During our family research a little documented piece emerged that threw a new spin on we thought we knew about Joseph Ladd Mayes. During ...

In 1860, Mounted Constable Joseph Ladd Mayes was posted to the Ballarat Gold Fields where he spent some three years at the tiny settlement o...

The colony of Victoria in Australia was undergoing a period of rapid expansion in the mid to late 1850's, owing to the gold rush that ha...

There's a story I'm keen to tell that falls outside of my current focus as a writer of fiction. It's the story of my family'...