Family History Mysteries

Thomas Henry Hardinge was born in Hampstead Middlesex England in 1854. He married Kate Wild on Dec 15th 1881in Adelaide when he was 45 and Kate Wild nee Milnes. He was a hydraulics engineer and a comm...

1 Tammi 15min

Joseph Dignum and George Comerford are considered the first bushrangers in the Port Phillip area (later known as Victoria), which was still part of New South Wales in the 1830s.

1 Tammi 35min

This is the first time that a person who has a jail record is linked to my family!Violet May Wiseman, born Violet May East, married Albert Wiseman in 1917. Albert was the son of Elizabeth Ann Maw, my ...

26 Joulu 202517min

Muriel Goldsmith stated on her jail records that she was born in Tasmania on the 29 Dec 1890, however I cannot verify this.The trouble is that she went under so many aliases it is difficult to work ou...

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Audrey Ailsa Pointing and Glenore Joan Pointing were born in Sydney, NSW to Arthur Pointing and Elsie Vida Agnes Davis.Arthur Pointing owned several butcher’s shops in Sydneywhich had a reputation for...

24 Joulu 202534min

Eric Matthew Homer was born on 22 Dec 1907 at Rockdale, Sydney, New South Wales. He was the son of Ernest Homer and Florence Pritchard.He was a bigamist three times and married at least six times and ...

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James Warwick Browne was born on 18 Nov 1864 at 'Kirgunyah" Station, near Yackandandah, Victoria to Wallace Browne and Emma Kilminster. He became a wealthy grazier and a processor and exporter of the ...

21 Joulu 202536min

On 2 February 1907 Australian Winnafreda Yuillmarried Lionel Arthur Henry Seymour Dawson-Damer, the 6th Earl of Portarlington at Trinity Church, Chelsea, London. Upon the death of his father in 1900, ...

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