Episode 141 - Captain Earnshaw
Charles Tasman Earnshaw was the marine underwriters engineer and surveyor as well as a paddle steamer captain at Echuca Victoria from the 1870s.
12 Tammi 202532min
Introducing follow up clips
Meet Nicole, the creator of the Family History Mysteries podcast. Nicole plans to upload clips when further discoveries have been made after episodes have been published. Stay tuned for the Extras Cli...
10 Tammi 20253min
Episode 140 - The Double Hanging
On the 31 May 1894 ‘Nosey Bob’ Howard (from Episode 133) supervised a double execution at Darlinghurst. The two men, known as The Bridge Street Burglars, were Thomas Williams (alias Thomas Carroll) a...
8 Tammi 202545min
Episode 139 - Dr Bonnefin
Thomas James Creed had aliases James Clarke and Dr Bonnefin, and was jailed a number of times for counterfeiting, larceny and obtaining goods under false pretenses in the 1870s and 1880s.
8 Tammi 202539min
Episode 138 - James Flinn
*Warning there is grahic information contained in this episode* James Flinn under one of his aliases, Henry Wilkinson, was the only man hung in Albury NSW.
5 Tammi 202539min
Episode 137 - The first settler to officially discover gold in Australia
Edward Hammond Hargraves was credited with discovering the first payable gold in Australia near Bathurst, New South Wales in 1851, although this was not without controversy, as a number of men felt th...
5 Tammi 202531min
Episode 136 - Mrs Livesey - Part 2
Ethel Livesey was a serial fraudster who became a media sensation after she ran out on her Sydney society wedding in 1945 and was later arrested for obtained goods by false pretences.
1 Tammi 202530min
Episode 136 - Mrs Livesey - Part 1
Ethel Livesey was a serial fraudster who became a media sensation after she ran out on her Sydney society wedding in 1945 and was later arrested for obtained goods by false pretences.
1 Tammi 202540min
