Episode 57 - The Harries family
*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
Episode 56- The Will
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
Episode 55 - The Pastoralist
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
Episode 54 - Black Douglas
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
Episode 53 - The Rich Recluse
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
Episode 52 - The Heriot Family
In Episode 49 on Percy Morran, the name of Heriot featured as publicans of the Sportsmans Arms Hotel in North Deniliquin, southern NSW. There is also a street named after the family in Deniliquin.
28 Jul 202448min
Episode 51 - Black Caesar
John Caesar, known as "Black Caesar", was the first Australian bushranger and one of the first people of African descent to arrive in Australia.
28 Jul 202424min
Episode 50 - The Surgeon
In Episode 42, Rose Lodge on the Broughton family, it was mentioned that William Broughton was assistant surgeon to John White on the First Fleet’s voyage and he was an acquaintance of the Broughton f...
23 Jul 202434min
