Magnet fishers Peaky Dippers UK and Sash window weights

 Yep, I've become addicted to these dedicated History Hunters.

Today's video features some of my fav mudlarks, Nicola White and Si Finds, as well as sash window weights.

Now, what the effing heck are people tossing sash weights into the Thames for?
It's not like we're talking one or 3, it's a regular thing they find. 
Hefty sash weights.
Boat anchors? Fishing weights? How big are the pike?! 
Is there a secret society of frustrated window hangers collecting their weights each week and merrily tossing them into the Thames under cover of darkness?
And flat irons are another that are often found in the river.
Now I CAN picture London Suffragettes lining the waterway and, with gay abandon, happily shot-putting their 4-letter word into the drink.

Rosalind Marie Scholz nee King Missing Wives

 Rosalind was reported missing by her estranged hubby in February 1903.
After a volatile relationship, with several police home visits and court appearances, Rosalind supposedly went missing from the spare bedroom of her estranged hubby's house a mere day or 3 before they were to appear in court over Edward paying maintenance to Rosalind.

Her family were distraught at her disappearance, with her already ailing father offering financial rewards for any information as to her whereabouts, which remained unpaid up til his death later that year.

Rosalind did not attend her beloved father's funeral or burial.

Edward was declared bankrupt in late 1903.

In 1907 Edward was granted a divorce on the grounds of desertion, and then remarried.

Rosalind does not have a death certificate nor did she remarry as far as I am able to find ***with limited resources***

I am happy to be corrected!

Sources

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/251628029?searchTerm=rosalind%20scholz

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/208470760?searchTerm=rosalind%20scholz

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/198610441?searchTerm=rosalind%20scholz

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/251628029?searchTerm=rosalind%20scholz

Heart attack healthy cooking ; cakes

1 cup of toasted muesli (of choice)

1 cup skim milk

1 cup SR Flour

1 cup dried mixed fruit

2 teaspoons sugar - Optional

Soak muesli in milk for 1 hour

Stir in SR Flour, mix well

Add the dried mixed fruit, and sugar (optional)

Mix well, spoon into patty cake moulds

Bake at 185 Celsius for 30 - 35 mins or until knife/skewer comes out clean

Makes 12

Journalism 1903 King Dick Wins Again

 Ahh, back in the old days...

Source; https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/234793345?searchTerm=sydney%20%20king

Teacher's Pet podcast, Missing Wife, Missing girls

 Hmm.
Seems that a "missing wife" is more than just a missing woman.
Yeah, yeah, WE all know that but it seems the penny has just dropped for some law people in Australia; if Teacher's Pet has taught us anything it's that WE SHOULDN'T JUST RELY ON THE HUSBAND.

Just a small, slight consideration that hasn't jumped up and slapped a whole gender in the face, apparently.

I digress.
Pottering amidst the glories of archived news at Trove, I've often come across "missing wife" or "missing wife and children" headlines and sometimes I go looking to see if the wife and/or kids turned up in the births/deaths/marriages.
Most times, there's a further trace of them.
But sometimes there's not a speck.
One of the "missing wife and children" was one of those that never, ever showed a sign of life: hubby didn't report the disappearance for at least 4 weeks, and no follow-up news reports.
Likewise with searching "Missing girls" in the Sydney area during the early days of The Great Depression; I was following a hunch regarding a certain serial killer I'd been researching and, worryingly, I was unable to trace a good number of the reported "missing girls" - any number over zero is too fucking many.
But few police or news follow-ups, while casual trawling through the NSW Birth/Deaths/Marriages found gaps.

How many family trees have sudden stops on people's lives..."born 1922 disappeared 1945" ... 

And the odd thing I've noticed is - 

when a bloke goes missing in the news archives he usually turns up again, whereas women don't.

When Bribie Island lost its cemetery. 1936

 To lose a cemetery is rather careless, but how one goes about losing it in the first place is so easy - just don't use it!

Source;

The Township That Lost Its Cemetery

Further Reading;

Bribie Island History - Cemeteries Why You Can't Be Buried On Bribie Island.

When a grave digger is left to his own devices... 1936

 ...he, or rather, this one in particular, had a novel idea to solve the pesky problem of uncovering previously interred bodies when digging new graves - evict the original residents into a nearby mine shaft.

That harsh sound you hear are the sounds of thousands of genealogists heads exploding.

Source;
Bones In Old Mine Shaft