Kylie Minogue and Ballarat. Pop star Kylie Minogue's ancestor was a thief who was one of the oldest women hanged in Britain, and now images of the spot where she was executed and Australian descendants have emerged. Kylie's relative Dinah Riddiford was publically put to death aged 69 on top of at Gloucester Jail's gate house in 1816 - in an execution known as 'The Granny Hanging'. Genealogists have revealed Dinah was Kylie Minogue's great-great-great-great-great-grandmother, and now an image has emerged of the Riddiford Family of Ballarat in Victoria Australia, taken circa 1929, believed to be her descendants. Court records show 69-year-old Mrs Riddiford and her son Luke were jailed for stealing two sides of bacon and two pigs' cheeks. They also pilfered one piece of tongue, a large pat of butter in an earthenware pot and a small copper tea kettle. Luke was spared the rope and sent to a penal colony in Australia. Photo details. The Riddiford Family of Ba...