The child's father, Charles Henry Frew, was born 4 November 1879 at Duncans Creek, New South Wales (Birth Registration 20234/1879, Nundle).  He married Mary Wake on 28 November 1900 at Hillgrove, New South Wales (Marriage Registration 8816/1900, Hillgrove).  She was born about 1870 in Paterson, New South Wales.

The eldest two children of this marriage were born in New South Wales.  They were Reuben Charles, born 1901 at Hillgrove, New South Wales (Birth Registration 13293/1901, Hillgrove) and his sister, Phyllis Edna, born at Hillgrove , in July 1903.   It appears that the family then moved to Western Australia about October 1902 where, sadly, Reuben and Phyllis died 4 February 1904 in a house fire at Champion camp at the Kookynie goldfields.  Their stories appear in this website.

The next four children were born in Western Australia.  They were: Robert Archibald Henry born 26 December 1904 at Kookynie (Birth Registration 2095/1905); Elsie Maud born 28 November 1906 at Kookynie (Birth Registration 1900139/1906, North Coolgardie), died of bronchitis 11 December 1906, aged 2 weeks and appears in this website; William Thomas; Irene Elizabeth born 12 February 1910 at Mt Morgans (Birth Registration 4300026/1910, Mt Margaret)

It was then back to New South Wales where the last two children of this family were born.  They were: John Edward born 1912 in Woonona (Birth Registration 52271/1912, Woonona) and Margaret Rachel born 1914 at Bulli (Birth Registration 33712/1914, Bulli).

The patriarch of this family, Charles Henry Frew, died 7 September 1934 at the Wallsend Mining Hospital in Newcastle, New South Wales.  His wife died in Wallsend on 31 January 1947, aged 77 years.

Elizabeth was buried in Section C, Plot 19 of the Mount Morgans Cemetery.

Elizabeth left an estate valued at £261/18/ to her husband, Thomas Gendall.

The child's mother was born in Victoria in 1884 and the couple went on to have a daughter in Victoria in 1910.  Ruby Charlotte GERKE, younger sister to the deceased child, was born on 24 March 1910 at Ascot Vale. Their mother died in 1937 at Heidelberg, Victoria, but little is known of her husband.

This little girl is buried in Section B, Plot 34 of the Mount Morgans Cemetery.

Few details of her family have been determined but it is believed she may have had younger siblings: Mary Ann Catherine born 1912 in Perth; Jack Dimfort Caldwell born Fremantle in 1914; Matthew born Perth in 1916; possibly Bridget born Kalgoorlie in 1917.  However, these children have not been confirmed as siblings of the deceased.

The deceased had been a resident of the state for over 50 years and had seen most of the goldfields as they broke out.

Also known as Richard Green. The deceased had spent 31 years in Victoria before arriving in Western Australia. He is buried in Section A, Plot 30 of the Mt Morgans Cemetery.

The accident occurred in the No. 2 shaft of the Westralian Mount Morgan Mine. Three men named Felix Grogan, Patrick Doherty and Michael Higgins were engaged in sinking the shaft. At about 5 a.m. an explosion was heard and an engineer named Mellor pluckily descended in a broken bucket through the dense smoke. He found Doherty and Higgins dead and Grogan nearly so. He made the living man as comfortable as he could, dragged the body of Higgins out of the water and then went above to report what had occurred. Grogan was brought to the top alive. The other two men were fearfully mutilated. The water at the bottom of the shaft was covered with pieces of floating brains and flesh and highly coloured with blood. Grogan died about 20 minutes after he reached the surface. Grogan's injuries were mainly confined to the lower part of the body. Both legs and thighs were broken and the left foot was almost torn off the bone protruding. The injuries generally were sufficient to cause death by shock. The hole had apparently been fired before and the charge partially exploded. The men had evidently been attempting to re-drill or clean the hole out when the remainder of the old charge had exploded. The explosive used was the best in the market and the electric fuse was considered to be the safest igniter to use. The coroner called the witness Mellor and made him n present of £5 from the jury and £2 from himself, for his promptitude in descending the shaft. Curiously enough, on the night of the inquest the camp and bush shade of the other shift caught fire and were burned to the ground. One of the men, named Wallace, narrowly escaped being burned in his bed. Michael Grogan and Sarah McNamara were married in the Roman Catholic Church at Yass, New South Wales, in 1855 (Marriage Registration 552/1855 V1855552 101, LF). Their other children were John born 1856, William born 1858, Matthew born 1860, Mary A born 1862, Annie born 1866, Daniel James born 1870, Evelyn Margaret born 1875 and Edward Joseph born 1879. Felix' mother was born in Limerick, Ireland, in 1836 and died in Lithgow, New South Wales, in 1923. His father was born in New South Wales in 1834 and died there in 1918.

