Charles Nyghyah

Charles Nyghyah was a hawker at Angledool in 1894, a storekeeper in Cumborah in 1910 and had a bakery at the New Town in the same year. He is believed to be of Indian descent.

In 1915, Tom Urwin built a grocery store for Charles, but then bought it back from him after having some success with opal.

Charles Nyghyah passed away in 1914.

Charles Nyghyah’s signature sourced from a petition to resist the relocation of residents from Old Town and The Flat to the surveyed town, 1912.

Charles Nyghyah @ Find a Grave.

Article: Research by Leisa Carney, edited by Russell Gawthorpe. LRHS research compiled by Len Cram and Barbara Moritz. Sources: Lightning Ridge - The Home of the Black Opal: Unique to the World, Gan Bruce, 1983, p. 72; Lightning Flash Newspaper, 2 May 1974; Walgett Spectator, 15 April 1910, 26 March 1914, 27 April 1916.