Family History Mysteries

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 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.