BOULDER adjacent to Kalgoorlie, was gazetted in 1896. It is named after a gold mining lease called "The Great Boulder".

The story of the naming of the "the Great Boulder" is told in "The Mile that Midas Touched" (G. Casey & T. Mayman)

Boulder was a town in the Western Australian goldfields 595km (370 miles) east of Perth and bordering onto the town of Kalgoorlie in the Eastern Goldfields region.
Until 1989 it was part of its own municipality.
In 1989 the towns of Kalgoorlie and Boulder were merged to form the City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder.
After the merger Boulder officially became a suburb of Kalgoorlie.

In 1893 in Dashwoods Gully in South Australia four men discussed the future of a local mining lease 'The Boulder'. Its main features were large sandstone boulders in which were found some small wiry stringers of gold. W. G. BROOKMAN and Charles de ROSE had been working the lease without much success, and George Brookman, a businessman who was backing them, had gone to Dashwood's Gully with an experienced prospector, Sam PEARCE to discuss the matter. Later George Brookman told them he might be able to raise funds in Adelaide to send a small party to Coolgardie, and later the Adelaide Prospecting Company was formed. W.G. Brookman and Sam Pearce left Adelaide on the 7th of June 1893. On the last stage of their journey they walked beside their cart and two horses for 300 miles to Coolgardie.

Sam Pearce had a good knowledge of geology and he and Brookman moved their camp to Ivanhoe Hill.
While Brookman was away at Coolgardie applying for 20 acres Pearce discovered a rich lead a few chains away and in August they registered another lease.
With memories of their Dashwood's Gully lease they called it the Great Boulder.

OLD BOULDER CEMETERY SURNAME LISTS:
* ALDAY to CURNOW
* DALLY to GUNN
* HACK to McNAMARA
* NANKERVIS to RYAN
* SALMON to YELLAND
some HEADSTONE photos

ALDAY, Harcourt Franklin, 27 Apr 1903 aged 8 months

ALP, Leonard 'John', 20 Oct 1903 aged 1 hour

ANDERSON, Janet, 20 May 1900 aged 9

ANDREW, Roy Lloyd, 2 December 1902 aged 9 weeks

ANGOVE, Josiah, 5 January 1903 aged 57
ANGOVE, Myrtle Olivia, 3 Jun 1901 aged 3 weeks
ANGOVE, Olivia, 9 May 1901 aged 63

ANGWIN, William, 29 January 1901 aged 4 hours

ANSELL, Dulcie Stella, 16 Nov 1903 aged 9 months

ARGO, Joseph S., 9 November 1900 aged 18 months

ARMSTRONG, Edwin John Stanley, 6 June 1903 aged 6 months
ARMSTRONG, John James Edward, 14 January 1902 aged 17
ARMSTRONG, Niven Hector McD., 24 July 1901 aged 2 months

ARZAROLI, female 6 May aged 1903 born still

ATTWOOD, George E., 2 November 1903 aged 45

AUSTIN, Thomas, 16 December 1902 aged 77

AVERY, John, 7 February 1904 aged 53

BAGSHAW, see BRADSHAW

BAMCKE, Margaret, 8 February 1903 aged 56

BANHAM, Ernest, 27 November 1901 aged 6 months

BARNADY, Allan Sylvester, 30 May 1904 aged 14 weeks

BARNES, William Charles, 3 April 1904 aged 23

BARRETT, James, 1 June 1903 aged 12

BARRY, Leo, 25 June 1901 aged 20
BARRY, Thomas, 6 June 1902 aged 24

BARTLE, ? 31 May 1902 born still
BARTLE, Philip, 10 August 1902 45yrs

BARTLEY, Anne Elizabeth, 7 April 1900 20
BARTLEY, Charles Francis, 5 May 1904 aged 36

BASSETT, Mary, 15 September 1902 aged 62

BASTION, Eileen Margaret, 14 April 1902 aged 4 months

BAUM, 22 May 1900, born still

BAWDEN, Annie Trestrail, 26 November 1900 aged 33
BAWDEN, Esperance Ellen, 24 April 1901 aged 5 months
BAWDEN, Hesperia, 27 November 1900 aged 33
BAWDEN, Nora Kathleen, 27 June 1902 aged 10 months

BEAGLEHOLE, Jane Elizabeth, 24 August 1903 aged 54

BEARD, John Patrick Power, 9 Oct 1898 aged 11 months

BERRYMAN, Gladys, 23 October 1901 aged 2
BERRYMAN, Owen, 25 June 1903 aged 2

BEST, Clarence Roy, 18 May 1903 aged 9

BESTWICK, Christopher, 27 April 1901 aged 6 hours

BIGGS, see BRIGGS, born still

BIRCH, male, 20 Jul 1903 born still

BIRCHER, Cyril Charles, 4 April 1902 aged 7 months
BIRCHER, Harold Charles, 27 November 1903 aged 5mths

BISHOP, Annie May, 25 February 1902 aged 4 months

BLACK, George Osman, 16 May 1900 aged 7 months

BLACKMAN, Clara Jane, 23 March 1904 aged 2 weeks

BLAKENEY, Frederick Gordon, 13 October 1902 aged 28

BLEWETT, Edward Hector, 21 January 1901 aged 5 months
BLEWETT, Mary Ann, 25 September 1900 aged 35

BLIGHT, Elizabeth Jane, 1 March 1901 aged 14 days

BODINNER, Maxwell, 11 October 1901 aged 17 months

BOULTER Ethel Maud, 3 June 1902 aged 4

BOULTER, John, 20 December 1902 aged 66

BOURKE, John, 18 April 1903 aged 37

BOZIN, Antonio, 12 August 1902 aged 7 months

BRADFORD, Emma, 29 March 1902 aged 21
BRADFORD, Samuel, Dawson 5 June 1902 aged 10 weeks

