Shire of Sandstone
Sandstone is located 742 km northeast of Perth via the Great Northern Highway and the town of Mount Magnet.
The Shire lies in the heart of the spectacular east Murchison District and its bronzed landscape tells many tales of bygone days when gold was first discovered. In 1894 Ernest Shillington and a number of fellow prospectors found gold about 20 km southwest of the present town site.
For a period of six years from 1907 Sandstone was a small city of some 6,000 to 8,000 people. It had four hotels, four butchers, many cafes, stores and business houses, as well as a staffed police station and two banks. During this boom period, in July 1910, the railway came to the town. However by 1919 only 200 people remained and many buildings were pulled down and moved. Fortunately Sandstone was able to survive as a centre for the region’s growing pastoral industry. In more recent times, gold mining has re-emerged as Sandstone's principal industry.
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Burial Records
Sandstone
Date of Death: 10 August 1908
Cause of Death: Rupture of the Brain
Occupation: Woodcutter
Plot Numer: S21
Date of Death: 04 April 1929
Cause of Death: Suicide by gunshot
Occupation: Miner and Contractor
Age: 48
Plot Numer: M14
Samuel William ALLEN (details)
Date of Death: 27 June 1944
Occupation: Pastolarist
Age: 66
Plot Numer: M11
Olive Maude BAILEY (details)
Date of Death: 16 May 1913
Occupation: Infant
Age: 15 months
Plot Numer: S26
Date of Death: 19 June 1914
Cause of Death: Heart Failure
Occupation: Miner
Age: 53
Plot Numer: A16
Date of Death: 14 April 1911
Occupation: Infant
Plot Numer: T24
Date of Death: 15 May 1924
Occupation: Labourer
Age: 57
Plot Numer: D17
—?— BIDDY (ABORIGINAL)
Date of Death: 01 September 1912
Cause of Death: Died of burns
Age: 23
Plot Numer: B36
James Vincent BLACKLOWE (details)
Age: 58
Plot Numer: J14
Date of Death: 20 December 1912
Cause of Death: Miner's Phthisis
Occupation: Miner
Age: 50
Plot Numer: S20
—?— BUNGAN ALIAS PADDY (details)
Date of Death: 13 January 1918
Cause of Death: Died of injuries from a fight
Age: 30
Plot Numer: C37
Occupation: Infant
Plot Numer: C19
Date of Death: 01 September 1915
Cause of Death: Bronchitis
Occupation: Prospector
Age: 57
Plot Numer: B14
Reginald Murray BUTLER (details)
Date of Death: 20 October 1932
Cause of Death: Rifle Accident
Occupation: Kangaroo Shooter and Prospector
Age: 43
Plot Numer: M12
Date of Death: 30 September 1938
Occupation: Prospector
Plot Numer: D14
George William CALDER (details)
Date of Death: 02 May 1915
Cause of Death: Suicide by dynamite
Occupation: Prospector
Age: 60
Plot Numer: O19
Date of Death: 17 October 1939
Cause of Death: Killed while setting explosives
Occupation: Miner
Age: 25
Plot Numer: E16
Date of Death: 05 July 1985
Age: 74
Plot Numer: E15
Date of Death: 23 June 1986
Age: 40
Plot Numer: E14
Date of Death: 31 December 1915
Occupation: Retired
Age: 73
Plot Numer: R23
Lillian Emma CHAPMAN (details)
Date of Death: 05 November 1913
Age: 5 Days
Plot Numer: F27
Jonathan Oswald Noel CHAPPEL (details)
Date of Death: 02 January 1910
Cause of Death: Brain Meningitis
Occupation: Battery Foreman
Age: 32
Plot Numer: E23
Richard Worrell COLES (details)
Date of Death: 28 April 1915
Occupation: Infant
Age: 5 Days
Plot Numer: H21
Frederick John COLSON (details)
Date of Death: 18 June 1910
Occupation: Infant
Plot Numer: G23
Date of Death: 23 January 1916
Cause of Death: Enteritis
Occupation: Spinster
Age: 70
Plot Numer: B15
Date of Death: 04 February 1914
Cause of Death: Muscular Atrophy
Age: 38
Plot Numer: A20
