bout 10 years ago, I noticed a small item in the On this Day column in the It simply stated: ‘1863. Frenchman Charles Robardy convicted of the murder of Daniel Crotty, the
Colonel Gibbes: Bigamist Or Impostor?
Colonel John George Nathaniel Gibbes was a British army officer who emigrated to Australia in 1834 upon his appointment as Collector of Customs for the Colony of New South Wales. My research into Gibbes’s life was featured in Traces, December 2020, i
