winchester Cemetery, Carnamah (Row M, Plot 2) [1]
Richard Michael BOTHE
Born May 1953 [14]
Son of Richard Baxter and Pauline Monica BOTHE [14]
Resided with his parents in Coorow 1953-1955 [1] [19]
Passed away at the age of two years at the North Midlands District Hospital in Three Springs [1]
Died 31 May 1955 in Three Springs; buried Winchester Cemetery, Carnamah (Row M, Plot 2) [1]
Albert Henry BOULTON
Born 24 September 1909 in Gloucestershire, England [16]
Married Geneva Albertha SMITH in 1936 in Perth, Western Australia [66]
Farmhand in Coorow in 1939 and 1940 [16] [50]
Resided in Coorow until enlisting in the Royal Australian Air Force on 24 September 1940 [16]
Leading Aircraftman 17731 in the Royal Australian Air Force's 1 Reserve Personnel Pool during the Second World War [16]
Discharged from the Royal Australian Air Force on 17 December 1944 [16]
Resided of late in the Perth suburb of Dalkeith [2]
Died 23 December 1972; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Anglican, PD, 349) [2]
Bettie Patricia BOWHAY
Born C.1928 [2]
Resided on the farm of Samuel A. RUDDUCK in Coorow in 1949 [19]
Later resided in the southern Perth suburb of Rockingham [2]
Died 16 March 1993; ashes buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Anglican, LN6, 1) [2]
John Hugh BOYD
Fettler in Marchagee 1909 [50]
Fettler of Moore's Paddock in Mingenew in 1910 [50]
Farmer in Marchagee in 1911 [19]
Railway Fettler in Mingenew 1913-1914 [50]
"Charlie" Charles BOYS
Married "Rosie" Elva Rose Elizabeth TAMBLYN in Perth in 1926 [66]
Farmhand on Waddy Waddy Farm in Coorow 1924-1933 [19]
Resided in Winchester in 1927 and 1928 [53]
During his sojourn in Winchester he lived in a tent on the Winchester Reserve [P89]
Had an account with Carnamah blacksmith, wheelwright and motor mechanics Henry Parkin & Son in 1927 and 1928 [53]
In early 1932 was a contestant in the first boxing tournament to be held in Carnamah [4: 6-Feb-1932]
Mrs "Rosie" Elva Rose Elizabeth BOYS
Wife of "Charlie" Charles BOYS; see "Rosie" Elva Rose Elizabeth TAMBLYN
Mrs Ethel May May BRADSHAW
Resided on the Mamboobie Estate in Marchagee in 1916 [19]
Resided in Coorow in 1917 [50]
William Foster BRADSHAW
Farmer of the Mamboobie Estate in Marchagee in 1916 [19]
Farm Manager in Coorow in 1917 [50]
"Myrtle" Deborah Myrtle BRAND
Born 1905 in Cookernup, Western Australia [15]
Daughter of George David BRAND and Elizabeth Sarah CLARKSON [15]
Married "Vic" Victor Walwin BROUN in 1933 [66]
Resided with her husband on farmland in Coorow 1933-1973 [19]
Won 2nd prize for Fancy Scones at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show at Maley Park, Coorow on 3 September 1936 [5: 11-Sep-1936]
Sang a song and gave a recitation at the Social Evening at the Waddy Forest Hall on Tuesday 15 December 1936 [5: 18-Dec-1936]
Committee Member of the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts Agricultural Society in 1937 [5: 20-Nov-1936]
Exhibited in the Confectionary, Preserves and Farm Produce sections of the Society's Annual Show on 10 September 1937 [5]
Won 1st prizes for Biscuits, Marmalade and Non-White Hen Eggs; and 2nd prizes for Fruit Cake and Madeira Cake [5: 10-Sep-1937]
Steward of the Preserves section at the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts Agricultural Society's Annual Show in 1939 [150]
Herself and her husband conducted the Sunday School in Coorow for many years in the 1930s and 1940s [P361]
Later resided in the Perth suburb of Bentley [2]
Mother of Adrian [84]
Died 31 March 1981; ashes interred Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (IC Section, Rose Memorial, CA, 5) [2]
Maxwell Alexander BRECHIN
Teacher of the Waddy Well State School in Waddy Forest 1938-1940 [19] [73]
Received an annual salary of £241 in 1938 and £310 in 1939 and 1940 [73]
Mrs Ellen Watson BREEN
Wife of John BREEN; see Ellen Watson WALLACE
"Jock" John BREEN
Born 5 March 1869 in New Kilpatrick, Dunbarton, Scotland [28]
Son of Thomas BREEN and Letitia RANKIN [28]
Married Ellen Watson WALLACE on 17 April 1896 at the Burgh Hall, Milngavie in New Kilpatrick, Dunbarton, Scotland [28]
Railway Fettler and later Railway Ganger in Coorow, Western Australia 1911-1917 [19] [24]
His wife and daughter Letitia departed London on the steamship Demosthenes to join him Western Australia on 14 August 1913 [203]
Railway Fettler in Mogumber 1919-1922 [50]
Railway Fettler in Wannamal 1919-1942 [114]
In About 1928 himself and his wife shifted from the railway siding in Wannamal to the then vacant Wannamal Store [114]
They re-opened the Wannamal Store and ran it while he continued working as a fettler in Wannamal [114]
Along with his wife and daughter Mary returned to Wannamal in February 1928 after a holiday in Albany [114]
Resided in Wannamal until his death in 1942 [2]
Father of Letitia, Margaret and Mary [24] [114] [203]
Died 22 July 1942; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Presbyterian, IA, 399) [2]
John BREEN Jnr
Farmhand in Coorow 1919-1922 [50]
"Letty" Letitia Rankin BREEN
Born 18 October 1906 at Milngavie in New Kilpatrick, Dunbarton, Scotland [28]
Daughter of John BREEN and Ellen Watson WALLACE [28]
Departed London, England with her mother on the steamship Demosthenes for Fremantle, Western Australia on 14 August 1913 [203]
Resided with her parents in Coorow 1913-1917 [19]
Her name was put forward as an expected student for the proposed reopening of the Coorow State School in October 1913 [215]
She presumably attended the Coorow State School following its reopening as a half-time school on 3 December 1913 [215]
Resided with her parents in Wannamal 1919-1935 [114]
Came 3rd in the Singles Ladies Race at the Sports Meeting held in Wannamal on 31 March 1923 [9: 20-Apr-1923]
Married George William GRAY in Perth in 1935 [66]
Herself and her husband resided in Wannamal, for a few years in Dalwallinu and then once more in Wannamal [114]
Resided of late in the Perth suburb of Balga [2]
Died 10 January 1983; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Presbyterian, DC, 612) [2]
Margaret Buchanan BREEN
Born 1915 in Perth, Western Australia [15]
Daughter of John BREEN and Ellen Watson WALLACE [24]
Resided with her parents in Coorow in 1915 and 1916 [19] [24]
Died 4 July 1916 at the railway station yard in Coorow; buried Three Springs General Cemetery, Three Springs [24]
Alan David BREEZE
Farmhand in Marchagee 1931-1935 [19] [50]
Wilfred Hermann BRIAND
Born 28 February 1907 in Blackpool, Lancashire, England [16] [21]
Prior to leaving England he worked as a Manufacturing Jeweller [203]
Departed London, England on the steamship Esperance Bay on and arrived in Fremantle, Western Australia on 29 March 1928 [70]
Farmhand in the Coorow-Waddy Forest district of Western Australia 1928-1962 [19]
Attended the Coorow Golf Club's Opening Day for the 1936 season in Coorow on Sunday 17 May 1936 [5: 22-May-1936]
Member of the Coorow Golf Club in 1936 and 1937 [5: 3 & 24-Jul-1936, 23-Jul-1937]
He was among those from Waddy Forest who travelled to Perth for the Perth Royal Show in October 1936 [5: 16-Oct-1936]
