Episode 241 - Victoria's First Bushrangers
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 Jan 35min
Shorts Episode #25 - Violet Wiseman
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 Dec 202517min
Episode 240 - Muriel Goldsmith
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...
26 Dec 202538min
Episode 239 - The Pointing Sisters
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 Dec 202534min
Shorts Episode #24 - Eric Homer
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 ...
21 Dec 202516min
Episode 238 - J W Browne
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 Dec 202536min
Shorts Episode #23 - The Countess of Portarlington
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, ...
17 Dec 202518min
Episode 237 - Margaret Greenwood
Margaret Greenwood was born Margaret Shanahan in Ireland in 1816. She was convicted of house burglary in King’s County at the age of 17 in 1832. She married William Greenwood in 1840, however after hi...
17 Dec 202527min
