Ghosts WA

Burglary or Misstep? A Curious Case in Higginsville, 1907 In the early days of January 1907, the quiet mining town of Higginsville, Western Australia, found itself at the centre of a curious legal drama. Nestled in the…

Did he or didn't he? #history #genealogy #familyhistory #WesternAustralia #ghosttowns #trial #burglary
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Ernest Giles and the 1875 Expedition Across Australia Map of Giles’s Route (Surveyor General’s Office, 1875) – Reproduced courtesy of the National Library of Australia. Digitized and available via the National Library of Australia; this work is out of…

One of Australia's lesser known explorers. #ghostswa #FamilyHistoryWA #genealogy #familyhistory @christineharris.bsky.social @oneplacestudies.bsky.social
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Cossack – 12 June 1897 On this day in 1897, Roebourne defeated Cossack in a close match.

ON THIS DAY - Cossack 12 Jun 1897 😀
#cricket #cossackwa #Genealogy #history #FamilyHistory #ghosttowns
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Captured Records at 31 May 2025 Our project team are working hard to capture as many records as possible of the people in WA’s ghost communities. Once our website and search engine is fully operational you will be able to a…

To keep everyone up to date with the progress being made on the project, we will be posting a monthly update to our blog. Here is the first of these posts. 👍
#genealogy #familyhistory #ghosttowns #westernaustralia #history
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Old John Hunter “The only man who ever made Coolgardie blossom like a rose” Something rarely mentioned about the Eastern Goldfields is – how did people get fresh veggies? It’s hard to imagi…

The story of Old John Hunter
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#genealogy #history #familyhistory #ghostswa #ghosttowns #westernaustralia

Nannine Police Station The Nannine Police Station was built in 1896 and in 1922 it was uplifted and moved to Yalgoo.

Did you know that the Yalgoo Post Office was originally in Nannine? #ghostswa #familyhistory #genealogy #history #westernaustralia #familyhistoryWA
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Crime in Bowgada Murder in Bowgada

There's murder afoot
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Kundip Dreaming Kundip

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To quote genealogist Paul Chiddicks (bsky.app/profile/chid...) "history is about people. It’s about how and where they lived, the challenges they faced, the triumphs they celebrated, and the legacies they left behind."
And we couldn't agree more! There are thousands of stories waiting to be told.

Congratulations to the magnificent team of Volunteers working on the People of Western Australia's Ghost Towns Project. They have hit a magical milestone of collecting 50,000 records of people who lived in our many ghost communities around the state.

I see your Texas and raise you one Western Australia

The Two Centuries of Chinese Heritage in Western Australia podcast series is officially live! 🎙✨ Based on original research, these podcasts shed light on the often less-told stories of Chinese heritage in our State.

Listen now 👉 linktr.ee/chinesewa 🎧

The Pearl Fisheries at Tien-Tsin, North-West Australia A contemporary account of the establishment of Cossack.

Cossack, originally called Tien-Tsin, was a major port critical to the development of the pastoral industry in the north west. The story of its establishment, written at the time, makes for fascinating reading.
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#WesternAustralia #history #FamilyHistoryWA

The Lynton Convict Hiring Depot near Port Gregory in the Shire of Northampton, Western Australia. The site was only active for a very few years and there's not a great deal left, but what is there is very special.
#genealogy #familyhistory #history #convicts #ghosttowns #ghostswa

The GhostsWA team are in Geraldton this weekend to meet with the people in the Mid West region and talk about all things "ghost town".

Search Party I just came across this article in the Sunday Chronicle of 12 Dec 18971. It struck my funny bone and so I wanted to share it with you!! Perhaps, given the sombre nature of the background to the art…

Whatever happened to John M'Innes?
#history #familyhistory #genealogy #ghosttowns #WesternAustralia
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Mid West The Mid West is one of the nine region s of Western Australia. It stretches east and north from the west coast covering a area of more than 400,000km2. The capital of the Mid West is the City of Ge…

Heading out on Thursday morning for a research trip to the Mid West region of Western Australia. Want to know what ghost towns are in our list for the Mid West? Here's the list. 😘
#ghosttowns #familyhistory #genealogy
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"In the Field's Find district there are not more than 20 men all told. It would be unwise for prospectors to take horses at the present time, as there is absolutely no feed in the district, but there is plenty of fresh water." Sunday Times 1922
#fieldsfindwa #ghostswa #genealogy #history #ghosttown

Field’s Find Grave marker in the Field’s Find Cemetery1 Region: Mid WestLGA: Shire of YalgooAKA: Fields FindIndustry: Gold MiningCoordinates: 29°02’20.0″S 117°14’30.0″EWhat3Words:&…

Have you ever heard of Field's Find?
#ghostswa #fhwa #familyhistorywa #history #genealogy #familyhistory #ghosttown #westernaustralia
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YouTube video by Daniel Loftus Genealogy Using Bluesky for #Genealogy (and in general!)

Here we go! A tutorial video for any new #Bluesky users, (whether you do #Genealogy or not) is out now. Hope people find this useful. 🙂

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Ghost town schools What was school like for the children and teachers of Western Australia’s Ghost Towns?  In the years of rapid growth of mining communities, timber camps and the railways, (which encouraged the open…

As we move towards the end of another school year in Western Australia, we can reflect on what life was like for the teachers and students in the hundreds of tiny schools that serviced the old ghost towns.
#genealogy #familyhistory #ghostswa #history

Mr Stanley’s Opera Troupe Cossack in 1886 was a frontier town in one of the most isolated colonies in the world.  It was a centre for pearling and pearl shell fishing and the entry point for pastoralists who establishe…

It's 1886 and Mr Stanley's Opera Troupe is bringing Gilbert and Sullivan to the far north west of Australia.
#ghostswa #history #CossackWA #genealogy #familyhistory #culture
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The first rush In 1872, the government offered a reward of £5,000 for the discovery of the first payable goldfield in the colony of Western Australia1. In 1879, Alexander Forrest explored the Fitzroy and Ord Rive…

The first gold discoveries in Western Australia started in the late 1870s. Here's a bit about the first WA goldrush...
#ghostswa #fhwa #familyhistorywa #genealogy #history

Upcoming speaking engagement! #ghostswa #FHWA #familyhistory #genealogy

Tough Conditions and Complicated Lives Around 1900, regular information came filtering through on the Ularring District and its goldfields, claiming that they were likely to be ‘second to none’ in mining outcomes. Ularring was…

A story from one of Western Australia’s ghost town. #ghostswa #genealogy #familyhistory #FHWA #FamilyHistoryWA

The People of Western Australia's Ghost Towns project has been established to celebrate the joint milestones of Western Australia's Bicentennary and FamilyHistoryWA's 50th Anniversary.
And we have joined the fantastic family history community here on Bluesky!