Family history here, my mum was born in Broome, her father was a pearler and had a fleet of boats, he also owned Gantheaume Point which he bought off the then owner
Pat Percy when Pat needed funds. Anastasia's Pool being famous for the flying fox to take his wife down to the warm water pool.
When we took mum back twenty years ago, she said "your grandfather owned that", of course we didn't believe her, given "the history" that is out there, so when we got back home I did a search through the WA land titles office, and she was right.
My grandfather and not Pat Percy gave the place to the local nuns/convent for the help they gave during my grandmothers battle with breast cancer. My grandfather is meant to have died from a broken heart following her death.
My mother and aunty were at boarding school in Toodyay when he died, they didn't get to go back to Broome, instead being shipped off to relatives in Adelaide. The family home was meant to have been used as military hq for the north west during ww2.
Interestingly, his total assets were meant to equal his total debt on his death. It was after all a frontier town and dodgy business was the norm. The place where there house was is now the local Centrelink office.
Also, mum said that Sir Charles Kingsford Smith stayed there, she swore blind that she could remember meeting him.
