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Meekatharra Photos
Early view of Meekatharra Main Street - before the telegraph lines and poles were erected.
MASON's OF ABBOTTS
Edward Isaac Mason and his wife May Elizabeth Collins. Edwin was a miner at the Abbotts Gold Mine north of Meekatharra. On a visit to Perth he met May Collins who had just arrived off a ship from England, they immediately clicked and got married straight away in 1897. Edward had to return to Abbotts and May followed shortly after travelling by Cobb & Co coach, a long and arduous trip. Mary was only the second white woman to arrive on the Abbotts Goldfields. Their first son born at Abbotts 1898 -Hamblin Edward Mason eventually moved to Victoria. His children were all born there between 1922 and 1930. He remarried in 1949 after his first wife died in 1948. He became a mechanical engineer. He retired in Victoria in 1963. His grandfather was Ben Mason, a pioneer of WA timber business.Hamblin Mason died at Drouin Victoria in 1994. His mother, May, died in Melbourne in 1940.
Regards,
These Meekatharra pictures were given to me by Hamblin Mason in 1973. In about 1910 the Mason Family moved from Abbotts to Meekatharra where May opened a draper shop. I would really like to find out more about this family if anyone can help.
The afternoon shift at the Abbotts Gold Mine 1896
The first car doing the Meekatharra Bar Mail run about 1918. The driver was Jim Campbell - the Meekatharra Mail run to Marble Bar was the longest run in the world
The first car in Meekatharra owned by Arthur Spencer with his wife and family.
A great picture - what characters:Joseph John Tovey, photographer, and miner (in pith helmet) was born on 9 Aug 1883 in Bullengarook, Victoria,
the second of seven children born to Joseph Tovey and Hannah Benson, both born in Victoria.
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