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Percival George Whittall Percy was born into an English merchant family, educated in England, multilingual and employed by the large Far East trading company, Jardine, Matheson & Co. He came to Austra...
Episode 248 - The Bogus Doctor (00:35:19)
In a 1923 newspaper article, it outlined how William Mowbray under the title of Dr William De Vale, had slept with a number of his patients even though he was a married man with children.
Episode 247 - Ettie Benn - Part 2 (00:33:28)
Ethel Benn was an extraordinarily athletic thief who never learned from her mistakes.
Episode 247 - Ettie Benn - Part 1 (00:32:20)
Ethel Benn was an extraordinarily athletic thief who never learned from her mistakes.
Episode 246 - Esther Eggers (00:51:36)
Esther Eggers was born Esther Ann Reardon in Sydney in 1896. She first features in public documents as a 15 year old and was still committing misdemeanors in her late forties.
Shorts Episode #28 - John Wagner (00:17:09)
John Wagner was born in Canada in 1827. He emigrated in 1852 via California to Melbourne. During his travels, he recognized the difficulty of transport over long distances and in Australia developed a...
Episode 245 - Masterman Scoringi (00:37:56)
Charles Thomas Scoringi Jnr was born in 1891 in New Zealand. He was in trouble with the law as a young boy, and committed crimes both in NZ and Australia. Interestingly, in all but one case, targeted ...
Shorts Episode 27 - The De Luca Brothers (00:24:00)
In 1894, Albert and Vincent De Luca aged only 12 and 10 were charged under the Industrialised Schools Act in Sydney of leaving their home. Joseph De Luca, their father, wasthe complainant. What became...
Episode 244 - The Housebreaker (00:37:04)
May Eileen Wood was dubbed in the press as the ‘Notorious Woman Housebreaker’.She was born in Busselton WA in 1895 to John Wood and Ellen Thurkle.
Episode 243 - The Countess of Kenmare (00:44:06)
Born into the Lindeman wine family, in Burwood NSW in 1892, Enid Maud Lindeman had an upbringing befitting a young lady, but she longed to escape colonial life. She was married four times. Enid's firs...
Episode 242 - The Coull Family Tragedy (00:34:23)
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 th...
Shorts Episode #26 - Thomas Hardinge (00:15:03)
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 comm...
Episode 241 - Victoria's First Bushrangers (00:35:07)
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.
Shorts Episode #25 - Violet Wiseman (00:17:00)
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 ...
Episode 240 - Muriel Goldsmith (00:38:17)
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...
Episode 239 - The Pointing Sisters (00:34:04)
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...
Shorts Episode #24 - Eric Homer (00:16:25)
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 ...
Episode 238 - J W Browne (00:36:49)
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 ...
Shorts Episode #23 - The Countess of Portarlington (00:18:45)
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, ...
Episode 237 - Margaret Greenwood (00:27:08)
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...
Shorts Episode #22 - Isaiah Fletcher (00:19:53)
Isaiah Fletcher was born in MAR 1824 at Willenhall,Staffordshire, England. He was charged with bigamy more than once, after he came to Australia.
Episode 236 - Linda Bentley (00:36:19)
Linda Lyons Bentley was born on 30 MAY 1907 in Alpha Queensland, west of Emerald, to Phoebe Catherine Bentley. She was the oldest of Phoebe’s children. It seems James Patrick Lyons was her father – he...
Episode 235 - Count de Rossi (00:36:08)
Count de Rossi was born Francis Robert Lewis Rossi in 1823 at Port Louis, Mauritius. His father, Francis Nicholas Rossi, accepted the post of superintendent of police in New South Wales, offered him b...
Episode 234 - Sheila Chisholm (00:48:36)
Sheila Chisholm was referred to in the papers of the day asa notable Australian socialite. In Cairo in 1915, she met FrancisEdward Scudamore St Clair-Erskine, formally known as Lord Loughborough. They...
Episode 233 - 'Lord Lymington' - Part 2 (00:22:36)
The fake lord at Hadley's Orient Hotel Hobart:A colourful character the hotel saw through its doorswas Lord Lymington, but not all was as it seemed."This was a guest who checked in and announced himse...