BRADLEY, Margaret Jane, 28 January 1903 aged 48

BRADSHAW, Alfred Nairne, 7 June 1901 aged 31
BRADSHAW, George, 18 December 1889 aged 6 months

BRANNIGAN, Mathew, 10 June 1902 aged 47

BRAY, Abigail, 1 October 1900 aged 56
BRAY, Thomas, 9 August 1900 aged 78

BRAZIL, Clarence Leo, 3 October 1902 aged 9 months
BRAZIL, John 25 May, 1902 aged 35

BRIGGS, Alfred Owen, 10 January 1903 aged 36
BRIGGS, male, 14 April 1901 born still

BROADBENT, James, 20 March 1904 aged 37

BROADSTOCK, George Thomas, 26 Mar 1901 aged 34

BROKENSHIRE, Richard Thomas, 11 September 1902 aged 12 months

BROOKS, female, 7 April 1903 aged 16 days

BROWN, Alexander, 18 January 1903 aged 51
BROWN, Edward Charles, 26 June 1902 aged 23
BROWN, Elizabeth May, 6 August 1902 aged 6 months
BROWN, Florence Mary, 15 June 1902 aged 22
BROWN, Maude Irene, 7 December 1900 aged 11 months
BROWN, William David, 23 April 1901 aged 6 months

BUDGE Donald, 21 January 1904 aged 2 days
BUDGE William James, 18 Jan 1901 aged 24

BULL, Phoebe, 22 November 1901 aged 80

BURGESS, Edith Mary, 1 December 1901 aged 20 months
BURGESS, Sydney, 19 September 1901 aged 6

BURNS, Maud Rona, 28 February 1903 aged 28

BYFIELD, male, 27 March 1904 born still
BYFIELD, John Henry, 17 May 1902 aged 6

BYRNE, Bernard James, 29 March 1903 aged 12 weeks
BYRNE, Dorothy, 16 December 1899 aged 5 months
BYRNE, John Henry, 25 February 1900 aged 34
BYRNE, Margaret May, 10 October 1901 aged 2 months

CADDEN,see GADDEN

CADDY, Leonard James, 19 July 1901 aged 3 weeks

CADWALLADER, Agnes Mary, 12 November 1902 aged 47

CAIRAGAN, see CARRIGAN

CAIRNS, Cassie, 1 June 1902 aged 3

CALLAGHAN, Margaret, 6 November 1903 aged 7 months
CALLAGHAN, Mathew Valentine, 9 Apr 1902 aged 13 months

CAMPBELL, male, 29 June 1903 aged 8 hours
CAMPBELL, John, 3 March 1904 aged 20

CARR, Margery, 17 November 1899 aged 6 months

CARRIGAN, John, 14 March 1900 aged 1 hour

CARTER, (Sam?) 8 May 1901 born still
CARTER, Donald, 24 April 1904 aged 10 weeks
CARTER, William Hector, 27 November 1902 aged 5 weeks/months

CARTHEW, Samuel, 2 July 1903 aged 38

CARWARDINE, William Pearce, 1 April 1904 aged 11 months

CASAS, male, 2 March 1900 born still

CASE, see CASAS

CASEY, John Jeremiah, 1 February 1902 aged 62

CASIMIR, male, 12 January 1904 born still

CASTLE, Harold Gordon, 13 January 1901 aged 5 months

CAWTHORNE, Leonard, 23 May 1903 aged 8 months

CHAMBERS, Albert Augustus John, 11 March 1902 aged 8 months

CHAMPION, Richard Joseph, 9 April 1903 aged 55

CLANCY, Kathleen, 25 September 1902 aged 14

CLARK, William James, 26 July 1902 aged 45

CLARKE, Henry James, 10 April 1901 aged 32yrs
CLARKE, Nicholas, 2 September 1901 born still

CLAYTON, Florrie, 12 February 1900 aged 3

CLEARY, Thomas, 8 January 1903 aged 46

CLIMAS, Mary Ann, 9 April 1901 aged 24

CLIPSTONE, Alice Ethel, 25 April 1904 aged 21

CLISBY, Harold Lawrence, 8 May 1902 aged 16

COCKS, Ernest Montrose, 4 January 1901 aged 2 months
COCKS, Joseph William Pollard, 1 July 1901 aged 51

COLLINS, John, 30 December 1900 aged 39
COLLINS, Norman William, 4 Apr 1902 aged 5 months

CONWAY, Michael, 3 Nov 1902 aged 5 months
CONWAY, Thomas, 3 Feb 1901 aged 8 months

CORCORAN, Daniel Patrick ,12 April 1903 aged 2 days
CORCORAN, Mary Josephine, 24 December 1901 aged 2 weeks

CORNELIUS, Ernest, 16 April 1902 aged 21
CORNELIUS, John, 4 November 1901 aged 50

COURT, male, 5 July 1903 born still

COWARD, Frank, 16 June 1900 aged 15

COWLING, male, 18 December 1900 born still
COWLING, William, 10 March 1900 aged 3

CRESSEY, John Urban, 27 July 1902 aged 2

CROXTON, Edward Evan, 15 August 1902 aged 39

CUMMINGS, male, 3 November 1901 aged 3 hours

CUMMINGS, Flora, 26 May 1902 aged 24

CUNNINGHAM, Eleanor Amy Mary, 14 January 1902 6 weeks

CURNOW, Carl, 18 June 1902 aged 6 weeks

see also Western Australia Cemeteries