Interesting genealogy stories

[gibbo]

Share your stories or the stories of someone you were helping.

One i was helping with turned out to be a fraud. A whole stack of alias names and even pretended to be a doctor after stealing the papers of a real doctor. Its a real long story but in short he married around 7 times, a different name each time, a whole bunch of kids to. One wife suicided, and HE signed off on her death while pretending to be a doctor. Two other wives "disappeared" pretty much straight after they married him. We never found any trace at all on them. I personally wonder if he murdered them
A interesting search to be involved in tho he was not a nice man at all.

VAL if you read this it should be back memories for you as well,.

 

[horse]

Good grief, Gibbo.. You couldn't make that up..

Or could you?

Geoff

 

[gibbo]

Good grief, Gibbo.. You couldn't make that up..

Or could you?

Geoff

Nope not made up Geoff. Took a few of us many months to follow this fella from state to state. Criminal records helping us with the alias names etc.

 

[horse]

Are we going to get a crack at tracing him?

Geoff

 

[gibbo]

Are we going to get a crack at tracing him?

Geoff

Nah we got him in the end, dead in NSW in 1910 i think it was

Here's the link for the thread [a different forum than here] Makes interesting reading but it goes back and forth etc. Its a very long thread while we weaved our way through it.

https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/australiansurnamesgroup/jack-taylor-rennie-t4573.html

 

[Ladybird1300]

Just reading though your story there Gibbo and noticed your research is for Shipman.....not looking for Harold by any chance are you ??:2fun:

Amanda

 

[gibbo]

Just reading though your story there Gibbo and noticed your research is for Shipman.....not looking for Harold by any chance are you ??:2fun:

Amanda

Nah :2fun::2fun:

Dont think his one of mine, havent come across him or anything leading to him amongst my lot.