Local History
Finlay Hogg, Secretary of Tattershall’s Club. She was 36 years old and he was 50 years old. This was the Robert Hogg of the 1904 photograph. He had left Kalgoorlie in February 1908 to manage the Port Philip Hotel in Melbourne but in 1910 returned to be the secretary of a horse racing club which had its offices in Egan Street, Kalgoorlie, not far from the aerated water factory premises. The Kalgoorlie Western Argus of the 28th November 1911 reported the happy event:
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..prettily gowned in muslin...”
‘A very quiet wedding took place in the St John’s Church on Tuesday afternoon at 2 o’clock when Miss Alice Mackey was married to Mr Robert Hogg, Secretary to Tattershall’s Club, Kalgoorlie. The Ven. Archdeacon Mc Clemans performed the ceremony. The bride who was given away by Mr. J.W. Finister was prettily gowned in white muslin, neatly trimmed with lace, and wore a smart white hat, instead of the usual wreath and veil. After the ceremony a few most intimate friends assembled at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Finister where a cake and wine was served. The bride and bridegroom left by the express for Mandurah, where the honeymoon is to be spent.’ And so, Alice gained both a husband and a manager for the aerated water business, also an entry into the social scene of Kalgoorlie centred on its popular horse race meetings. There were no children from the marriage.
A Kalgoorlie tram advertising Mackey’s drinks.
Alice and Robert Hogg also lived at 20 Victoria Street, Kalgoorlie. I am told the house is still standing but it is no longer called ‘Tavistock’, and now much modernised.
Robert Hogg died aged 63 in 1924, but what happened to Alice Hogg afterwards? Passenger records show that she came to England again in 1930, perhaps visiting Tavistock,
Kalgoorlie”
but on her return disembarked at Sydney. I think by this time she had already sold her interest in the aerated water business, bade farewell to hot and dusty Kalgoorlie, and moved to the more temperate climes of New South Wales. Alice Hogg died aged 82 at the Park View Private Hospital, Five Dock, Sydney in 1958. On the death certificate her address is given as Malone Street, Braidwood, New South Wales which was Robert Hogg’s home town.
“..hot and dusty
Her death was registered (27566/1958), by a niece, Jean Patterson. I have tried to contact other descendants with the objective of obtaining a photograph of Alice but so far without any success.
The Mackey & Co. mineral water and cordial factory continued in business until 1951 when it was purchased by the Golden Mile Aerated Water Company. Today on the site there are offices and a car park. The glass and stoneware bottles of the Mackey & Co. business are much sought after, there being twenty-one different marble-stopper
and eight different stoneware bottles from this company known to Australian collectors. The company had its own distinctive trade mark of a globe which was registered on the 15th March 1899. Many Mackey & Co. bottles were found during the construction of a golf course over an old tip site in Kalgoorlie but this location is now exhausted. From time to time other bottles are found
underneath the suspended wooden floors of older houses but looking in these locations can be a bit risky unless you have previously been on the ‘snake and spider identification’ courses. Even so it is always best as a
precautionary measure to have your feet tied to a rope and a friend ready to pull quickly.
www.southwestbottles.btck.
co.uk The club has recently opened a new resource website
Label for Soft Drink Bottles
www.devonbottles.co.uk to list Devon bottles and flagons.
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The Somerset and Devon Bottle Club has a club website
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