Episodios

  • Episode 242 - The Coull Family Tragedy
    Jan 3 2026

    In the early hours of Sunday 3 Nov 1913 Mrs Kate Fox wassavagely attacked in her home on the farm ‘Osborne Farm’ near Berrigan NSW.Her brother Alexander and niece Hilda were also set upon.

    *Warning there is graphic information contained in this episode*


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    34 m
  • Shorts Episode #26 - Thomas Hardinge
    Jan 1 2026

    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 commission agent. Kate divorced Thomas - Mrs Clara Parker was named as a co-respondent.

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    15 m
  • Episode 241 - Victoria's First Bushrangers
    Jan 1 2026

    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.

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    35 m
  • Shorts Episode #25 - Violet Wiseman
    Dec 26 2025

    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 great great grandfathers sister.

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    17 m
  • Episode 240 - Muriel Goldsmith
    Dec 26 2025

    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 out her true birth name and validate where and when she was actually born!

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    38 m
  • Episode 239 - The Pointing Sisters
    Dec 24 2025

    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 high quality and modern cleanliness.

    Both sisters performed on the stage in England, Glenore under her stage name, Glen Alyn. Audrey became Lady Doverdale.

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    34 m
  • Shorts Episode #24 - Eric Homer
    Dec 21 2025

    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 used several aliases.


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    16 m
  • Episode 238 - J W Browne
    Dec 21 2025

    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 giant maiden hair ferns that grew prolifically around the Woy Woy district. He exported to the botanical industry to Germany, France, Belgium, Switzerland and the USA. He built a commodious timber residence at the foot of Blackwall Mountain and named it "Patonga".

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    37 m
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