Family History Mysteries

James Tyson started off by providing a butchery service to prospectors on the Victorian goldfields of the 1850/60s. He went on to establish pastoral runs from Queensland to Victoria becoming a very we...

9 Feb 202538min

This is the first part of a three part episode on James Tyson.James Tyson started off by providing a butchery service to prospectors on the Victorian goldfields of the 1850/60s. He went on to establis...

4 Feb 202538min

William Henry Arrowsmith and his wife Mary are featured in Henry Merlin's photos of Gulgong NSW in the 1870s that were part of the discovered Holtermann Collection. This is his story and the story of ...

4 Feb 202520min

Thomas John Augustus Griffin was a senior Queensland police officer who was executed in June 1868, after being found guilty of the double murder of two police officers, troopers John Power and Patrick...

1 Feb 202534min

Thomas John Augustus Griffin was a senior Queensland police officer who was executed in June 1868, after being found guilty of the double murder of two police officers, troopers John Power and Patrick...

1 Feb 202529min

After Walter Russell Hall died on Oct 1911, his gift to charity was outlined in the Victorian papers – a staggering 1 million pounds! I was intrigued to find out how he made his fortune and why he beq...

28 Jan 202544min

This episode continues the sotry of Henry Louis Bertrand, known as the 'Mad Dentist of Wynyard Square'. He was convicted of the murder of Henry Kinder, who died on 2 October 1865, in one of Sydney's m...

28 Jan 202529min

Henry Louis Bertrand, was known as the 'Mad Dentist of Wynyard Square'. He was convicted of the murder of Henry Kinder, who died on 2 October 1865, in one of Sydney's most notorious homicide cases of ...

25 Jan 202533min