February 16th 1928 Tenindewa Notes (From our own Correspondent) Harvest is finished and I don’t think there are many who were not short of their estimated yield. The Bindu School …
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 …
The 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, …
The King’s representative visits Tenindewa
In 1932 Australia’s Governor General was a gentleman named Isaac Alfred Isaacs. He was born in Australia (1855-1948) and was Australia’s first Australian-born Governor General. He was the product of …
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, whose maiden name was Baker. Her parents …
Tenindewa Receival Point
View PostMichael Francis (Frank) Troy
1877 – 1953 MEMBER FOR MOUNT MAGNET, MINISTER OF THE CROWN, DEPUTY PREMIER, AND TENINDEWA PIONEER Before cars filled our roads the usual way of getting from somewhere to somewhere …
The Tenindewa Staffords
Henry Job Stafford (1864-1959) Popularly known as HJ, Henry Job took up farming land north west from Tenindewa on the Yuna Road in around 1908. “To Sow the Barley” is one …
Tenindewa Store & Post Office
View PostTenindewa School Site
Tenindewa Primary School was opened from 1914 to 1939. The first school at Tenindewa opened on the 31′ March 1913 in a building donated by Mr Norman FRY, one of …
On the Road Again – an autobiography by Kevin Critch
Kevin was born in Geraldton in 1921 and died in 2010. His autobiography starts in 1853 when his grandfather was born, and documents Kevin’s life each decade until the 1990s.
To Sow the Barley by Doreen Lindsay (nee Butler)
A history of Tenindewa by Doreen Lindsay covering the period 1873 to 1988. Contains names of teachers, and families in the town.
Critch House 2011 / Troy House c1930
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