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Cemeteries > Kathleen Valley Cemetery
Kathleen Valley Cemetery - Reserve 10290
Shire of Leonora 48 kms North of Leinster
27°31.18’S - 120°33.58’E
BURNETT George Alexander - d. 4 May 1925 at Kathleen Valley, 65yrs, Occ: Carpenter, Cause: Senile Decay, Father: Nathaniel BURNETT, Mother: Ellen MANN, Born: 28 Feb 1860 in Bootle, Liverpool, England, In WA 30 yrs, Registered by J J Currie, Single, Reg East Murchison 2/1925, ANG, Buried in Kathleen Valley Cemetery.
COFFEY Edward - d. 3 Jan 1906, at Kathleen, 44yrs, Occ: Publican, Cause: Chronic Nephritis, Father: Michael COFFEY, (Farmer/Contractor), Born: Kilmore, Ireland In WA 11 yrs, Married to Catherine MARKAM in Sydney NSW aged 31yrs, Children: John Edward Prendergast 8yrs, Clifford Felix 6yrs, Kathleen Mary 3yrs, Registered by J V O’Neill (Friend), Reg East Murchison 2/1906, RC, Buried in Kathleen Valley Cemetery.
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Edward Coffey - Photo Jill Heather
COX Frederick Lewis - d. 11 May 1905, at Kathleen Valley, 28yrs, Occ: Miner, Cause: Enteric Fever, Born: Talbot VIC, Single, Registered by Chandler E Logan (Friend), Reg: East Murchison 8/1905, ANG, Buried in Kathleen Valley Cemetery.
CURRAN Philip – d 24 Sep 1903, at Nil Desperandum GM, Kathleen Valley, 27yrs, Occ: Miner, Cause: Accidentally killed by a fall of stone, Verdict of the Coroner, Born: Ireland, No long on Australia, Reg: East Murchison 25/1903, Buried in Kathleen Valley Cemetery.
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LEECH John – d 16 May 1905 at Kathleen Valley, 26yrs, Occ: Miner, Cause: Enteric Fever, Father: Benjamin LEECH (Fruiterer), Mother: Emily ?, Born: Kyneton VIC, In VIC 20yrs, In WA 6yrs, Single, Registered by S G Fleming (Friend), Reg: East Murchison 9/1905, ANG, Buried in Kathleen Valley Cemetery.
John Leech
NELSON William - d 6 May 1903, at Kathleen Valley, 40yrs, Occ: Carpenter, Cause: Burned in a dwelling no evidence how fire occurred, born Norway, In VIC 18yrs, In WA 7yrs, Married to Sarah CULLEN in Echuca VIC at age 26yrs, Children: William 9yrs, Agnes 7 yrs, plus 1 female name unknown, Registered by E Kavanagh (Brother in Law), Reg: East Murchison death cert 1618/1903, Buried in Kathleen Valley Cemetery.
Murchison Times and Day Dawn Gazette 21 May 1903, page 2
Shocking Burning Fatality - Dog by his side
A shocking burning fatality occurred at Kathleen Valley on Tuesday night when a bough shed, in which were a couple of tents, occupied by two men named William Nelson and Edward Freer, employed at the Yellow Aster mine, caught fire, burning the first named to death, and severely injuring the latter. It appears that Freer awoke during the night and found that one corner of the shed was on fire. He immediately jumped up and called to Nelson of the danger, and then must have been overcome by the smoke as he was seen lying inside the door of the shed by a man named Burkitt, who, noticing the blaze, had run to the spot.
With difficulty Burkitt pulled Freer out of danger, but any attempt to rescue Nelson was out of the question as the shed was enveloped in flames, Nelson must have heard Freer's call and made a try to get out through a small opening in one corner of the shed, when the fire burnt down, the body was seen to be lying over the the line of the wall of the bough shed. When pulled away from the debris the body was blazing and water had to be thrown over it. An arm and a leg were completely burnt off and the body all charred. The remains of Nelson's dog was found lying alongside those of it master. Freer's condition, though bad, is not regarded as serious. The origin of the fire cannot be traced. Burkitt. deserves high credit for bis prompt and game action, and be was, without doubt, the means of averting a double fatality.
STURROCK Robert - d. 24 Feb 1905, 76yrs, Occ: Mine Owner, Cause: Cancer of the stomach, In WA 11yrs Registered by James O’Neill (Friend), Reg East Murchison 4/1905, RC, Buried in Kathleen Valley Cemetery.
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