Category: Local Identities

For displays at the Show, Julie Rose wrote tributes for Mary in 2018 and Allison in 2019.    Mary Pearson…

The Harvey District Trotting Club was incorporated in 1936 and the milestones in the Club’s history were taken from that…

By Leah Jones, 2024. Sometime back, around the early 2000s, the Harvey District Trotting Club was handed a slightly battered…

By Anne Kirkman, 2024. Dr David Ernest Williams[1] Englishman, Dr David Ernest Williams emigrated to Western Australia with his wife…

Robert Henry Rose is best known as the owner of ‘Parkfield’ and ‘Moorlands’.[1]    Robert planned to travel from England to…

By Anne Kirkman, 2024. GIROLAMO GIOVINAZZO [also spelt Giovinazza, Giovinzzo, Giovanazzo] BORN:  9 October 1892, Cittanova, Calabria, Italy.[1] PARENTS:  Giuseppe…

Written by Harry’s grandson Morgan Smith. Transcribed with extra material by Jeffrey Bentley-Johnston, 2018. Added to and edited by Heather…

By Heather Wade, 2023. Richard Barrett was born in Ireland c1835. He migrated to Australia and spent time in South…

Roy was born in Harvey in 1918 and grew up there. Initially he lived on Uduc Road (between where Stockman…

By Irma Walter 2019. Charles Moorhouse was born 1911 in Armadale, Victoria, the son of Rev. William Edmund Moorhouse, and…