| Main Title: |
The true story of the Maryvale murders and the Langley family ghost / John Henry Ellen |
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| Author: |
Ellen, John Henry
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| Imprint: |
[Rupanyup, Vic.] : Chargan My Book Publisher, 2013 |
| Collation: |
154 p. : ill., portraits, facsims, maps, pbk ; 22 cm |
| Summary: |
In 1874 a young woman, her illegitimate daughter, and the man who was paid to marry her, leave Mount Gambier in South Australia to take up a selection in Lubeck, near Murtoa. Two days later they are camped on the Maryvale Estate near Edenhope and that is the last that the family are seen until the remains of the young woman and her daughter are discovered ten years later on the property.
Where is the husband? Did he murder them and if so why? And was there really a ghost protecting the site where the bodies were buried? This is a true story with remarkable twists and turns, and was one of the greatest murder mysteries in Australian history. This is a book that has been thoroughly researched, and is more than just a murder story. It is a chronicle of the struggle and hardships that our early settlers had to endure, particularly the Langley Family with their seventeen children. The 19th Century was a time when the new colony of Australia was trying to forge an identity, and it was settlers like Charles Langley and his family who worked tirelessly to bring this about. |
| Subject: |
Langley, Charles, 1826-1900
Langley, Mary (nee Parker Hewison), 1829-1862
Langley, Caroline (nee Northwood) 1838-1908
Cook, Robert, 1847-1888?
Cook, Maria (nee Langley), 1854-1874
Langley, Louisa Jane, 1872-1874
Langley family
Maryvale Estate (property) (Edenhope, SA)
Crime and criminals
Murders and murderers
Family histories
Ghosts
Mount Gambier (SA)
Edenhope (SA)
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| ISBN: |
9780987307392 |
| Notes: |
Cover title.
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