Attended Albert E. MILES and Mary E. GREENWOOD's wedding breakfast at the Coorow Hotel on 18 August 1937 [5: 20-Aug-1937]
Resided in Coorow until enlisting in the Australian Army in Perth on 4 December 1940 [16]
Corporal WX9545 in the Australian Army's 8th Australian Advanced Workshop during the Second World War [16]
Married Eileen Margaret SMITH in Perth in 1941 [66]
Discharged from the Australian Army on 24 October 1945 and returned to Coorow [16] [19]
Later resided in the Perth suburb of North Beach [2]
Died 25 October 1999; cremated at the Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA [2]
Norman Walter BRITT
Born 1890 in Arthington, Yorkshire, England [20] [21]
Son of butler Edward BRITT and Elizabeth CLARKE [20] [21]
In 1891 was living with his parents, sister Lily and brother Charles at Creskeld Hall in Arthington, Yorkshire, England [20]
His mother passed away at the age of 43 years in 1892 and in 1898 his father was married to Annie JACKSON [21]
In 1901 was living with his father, stepmother, and siblings Charles and Mabel at Undale Cottage in Mears Ashby, Northampton [20]
Departed London, England on the steamship Orotava and arrived in Fremantle, Western Australia on 8 April 1909 [70]
Farmer in Latham, Western Australia 1911-1915 [19]
Initially he gave his address as Latham's Rock via Coorow [19]
Farmed in Latham until enlisting in the Australian Imperial Force in Perth on 29 June 1915 [30: item 3125410]
Upon enlistment he was 5 feet 8 inches tall, weighed 131 pounds and had blue eyes, light brown hair and a fair complexion [30]
He gave his next of kin as his stepmother Mrs Annie BRITT of 56 Thorne Road in Doncaster, Yorkshire, England [30]
After training at Blackboy Hill in the Perth Hills he was appointed to 3rd Reinforcements of the 28th Battalion on 21 August 1915 [30]
Embarked from Fremantle, Western Australia for active service abroad on the H.M.A.T. A68 Anchises on 2 September 1915 [18]
Private 1905 in the Australian Imperial Force's 28th Battalion on the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey during the First World War [30]
Wounded in Action at Gallipoli on 13 October 1915 with reported gunshot wounds to his arm and back [30]
He was evacuated on the H.M.H.S. Valdivia on 18 October 1915 for medical treatment in Alexandria, Egypt [30]
Returned to duty in Egypt on 10 January 1916 and on 16 March 1916 proceeded to France [30]
Private 1905 in the Australian Imperial Force's 28th Battalion in France during the First World War [30]
He was reported Missing in Action in France on 29 July 1916 [30]
A court of inquiry on 4 January 1917 concluded that he had been Killed in Action in France on 29 July 1916 [30]
His stepmother received his effects: a silk handkerchief, badges, gift box, gospel, testament, letters, cards, pouch and cigarette case [30]
His estate was divided equally between his brother Charles William BRITT and his sister Mabel Ann BRITT [30]
The Australian Imperial Force sent his Memorial Plaque and Memorial Scroll to his stepmother Mrs Annie BRITT [30]
Received the 1914-15 Star, the British War Medal and the Victory Medal - which were sent to his brother and sister [30]
Memorialised on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial at the Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery in Villers-Bretonneux, France [17]
Alfred Samuel BROAD
Born 20 February 1891 in Staplehurst, Kent, England [16]
Son of William BROAD and Elizabeth WIMBLE [20] [21]
He was one of eight children siblings Clara, Sarah, George, Ellen, William, Louie and Evelyn [20]
Resided with his parents and siblings in Staplehurst, Kent, England where his father worked as a farmhand and carter [20]
His mother passed away at the age of 38 years in 1893 [21]
In 1901 was living with his parents and siblings at Reed Court Cottages in Marden, Kent, England [20]
Departed London, England on the steamship Hobsons Bay for Fremantle, Western Australia on 23 November 1923 [203]
Resided in the Perth suburb of Carlisle prior to enlisting in the Australian Army on 2 April 1941 [16]
Private W25456 in the Australian Army's 5th Garrison Battalion during the Second World War [16]
Discharged from the Australian Army on 10 October 1941 [16]
Farmhand for Charles C. BOTHE on Glenfield Farm in Coorow 1950-1952 [19]
Resided of late in the Perth suburb of Carlisle [16]
Died 29 October 1977; ashes scattered to the wind at the Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA [2]
Blanche Amelia BROAD
Born 27 April 1893 in Round Hill, Western Australia [193]
Daughter of Richard BROAD and "Millie" Amelia Ann BARRETT [193]
As a child resided with her parents in Round Hill [193]
Began her schooling at the Sisters of Mercy Convent in the Perth suburb of Guildford [193]
While attending the Convent she boarded in Guildford with her half-sister Isabella and brother-in-law Henry SEYMOUR [193]
Later attended the Beaconsfield State School and then the Indarrie Sate School which was later renamed Bindi Bindi State School [193]
Shifted with her parents to Moora on their retirement when she was 18 years old [193]
Shop Assistant at Padbury's Stores in Moora [193]
Managed the drapery, millinery and boot departments of the store when it became the Central Midlands Co-operative Company [193]
Dressmaker in Moora 1917-1922 [50]
In 1922 she successfully applied for a position at Coyne's Store in Yalgoo, however after three months returned to Moora [193]
Operated as a Seamstress in Moora, creating numerous types of garments including elaborate wedding outfits [193]
At a dance she attended in Coorow she met local farmer Baxter BOTHE, and in 1923 they decided to get married [193]
Married Baxter Diedrich BOTHE on 28 July 1923 at Saint George's Cathedral in Perth [10: 16-Aug-1923]
Entered the cathedral on the arm of her half brother "Harry" Henry D. BROAD [10]
She wore a graceful gown of ivory brocaded crepe de chine with draping of rich silk and silver lace [10]
Her bridesmaid was her sister Miss "Pearl" Pearly Agnes BROAD, who wore a dress of mauve georgette and satin [10]
They held their wedding reception at the Piccadilly Reception Rooms in Perth and spent their honeymoon in Kalamunda [10]
Resided with her husband and children on Inglewood Farm in Coorow [19]
In August 1930 her garden was described as "exceptionally attractive" in The Irwin Index newspaper [4: 23-Aug-1930]
Won 2nd prizes for Butter and Cream Puffs at the Carnamah Agricultural Show on Thursday 18 September 1930 [4: 27-Sep-1930]
Exhibited in the Vegetable and Confectionary sections of the inaugural Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show on 8 September 1932 [5]
Won 1st prize for Parsnips and 2nd prizes for Carrots, Peas and for the Best Collection of Vegetables [5]
Won both 1st and 2nd prizes for Sponge Sandwich and also 2nd prize for Marmalade in the Confectionary section [5: 16-Sep-1932]
The next week won 1st prize for Sponge Sandwich and 2nd for a Collection of Pickles at the Carnamah Show [5: 23-Sep-1932]
Along with her husband and sons spent a holiday in Rockingham 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]
Committee Member of the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts Agricultural Society 1933-1948 [5: 23-Dec-1932, 3-May-1935] [150]
