Murder in Barcaldine
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 …
Mary Hoare
Margaret [Hoare] Riley’s Little Yarn About Paraguay
Source: Whitehead, A. (1997) Source: Whitehead, Anne. (1997) Margaret Hoare was nearly 11 years old when her father decided to take the whole family to Paraguay as part of William Lane’s ‘New Australia’ party. Born …
Return to Barcaldine from Paraguay
Denis Hoare on New Australia. MR. DENIS HOARE and family have arrived in Barcaldine from Paraguay, after an absence of 3 years, during which time the family passed through considerable hardships. Denny and some of …
Denis Hoare and the Paraguay connection
Who was Denis Hoare? Denis was born in 1851 at Dun-drum, County Tipperary, Ireland, and came out to Victoria when he was two years of age. He spent most of his early life on …