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 …
Nundamurra Waterhole
View PostThe Shorts of Tenindewa
As told by John Short. My father Edward Ralph (Ralph) Short (born 1905) and his brother John Francis (Jack) (born 1903) came to WA in 1929. Ralph had served his …
The Olman Story
The Beginnings of the Olman Family in the Mullewa /Tenindewa areas – as supplied by Lindsay Olman (2015) Archibald Alfred Alexander Olman The Davies family came to Mullewa in 1926, …
Bertha Benoit Memoirs
Written by Bertha Benoit – born Tenindewa Western Australia I was born 26 September in the year 1916, on a wheat farm “Sleepy Hollow” in the district of Bindu which …
Butlers 140 years of farming
Thomas Butler was born in Cadamstown, County Kildare in 1820. He served in the British Army in Afghanistan, Burma and India in the 13th Foot Regiment (#2365) before coming to …
Albert Cream – My Farming Life at Ajax 1951- 1987
The early days At a Christmas tree function at Tenindewa in 1950, I agreed to go share farming with Dave Heelan on his farm named Ajax. The farm was named …
Margaret Alice Pumphery (nee Baker)
A letter to Doreen Butler (1965) from a Rumble family descendant I, Margaret Alice Pumphery (nee Baker), [am the] daughter of Evertine (nee Cousins) and Terence Baker. Evertine was daughter …
Rob and Mel Weir History
Matthew Robert Weir was born on 17th Jan 1917 in the Goldfields town of Menzies. His parents were Matthew and Louisa Weir. Louisa’s maiden name was Baker. Her parents are …
Norman McNeil 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 a fraction …