Very successfully exhibited in six sections of the second annual Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show on 7 September 1933 [5: 15-Sep-1933]
Won 1st for Swedes, Onions, Potatoes, Radishes and for the Best Collection of Vegetables and 2nd for Turnips and Onions; [5]
In the Flower section won 1st prizes for a Collection of Roses and Three Cut Roses and 2nd prize for Gent's Buttonhole [5]
Won 1st prizes for Home Cured Bacon and Middle of Bacon and 2nd prize for Dressed Fowl in the Dairy Produce section [5]
Won 1st for Sponge Sandwich, Collection of Jams and Pickles; 2nd for Fancy Scones, Plain Scones, Fruit Cake, Cream Puffs [5]
Received both 1st and 2nd prize for Shortbread; and in the Photography section won 2nd prize for Half Dozen Snaps [5]
Received 1st prize for Plain Cake and 2nd prizes for Pickles and Middle of Bacon at the Carnamah Show in 1933 [5: 22-Sep-1933]
During April 1934 a Miss SEYMOUR of Miling spent a holiday staying with her in Coorow [5: 4-May-1934]
Exhibited in the Vegetable, Farm Produce, Flower and Photography sections of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1934 [5]
Awarded 2nd prize for Beetroot and both 1st and 2nd prizes for Turnips, Carrots, Parsnips and Home Made Soap [5: 7-Sep-1934]
1st for Collection of Roses, Three Cut Roses, Gent's Buttonhole, Middle of Bacon; 2nd for Ham and Best Half Dozen Snaps [5]
Sent a wreath for the grave of Christina B. D. FORRESTER of Carnamah at the Winchester Cemetery on 31 August 1934 [4: 8-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]
Exhibited in the Vegetable, Farm Produce, Flower and Photography sections at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1935 [5]
In the Vegetable section won 1st prizes for Cauliflower and Peas, and 2nd prizes for Parsnips and Collection of Vegetables [5]
Received four 1st prizes in the Farm Produce section - for Dressed Fowl, Bacon, Pickled Pork, and Home Made Soap [5]
Won 1st prizes for Roses and Cut Roses, and 2nd prizes for Stocks and Gent's Buttonhole in the Flower section [5]
Wrapped up her winnings with 2nd prize for "Best Half Dozen Snaps" in the Photography section [5: 13-Sep-1935]
Awarded The North Midland Times Trophy at the Carnamah Agricultural Show on Thursday 12 September 1935 [5: 20-Sep-1935]
Received 1st prizes for Midland of Bacon and Ham, and both 1st and 2nd for Home Made Soap in the Farm Produce section [5]
Won 1st prize for Radish in the Vegetable section; 1st for Pickles and 2nd for Sponge Sandwich in the Confectionary section [5]
Attended the funeral of Miss "May" Mary L. LANG of Carnamah at the Winchester Cemetery on 26 November 1935 [5: 29-Nov-1935]
Attended the 21st birthday of her niece Olive W. KAU at Meadowdale Farm in Coorow on Saturday 18 January 1936 [5: 24-Jan-1936]
Attended the Coorow Golf Club's Opening Day for the 1936 season in Coorow on Sunday 17 May 1936 [5: 22-May-1936]
She "beautifully decorated" the afternoon tea tables with prize rose blooms which received much admiration by those present [5]
Member of the Coorow Golf Club in 1936 [5: 24-Jul-1936]
She was a "prominent winner" in the Confectionary section of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show on 3 September 1936 [5]
Won 1st prizes for Fancy Scones, Jams and Marmalade, 1st and 2nd for Pickles, and 2nd for Plain Scones and Fruit Cake [5]
In the Farm Produce section won 1st prize for Home Made Soap and 2nd prizes for Middle Bacon and Pickled Pork [5]
Won 1st prize for Parsnips in the Vegetable section and attended the Show Ball dressed in block and floral georgette [5: 4 & 11-Sep-1936]
Winner of The North Midland Times Trophy for the Farm Produce section of the Carnamah Agricultural Show in 1936 [5: 18-Sep-1936]
In Farm Produce she won 1st and 2nd prizes for Butter and Home Made Soap, and 2nd for Middle of Bacon and Ham [5]
Won 1st prize for Fancy Scones and 2nd prizes for Sponge Sandwich, Marmalade and Pickles in the Confectionary section [5]
In the Flower section won 1st for Iceland Poppies and Stocks, 1st and 2nd for Roses, and 2nd for Snapdragons and Carnations [5]
Advertised in November 1936 that she was looking for a girl for domestic work in her "good home with all conveniences" [5: 6-Nov-1936]
Attended Roy M. PATTON's birthday at the dam on Longforest Farm in Waddy Forest on Sunday 8 November 1936 [5: 13-Nov-1936]
Along with her husband and sons travelled to Perth during the third weekend of January 1937 for a three week holiday [5: 22-Jan-1937]
Attended the surprise 75th birthday for her father-in-law Heinrich W. BOTHE in Coorow on Tuesday 13 April 1937 [5: 16-Apr-1937]
At the 1937 Carnamah Show won the trophy for both the Confectionary and Farm Produce sections [0: image 03690]
Donated the trophy for the Farm Produce section of the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts Agricultural Society's Show in 1937 [150]
Exhibited in the Confectionary, Farm Produce, Vegetable, Preserves and Flower sections of the Show and won three trophies [5]
Received the Mrs W. J. Melvin Trophy for the Preserves section and the Stewart Dawson Trophy for the Confectionary section [5]
Awarded both 1st and 2nd prizes for Fancy Scones, Candied Peel and Home Made Soap [5]
Also received 1st prizes for Fruit Cake, Madeira Cake, Wheatmeal Brad, Preserved Fruits and Pickles [5]
Received 2nd prizes for Peas, Parsnips, Cream Puffs, Shortbread, Pot Plant, Bulbous Flowers and Stocks [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]
At the 1938 Carnamah Show was the outstanding exhibitor in the Farm Produce, Vegetable and Flower sections [0: image 03730]
Attended the funeral of Waddy Forest farmer Stanley L. FOLLAND at the Moora Cemetery on Monday 25 August 1941 [4: 30-Aug-1941]
Committee Member of the Coorow-Waddy Forest branch of the Red Cross Society in 1942 [0: image 04107]
Committee Member of the Coorow-Waddy Forest Agricultural Society and Patriotic Funds Committee in 1945 [0: image 04319]
Member of the Coorow-Waddy Forest branch of the Country Women's Association - was Treasurer in 1946 and 1947 [0: image 04412] [173]
Judge of the Cookery section at the Carnamah District Agricultural Society's Annual Show in 1947 [13]
Following her husband's death she left Coorow and shifted to Perth [193]
Resided of late at 112 Todd Avenue in the Perth suburb of Como [1]
Mother of Richard and Lloyd [14]
Died 13 September 1982; buried Winchester Cemetery, Carnamah (Row M, Plot 1) [1]
Ellen Eustace BROAD
Resided in Waddy Forest in 1935 and 1936 [19] [50]
"Pearl" Pearly Agnes BROAD
Born 19 January 1898 in Round Hill, Western Australia [193]
Daughter of Richard BROAD and "Millie" Amelia Ann BARRETT [193]
Resided with her parents in Round Hill and then Moora, and was educated at Saint Gertrude's College in New Norcia [193]
Worked at the bakery in Moora and later at the teashop within Boan's Department Store in Perth [193]
Bridesmaid at the wedding of her sister Blanche to Coorow farmer Baxter D. BOTHE in Perth on 28 July 1923 [10: 16-Aug-1923]
Married Gerald Davey WILLIAMS on 26 November 1925 at the Roman Catholic Church in Mount Hawthorn [193]
