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Frank A WESTERN
Age at Death45
Date Of Death13 October 1937 : Reg 2/1937 Yalgoo
Place Of BirthNortham, Western Australia
OccupationMiner
Spouse's NameTeresa Dorothy Judd : When Teresa Dorothy Judd was born on 14 July 1909, her father, Alfred, was 39, and her mother, Anne, was 26. She married Frank Western and they had three children together. She then married Douglas Henry Jones on 7 November 1939 in Western Australia. She died in 1972 in Fremantle, Western Australia, at the age of 63.
ChildrenThree children.
Daily News, Thursday 14 October 1937
West Australian, Saturday 13 November 1937
Name Of Mine On Which Last Employed
King Solomon GM, Gulewa, Yalgoo, Murchison, Western Australia
Diagnosis or cause of accident
Fell 60 feet down a shaft.
Place Of Burial
Karakatta Cemetery, Perth, Western Australia
Submitted by
Eric Chamberlain - Volunteer
Cause of Death
Mine Accidents
Father
Edward : When Edward Charles Joseph Western was born on 15 July 1868 in Western Australia, his father, James, was 34 and his mother, Maryann, was 23. He married Jessie Walker Rowles on 3 June 1890 in Northam, Western Australia. They had 15 children in 25 years. He died on 1 January 1943 in Perth, Western Australia, at the age of 74
Mother
Jessie : When Jessie Walker Rowles/Rowler was born on 5 August 1874 in Wongamine, Western Australia, her father, Joseph, was 44, and her mother, Mary, was 36. She married Edward Joseph Western on 3 June 1890 in Northam, Western Australia. They had 15 children in 25 years. She died on 11 June 1927 in Perth, Western Australia, at the age of 52.
Place of marriage
26 November 1927, Perth, Western Australia.
Other Information
Frank Western (Service number: 1979) fought with the 12th Battalion at Gallipoli and on the Western Front, later with the 1st Pioneer Battalion. Wounded several times.
The West Australian Fri 15 Oct 1937 Page 1 Family Notices
WESTERN.--On October 13, 1937, at King Solomon mine, Gullewa, as the result of an accident, Frank Western, loving father of Frank.
WESTERN.—As a result of a mining accident at Gullewa, Frank, dearly loved brother of Harry and Isla Hellwig, of 5 Lichfield-street, Victoria Park uncle of Doris, Florrie, Peg, Ray, Neville, Mal, and Bev. Our Loved Frank.
Gullewa Town Site & Cemetery - Gold was discovered at Gullewa in 1894 and shortly after that a settlement emerged nearby. Surveyed by George Weeks, the resident surveyor in Yalgoo, in 1897, Gullewa was once a bustling little townsite which developed from 1895 alongside a productive mine which was operated by the Gullewa Gold Mining Company. The Gullewa townsite had historic and social significance for its role in the development of the district included hotels, a school, a post office, and a police station. The cemetery was gazetted on 13 August 1897 on reserve 3911. By 1910 the town had begun to decline due to the decreasing production of the mines and by 1924 it was a ghost town. However, interest was revived in the early 1940s. Nearby (to the east) is the Gullewa Cemetery (closed). The Cemetery is a historical site located approximately 80km, south of Yalgoo on the Yalgoo-Morawa Road. The Gullewa Cemetery contains several graves, headstones, mounds marked out with stone and metal decorative posts. The boundary of the cemetery is marked out by a timber post and wire fence. The Gullewa Townsite includes the foundations of buildings, a government well and a hotel site with collapsed cellar. On a hill immediately south of the Gullewa Townsite are the remains of the Gullewa Mine and Battery as well as the foundations of the Mine Manager's Office. Approximately 6km away is the Barnong Station Homestead.
