Episodes
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This episode centres around explorer Hamilton Hume and his family.
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In 1875 Hugh O'Ferrall was convicted and jailed for the largest embezzlement of government funds in Australia up to that time.
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An Italian immigrant, Eugenia Fallini, lived as a man for years, ‘married’ and was convicted of her ‘wife's’ murder in Sydney in the 1920s.
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Minnie Hornblower featured in the newspapers in the late 1880s and mid 1890s in Melbourne for two reasons – child desertion and a bigamy case.
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Alfred Henry Bisset Raingill had two aliases: George Shaw and Joseph Yates. He had been jailed in England twice prior to arriving in Melbourne in July 1879. He was also convicted for larceny, a bank robbery, uttering counterfeit coins and the murder of a police constable. His life ended in an unexpected way in 1902 - it was widely published in newspapers across Australia.
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Edward and Grace Ford featured in a series of newspaper articles in 1895 - one article titled it the ‘Ford V Ford Scandal’. Edward Ford was a publican in Echuca in the 1870s and 1880s.
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In 1849 an inquest ruled that Henry Marchant died from the effects of poison administered to him by his wife Charlotte. Charlotte was sentenced to be hung but was reprieved by Queen Victoria and transported to Van Diemen's Land for life. This is her story.
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It was discovered in 1879 that Edward De Lacy Evans was in fact a woman. Edward de Lacy Evans was born Ellen Tremaye and lived in the Bendigo region for at least 22 years working, dressing and living as a man.
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Granny Morgan was born Ann Collins, the daughter of Edward John Collins, a convict and Elizabeth Adams, a free settler. Ann was born at sea just off the Heads at Sydney, on board the ‘Admiral Barrington’, a ship that was part of the 3rd Fleet. When she died in 1885, she was the oldest surviving person who came with the early Fleet voyages.
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I came across an article in an 1894 Victorian newspaper outlining how a young unmarried woman had a child that police suspected had been murdered. The police commenced investigations and found the remains of an infant buried in the family’s backyard. This is the story of the Crozier family.
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In 1917, John Burston featured in a newspaper article in reference to payments for an illegitimate child. His story got even more interesting when I discovered heenlisted in WW1 under an alias!
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Captain George Johnston Dorward was a Scottish born paddle steamer captain who captained a range of steamers on the Murray River and its tributaries. He was also a storekeeper, a publican, a partner in a brewery and a farmer! This is the story of George and his family.
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Thomas Brewerton, known by the sobriquet 'Velvet Ned', was a skilled lock-breaker, and was one of the main instigators of the Cornhill London robbery in 1865. He was convicted and sent to WA as a convict in 1866 and continued with a prolific criminal career in W.A, Victoria, SA, NSW and Qld!
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There is some debate over the inspiration for Banjo Paterson's classic poem Clancy of the Overflow.
Many believe that Thomas Michael McNamara was 'Clancy' in the poem. This episode covers Thomas' story and the story of his family.
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Clancy of the Overflow was a poem written by Banjo Paterson.
There are two men who are said to have been possible inspirations for the poem.
Part 1 covers the story of Thomas Gerald Clancy and his family.
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The Wilson Brothers owned and ran paddle steamers at Koondrook and Echuca on the Murray River. The family also owned the Bridge Hotel at Echuca.
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The Nelson Robbery was one of the major crimes of the Victorian gold rush. It involved the robbery at gunpoint of 8,183 ounces of gold valued at about £30,000. A party of thieves robbed from the barque Nelson as she lay in anchor at Hobsons Bay off Melbourne in April 1852. The heist was as simple as it was audacious and ranks among the greatest robberies in Australian history.
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The Nelson Robbery was one of the major crimes ofthe Victorian gold rush. It involved the robbery at gunpoint of 8,183 ounces of gold valued at about £30,000. A party of thieves robbed from the barque Nelson as she lay inanchor at Hobsons Bay off Melbourne in April 1852. The heist was as simple as it was audacious and ranks among the greatest robberies in Australian history.
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John Tennant, dubbed the Terror of Argyle, was an Australian bushranger who had gang that was active around the Canberra district in the mid-1820s.
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George Bain Johnston captained riverboats on the Murray River and its tributaries in the 1870s and 1880s.
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