They resided at 93 Harold Street in the Perth suburb of Highgate Hill in 1926 [6], and then in the Perth suburb of Daglish [193]
Herself and her husband lived in a cottage on her brother-in-law's Inglewood Farm in Coorow 1929-1932 [19] [193]
They lived in a tent out from Kalgoorlie during which time her husband worked on the railways [193]
Resided in Perth and cared for her elderly mother while her husband served in the Australian Army during the Second World War [193]
Her husband was captured a Prisoner of War in Singapore in 1942, and she never heard from him until the war ended [193]
Resided on Roberts Road in the Perth suburb of Como [193]
Died 27 November 1858; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Roman Catholic, Lawn 2, G12) [2]
George John BRONICKIS
Born C.2003 [2]
Resided of late in Coorow [2]
Died 26 January 2003; cremated at Pinnaroo Valley Memorial Park in the Perth suburb of Padbury [2]
Barry George BROOKES
Born C.1940 [2]
Resided of late in Coorow [2]
Died 8 February 1999; cremated at the Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA [2]
Eric Dewson BROOKES
Born 1909 in England [21]
Departed London, England on the Largs Bay and arrived in Fremantle, Western Australia on 4 February 1927 [63]
Farmhand in Gunyidi 1930-1932 [4] [19]
Member of the Gunyidi-Marchagee Cricket Club in 1930-31 [4: 22-Nov-1930]
Farmhand in Waddy Forest 1938-1943 [19]
Florence Evelyn BROOKS
Resided in Latham in 1921 and 1922 [50]
William Edward BROOKS
Farmer in Latham in 1921 and 1922 [50]
Walter Francis BROSNAN
Born 23 September 1921 in Perth, Western Australia [16]
Son of Thomas BROSNAN and Maria Agnes O'DWYER [2] [16]
Resided in the Perth suburb of Morley prior to enlisting in the Australian Army in Merredin on 24 August 1942 [16]
Trooper WX32586 in the Australian Army's 25th Cavalry Regiment during the Second World War [16]
Discharged from the Australian Army on 8 September 1944 [16]
Cook in the employ of F. W. Gustav LIEBE in Bunjil in 1950 [19]
Resided of late in the Perth suburb of East Guildford [2]
Died 23 August 1997; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Lawn, J, 84) [2]
Alma Dorothea BROUN
Born 1912 [15]
Daughter of Charles McBryde BROUN and Mary Charlotte ALLEN [5: 26-Jan-1934]
Resided with her parents in Pingelly [5: 26-Jan-1934]
She had been engaged to someone in Pingelly however called it off after meeting Keith while visiting her brother in Coorow [P32]
Her engagement to Keith MORCOMBE of Wynmara Farm in Waddy Forest was announced during January 1934 [5: 26-Jan-1934]
In August 1934 spent a two week holiday staying with her husband-to-be and his parents in Waddy Forest [5: 3-Aug-1934]
Married (1) "Keith" Frank Keith MORCOMBE on Thursday 20 February 1936 at Saint Luke's Church in Pingelly [5: 28-Feb-1936]
Wore closely fitting heavy ivory satin with a long train inlet to the skirt, beautifully shirred corsage and soft roll collar [5]
Her veil was of hand-worked Brussels net and was held in place with orange blossoms [5]
Her bridesmaids were her sister Miss Beryl BROUN and Keith's sister Miss Eileen G. MORCOMBE [5]
Arrived in Waddy Forest with her husband on Friday 6 March 1936 and began settling into her new home [5: 13-Mar-1936]
Resided with her husband and later children on farmland in Waddy Forest 1936-1947 [19]
Won 2nd prize for Hand-Painted Article in the Fancy Work section of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1936 [5: 11-Sep-1936]
Exhibited in the Arts section of the Three Springs Agricultural Show in Three Springs on Thursday 17 September 1936 [5]
Awarded 1st prize for Water Colour and received 2nd prize for Pen Painted Table Centre [5: 25-Sep-1936]
Attended the Surprise Linen Tea for Miss Mary E. GREENWOOD at Maryland Farm in Waddy Forest on 22 July 1937 [5: 23-Jul-1937]
Won 1st and 2nd for Hand-Painted Article in the Fancy Work section of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1937 [5: 10-Sep-1937]
Married (2) "Jim" James T. MATHEWS in 1948 [66]
Resided with her second husband in the outer Perth suburb of Armadale where her husband had a trucking business [P403]
Later resided in a nursing home in Armadale [P403]
Resided of late in the Perth suburb of Salter Point [2]
Mother of Michael and Suellen [P32]
Died 21 June 2005; ashes interred Fremantle Cemetery, Perth suburb of Palmyra (Crematorium R, Rose Memorial, 5, 14) [2]
"Clinton" Alaric Clinton BROUN
Born 1904 in Nourambine, Western Australia [15]
Son of Charles McBryde BROUN and Mary Charlotte ALLEN [15]
Purchased from the Midland Railway Company 1500 acres of virgin land in Coorow on 26 February 1926 [27]
The 1500 acres was Lot M1625 of Victoria Location 2023 and cost £825.6.2 (11/- per acre), which he paid over 17 years [27]
Farmer in Coorow 1926-1941 [3] [19] [27]
Honorary Secretary of the Annual Sports Meeting at the Recreation Ground in Coorow on Saturday 26 October 1929 [4: 19-Oct-1929]
Member of the Coorow Cricket Club in 1929-30 [4: 19-Oct-1929]
Married Mary Ridgway MORCOMBE in 1930 [66]
Member of the Coorow Sports Committee - was Secretary in 1930 [215]
Member of the Coorow-Waddy Forest Progress Association - was Assistant Secretary in 1931 [4: 13-Dec-1930]
Won 1st prize for Medium Strong White Wheat at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show on Thursday 30 August 1934 [5: 7-Sep-1934]
Member of the Waddy Forest Group of Toc H 1934-1937 [5: 21-Sep-1934, 2-Jul-1937]
Organiser of the Toc H Dance held at the Coorow Hall on Saturday 29 September 1934 [5: 21-Sep-1934]
Produced and played Billings in the play "The Wrong Flat" at the Toc H Social at the Coorow Hall on 24 June 1937 [5: 2-Jul-1937]
Goal Umpire for the Coorow Football Club in 1935 [5: 3-May-1935]
Won 1st prize for Oaten Chaff at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show held on Thursday 5 September 1935 [5: 13-Sep-1935]
Member of the committee who organised the Coorow-Waddy Sports & Dance in Coorow on Saturday 9 November 1935 [5: 15-Nov-1935]
Through Elder Smith & Co Ltd sold seven bales of wool at 16½d. per pound at a Wool Sale on 16 December 1935 [5: 20-Dec-1935]
In January 1936 advertised that he had a 12-disc Shearer plough in fair order for sale for £20 [5: 31-Jan-1936]
Advertised in The North Midland Times in June 1936 that he had a tractor, plough and engine for sale, all in good order [5: 26-Jun-1936]
They were: 18-32 Case tractor for £50, 12-disc Shearer bridle draught plough for £15, and 2-horsepower Cooper engine for £10 [5]
Sold 237 sheep through Elder Smith & Co Ltd with four consignments to the Midland Market between August and October 1936 [5]
The 237 sheep consisted of 84 lambs (40 at 15/1, 17 at 12/10, 5 at 12/7, 22 at 11/10), 52 shorn suckers (16 at 14/7, 36 at 13/1), [5]
56 ewes (13 at 25/1, 27 at 16/7, 16 at 11/1) and 45 undisclosed sheep (31 at 11/4, 14 at 10/1) [5: 7-Aug-1936, 18-Sep-1936, 9 & 23-Oct-1936]
Attended the funeral of his uncle-in-law Stanley Lorraine FOLLAND at the Moora Cemetery on Monday 25 August 1941 [4: 30-Aug-1941]
By June 1942 had left Coorow and was living in the Perth suburb of Gosnells [3]
