Archive | March, 2013

NSW State Archives

21 Mar

I will be going to the NSW State Archives next Thursday 28 March. So if there are any records you require, I can check them out for you and copy them if you wish.

Some Australian History for today.

12 Mar

March 12

On this day in 1868 Australia’s first attempted political assassination occurred when Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, was shot while picnicking at Clontarf beach by Henry James O’Farrell. The Prince was hospitalised for two weeks and recovered fully.  O’Farrell was arrested at the scene and quickly tried, convicted and then hanged on April 21, 1868.