Episode 109 - Australia's First Native Born Explorer
This episode centres around explorer Hamilton Hume and his family.
12 Marras 202445min
Episode 108 - Hugh O'Ferrall
In 1875 Hugh O'Ferrall was convicted and jailed for the largest embezzlement of government funds in Australia up to that time.
12 Marras 202439min
Episode 107 - Eugenia Fallini
An Italian immigrant, Eugenia Fallini, lived as a man for years, ‘married’ and was convicted of her ‘wife's’ murder in Sydney in the 1920s.
10 Marras 202445min
Episode 106 - Minnie Hornblower
Minnie Hornblower featured in the newspapers in the late 1880s and mid 1890s in Melbourne for two reasons – child desertion and a bigamy case.
10 Marras 202428min
Episode 105 - A H B Raingill
Alfred Henry Bisset Raingill had two aliases: George Shaw and Joseph Yates. He had been jailed in England twice prior to arriving in Melbourne in July 1879. He was also convicted for larceny, a bank r...
6 Marras 202439min
Episode 104 - Ford V Ford
Edward and Grace Ford featured in a series of newspaper articles in 1895 - one article titled it the ‘Ford V Ford Scandal’. Edward Ford was a publican in Echuca in the 1870s and 1880s.
6 Marras 202433min
Episode 103 - Charlotte The Convict
In 1849 an inquest ruled that Henry Marchant died from the effects of poison administered to him by his wife Charlotte. Charlotte was sentenced to be hung but was reprieved by Queen Victoria and trans...
3 Marras 202429min
Episode 102 - Edward de Lacy Evans
It was discovered in 1879 that Edward De Lacy Evans was in fact a woman. Edward de Lacy Evans was born Ellen Tremaye and lived in the Bendigo region for at least 22 years working, dressing and living ...
3 Marras 202448min