Retained ownership of his farm until selling it to McBryde Clement BROUN during the second half of the 1940s [3]
Later resided in the Perth suburb of Forrestfield [2]
Died 6 September 1982; ashes interred Pinnaroo Valley Memorial Park, Perth WA (Banksia Court, Memorial Garden, G3B, 5) [2]
Clinton Andrew BROUN
Born 23 July 1976 [14]
Son of Noel and Lorraine BROUN [14]
Brother of Terry, Ted, Jenny, Susie, Carolyn, Robin, Linda, Kathy and Yasmin [14]
Resided with his parents on Damper Downs in Moora WA [1]
Passed away at the age of nine years at the North Midlands District Hospital in Three Springs [1]
Died 26 December 1985 in Three Springs WA; buried Winchester Cemetery, Carnamah (Row L, Plot 7) [1]
Mrs "Myrtle" Deborah Myrtle BROUN
Wife of "Vic" Victor Walwin BROUN; see Deborah Myrtle BRAND
Ivan Clement BROUN
Born C.1937 [1]
Son of "Clem" McBryde Clement and Mary BROUN [14]
Attended the Coorow Children's Fancy Dress Ball in 1945 dressed as an "Egg" and won the prize for Most Original Boy [0: image 04331]
Came 2nd in the 8-9 years Boys Running Race at the annual Carnamah Show in 1945 [0: image 04367]
Farmer of Springfield Farm in Coorow in 1961 [19]
Died 13 June 1961 in Coorow; buried Winchester Cemetery, Carnamah (Row P, Plot 13) [1]
Mrs Mary Agnes BROUN
Wife of "Clem" McBryde Clement BROUN; see Mary Agnes O'DWYER
Mrs Mary Ridgway BROUN
Wife of "Clinton" Alaric Clinton BROUN; see Mary Ridgway MORCOMBE
"Clem" McBryde Clement BROUN
Born 15 January 1907 in Pingelly, Western Australia [16]
He was a great grandson of Peter N. BROUN who was the first Colonial Secretary of the Swan River Colony [79: 23-Aug-1973, page 16]
On 14 July 1926 purchased 1,241 acres of virgin land in Coorow for 8/- per acre from the Midland Railway Company [27]
The 1,241 acres was Lot M1651 of Victoria Location 2023 and cost £496/8/6, which he paid for by instalments over 16 years [27]
Farmer in Coorow 1926-1950 [19] [27]
Member of the Coorow Cricket Club from 1928-29 to 1930-31 [4: 19-Oct-1928, 26-Jan-1929, 13-Nov-1930]
Married (1) Mary Agnes O'DWYER in Perth in 1933 [66]
Member of the Coorow Tennis Club in 1934-35 [5: 16-Nov-1934]
Commenced hay-cutting on Friday 6 August 1935 and was the first in the district to start hay-cutting for the 1935 season [5: 16-Aug-1935]
The hay-cutting took place in a brilliant oat crop, which stood as high as five feet, from which he got 1½ to 2 tons of hay per acre [5]
In September 1935 sold 86 lambs (33 at 17/7, 48 at 15/7 and 5 at 12/10 per head) and three ewes at 26/- per head [5: 13-Sep-1935]
Three weeks later in October 1935 sold another 26 suckers at 15/1 per head, 1 lamb for 8/-, and 12 ewes at 7/10 per head [5: 1-Nov-1935]
Sold 36 ewes through Elder Smith & Co Ltd on 15 January 1936 - 22 at 9/7 per head and 14 at 11/1 per head [5: 17-Jan-1936]
Financial Member of the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts Agricultural Society in 1936 [150]
Sold 31 sheep through Elder Smith & Co Ltd at the Midland Market in October 1936 - 13 at 9/7 and 18 at 8/4 per head [5: 23-Oct-1936]
In 1936 he harvested the newsworthy amount of 200 bags of Comeback premium wheat from 40 acres of sandplain country [5]
The wheat was sold to the Great Southern Flour Mills for 5/7½d. per bushel and returned a profit of £4/4/- an acre [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]
Sold 39 lambs through Elder Smith & Co Ltd at the Midland Market on 8 September 1937 - 28 at 19/10 and 11 at 19/1 [5: 10-Sep-1937]
Attended the funeral of Waddy Forest farmer Stanley L. FOLLAND at the Moora Cemetery on Monday 25 August 1941 [4: 30-Aug-1941]
Private W72117 in Coorow's Australian Army Volunteer Defence Corps during the Second World War [16]
During the 1940s extended his farmland with the purchase of the 1,500 acre Lot M1625 from Alaric Clinton BROUN [3]
Left Coorow and resided on Orrong Road in the Perth suburb of Carlisle before shifting back to Coorow [3]
Farmer of Springfield Farm in Coorow in 1967 and 1968, and of Arbordene Farm in Coorow 1970-1980 [19]
Later resided at 31 Station Street in the Coorow townsite [1]
Husband of (2) Doris [14]
Father of Noel, Ivan, Julie and Graham [14]
Passed away at the age of 82 years at the North Midlands District Hospital in Three Springs [1]
Died 17 April 1989 in Three Springs; buried Winchester Cemetery, Carnamah (Row U, Plot 7) [1]
"Vic" Victor Walwin BROUN
Born 3 September 1905 in Pingelly, Western Australia [16]
Son of Charles McBryde BROUN and Mary Charlotte ALLEN [15]
Purchased from the Midland Railway Company 2,377 acres of virgin land in Coorow on 2 August 1926 [27]
The 2,377 acres of land was Lot M1664 of Victoria Location 2023 and cost £1084/10/3, which he paid for over 17 years [27]
1,787 acres of the land cost 9/- per acre while the remaining 590 acres cost 9/6 per acre [27]
Farmer in Coorow [19]
In 1932 he owned a Ford truck registered with the Carnamah District Road Board with license plate CA-282 [4: 12-Nov-1932]
Married "Myrtle" Deborah Myrtle BRAND in 1933 [66]
Vestry Member, Rectors Warden and Synod Representative of the Carnamah-Coorow Anglican Church in 1933 [5: 2-Jun-1933]
Won 2nd prize for Lettuce in the Vegetable section of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show on Thursday 30 August 1934 [5: 7-Sep-1934]
Represented Coorow at meetings in Carnamah of the amalgamated Coorow-Three Springs Anglican Parish in 1934 [5: 16-Nov-1934]
Member of the Waddy Forest Group of Toc H - was its Pilot [P32]
Secretary of the South Section of the North Midlands Anglican Church Parish in 1934 [5: 17-May-1935]
Committee Member of the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts Agricultural Society 1935-1946 [5: 3-May-1935, 13-Mar-1936] [150]
Sold 40 suckers and one ewe at 8/4 per head through Elder Smith & Co Ltd at the Midland Market on 30 October 1935 [5: 1-Nov-1935]
His next sale of sheep at the Midland Market was of 18 ewes at 21/7 and 14 ewes at 16/7 per head on 12 August 1936 [5: 14-Aug-1936]
Won 1st prizes for Oaten Chaff, Oaten Hay and Green Oats for Grain at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1936 [5: 11-Sep-1936]
Attended the Inaugural Sale of the North Midlands Stud Stockbreeders Association in Carnamah on 18 September 1936 [5: 2-Oct-1936]
Purchased a Merino ram for 8 guineas from the Wongyarra Stud operated by Carnamah farmer William A. T. SARGENT [5]
Despite the below average harvest it was reported that he obtained the impressive yield of 17 bushels per acre for some of his crop [5]
The crop in questions was 320 acres wheat from which he harvested 5,000 bushels of marketable wheat [5: 15-Jan-1937]
Sold 105 sheep through Elder Smith & Co Ltd with consignments to the Midland Market in early 1937: [5: 29-Jan-1937, 19-Feb-1937, 19-Mar-1937]
68 hoggets (12 at 16/7, 19 at 16/1, 37 at 15/7), 18 ewes (12 at 11/1, 6 at 10/-), 14 lambs at 12/7 and 5 wethers at 15/- [5]
Head Steward of the Sheep section at the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts Agricultural Society's Annual Shows 1939-1946 [150]
Attended the funeral of Waddy Forest farmer Stanley L. FOLLAND at the Moora Cemetery on Monday 25 August 1941 [4: 30-Aug-1941]
