Episode 43: Rough Time on the Gold Fields

Rough Time in the Gold Fields

A Story of Murder in Bendigo, Australia

Gold diggings, Ararat, c.1858, by Edward Roper, oil painting, presented by Sir William Dixson, 1929, State Library of New South Wales
Source: Wikipedia

Julie Dixon Jaxson, genetic genealogist and host of CutOff Genes, joins us to share a shocking story she discovered while researching her family tree. This story takes place on the gold fields in Victoria, Australia and appeared in The Bendigo Advertiser on 1 April 1861. Listen to learn what happened to her distant aunt and uncle. It’s a shocking tale of murder.

If you have a story you would like to share about your family, we would love to hear it and feature it in a future episode.

Our guest this week, Julie Dixon Jackson.

You can listen to Julie at her podcast, CutOff Genes.

Bendigo, Australia at the end of 1851, 10 years prior to the murder. According to Wikipedia, this was a sketched map created by shepherd William Sandbach showing the beginning of the Bendigo goldfield in October 1851.
Source: Wikipedia