The stain and shame of a murder
Today's blog relates to a terrible murder at the hands of a person clearly, by the evidence presented, suffering temporary insanity. NAPOLEAN JEAN LISSON Napolean was born on 15th August 1867 in Paddington Sydney, eldest son of John Hector Lisson Gorrick and Jane Underwood. In 1874 the family then consisting of 3 children moved to Noumea where John assumed the identity of a Frenchman changing his surname slightly to Lison. When Jane died in 1874 and with proceeds from her father's estate, the family moved to Italy. John Hector died on 21st November 1886 in Rome aged 41. Napolean Jean Lisson - NSW State Archives I cannot be certain when Napolean returned to Australia but at the age of 19 at the time of his father's death he was in Sydney. He became depressed after his father's death and it seems he attempted suicide but came to clarity and married Emma Marguerite Gorrick, his cousin, on 15th May 1889. Emma Lisson (nee Gorrick) - Ancestry.com from public domain mag...