Known as John Frederick.

Mr Grohbrugge passed away after a long illness.

The deceased's wife, Lydia Maria, died 26 November 1934 in West Perth, aged 75 years.

Henry Christopher Haberley was born 6 June 1853 at Unterheimbach, Germany, as Heinrich Christoph Haeberle.  He applied at Wuerttemburg, Germany, in April 1857 to emigrate to Australia.  Upon arrival, the deceased Anglicised his name to Henry Christopher Haberley.  In 1877 he listed his occupation as miner.

Henry Christopher Haberley died at his residence in Watkins street, Mt Morgans, after a long and painful illness.  He had lived in New South Wales for 40 years before moving to Western Australia.

Mr Haberley left an estate valued at £279 18s to his wife, Julia.

Two of Henry's grandchildren are also buried at Mount Morgans.  They were the children of his youngest daughter, Hilda Gertrude: an unnamed male child Repacholi and Phyllis Repacholi, who both appear in this website.

There is no confirmed information about the parents of this child, although there was a couple of that name who married in Victoria in 1889 and had two children in Victoria before moving to Western Australia where that David Hancock was mining in Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie from at least 1906, and possibly earlier, until he died in Kalgoorlie in 1921.

The deceased died from a severe shock to the system after an operation to amputate his leg after he suffered compound fracturs in an accident. The deceased had spent 17 years in New South Wales before arriving in Western Australia.

Ada and Charles were married at Mt Morgans in 1901 (Marriage Registration 927/1901). This little child was their firstborn. Others were Ivy Alice in 1904 (Birth Registration 3771/1904) and George James born 1905 at Mt Morgans (Birth Registration 4057/1905).

Thomas Harris was burned to death when his camp caught fire.  Mr Harris was apparently very deaf.

The little chap was kicked by a horse on Sunday at 4 p.m., and died on Monday at 1 a.m. The funeral took place on Monday afternoon, the Rev. P. Ryall, rector of Mt Morgans, officiating at the graveside Elizabeth and William were married at Kalgoorlie in 1900 (Marriage Registration 343/1900). Little David was their first-born child. Others that followed were: William Edmen Gordon, born at Mt Morgans in 1903 (Birth Registration 3608/1903); Thomas Arthur Allan, born at Mt Morgans in 1905 (Birth Registration 4021/1905) and John F, born in 1907 (Birth Registration 12/1907, Mt Margaret).

The accident occurred in the No. 2 shaft of the Westralian Mine. Three men named Felix Grogan, Patrick Doherty and Michael Higgins, were engaged in sinking the shaft. At about 5 a.m. an explosion was heard and an engineer named Mellor pluckily descended in a broken bucket through the dense smoke and found Doherty and Higgins dead and Grogan nearly so. He made the living man as comfortable as he could, dragged the body of Higgins out of the water and then went above to report what had occurred. Grogan was brought to the top alive. The other two men were fearfully mutilated and died instantly. The water at the bottom of the shaft was covered with pieces of floating brains and flesh and highly coloured with blood. A little before midnight, the shots fired by the coming off shift missed twice; the three deceased advised the miners working to go to their camps and they (Grogan, Higgins, and Doherty) would fire the shots. Two of them went down the shaft, connected the wires, and fired. Apparently, the shots went off as usual and they made a loud explosion. When the explosion occurred, the witnesses immediately called down the shaft but got no reply. The shots, being fired by electricity, went off together instantaneously. The coroner called the witness Mellor and made him n present of £5 from the jury and £2 from himself, for his promptitude in descending the shaft. Curiously enough, on the night of the inquest the camp and bush shade of the other shift caught fire, and were burned to the ground. One of the men, named Wallace, narrowly escaped being burned in his bed. James Higgins and Honora Murphy were married in Clare, South Australia, on 29 July 1871.