Ullaring

Ullaring Cemetery (allowing for spelling)1

Region: Goldfields-Esperance
LGA: Shire of Cunderdin
Alternate Names: Ularring Rock, Ularring Soak
Industry: Water
Coordinates: 29° 55′ 59″ S, 120° 31′ 59″ E
What3Words: ///reckoned.resurrect.chugging
Population: 0
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Mindat.org describes Ularring as:

Hill – a rounded elevation of limited extent rising above the surrounding land with local relief of less than 300m

Unfortunately, we don’t yet know a lot more about the place. But keep coming back for updates.

On the evening of 16 October 1875, a expeditionary group led by Ernest Giles, was attacked. He wrote about the incident in his book originally published in 18892. If you visit the area, you will see a cairn that was erected in Giles’ memory.

The Giles Memorial Cairn at Ullaring3

The 1904 Electoral Roll for Ullaring records 16 souls – 9 of them miners and 4 of them women. We also learn that there were at least two hotels in the town at the time, the Ularring Hotel (August Lichberg, Publican) and the Victoria Hotel4.

Sources

  1. Moya Sharp, n.d. Ularring (sic) Cemetery. Imaged retrieved from https://outbackfamilyhistory.com.au/records/record.php?record_id=517 on 17 Oct 2024 ↩︎
  2. Giles, Ernest, Australia Twice Traversed, Hesperian Press, Carlisle, Western Australia, 1995, pp 291-295. Reprint of 1889 edition published by Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, London ↩︎
  3. Keith & Frances Thompson, 2024. All Over Australia : Ularring Rock. Image retrieved on 17 Oct 2024 from https://alloveraustralia.com/post/ularring-rock/ ↩︎
  4. Moya Sharp, n.d. Ullaring 1904 Electoral Roll Western Australia. Retrieved from https://outbackfamilyhistory.com.au/records/record.php?record_id=518&town=Ullaring on 17 Oct 2024 ↩︎