Outback Graves Markers

Adult Male BOW (more)

Cause of Death: General Debility, Cardiac Failure

Bow was an Aborigine whose death was certified to in writing by C. Lamb, Undertaker, of Cumberland Street, Kookynie.

Kathleen BOWLER (more)

Cause of Death: Heart Failure, Enteritis, Meningitis

The child's father, Samuel Bowler, was born 6 February 1869 in Albury, New South Wales. He married Johanna Cahill in 1904 in Kookynie. She was born 7 July 1874 at Yea in Victoria. Their first child, Francis Gregory, was born 14 September 1905 at Kookynie; Kevin Ambrose born 5 May 1907; Mary Patricia born 17 February 1910; Henry Aubrey born 8 August 1915.

Johanna died 2 May 1949 in Mount Lawley. Her husband died 25 August 1964.

Margery Allison BRAKESPEARE (more)

Cause of Death: Inanition

Little Margery had been suffering from inanition for some 3 weeks but the cause has not been identified. Inanition is a critical deficiency in caloric power, nutrient, and vitamin intake. The term inanition mentions to the symptoms and effects of starvation.

Arthur Brakespeare appeared in the Bankruptcy Court in April of 1899. He had appeared in Coolgardie about four or five years before. He declared he had started business in the Kalgoorlie Hotel, Hannan street, in 1896, when he had £800. His assets were now about £1,000 and his liabilities £1,650. His wife had put considerable amounts of money into the business and she was, at the time, in Adelaide with a sick mother. He was also connected with several English companies.

Little Margery had an older brother, Arthur Romaine, who was born 2 August 1904. It appears that Arthur Brakespeare died in Singapore in 1910.

Michael BREEN (more)

Cause of Death: Cardiac Disease, Exhaustion

The deceased had suffered from a heart condition for 2 months before his death. He had lived in Victoria for 30 years before arriving in Western Australia.

Henry Theophilus BREUSTEDT (more)

Cause of Death: Accidental Drowning at Public Baths, Kookynie

The cortege left the house of the deceased's sister at 4 o'clock, preceded by the town band, of which Breustedt was an enthusiastic member, followed by the members of the lodges of Oddfellows and Druids, to which societies he had belonged. The popularity of the deceased and the esteem in which he was held was exemplified by the presence at the grave side of so many persons, representing all classes of the community.

The deceased had a sister, Catherine Mabel, who was three years his senior. He had lived in Victoria for 16 years before arriving to Western Australia.

Rosa Eliza BRIGHT (more)

Cause of Death: Splenic Leukemia

The deceased's father, James Duff Bright, was born in 1838 in Kent, England and married Sarah Topley on 29 October 1862 at Bishopsgate, London. His wife was born 9 September 1841 in Kent. The marriage produced 14 children. Of the 5 girls and 9 boys in this family, born between 1863 and 1887, Rosa Eliza was the eighth child and youngest daughter. Her death was certified to in writing by her older brother, William, born 1868. Sarah Topley died on 5 February 1892 in Kent, England.

After arriving in Brisbane in 1908, the family had found their way to Western Australia and James Duff was known to be prospecting at Niagara, Menzies, Coolgardie with his daughter Rosa, son William and Harriet. On 28 September 1920 he arrived back in London and died in Kent on 29 July 1927.

Adeline (MCINTYRE) BROWN (more)

Cause of Death: Tumour of Liver, Exhaustion

Known as Ada.

Ada's mother, Mary Elizabeth Ames was born in 1848 in Surrey, England. She married Lorenzo McIntyre on 1 April 1865 at Ararat, Victoria. He was born 5 February 1824 at Litchfield, Maine, United States of America. The marriage produced 11 children. Of the 8 girls and 3 boys in the family, Adeline was the second eldest. Mary Elizabeth Ames died in 1880 in Victoria and her husband, Lorenzo, died 1902 in Footscray, Victoria.

