Episodes

  • 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 mins
  • 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 mins
  • 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 mins
  • 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 mins
  • 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 mins
  • Episode 236 - Linda Bentley
    Dec 12 2025

    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 – her middle name also stronglyindicates this was the case!

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    36 mins
  • Episode 235 - Count de Rossi
    Dec 10 2025

    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 by Earl Bathurst, in August 1824. In 1828 Francis purchased land near Goulburn NSW, calling it 'Rossiville'. In 1896 Francis Robert obtained his grandfather’s title of comte de Rossi, following the death of the then Count in France.

    Acknowledgement to Neville Arthur Potter’s thesis written onFrancis Nicholas Rossi in March 2017https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/server/api/core/bitstreams/cdb65e70-be02-45a6-9ae0-b25d46e5743a/content

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    36 mins
  • Episode 234 - Sheila Chisholm
    Dec 6 2025

    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 married on the 27th December 1915 and Sheila became Lady Loughborough.

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    49 mins