In the latter part of the nineteenth century, discoveries of gold at a number of locations in Western Australia caused large influxes of prospectors from overseas and interstate, and classic gold rush
Western Australian population growth between 1880 and 1897
Members of 1887 syndicate that found gold in Yilgarn region; pictured at centre are Ted Payne (found the first specs), William Lawrence Senior (had a rock that triggered the expedition), and Richard Greaves (who found the reef)
Paddy Hannan
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Patrick Hannan was a gold prospector whose lucrative discovery on 14 June 1893 set off a major gold rush in the area now known as Kalgoorlie-Boulder in Western Australia.
Paddy Hannan in the 1920s (courtesy LISWA)
Hannan's Western Australian miner's right, 1893
Hannan's grave in Melbourne General Cemetery, Section Y
1929 statue of Paddy Hannan in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia