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 …
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 …
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 …
The Foster Years
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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 …
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 …
Farewell to Lindsey White (11th January 1932 to 2nd of March 2017)
Eulogy by Lindsey Crane (Lindsey’s grandson) Lindsay White – that is a name you would want to be careful mentioning in a church, a police station or to the …
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 …
Christina Kember and Harry Townsend
Harry Francis Townsend worked in Tenindewa on the wheat bins and used to ride a horse from Tenindewa to Greenough to spend time with his eventual wife, Christina Mary Kember. …
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 …