Monthly Archives: December 2012

The Continuing Criminal Career Of Robert Bown

December 29, 2012 By Gary in Newspaper Articles, Trew No Comments Tags: bown

As mentioned in the article about Robert Bown and the murder trial, it was known that Robert Bown fell foul of the law after serving his sentence for the manslaughter of Timothy Murphy. I recently found several archived news reports on Trove which relate to the offences he committed after returning to the Murtoa district […]

Harpers On The Internet

December 22, 2012 By Gary in Blog 8 Comments Tags: harper

The HarperFamilyTree.com website has been really effective for getting in contact with other Harpers and their descendants around Australia who we wouldn’t have otherwise known or perhaps even known about. The first significant contact was from Maurie Harper. He had been researching for many years but there were questions around what had become of his […]