Family History Mysteries

Frank Gardiner, born Francis Christie, was an Australian bushranger who led the gang that robbed a gold escort at Eugowra NSW in June 1862.  It is considered the largest gold heist in Australian histo...

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Mary Ann McCaffey, as Mary Robinson, popped up in an interesting article in 1883 in the Deniliquin Pastoral Times, when the law caught up with her for obtaining goods and money under false pretences, ...

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Frank Gardiner, born Francis Christie, was an Australian bushranger who led the gang that robbed a gold escort at Eugowra NSW in June 1862.  It is considered the largest gold heist in Australian histo...

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Brothers William and Charles Mustey emigrated to Australia in 1849. Their brother Robert followed with his wife and children in 1852 and their sister Eliza with her husband in 1862. This episode tells...

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Daniel Morgan was born on the 30 April 1830. He was born John Owen or Jack Fuller, the illegitimate son of George Fuller and Mary Owen. Morgan has been described as "the most bloodthirsty ruffian that...

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George Howe was the first government printer in 1801 and created the Sydney Gazette in 1803. This is the story of George and his family.

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*Warning: this episode contains graphic information that could be distressing to some* Thomas Jeffrey was a convict bushranger in the mid-1820s in Van Diemen's Land.  In newspaper reports of his crime...

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Jessie Hickman was an outlaw in NSW in the early 1900s, and one of the few women in the early colony who was able to survive in the bush and evade police.

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