Épisodes

  • 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 min
  • 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 min
  • 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 min
  • 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 min
  • 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 min
  • Shorts Episode #23 - The Countess of Portarlington
    Dec 17 2025

    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, Lionel became not only the Earl of Portarlington (Ireland Peerage), but also the 7th Lord Dawson and the 7th Viscount Carlow. Lionel served as one of the King's train-bearers at the Coronation of Edward VII and Alexandra at Westminster Abbey on 9 August 1902.

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    19 min
  • Episode 237 - Margaret Greenwood
    Dec 17 2025

    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 his death in 1867, things started going downhill for Margaret.

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    27 min
  • Shorts Episode #22 - Isaiah Fletcher
    Dec 12 2025

    Isaiah Fletcher was born in MAR 1824 at Willenhall,Staffordshire, England. He was charged with bigamy more than once, after he came to Australia.

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    20 min