Date of Death: 17 March 1908
Cause of Death: Internal Complaint
Occupation: House Wife
Plot Numer: H11
Age: 11 Days
Plot Numer: B23
Eileen Josephine CURTIN (details)
Occupation: Infant
Age: 7 months
Plot Numer: C16
Cause of Death: Stillborn
Plot Numer: A22
Date of Death: 10 February 1931
Occupation: Miner
Age: 27
Plot Numer: Q20
Date of Death: 15 January 1943
Occupation: Miner
Age: 70
Plot Numer: Q21
Jessie Veronica DECHART (details)
Date of Death: 07 May 1909
Occupation: Infant
Plot Numer: F25
Date of Death: 04 May 1911
Cause of Death: Pneumonia
Age: 47
Plot Numer: A11
Arthur Louis DESAILLY (details)
Date of Death: 12 August 1922
Cause of Death: Heart Failure
Occupation: Contractor
Age: 56
Plot Numer: M18
—?— DINGO (ABORIGINAL) (details)
Date of Death: 23 November 1918
Age: 58
Plot Numer: C36
Jean Donaldson DOCWRA (details)
Date of Death: 20 September 1909
Occupation: Infant
Plot Numer: G26
Thomas Alexander DOWNIE (details)
Date of Death: 12 January 1911
Cause of Death: Fire in his camp
Occupation: Carpenter
Age: 46
Plot Numer: P18
Date of Death: 29 May 1911
Cause of Death: Heart Failure
Occupation: Mine Owner
Age: 42
Plot Numer: A14
Harold Albert EKSTROM (details)
Date of Death: 03 August 1910
Cause of Death: Bronchial Pnuemonia
Occupation: Infant
Age: 6 months
Plot Numer: F24
William Edward ELLIOTT (details)
Date of Death: 14 June 1905
Occupation: Storekeeper
Plot Numer: 141
Date of Death: 16 May 1933
Occupation: Prospector
Age: 74
Plot Numer: D16
Ivan Joseph FORSLUN (details)
Date of Death: 24 March 1920
Occupation: Retired miner
Age: 81
Plot Numer: E27
William Douglas FOSTER (details)
Cause of Death: Heart disease
Occupation: Prospector
Age: 62
Plot Numer: E22
Gugmeilimo GARBOLINI (details)
Date of Death: 21 March 1915
Occupation: Infant
Plot Numer: C12
Murray James GARROD (details)
Date of Death: 24 December 1994
Occupation: Journeyman
Age: 66
Plot Numer: P12
Date of Death: 20 January 1914
Age: 2 Hours
Plot Numer: C17
Frances Lewis GERICKE (details)
Occupation: Infant
Plot Numer: C17
Gerolina Mary GERICOVICH (details)
Date of Death: 05 January 1914
Age: 12 Days
Plot Numer: C13
Ronald James GORDON (details)
Date of Death: 08 May 1909
Occupation: Infant
Age: 6 months
Plot Numer: T21
Patrick George GREEN (details)
Date of Death: 04 April 1936
Cause of Death: Heart disease
Occupation: Butcher
Age: 69
Plot Numer: D15
Date of Death: 27 November 1949
Age: 83
Plot Numer: D15
Date of Death: 02 October 1910
Cause of Death: Morbus Cordis Anaemia
Occupation: Miner
Age: 46
Plot Numer: S22
Ronald John Matthew HASSETT (details)
Date of Death: 02 September 1914
Age: 3 Mths
Plot Numer: H22
Thomas William HENRICKSEN (details)
Date of Death: 26 January 1910
Cause of Death: Injured by a falling drill
Occupation: Miner
Age: 32
Plot Numer: T35
Occupation: Infant
Plot Numer: T23
Date of Death: 30 December 1914
Age: 35
Plot Numer: B22
Cause of Death: Suicide by dynamite
Occupation: Prospector
Plot Numer: O11
Date of Death: 26 November 1908
Occupation: Engine Driver
Plot Numer: O14
—?— JENNY - GRANNY (ABORIGINAL) (details)
Date of Death: 30 May 1919
Age: 57
Plot Numer: C35
Date of Death: 09 September 1921
Cause of Death: Old age
Age: 90
Plot Numer: E19
Thomas James KENNY (details)
Date of Death: 05 December 1912
Occupation: Infant
Age: 5 months
Plot Numer: C14
William Henry KERSLEY (details)
Date of Death: 04 March 1910
Cause of Death: Heart Failure
Occupation: Miner and Woodcutter
Age: 53
Plot Numer: A12
Date of Death: 31 May 1928
Occupation: Miner
Age: 65
Plot Numer: M16
William David KIRKLAND (details)
Date of Death: 17 November 1910
Cause of Death: Heart Failure
