In 1878, an ex-schoolmaster attempted to kill his wife and commit suicide. This man was Jonathon Richard Saxby. What led to such an extreme act?

In 2022, it marked 150 years since the chance discovery of the Holtermann Nugget, found in 1872 at the Star of Hope Gold Mine, Hill End, New South Wales. As manager of the Star of Hope, German migrant and prospector Bernhardt Otto Holtermann was credited with the discovery.

Daniel Herbert, a master stonemason, was sentenced and sent out to Van Dieman's Land. He earned his freedom through his work on the Ross Bridge. His masonry work is completely unique.

It is believed that Frank Butler, was possibly Australia's first serial killer.
*Warning - there is graphic information in this episode*

Charles Tasman Earnshaw was the marine underwriters engineer and surveyor as well as a paddle steamer captain at Echuca Victoria from the 1870s.

Meet Nicole, the creator of the Family History Mysteries podcast.

Nicole plans to upload clips when further discoveries have been made after episodes have been published.

Stay tuned for the Extras Clip #1 - after further developments in the research of Thomas Creed in Episode 139 - Dr Bonnefin.

On the 31 May 1894 ‘Nosey Bob’ Howard (from Episode 133)

Thomas James Creed had aliases James Clarke and Dr Bonnefin, and was jailed a number of times for counterfeiting, larceny and obtaining goods under false pretenses in the 1870s and 1880s.

*Warning there is grahic information contained in this episode*

James Flinn under one of his aliases, Henry Wilkinson, was the only man hung in Albury NSW.

Edward Hammond Hargraves was credited with discovering the first payable gold in Australia near Bathurst, New South Wales in 1851, although this was not without controversy, as a number of men felt they missed out on the credit.