John BURNS (more)

Cause of Death: Special Haemorrhage, Heart Failure

Also known as Barrier Burns. John Burns, better known as "Barrier" Burns, met with an accident through falling out of a cart near the railway station. The deceased was well known in the early Coolgardie days and on the northern goldfields. He was one of the early pioneers of the Niagara and Kookynie districts. At the age of 49 years, he was one of the oldest residents of Kookynie. Up until the Friday, his injuries were not considered to be very serious and he was progressing favorably. However, spinal haemorrhage set in, which resulted in paralysis of the legs and lower part of the body. This was, shortly after, followed by heart failure. Death occurred very quickly after that. Mr Burns had no relatives in the district and for the last fifteen years had resided with Mr C. O'Neill.

Donald Wallace CAMERON (more)

Cause of Death: Double Lobar Pneumonia, Respiratory Failure

The deceased had lived for 26 years in Queensland before arriving in Western Australia.

Donald Wallace was the second of eight children born to Mary Ann Talbot and Donald Cameron, who married in Queensland in 1867. Their children were Colin born 1868; Mary Amy Ann born 1870; Frank born 1873; Maude born 1878; Lilian Mabel born 1881; Clara born 1881; Jessie.

Donald Cameron Senior died on 30 November 1925 in Rockhampton. His wife died 12 November 1938.

Harold Wallace CAMERON (more)

Cause of Death: Infantile Convulsions

The child's father, Donald Wallace Cameron, married Louisa Hooton in Perth in 1903 (Marriage Registration 1415/1903).

To date, no further records have been found relating to either the child or the parents.

William Aubrey CAMERON (more)

Cause of Death: Gastro Enteritis, Heart Failure

Donald Wallace Cameron married Louisa Hooton in 1903 in Perth. He was born 23 February 1869 in Charters Towers, Queensland. Louisa Hooton was born in 1878 in Shepherd's Flat, Victoria. Donald Wallace Cameron is also represented in this website. He died 14 May 1913 at Kookynie. William Aubrey's brother, Harold Wallace, also appears in this website. He died 27 October 1904. They are each buried in the Presbyterian portion of the Kookynie Cemetery.

John COLLIER (more)

Cause of Death: Bright's Disease, Oedema of the Lung

The deceased spent 38 years in Victoria before moving to Western Australia. The AWA (Australian Worker Association) met at Mt Morgans on 27 October with about 40 members present. The president reported that the sum of £65 4s 9d had been collected during the illness of the late John Collier, who had died from natural causes. A further sum of £10 as a burial allowance was voted. The deceased member was a good unionist of long standing. All is children were born in Victoria and his wife died in East Brighton, Victoria, in 1939.

Dora (CALIGARRI) COSTA (more)

Cause of Death: Intestinal Obstruction, Adhesions

Dora is buried in Plot 41 of the Roman Catholic portion of the Kookynie Cemetery.

In 1907, Dora's residence in Kookynie was broken into and some clothing stolen during the time when she had been absent from her residence for a few months. During the court case in August 1907, Dora stated that she had left Kookynie in January that year and returned on 27 July. She died the following year after an illness of some 10 to 14 days duration.

Kathleen Maud COUNSEL (more)

Cause of Death: Acute Capillary Bronchitis

Catherine Ellen Le Lagadec was born in Gulgong, New South Wales in 1874 (Birth Registration 14663/1874, Gulgong, and her husband, William Richard Counsel, was born in 1880 in Victoria. The couple married in 1899 in Parkes, New South Wales. Their other children were Clarice Edna born 1903 in Kookynie (Birth Registration 1860/1903, Kookynie); Adeline Mary born 1910 (Birth Registration 92/1910, North Coolgardie); Sheila Norma born 1913 (Birth Registration 231/1913, East Coolgardie). Both Catherine and her husband died in 1940, she in Belmont, he in Kalgoorlie.

William COURTNEY (more)

Cause of Death: Heat Apoplexy

The deceased spent 20 years in New South Wales before arriving in Western Australia.