Les Stokes

Eulogy: Leslie Alfred William Stokes 29 December 1921 – 10 May 2019 Les, the youngest of nine children, was born in Geraldton on 29 December 1921 to Edith Mary (nee …

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Nat Rumble

Nathan Rumble 1940’s Nathan Rumble was the half-brother of Alexander Knox Rumble They came to Tenindewa at the very beginning of the time farms were being allocated land there and …

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Harry Stokes

May 10th 1922 Tenindewa Notes (From our Correspondent) No; this correspondent of yours did not die, as you surmised, but has been lying dormant. No great news of vital importance …

Hayes (Harold)

This beautiful poem which I’m sure could be termed a “sonnet” (a little song) was submitted to the tenindewa.com site by Brian Griffiths to honor an old Tenindewa resident who …

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Leo Critch

I have had the pleasure of being involved with, or assisting with the writing up of, many of the Tenindewa.com stories since about 2014 (Tenindewa’s Centenary Year) but the Critch …

Old Dan Kemp

Dan’s tragic demiseNovember 1947 Dan and Jerry (Jeramiah) Kemp were brothers, both born in the 1870s and who took up land together on a block about 10 kilometers north-west of …

David Meadowcroft

 David Meadowcroft The inception of the www.Tenindewa.com Website established in Tenindewa’s centenary year, 2014, was about accumulating as much history as possible of the preceding 100 years albeit starting from …

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Bob Desmond

Thanks to Faye (Desmond) Keeffe, this is Bob Desmond’s story as he told it titled “Looking Back Down the Dusty Track”, written in April 1999. Robert (Bob) Desmond’s Diary Well …

Thomas Christopher O’Brien

Thomas Christopher O’Brien 14 January 1901 – 23 January 1995 Preface by Tony Critch In the stories under PEOPLE on this website we have concentrated mainly on the very first …

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Timothy Smiddy (Ned) Higgins

Born: 16th December 1906Married Sylvia May Stevens 2nd March 1931Died: 15th September 1993 at the age of 87.   PREFACE BY TONY CRITCH Growing up in the 1950s and 60s …

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The Dunkin Family

Mining in the Blood Richard Dunkin (snr) came from Maldon, a gold mining and pastoral district in central Victoria. He took up land in the district of Tenindewa Western Australia …