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.

Minnie Hornblower featured in the newspapers in the late 1880s and mid 1890s in Melbourne for two reasons – child desertion and a bigamy case.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 he enlisted in WW1 under an alias!

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.