Mary Angelina Peet

Mary Angelina Peet – a Rare Champion and Willing Worker for Every Deserving Cause ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Mrs. M.A. (Mary Angelina) Peet (nee Bonner) was born in England in 1873. She emigrated …

Harold Johnson

An exercise “Putting a name to this author dispatching as, (From our Correspondent)” Discovering Mr. and Mrs. Johnsons activities during the period of their tour duty in Tenindewa is a …

Cyril Bryan Palmer

OBITUARYC. B. PALMER Cyril Bryan Palmer, a former president and one of the links with the very earliest years of the Club, died on March 4, 1961. He was born …

Robert Oldham

In the book titled To Sow the Barley written by Doreen Butler, which is often quoted on this website, much is made of the first wave of Settlers that took …

Not a Story, more an enquiry!

I am researching my family history and have discovered that a number of my relatives on my paternal grandmother’s family (Surname Alp) emigrated to Australia between 1850 and 1911. They …

Norman McNeil Fry (new version)

Norman Fry To those that might read and enjoy this story it must be recognized that the facts that we have used here to build this story probably represent just …

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 …