Category: Local Identities

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(Source: State Library of Western Australia, call number PR1371) Disclaimer: Documents such as this were written many years ago and…

By Richard A Murray, 2013 William Bede Christie – surveyor, author, lecturer, business proprietor, land booster for the state, student…

By Geoff Fortune Doctor Knight was one of the best known, best loved, and highly respected Yarloop identities, over the…

By Denise Moore, 2014, great granddaughter of Henry Burrows. Cousins, George Burrows and Henry Burrows, settled in Harvey and became…

By Heather Wade, 2016 Francis Becher was born in Melbourne in 1873, the son of Michael Henry Becher, Canon of…

By WR Eckersley, 1977 Settlement of land, of course, was firstly along the coast and many houses were built mostly…

By Heather Wade, 2016 Oscar Rath was a founder of the Korijekup Fruit Settlement in Harvey[1]. He was born in…

A very old colonist passed away in the person of Mrs. Louise Clifton at her late residence, No. 6 Stone-street,…

We have the deepest regret to announce the death of another old and respected resident of the South West, in…