Eastern Goldfields Miners Memorial at the WA Museum in Kalgoorlie WA
Oliver LEMBERG aka Neil SPLATT
Age at Death46
Date Of Death25 March 1913 : Reg 29/1913 Boulder
Place Of BirthNillumbik, Greensborough, Victoria,
OccupationShoveller
The West Australian, Wed 2 Apr 1913 Page 8 COUNTRY.
Kalgoorlie Miner, Thu 27 Mar 1913 Page 4 Family Notices
Kalgoorlie Miner, Monday 31 March 1913, page 2
Boulder Cemetery, Boulder, Western Australia - Photo Find a Grave
Name Of Mine On Which Last Employed
Ivanhoe GM, Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Western Australia
Diagnosis or cause of accident
Fell 100ft down an ore pass.
Place Of Burial
Boulder Cemetery, Western Australia
Submitted by
Shari-Lei McLean - Volunteer
MSW
Single
District
Kalgoorlie-Boulder
Cause of Death
Mine Accidents
Father
Jacob LENBERG
Mother
Elizabeth JOHNSON
Other Information
Oliver Lemberg/Lenberg 25th January 1874 – 25th March 1913. My Great Grand Uncle Oliver was born in Nillumbik, Greensborough, Victoria, to parents Jacob and Elizabeth Lenberg (nee Johnson). He was the 12th child of 14 children, and had 9 brothers and 4 sisters.
The family lived in many places around country Victoria until 4th August 1888 when Jacob received a Grant of Crown Land from the Victorian Government. The land was situated at Tancks Corner in Greensborough, and later re-named Diamond Creek.
Here a small farm with a house was set up for the family. The soil was quite fertile and they would have planted vegetables and fruit for the table. Oliver was one of the first children to attend the new school in Tanks Corner in May 1878 with his 2 brothers Neil and Thomas.
Later Oliver travelled to WA about 1903 probably by state ship and would have landed at Albany in the south, and travelled to his brother Neil by road to Greenbushes, where Neil was a tin miner. He then went to Kalgoorlie in 1903 where the gold mining was well established and was employed on the Ivanhoe Mine as a shoveller.
On the 25th of March 1913, aged 39 years, Oliver had a fall in the mine shaft and died from his injuries, which were multiple, according to the report of the inquest in the Western Argus, He was buried in the Methodist Section of the Boulder Cemetery on 27th March 1913.
He was also known as Neil Splatt. It seems he had been in a bit of trouble and had changed his name. According to his death certificate, he was a single man and hadn’t any children.
The spelling of his name on the death certificate is LEMBERG but in fact the correct spelling is LENBERG. This has made things a little difficult to find Oliver, but I finally traced him to this great state of Western Australia.
R.I.P OLIVER.
