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James & Mary Keighley
Lake Biddy is one of Western Australia’s ~700 ghost towns. And, as it turns out, it has close associations for some of our family. The area was surveyed in the early 1920s and the townsite was gazetted in 1925. It was named for Biddy Morrow, the daughter of the surveyor, E. T. Morrow. The Lake Biddy Hall is still…
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Copmanhurst
On April 1, 1869, an article was reproduced that had originally appeared about a week earlier in the Clarence Examiner. It was very simply titled COPMANHURST, CLARENCE RIVER. Given our very close ties with Copmanhurst, I thought it might be worth reproducing the article here with all due credit given to the original author (unknown)…
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Our Bounty Immigrants
During the 1800s Britain suffered a post war depression, a terrible famine and massive unemployment, caused by industrialisation and changing farm practices. Many thousands of people were desperate enough to take free or subsidised one-way passages to the end of the earth. The American War of Independence had ended in 1783 but the cost to…
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