Occupation: Miner
Age: 43
Plot Numer: C24
Date of Death: 28 February 1989
Age: 63
Plot Numer: Q26
Christen Larsen KNUDSEN (details)
Date of Death: 12 December 1915
Occupation: Bootmaker
Age: 76
Plot Numer: R22
Date of Death: 14 September 1930
Occupation: Labourer
Age: 44
Plot Numer: H27
Date of Death: 30 May 1911
Occupation: Infant
Plot Numer: T25
Date of Death: 09 February 1910
Age: 4 months
Plot Numer: T22
Date of Death: 01 December 1917
Cause of Death: Died after a long illness
Age: 63
Plot Numer: S27
Date of Death: 30 June 1984
Age: 82
Plot Numer: Q25
Date of Death: 13 October 1910
Cause of Death: Tubercuosis Abscess of the Kidneys
Occupation: Woodcutter
Age: 21
Plot Numer: S23
Horace Arthur MAHOOD (details)
Date of Death: 04 March 1908
Occupation: Infant
Age: 10 months
Plot Numer: G24
Date of Death: 07 April 1924
Occupation: Labourer
Age: 51
Plot Numer: D19
Cause of Death: Fall from a cart
Occupation: Store Keeper and Carrier
Age: 42
Plot Numer: A15
Ada Melvina MCCARTHY (details)
Date of Death: 11 May 1911
Age: 37
Plot Numer: A19
Leonard Linane MCCARTHY (details)
Date of Death: 27 May 1911
Age: 4
Plot Numer: A19
Patrick Bernard MCCARTHY (details)
Date of Death: 30 June 1911
Occupation: Infant
Plot Numer: A19
Date of Death: 17 March 1909
Cause of Death: Heart Failure
Occupation: Builder and Contractor
Plot Numer: O13
John William MCQUEEN (details)
Age: 15 Mths
Plot Numer: N19
Date of Death: 05 December 1910
Plot Numer: A10
Date of Death: 09 July 1908
Occupation: Miner
Plot Numer: A18
Date of Death: 23 January 1916
Cause of Death: Paralysis
Age: 64
Plot Numer: N18
Monica Patricia MOFFITT (details)
Age: Child
Plot Numer: B19
Date of Death: 23 May 1908
Cause of Death: Haemorrhage of the stomach
Occupation: Housemaid
Age: 29
Plot Numer: A23
Thomas Charles MORGAN (details)
Date of Death: 29 November 1914
Cause of Death: Heart disease
Occupation: Woodcutter
Age: 32
Plot Numer: B21
Arthur James MORGAN (details)
Date of Death: 14 December 1914
Cause of Death: Fell under a driving wheel
Occupation: Engine Driver
Age: 46
Plot Numer: B20
Nellie Irene NEELANDS (details)
Date of Death: 27 December 1913
Cause of Death: Child birth
Age: 19
Plot Numer: R20
Date of Death: 29 July 1909
Cause of Death: Nephritis Uraemia
Age: 35
Plot Numer: A25
Date of Death: 22 July 1930
Occupation: Prospector
Plot Numer: M13
John Thomas PASCOE (details)
Date of Death: 01 September 1944
Occupation: Prospector
Age: 76
Plot Numer: P21
Date of Death: 17 December 1913
Cause of Death: Crushed between truck and timber
Occupation: Miner
Age: 29
Plot Numer: B12
Date of Death: 19 January 1982
Age: 65
Plot Numer: Q24
Sydney Montgomery PEARSON (details)
Date of Death: 12 December 1910
Cause of Death: Typhoid Fever
Occupation: Cooper
Age: 27
Plot Numer: C24
—?— PETER (ABORIGINAL) (details)
Date of Death: 11 September 1911
Cause of Death: Pnuemonia
Plot Numer: B37
Date of Death: 12 December 1923
Cause of Death: Paralysis and stroke
Age: 71
Plot Numer: I20
Date of Death: 13 July 1945
Occupation: Miner
Age: 58
Plot Numer: I20
Date of Death: 21 April 1922
Age: 65
Plot Numer: M19
Date of Death: 23 January 1913
Cause of Death: Died of cancer
Occupation: Prospector
Age: 60
Plot Numer: P19
Date of Death: 26 January 1911
Occupation: Mine Superintendent
Age: 56
Plot Numer: S24
Thomas PRENDERGAST (details)
Date of Death: 26 June 1926
Occupation: Miner
Age: 65
Plot Numer: E17
Edmond PRENDERGAST (details)
Date of Death: 30 October 1940
Occupation: Miner
Age: 82
Plot Numer: E17
Cause of Death: Chronic Heart Disease
Age: 50
Plot Numer: B11
Date of Death: 15 July 1928
Age: 58
