Laura May Peirl, died 20 July 1897, aged 10.
Cossack Cemetery Western Australia. G1X4528 Earlier photo: www.chapelhill.homeip.net/FamilyHistory/Photos/Cossack-WA...
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Died 5 Nov 1897 Aged 4 months. God's will be done.
Cossack Cemetery Western Australia. G1X4529
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Cossack Cemetery Western Australia. List of burials with no current headstone or marker, partly because of shifting sands and cyclones. G1X4531
John Brown died 1882 age 23 occupation Pearler
Joseph Maurea 20 Feb 1882 55 Boatman
Edward Chapman 18 Mar 1884 32 Pearler
James Frederick Ellery 2 year old son of Elizabeth Ellery Widow
Alfred Morris March 1887 49 Govt Engineer
Claude B Ker 7 Sept 1888 Master Mariner
James Reuben Beckett 3 Nov 1889 Master Mariner
William Stuart 13 Jan 1890 27 Mariner
Mathew McCartney 22 Nov 1891 26 Engineer
Phoebe Green 19 Feb 1892 49
William Charles Harvey 24 Jan 1900 32 Publican
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ZB Erikson, his wife Minnie and their child Pearl. Drowned in the Foam Passage, January 10 1894.
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Flying Foam Passage passes west of Dolphin Island.
Extract from the Melbourne Argus, Monday Jan 29, 1894:
"THE "WILLY WILLY" AT ROBOURNE.
FURTHER PARTICULARS.
GREAT LOSS OF LIFE.
IMMENSE DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY.
PERTH, Sunday.
The following additional particulars of the terrible "willy willy " which occurred on the 9th inst. at Roebourne have been re-
ceived : Many outbuildings were demolished, verandahs being carried away and picket fences destroyed. The shipping at Cossack suffered to a very great extent by the tide and the heavy floods, which caused the creek to rise above the
embankments. Nearly all the luggers were carried on to the mangroves. The Empress was sunk off Emerald, two men being drowned. The Silvia and Verona were carried
on to the top of Vampire Island. The schooner Harriet and the lighter Cossack were carried across the roads. The Sree
Pas Sair was carried on to the top of Vampire Island, but was blown back into the stream again. The Dawn was saved by being dis-masted. The Diamond, fully loaded and ready for sailing, was carried two miles up the creeks and stranded on the mangroves. The Prospector, Gem, and Amherst were blown on shore. The Maud was carried against the new goods shed, and bent three of the uprights in it, the vessel being totally wrecked and swept out to sea. The pearling lugger Anne was sunk in the Flying Foam Passage', Z. B.
Erickson (the owner), his wile and child, Denman, Hayward, and a crew of nine coloured men being drowned..."
Extracted on April 30, 2024 from trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/8726777
Seems to me it would have been a cyclone. They caused havoc for the Pearling industry and caused many deaths, though luggers were later laid up for the 'wet' and men paid off. However, in 1984 there were pearling activities occurring - the 'Willy-Willy' damage was caused around January 9.
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Cossack Cemetery Western Australia. G1X4535
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