Biography Of Bush Rangers

Bush Rangers

Before becoming the notorious bushranger, he was best known for Fred Ward worked at Tocal. Fred was the youngest in his family out of 11 children, his mum and dad where Sophia and Michael ward. While working at Tocal Fred stayed at the overseer’s cottage which is why it is called thunderbolts cottage.

Another notorious bush ranger known well to most Australians is ned Kelly, he was born December 1854 in Beveridge Victoria he came into a family with 11 siblings. His parent’s john and Ellen Kelly. Ned left school in 1864 when he was just 10 years old after his father died in cattle related incident whilst he was helping Ned’s grandfather James Quin. The Kelly and Quin families where often accused of stealing horses and cattle but they where never actually convicted of these crimes. In 1869 Ned was only 14 and was convicted of assaulting a local pig famer and served 7 weeks in jail for his first convicted offence. Only one year later ned was convicted of being in possession of a stolen horse, he later claimed to be unaware of the fact it was stolen. In 1878 Ned was angered by his

Not long after this they got into a shoot out with the police and one month after this they majorly robbed many national bank branches at Euro and Jerilderie. They held many people hostage and threatened to kill while they stole from the volts. At one of these robberies Ned wrote the famous note explaining his side of the story and also information about the unfair treatment his family got from the police. At around 1879 Ned’s group of bushrangers created the notorious metal armour they wore. 1880 the group shot dead a police informer called Aaron Sherritt. The same year Kelly’s gang got into a gun fight that lasted half a day and it resulted in all the members being shot dead and Ned seriously injured. November 11 1980 Ned Kelly was hung at the old Melbourne gaol. His last word was “such is