George Thomas Sinclair (1867–1917?) The seventh and last of Thomas and Mary Sinclair’s children, George Thomas was born on 17 March 1867 at Greenmount, in the wooded foothills above the Swan River east of Perth. He was the second of the children to be born…
The usual story about the discovery of the Norseman goldfield is that it was accidentally discovered by a horse named Norseman. For example, Rica Erickson said: Station hands left work, sometimes without giving notice, to go prospecting, Larry Sinclair among them. By luck, in 1894…
Every now and then you come across a little gem on the internet. I was delighted to find Karli Florisson’s podcast “Wild: Stories from Western Australia’s Past” the other day. It is a wonderful collection of podcasts about various aspects of WA’s history, with a…