Tales from the Grave

When George Edward Tonkin left for work 6th September, 1916 he would have no idea it would be his last day on earth. George worked at Wellington Mills, in the south-west of Western Australia as a 'hookman'. He was responsible for hooking the logs up to then be hauled away. He was very involved in the timber industry having lived at Augusta and was connected to the Karridale Mill nearby. He was a well respected resident of the area. George was born in Fremantle in 1875 to Edwa

No one has ever been charged with the murder of Gwen Beeson.

When Daniel Barker McMeechan came into the world in Blantyre, Scotland, 1898, he was the fifth child for William Andrew and first for...

Saintly or evil, everyone has a story to tell and this is a sad one. When George Henry Biggs lost his wife, Ethel Martha (nee Mills) in...

Never underestimate a cemetery and the plethora of information it can provide in a family history search. Doyle family graves. Courtesy...

She flew her Cessna across the outback attending to rural people's medical needs.

A Glimpse into Fanny's Early Life There is not much information on Fanny Hopkins. However, at a very young age, she was given the...

Remembering the littles one buried in the bush.

Sometimes when we find a story about an interesting person, they have no final resting place. Their last known location is not known and...

There are three graves in Rookwood Cemetery and two in Melbourne that all have something in common. The bodies that rest in them are...

It had always been a mystery where the missing painting had gone.

Shipwrecked in India to photography in Australia

Sending a child to run errands while controlling a large horse wouldn't have been an issue in earlier days in regional areas. Many...

Maria James was a mum of two boys and owned a second hand book store on High Street, Thornbury in Victoria. It was also her residence...

Fifty eight years ago a woman's body was found in Tiburon, California by a hunter. For the next six decades she would be known as the...

There is nothing sadder than coming across a headstone that denotes the last burial place of a young person. This was the case for...

At 11 years of age, Annie Murphy had already been dealt a cruel blow in life, finding herself living at St Aidan's Orphanage in the...

He left tens of thousands of pounds, after years of baking.

It wasn't just convicts that were sent to the NSW penal colony.

If you wanted to find one of the oldest European graves in Australia, it would surely belong to Henry Edward Dodd.