Robert Henry Rose and Family
Robert Henry Rose is best known as the owner of ‘Parkfield’ and ‘Moorlands’.[1] Robert planned to travel from England to…
Category: Local Identities
Girolamo Giovinazzo, Exhumation of a Harvey Internee
By Anne Kirkman, 2024. GIROLAMO GIOVINAZZO [also spelt Giovinazza, Giovinzzo, Giovanazzo] BORN: 9 October 1892, Cittanova, Calabria, Italy.[1] PARENTS: Giuseppe…
Henry Smith – ‘Big Harry’ (1860 to 1937)
Written by Harry’s grandson Morgan Smith. Transcribed with extra material by Jeffrey Bentley-Johnston, 2018. Added to and edited by Heather…
Richard Barrett, Cookernup farmer, c1835 -1910
By Heather Wade, 2023. Richard Barrett was born in Ireland c1835. He migrated to Australia and spent time in South…
Charles Roy Roesner
Roy was born in Harvey in 1918 and grew up there. Initially he lived on Uduc Road (between where Stockman…
Charles Edmund Moorhouse (1911– 2002)
By Irma Walter 2019. Charles Moorhouse was born 1911 in Armadale, Victoria, the son of Rev. William Edmund Moorhouse, and…
David Guy Holthouse (1936 – 2013)
By Irma Walter, 2019. David Holthouse was born at Port Hedland in 1936, the son of Edward Holthouse and his…
Isaac and Marion Lowe of Waingroves, Harvey
Isaac Lowe (c1847 – 1932) Obituary The death occurred in Harvey on Thursday, December 29, of Mr. Isaac Lowe, a…
Allan Bennison Black: His history concentrating on his service in WW1
Story by Shirley O’Donovan, Sydney, 2021. Allan Bennison Black was born on the 30th January 1886 in Little River, Victoria,…
Doctors at Yarloop
By Heather Wade, 2022. In 1898, an eight-bed hospital ward with a kitchen, laundry and ablution block was built by…