Private in the local Volunteer Defence Corps during the Second World War [16]
Financial Member of the Carnamah District Agricultural Society in 1948 [13]
Farmer in Coorow until at least 1970 [19]
Later resided in the Perth suburb of Menora [2]
Father of Adrian [84]
Died 26 December 1995; ashes interred Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (IC Section, Rose Memorial, CA, 5) [2]
Charles Benge BROWN
Born C.1865 [2]
Railway Fettler in Gunyidi 1922-1927 [19]
Resided in the Perth suburb of West Midland in 1928 [2]
Died 2 March 1928; buried Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Presbyterian, GA, 204) [2]
Eric Arthur BROWN
Born 1914 [15]
Farmer in Bunjil in 1936 [50]
Married Isabel May COLE in Perth in 1937 [66]
Resided in Coorow in 1938 [84]
Later resided in Gutha [2]
Father of Desmond [84]
Died 25 August 1980; ashes interred Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (EC Section, Garden of Remembrance, 26, 218) [2]
Eva Harriett BROWN
Born C.1870
Married Philip FARLEY in 1887 in Bengal, India [171]
Departed Calcutta, India with Philip and children on the Hymettus and arrived in Fremantle, Western Australia on 26 April 1911 [70]
Resided with her husband and children on Dartmouth Farm in Coorow 1912-1925 [19] [27] [215]
Organised a Welcome Home for her son James FARLEY at their home in Coorow on Thursday 10 July 1919 [10: 18-Jul-1919]
Assisted by helpers she decorated the room with his battalion colours, and borrowed a piano from Mrs Lillian E. MCNAMARA [10]
The evening was reported to have been "the best and brightest function yet head in that old established place Coorow" [10]
A large crowd from Coorow, Carnamah and Three Springs attended, many of whom travelled boggy roads to be present [10]
Donated pan turkeys for the Luncheon Booth at the Picnic Race Meeting in Three Springs on Saint Patrick's Day 17 March 1920 [124]
Resided of late in the Perth suburb of Fremantle [2]
Died 14 November 1936; buried Fremantle Cemetery, Perth suburb of Palmyra (Anglican, A5, 205) [2]
Henry Joseph BROWN
Farmer of Cudimera Farm in Gunyidi 1911-1939 [19]
He was the owner of the 400 acre Victoria Location 7085 in Gunyidi [3]
In September 1935 he applied with the Carnamah District Road Board to fill holes in payments of his rates and taxes [5: 27-Sep-1935]
His application was to fill holes on the road in Gunyidi from Hector M. RODDA's gate to the Gunyidi State School [5: 27-Sep-1935]
Mrs Isabel May BROWN
Wife of Eric Arthur BROWN; see Isabel May COLE
James Stanley BROWN
Well Sinker in Waddy Forest 1929-1935 [19]
John Henry BROWN
Labourer in Coorow in 1933 [19]
Lily BROWN
Born 1904 in Dongara, Western Australia [15]
Daughter of Michael BROWN and Alice Amelia READ [15]
Resided with her parents on Woopenatty Station in Arrino, in Three Springs, and on farms in Perenjori and Bowgada [193]
Married James FARLEY in Perth in 1921 [66]
Resided with her husband on farmland in Coorow 1921-1928 [6] [19]
They resided in Perenjori 1929-1935, and on farmland in Bowgada 1938-1942 [16] [19]
Resided on farmland in Perenjori 1948-1958 [19]
Resided of late in the Perth suburb of City Beach [2]
Died 24 December 1995; cremated at the Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA [2]
Michael BROWN
Farmer in Gunyidi 1932-1934 [19] [300: pages 42, 79]
Cleared some of Vanzetti Road in Marchagee, for which the Carnamah District Road Board paid him £3/2/6 on 8 May 1934 [300]
Paid a 10/- Vermin Bonus by the Carnamah District Road Board in June 1934 for helping to control vermin by killing a wild dog [300]
Charles BROWNE
Clearer in Marchagee in 1916 [50]
Herbert Josiah BROXUP
Farmhand at Latham's Rock east of Coorow in 1916 [19]
In 1916 he also worked as an Engine Fitter & Erector while living at the Salvation Army Home in the Perth suburb of Subiaco [50]
By 1919 he was working as a Labourer and living at 18 Allen Street in Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia [50]
Alice Christina BRYANT
Born 1908 in Greenbushes, Western Australia [14] [90]
Married (1) Walter George FENNELL in Perth in 1926 [14] [66]
Resided with her husband on farmland in Marchagee 1926-1955 [14] [19]
Won 2nd prize for a Coloured Toilet Set in the Fancy Work section of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1934 [5: 7-Sep-1934]
Awarded 1st prize for Beetroot in the Vegetable section of the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Show in 1936 [5: 11-Sep-1936]
Her husband Walter passed away at the age of 47 years on 27 February 1955 and was buried at the Winchester Cemetery [1] [14]
Married (2) COLLINS [90]
Resided at Lot 104 Bristol Street in the Coorow townsite 1967-1986 [19]
Prior to and up until her death resided at the Victoria Park Nursing Home in the Perth suburb of Victoria Park [1]
Passed away at the age of 85 years from acute myocardia infarct ischaemic heart disease [90]
Mother of Frank, Kevin, Barry and Graham [14]
Died 3 January 1994 the Perth suburb of Victoria Park; ashes buried Winchester Cemetery, Carnamah (Row F, Plot 2) [1]
Mrs Charlotte BRYANT
Wife of Frank Ringol BRYANT; see Charlotte HOLMES
"Jock" Clarence Jock BRYANT
Born 13 May 1914 in Bridgetown, Western Australia [16]
Farmhand on Yorkdale Farm in Marchagee 1935-1943 and Farmer in Waddy Forest 1947-1956 [19]
Became a member of the Carnamah Masonic Lodge No.150 WAC on 13 December 1935 [96]
Part of an overland trip to the uninhabited coast at Jurien Bay, which departed on Monday 15 February 1937 [5: 26-Feb-1937]
The 12 other members of the party were Frank R. BRYANT, Walter G. FENNELL and W. Frank FENNELL of Marchagee; [5]
Baxter D. BOTHE, William J. GAUNT, George HUTRCHRAFT, Donald S. GRANT, David TODD, Fred BINGHAM, [5]
and John S. READ of Coorow; Angus A. N. MCGILP of Waddy Forest; and William A. T. SARGENT of Carnamah [5]
They travelled in two trucks and two cars and from Moora they drove over 54 miles of road and 30 miles of sand [5]
They erected a shed and tables and were able to get good reception on a wireless Fred BINGHAM had taken along [5]
They took a boat with them and fished every day, and paid a visit to caves situated nine miles from their camp at Jurien Bay [5]
The party also visited Sandy Cape and North Head and after an enjoyable stay returned home on Friday 19 February 1937 [5]
Married Muriel COOPER in Perth in 1942 [66]
Enlisted in the Australian Army on 8 December 1942 [16]
Corporal WX35807 in the Australian Army's 11th Australian MC GP during the Second World War [16]
Discharged from the Australian Army on 15 January 1946 [16]
Later resided in Buntine and in the southern Perth suburb of Waikiki [45]
Father of Chris, Steven, Vince and Russell [45]
Died 10 August 2006; cremated at the Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA on 17 August 2006 [45]
Mrs Eleanor Wylde BRYANT
Wife of Lawrence Alexander R. BRYANT; see Eleanor Wylde PIERCY
Frank Ringol BRYANT
Born 17 July 1881 in Quorn, South Australia [55]
Son of William Henry BRYANT and Caroline MILLS [55]
Married Charlotte HOLMES in 1906 [66]
Farmer in Marchagee, Western Australia 1921-1949 [6] [120: 5-Oct-1933]
Farmer of the Mamboobie Estate in Marchagee 1921-1935 [19] [5: 15-Feb-1935]