Plot Numer: M15
Richard Charles ROBERTS (details)
Date of Death: 05 June 1937
Cause of Death: Senility
Occupation: Prospector
Age: 78
Plot Numer: P20
Hilda Elizabeth ROCHESTER (details)
Date of Death: 22 April 1908
Occupation: Infant
Plot Numer: F26
Date of Death: 26 November 1908
Occupation: Infant
Plot Numer: F26
Date of Death: 24 February 1909
Occupation: Infant
Plot Numer: F26
Amy Christina ROWE (details)
Occupation: Infant
Age: 23 months
Plot Numer: T20
Date of Death: 10 June 1909
Cause of Death: Pnuemonia
Occupation: Prospector
Plot Numer: A08
Joseph Gerard RYAN (details)
Date of Death: 01 October 1909
Cause of Death: Stillborn
Occupation: Infant
Plot Numer: B18
Date of Death: 01 February 1911
Cause of Death: Intestinal Obstructions
Age: 25
Plot Numer: E24
Date of Death: 14 July 1917
Age: 81
Plot Numer: N17
Ernest Herbert SCHAFER (details)
Occupation: Doctor
Age: 52
Plot Numer: G25
Date of Death: 05 September 1911
Cause of Death: Murdered
Occupation: Woodcutter
Plot Numer: B9
Date of Death: 21 November 1908
Cause of Death: Crushed by a Chimney Stack
Occupation: Contractor
Plot Numer: O15
Date of Death: 04 August 1915
Occupation: Infant
Age: 2 Mths
Plot Numer: C11
John Law Downie SIMPSON (details)
Date of Death: 01 December 1909
Age: 42
Plot Numer: C23
Date of Death: 17 October 1908
Cause of Death: Paralytic Stroke
Occupation: Book-keeper and leaseholder
Plot Numer: T36
Frederick SONNENSCHEIN (details)
Date of Death: 02 November 1925
Cause of Death: Drowned in a mine
Occupation: Miner
Age: 59
Plot Numer: I24
Robert STILL BORN CHILD OF WATSON (details)
Date of Death: 09 December 1914
Cause of Death: Stillborn
Plot Numer: G22
William & Alice STILLBORN CHILD OF CRIER (details)
Cause of Death: Stilborn
Plot Numer: A21
George E STILLBORN CHILD OF OLIPHANT (details)
Date of Death: 08 November 1909
Cause of Death: Stillborn
Occupation: Infant
Plot Numer: O12
William & C STILLBORN CHILD OF SAMPEY (details)
Cause of Death: Stillborn
Plot Numer: G27
A G STILLBORN CHILD OF SAMPSON (details)
Date of Death: 06 January 1910
Cause of Death: Stillborn
Occupation: Infant
Plot Numer: T35
Louisa and Joseph STILLBORN TWINS OF LUSH (details)
Cause of Death: Stillborn
Plot Numer: T26
Joseph James THOMAS (details)
Date of Death: 04 November 1947
Cause of Death: Heart attack
Age: 86
Plot Numer: Q22
James William THOMSON (details)
Date of Death: 06 July 1908
Age: 44
Plot Numer: O16
George Joseph THORNTON (details)
Age: 7 months
Plot Numer: C18
Cause of Death: Scalded by boiling water
Occupation: Miner
Age: 34
Plot Numer: H24
Arthur (Frank) TURNEY (details)
Date of Death: 10 July 1909
Cause of Death: Heart Failure
Occupation: Store Manager
Age: 45
Plot Numer: D23
Date of Death: 25 April 1932
Cause of Death: Died in a fall for earth at Oroya Mine
Occupation: Miner / Prospector
Plot Numer: Q19
Date of Death: 14 September 1911
Plot Numer: B10
Patrick Graham WALSH (details)
Date of Death: 09 September 1908
Occupation: Carpenter
Plot Numer: A17
Date of Death: 22 July 1915
Cause of Death: Died Tuberculosis
Age: 34
Plot Numer: C22
Thomas Hustler WALTON (details)
Date of Death: 28 June 1914
Cause of Death: Crushed by a descending skip
Occupation: Miner
Age: 24
Plot Numer: R21
William Henry WATERS (details)
Date of Death: 09 November 1910
Occupation: Miner
Age: 53
Plot Numer: F23
Age: Infant
Plot Numer: B8
Date of Death: 24 October 1927
Cause of Death: Cardiac failure
Occupation: Labourer
Age: 50
Plot Numer: M17
Myrtle Emily May WILLIAMS (details)
Date of Death: 06 August 1915
Age: 8 Yrs
Plot Numer: D22
Date of Death: 17 October 1912
Age: 3 Days
Plot Numer: C15
