Family History Mysteries

Two years ago a fantastic photo of a house that was made out of flattened kerosene tins was posted on the Deniliquin & District Historical Society Facebook page. The house was nicknamed  ‘Plume House’...

11 Aug 202426min

I came across Harry Albatross Patrick in a newspaper article outlining how his wife was contesting his will. Harry left the proceeds of his will to his nieces and nephews and clearly stated his wife w...

11 Aug 202427min

Thomas Alexander Browne was a pastoralist, police magistrate and gold commissioner, but best known as novelist 'Rolf Boldrewood'. This is the story of Thomas and his family.

7 Aug 202447min

*Warning there is reference to suicide and graphic information in this episode*I came across the Harries family when I found a newspaper article, outlining the gruesome discovery of a human leg found ...

7 Aug 202420min

In 1904, Ann Elizabeth Grut died, leaving the proceeds of her will to her friends and relatives, excluding her husband, Henry B Grut. He challenged the will, stating she was incapacitated when writing...

4 Aug 202426min

Cuthbert Featherstonaugh arrived in Australia in 1853. On his death a close friend described him: 'If ever there lived a British gentleman in every sense of the word, he was one, and all is summed up ...

4 Aug 202441min

William Douglas, known as ‘Black Douglas’, was labelled the ‘terror of the goldfields’ in Victoria in the 1850s and became one of Australia’s best-known criminals at this time, decades before Ned Kell...

31 Jul 20241h 7min

I came across an article from a 1943 Victorian paper titled ‘Rich man died in squalor’. It caught my attention and I wanted to understand how someone with so much money chose to live in that way. This...

31 Jul 202446min