Family History Mysteries

In the early hours of Sunday 3 Nov 1913 Mrs Kate Fox wassavagely attacked in her home on the farm ‘Osborne Farm’ near Berrigan NSW.Her brother Alexander and niece Hilda were also set upon. *Warning there is graphic information contained in this episode*

Thomas Henry Hardinge was born in Hampstead Middlesex England in 1854. He married Kate Wild on Dec 15th 1881in Adelaide when he was 45 and Kate Wild nee Milnes. He was a hydraulics engineer and a commission agent. Kate divorced Thomas - Mrs Clara Parker was named as a co-respondent.

Joseph Dignum and George Comerford are considered the first bushrangers in the Port Phillip area (later known as Victoria), which was still part of New South Wales in the 1830s.

This is the first time that a person who has a jail record is linked to my family!Violet May Wiseman, born Violet May East, married Albert Wiseman in 1917. Albert was the son of Elizabeth Ann Maw, my great great grandfathers sister.

Muriel Goldsmith stated on her jail records that she was born in Tasmania on the 29 Dec 1890, however I cannot verify this.The trouble is that she went under so many aliases it is difficult to work out her true birth name and validate where and when she was actually born!