Born into the Lindeman wine family, in Burwood NSW in 1892, Enid Maud Lindeman had an upbringing befitting a young lady, but she longed to escape colonial life. She was married four times. Enid's first husband was a shipping magnate, her second a general, her third a viscount, her fourth an earl.

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!

Audrey Ailsa Pointing and Glenore Joan Pointing were born in Sydney, NSW to Arthur Pointing and Elsie Vida Agnes Davis.

Arthur Pointing owned several butcher’s shops in Sydneywhich had a reputation for high quality and modern cleanliness.

Both sisters performed on the stage in England, Glenore under her stage name, Glen Alyn. Audrey became Lady Doverdale.

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.

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".

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.

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.

Isaiah Fletcher was born in MAR 1824 at Willenhall,Staffordshire, England. He was charged with bigamy more than once, after he came to Australia.

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!

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

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.

The fake lord at Hadley's Orient Hotel Hobart:
A colourful character the hotel saw through its doors
was Lord Lymington, but not all was as it seemed.
"This was a guest who checked in and announced himself
very proudly to be Lord Lymington and he was apparently very charming and influential. But it all happened to be a case of false identity — he wasn't a lord at all. He had completely made up this story to escape and elope with another woman even though he was already married with nine children. He got a very special seat at the Theatre Royal and got treated very well for a while."
The fake lord got away with it for a few days. After some investigations, he was caught out and had to
stand trial facing charges of wife desertion.

Berkely Basil Reylonds Moreton emigrated to Australia in 1855. He became the 4th Earl of Ducie in 1921.

The fake lord at Hadley's Orient Hotel Hobart

A colourful character the hotel saw through its doorswas Lord Lymington, but not all was as it seemed.

"This was a guest who checked in and announced himselfvery proudly to be Lord Lymington and he was apparently very charming and influential. But it all happened to be a case of false identity — he wasn't a lord at all. He had completely made up this story to escape and elope with another woman even though he was already married with nine children. He got a very special seat at the Theatre Royal and got treated very well for a while."

The fake lord got away with it for a few days. After some investigations, he was caught out and had tostand trial facing charges of wife desertion.

George Longmore stated that his wife duped him when he filed for divorce in Nov 1938.

In St Michael’s Church in Deniliquin there are a number of stain glass memorials. One of these was dedicated to Theodore Perrignon from his mother.

Who was Theodore Perrignon and what was his connection to Deniliquin?