The Mamboobie Estate was 5,355 acres consisting of Victoria Locations 3190, 3220 to 3227, 3219 and 5474 [3] [5: 15-Feb-1935]
He is said to have managed the Mamboobie Estate in Marchagee for Paterson & Company Ltd [108: page 6]
He appears to have leased and later purchased the majority of the estate from Griffith G. JOHN and Duncan W. PATERSON [3] [44]
He later also took up a large parcel of sandplain country in Marchagee which he established into Yorkdale Farm [108: page 6]
Yorkdale Farm was 8,098 acres in size and consisted of Victoria Locations 8298 and 8382 [3] [120: 5-Oct-1933]
He then farmed Yorkdale Farm in Marchagee in conjunction with the Mamboobie Estate in Marchagee [120: 5-Oct-1933]
His 5,355 acre Mamboobie Estate was situated ten miles east of the Marchagee Railway Siding [5: 1-Mar-1935]
In 1935 his Mamboobie Estate was divided into 20 paddocks and of its acreage 4,596 were cleared acres and 500 were on fallow [5]
The property included four wells, two dams, a six room homestead, workmen's quarters, sheds, stables, workshop and yards [5]
Mamboobie contained a shearing shed and a number of Marchagee farmers took their sheep there to be shorn each year [108: page 6]
Following the sale of his Mamboobie Estate in 1935-36 he continued farming Yorkdale Farm in Marchagee until 1949 [3] [6]
Foundation Member of the Carnamah District Road Board in 1923 [7: page 111]
Represented the South Ward of the Carnamah District Road Board 1923-1925, retiring in April 1925 [7: page 111] [9: 30-Jan-1925]
Once more served on the Carnamah District Road Board representing the South Ward from 1926-27 to 1945-46 [7: page 111]
Represented the Carnamah Road Board at the Vermin Conference of Road Boards in Moora on 20 September 1935 [5: 20-Sep-1935]
Said to have been 'the' very important person of the Marchagee district who was "the undisputed authority on everything" [108: page 6]
He was the accepted authority or rallying point for any serious activity such as fire control, local services and problems [108]
His equivalent in neighbouring districts was said to be Angus A. N. MCGILP for Coorow and John BOWMAN for Carnamah [108]
In July 1925 he unsuccessfully requested that the road between Victoria Locations 3227 and 5475 be closed [9: 14-Aug-1925]
He produced 9,000 of the 25,000 bags of wheat grown in Marchagee in 1927 [4: 10-Mar-1928]
In 1932 had licensed with the Carnamah District Road Board a Reo truck with license plate CA-57 [4: 12-Nov-1932]
He was the owner of shop premises at Gov Lot 4 in the Marchagee townsite in 1932 [3]
Proposed one of the toasts at the dinner following the official opening of the new Carnamah Post Office on 30 June 1932 [5: 8-Jul-1932]
Travelled to Carnamah to attend the monthly meeting of the Carnamah District Road Board on Tuesday 13 June 1933 [5: 16-Jun-1933]
On that day the trip to Carnamah was 55 miles in length on a bad road, including two half mile stretches of floodwaters [5]
After the meeting he was unable to return home due to rapidly rising floodwaters at Winchester so spent the night in Carnamah [5]
Attended the Valedictory Dinner tendered to Alexander B. GLOSTER at the Coorow Hotel on Monday 3 July 1933 [5: 7-Jul-1933]
He was the first Marchagee farmer to deliver wheat to the railway siding in Marchagee for the 1933 harvest [5: 17-Nov-1933]
Attended the Official Opening of the East Marchagee Hall in Marchagee on Saturday 11 November 1933 [5: 17-Nov-1933]
He organised a sports day which was held on the same day as the opening, and also donated the children's prizes and sweets [5]
Prior to the building of the East Marchagee Hall he had annually organised a sports day held at the Meelyah Reserve [5]
Vice Patron 1933-1939 and Committee Member in 1937 of the Coorow-Waddy Forest Districts Agricultural Society [5: 23-Dec-1932] [150]
In 1934 and 1937 he was the distributor for Marchagee for the Carnamah District Road Board's rabbit poison [5: 5-Jan-1934, 22-Jan-1937]
Used kerosene tins on their side four high as retaining for sand, and it was standing strong over eight years later in 1934 [5: 12-Jan-1934]
His camp for his employees who worked outback was made out of iron and on wheels so it could be moved by tractor [5: 12-Jan-1934]
In January 1934 six Marchagee farmers expressed their appreciation of him as their member on the Carnamah Road Board [5: 19-Jan-1934]
Accompanied by Rev. A. W. CURTIS of Coorow travelled from Marchagee to the coast at Sandy Cape in February 1934 [5]
The journey from Marchagee to Sandy Cape (west of Watheroo) was about 90 miles in distance and took six hours [5]
They travelled to Sandy Cape to see his four sons and son-in-law who had been camping there [5: 16-Feb-1934]
With a tractor and plough he had cleared 59 miles of the road from Marchagee as far as Spring Hill River a few years earlier [5]
Attended the funeral of Mrs Christina B. D. FORRESTER of Carnamah at the Winchester Cemetery on 31 August 1934 [4: 8-Sep-1934]
Elder Smith & Co Ltd and Paterson & Co Ltd conducted a dispersal sale of his Mamboobie Estate on Friday 8 March 1935 [5]
The sale was to sell his 5,355 acre Mamboobie Estate consisting of Victoria Locations 3190, 3220 to 3227, 3219 and 5474 [3] [5]
His plant, machinery, 600 sheep, 11 horses, 15 cattle and five pigs were sold by auctioned regardless of whether the land sold [5]
Among the machinery sold at the dispersal sale was an eight foot Gibbons header, six furrow Mouldboard Shearer ploughs, [5]
16 run McKay combine, large wagon table top, large dray, tip dray, Rushton Proctor steam engine, Hart-Parr tractor, [5: 15-Feb-1935]
33 tyne McKay cultivator, and a quantity of harnesses, collars, hames, winkers, chains, swings and blacksmithing tools [5: 1-Mar-1935]
The property itself possibly didn't sell as it was still in his name in rate books at the start of the 1935-36 financial year [3]
By mid 1936 his former 5,355 acre Mamboobie Estate was owned by Griffith G. JOHN of Paterson & Company Ltd in Perth [3]
Farmer of Yorkdale Farm on the south side of the Buntine-Marchagee Road in Marchagee 1936-1949 [3] [62]
Yorkdale Farm was 8,098 acres in size and consisted of Victoria Locations 8298 and 8382 [3] [120: 5-Oct-1933]
Later extended Yorkdale to 9,876 acres with the purchase of the adjoining 1,778 acre Victoria Location 9493 [3]
Costume Judge at the Children's Fancy Dress Ball held in Coorow on Saturday 6 July 1935 [5: 12-Jul-1935]
Judged the Sheep Dogs at the Coorow-Waddy Agricultural Shows in Coorow in 1935, 1936 and 1937 [5: 13-Sep-1935, 11-Sep-1936, 10-Sep-1937]
Also judged the Sheep Dogs at the Carnamah District Agricultural Shows in 1935, 1936 and 1937 [5: 20-Sep-1935, 4-Sep-1936, 17-Sep-1937]
From September 1935 he held the keys for the East Marchagee Hall on behalf of the Carnamah District Road Board [5: 27-Sep-1935]
Attended the entertainment for the Commonwealth Grants Commission at the Coorow Hotel on 21 November 1935 [5: 29-Nov-1935]
Himself and his son were engaged in burning rubbish on fallow on his farm in Marchagee on Tuesday 17 March 1936 [5]
He picked up a bush when he noticed something move, and as he dropped the bush realised it was a Death Adder snake [5]
