A Small Town in Queensland, Australia
This is the second and third parts of the story of a Chinese exhumation reported in the Western Champion 18 April 1905. It appears there was a fair bit of confusion about the approvals process …
THE CEMETERY PLAN My initial analysis of the 1889-1996 data from the (second) Barcaldine Cemetery has allowed me to construct a series of plan segments to show who’s buried in most of the graves. Sadly, …
George and Mary Hammond were the proprietors of the Western Hotel in Barcaldine from 1886 to 1888 Mary migrated to Rockhampton from Devonshire, England on the sailing ship ‘Empress’ in 1863 (5?) when she was …
The Shakespeare Hotel, then spelt ‘Shakspeare’ after its original owner George Page Shakspeare, was shifted from Pine Hill by rail in 1886. Mr Walter Crust changed the spelling to Shakespeare when he bought the hotel …
I am posting in full a recent news article on the latest iteration of the old hotel in Barcaldine now known simply as The Globe. The article was written by Kirili Lamb for the Rural …
Barcaldine started with a large number of hotels in the main street, Oak Street. Many burned down in the numerous street fires. Some of them were rebuilt, and some of them burnt down again, with …
The Kemp family settled in Barcaldine about 1887. This is the story of William and Hannah contributed by their great-grand-daughter, Diane Passmore. Hannah (nee McCall) Kemp William Kemp William Kemp was born in July 1844 …
This is a list of all the ANZACs from WWI who were born in Barcaldine. They registered at various sites in Australia, including Longreach. Further information can be found on the Australian War Memorial site. …
I have taken this story from the one posted by Warren Nunn. Warren wrote about how Winx had triggered memories of two bush horses – Picnic in the Park and Bororen. Bororen was my father’s horse …
The Currie Tragedy – a case of domestic violence Account of the deaths of Edith Alice Currie (nee Booth) and Hugh Currie Drawn from newspapers of the day 6 January, 1920 The Acting-Sergeant of Police …