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Kambalda Previously know as Redhill Cemetery

GPS -31.205030, 121.651369

Also listed as Kambalda East Pioneers Cemetery:

EUPELI George — d 13th June 1904, at the Butterfly Mine, Red Hill, Miner aged 43 Years, Cause: Heart attack, a post mortem examination was conducted (not very common on the Goldfields at this time). He was buried in the Kambalda Cemetery on 15th June 1904. He had lived in Victoria for 13 years and had been in WA for about 3 years. He is supposed to have been married in Melbourne VIC but his wife's name is not known. Reg 42/1904 Coolgardie.
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HASSELL Edward Lindsay AKA Edward CLAYTON 12 May 1905 — 40 yrs, d 12 May 1905, at Red Hill, Cause: Suicide while temporarily insane, by Verdict of the Coroner, His Father: William Lindsay HASSELL (Miner), Mother: Elizabeth nee MORRIS. He was born in Heathcote Victoria in 1862.

HYLAND John — 26yrs, d 21 Dec 1899, Born: 25 Oct 1873, Chester, Cheshire, England, Occ: a miner working at Block 48, Cause: Through a fall of earth at Block 48 Mine. Father: Patrick HYLAND (Soldier), Mother: Elizabeth STRONG, The police went out from Kalgoorlie and arranged for his burial. A coroner's inquest was held on the site of the fatality, and a verdict of accidental death was returned. Reg: East Coolgardie 25/1900.

PRENTICE Elizabeth:  Commonly known as Elizabeth GAUNT — 47 yrs, d 23 Dec 1899, at the Commercial Hotel, Larkin Street, Kambalda (Red Hill), she was a married woman. Cause: Burns. Father: John VORBACH (Farmer), Mother: Unknown, Her death was registered by a friend, John Gaunt. She was born in Manchester, England and arrived in Australia as a child. She had lived in Victoria for 35yrs and in WA for 4 years. She married John PRENTICE in Daylesford, Vic at the age of 25yrs.

WENZEL Friedrich Wilhelm 'German Bill' — 65yrs, d 2 Jun 1897, Born: Brandenberg, Germany, Father: Gottlieb Gottfreid WENZEL (Farmer), Mother: Johanna Dorothea NEUMANN, Cause: Typhoid, Married to Anne FARMER on the 13 Mar 1866 at Penhurst VIC, the couple had 10 children, his wife and family stayed behind in VIC, he came to Red Hill to start a newsagency. Reg 300/1897 (registered as William WEUZELL).

KAMBALDA BURIALS & CREMATIONS 1981-1991

Kambalda Residents buried in Kalgoorlie

BERMINGHAM female age 85 d. Oct 1982

BERMINGHAM male age 43 d. Sep 1987

BLACK female age 58 d. Jul 1989 –cremation at Kalgoorlie

BLACK male age 65 d. Apr 1990 –cremation at Kalgoorlie

BOWLEY male age 17 d. Jul 1981

BRAMLEY male age 75 d. Dec 1984

BURGESS male age 28 d. Apr 1990 – Cremation at Kalgoorlie

CARTER male age 79 d. Sept 1986

CHRISTINGER male age 59 d. Jan 1991 –cremation at Kalgoorlie

CLARK female age 7 d. May 1991 –cremation at Kalgoorlie

DELLACA male age 38 d. Jul 1981

DWYER male age 2 months d. Jan 1990

EADE female age 39 d. May 1990 –cremation at Kalgoorlie

FOX female age 75 d. Dec 1988 –cremation at Kalgoorlie

HARTSHORN male age 28 d. Mar 1987

HIND male age 20 d. Jun 1982

INGLIS male age 42 d. Jun 1985

JOYCE male age 43 d. May 1988

KRUSE male age 74 d. Sep 1990

McEWAN male age 15 d. Sep 1990

MacLEAN female age 57 d. Aug 1981

MORGAN male age 20 d. Feb 1988

MORRIS male age 17 d. Apr 1990

RANDALL female age 90 d. Sep 1986

REGAN female age 31 d. Feb 1983

TEMESSL male age 57 d. Oct 1990 –cremation at Kalgoorlie

WAN male stillborn May 1988

WILLIAMS male age 33 d. Jul 1981