At the same time his son saw another snake at his feet, which he quickly dealt with through the use of an axe [5: 20-Mar-1936]
On 27 July 1936 wrote a letter to the Carnamah Police Station stating that when he mustered his sheep 350 were missing [88]
Although he believed they could have strayed off his property he had made inquiries for them and couldn't locate them [88]
Constable Maurice PLUNKETT of Carnamah received his letter on 28 July 1936 and left for Marchagee that same day [88]
Over 16 days PLUNKETT and two Perth detectives made numerous inquiries and unsuccessful attempts to locate the sheep [88]
It was reported in The North Midland Times on 7 August 1936 that thorough investigations were being continued [5: 7-Aug-1936]
Attended the Inaugural Sale of the North Midlands Stud Stockbreeders Association in Carnamah on Friday 18 September 1936 [5]
Purchased four Border Leicester rams at 5 guineas per head, or a total of £21, from LEISHMAN Bros of Winchester [5: 2-Oct-1936]
Despite the unfavourable season he obtained a good cut of hay of about two tons per acre in October 1936 [5: 30-Oct-1936]
He cut his hay from an oat crop which stood approximately seven feet high - its hight making it difficult to cut [5: 30-Oct-1936]
Organiser of an overland trip to the uninhabited coast at Jurien Bay, which departed on Monday 15 February 1937 [5: 26-Feb-1937]
The 12 other members of the party were C. Jock BRYANT, Walter G. FENNELL and W. Frank FENNELL of Marchagee; [5]
Baxter D. BOTHE, William J. GAUNT, George HUTRCHRAFT, Donald S. GRANT, David TODD, Fred BINGHAM, [5]
and John S. READ of Coorow; Angus A. N. MCGILP of Waddy Forest; and William A. T. SARGENT of Carnamah [5]
The crew, of which he was "Captain," travelled via Moora in two trucks and two cars and arrived the following day [5]
From Moora they drove over 54 miles of road and 30 miles of sand to their camping spot on the beach at Jurien Bay [5]
They erected a shed and tables and were able to get good reception on a wireless Fred BINGHAM had taken along [5]
They took a boat with them and fished every day, and paid a visit to caves situated nine miles from their camp at Jurien Bay [5]
The party also visited Sandy Cape and North Head and after an enjoyable stay returned home on Friday 19 February 1937 [5]
In April 1937 the Carnamah District Road Board recommended he be appointed a Justice of the Peace [5: 30-Apr-1937, 21-May-1937]
Inspected freshwater pools at Gunyidi in 1937 for their suitability as a swimming pool for the Carnamah District Road Board [5]
The Road Board planned to get a particularly suitable pool vested in the board for recreation purposes [5: 21-May-1937, 20-Aug-1937]
In 1937 took six children from Marchagee to Carnamah so they could get their free diphtheria injections [5: 20-Aug-1937]
He had a depot in Marchagee for grasshopper baits for the southern end of the Carnamah District Road Board in 1937 [5: 20-Aug-1937]
Attended the meeting in Coorow to discuss constructing a road from Coorow to the coast on 11 September 1937 [5: 17-Sep-1937]
Financial Member of the Carnamah District Agricultural Society in 1938 [13]
One of the two judges at the Coorow Flower and Vegetable Show in 1940 [0: image 03904]
Pallbearer at the funeral of Winchester farmer William John PETHICK on 21 March 1941 at the Winchester Cemetery [5]
Pallbearer at the funeral of Mrs Eliza Wilhelmina BOTHE at the Winchester Cemetery on 24 August 1942 [5]
Judge of the Ring Events section at the Carnamah District Agricultural Society's Victory Show on 13 September 1945 [13]
Pallbearer at the funeral of Carnamah farmer Carl OLSEN at the Winchester Cemetery on 21 March 1946 [5]
He lost his place on the Carnamah District Road Board after he was defeated in an election in 1946 [7: page 99]
On 15 May 1946 the Carnamah District Road Board sent him a letter of appreciation after a service of nearly 23 years [7]
Himself and retiring Road Board member James K. FORRESTER were the joint guests of honour at a Complimentary Dinner [7]
Sold 8,098 acres of his Yorkdale Farm (Victoria Locations 8298 and 8382) to "Hal" Albert P. HUNT in March 1949 [3]
Sold his remaining 1,778 acres in Marchagee (Victoria Location 9493) to W. Frank FENNELL in January 1950 [3]
Pallbearer at the funeral of Coorow farmer Baxter Diedrich BOTHE on 23 February 1950 at the Winchester Cemetery [0]
By 1951 he had left Marchagee and was living in Stratham Street in the Perth suburb of East Cannington [3]
Resided in Coorow in retirement in 1955 and 1956 [19]
Later resided in the northern agricultural district of Maya, situated between Latham and Wubin [2]
Died 19 November 1957; ashes interred Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth WA (Crematorium Rose Gardens, S, 4) [2]
From The Western Mail newspaper, Friday 20 December 1928:
Country Towns and Districts - Carnamah-Coorow - Rapid Development - Marchagee
"The best results obtained by Mr F. R. Bryant, on his 3,100 acres of crop at Mamboobie, came from Dollar wheat. At the present rate 2,000 bags will come off 420 acres. On 5,330 acres of land, including 1,800 acres of crop, 3,700 Koonoona sheep, 30 horses and 30 head of cattle are being carried, the main feed being burr clover and 600 acres of sand plain are down with rye and subterranean clover. Lucerne has proved successful in small patches and two acres of orchard planted fifteen months ago are thriving."
From The Western Mail newspaper, Thursday 5 October 1933:
Country Towns and Districts - Three Springs and Carnamah - Rich Pastoral and Wheat Lands - A Progressive Community
"Mr F. R. Bryant, the senior member of the Carnamah Road Board, owns a fine property well known throughout the district as Mamboobie, comprising 5,083 acres of splendid agricultural and pastoral land. It was acquired by its present owner 12 years ago and has since been added to by the purchase of the adjoining property known as Yorkdale, which comprises another 8,098 acres. The property is well watered by dams and wells to cover all requirements, and the water is reticulated to the homestead and its many outbuildings. The property is subdivided into 27 convenient paddocks, which permits the constant transfer of stock to facilitate their preparation for the Midland stock market, to which regular supplies are forwarded. The average acreage cropped on this property over the years is said to be 2,500 acres, but this season, principally owing to the abnormal rains occurring in July, it will be somewhat less. The land is tilled on a three year rotation system, and the wheat grown is Merredin, Nabawa and Canberra; the latter generally giving the best results. The pasture lands grow trefoil, barley and rye grass luxuriantly, and the pastures are not overtaxed while maintaining one sheep to the acre all the year round. At the present time property is said to be carrying 4,000 Merinos of Kanoona blood, which last year gave an average clip of 8½ lb., while it is claimed that one fleece at 18 lb. In addition to sheep, it carries 45 horses and a herd of 30 Illawarra Shorthorn cattle, which are marketed to the beef trade."