Family History Mysteries

A listener got in touch with me to present the story of JohnCoates, one of her ancestors.
John Thomas Coates came to Australia as a convict forstealing a handkerchief when pickpocketing.

Amy Sherwin was known as the 'Tasmanian Nightingale’. Before Nellie Melba Amy captivated international audiences Amy was one of the greatest sopranos of her era. It isbelieved one reason Melba’s fame lasted and Sherwin’s, didn’t may be that Amy’s heyday came before the era of records and radio.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-07/amy-sherwin,-the-tasmania-nightingale/104697766
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xa045aa

In 1911, George Michaelis was committed for trial for bigamy. It was uncovered that he had married two other women when his first wife was still alive!

James Perrin featured in the Deniliquin Pastoral Times in 1958 and 1959, celebrating his 96th and 97th birthdays, respectively.

Check out https://bryanhalbertmcmillanperrin.com/2020/04/17/the-perrins-arrive/
It is written by: Pamela Bryant (nee Bryan), daughter of GeorgeEna Perrin, Granddaughter of George Henry Perrin.

Frederick Woodland had a number of marriages, two divorces and at least one child out of wedlock, in Australia and England.
Frederick's son Val, was a radio broadcaster. Val's son, Cecil Albert Woodland, himself a radio broadcaster in Qld– he recorded reminiscences in 1996 https://collections.slq.qld.gov.au/viewer/IE5398730