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Jan 20, 2013 · To many Australians, Ned Kelly, the son of poor Irish Catholics, was a heroic anti-establishment figure who fought corrupt British colonists in the 19th Century. To others, he was a vicious thug ...
Ned Kelly was born to Irish parents in Beveridge, Victoria, in about 1854. The Kelly family was regularly in trouble with the law. Ned’s father was transported to Australia for stealing pigs and died in 1866, when Ned was a young teenager. At age 16 Ned served three years in prison with hard labour for stealing a horse.
Edward ‘Ned’ Kelly was Victoria’s most infamous bushranger. He led a group of outlaws known as the Kelly gang in the late 1870s. For 18 months, while on the run from police, they robbed banks, took hostages, chopped down telegraph poles and destroyed part of a railway line. Although finally hanged for fatally shooting three policemen ...
The Kelly family. Photograph taken to celebrate Ellen Kelly's release from prison in 1881. Born in 1854, Edward (Ned) Kelly was the third of eight children and the eldest son of Ellen and John Kelly. After the death of his father in 1866, Ned took on the responsibilities of the head of the large and poor Kelly family.
Meet Ned Kelly. Ned Kelly was born in Beveridge, a small town north of Melbourne, probably in 1854. His parents were Ellen Quinn and John ‘Red’ Kelly. Red was an Irish convict transported to Australia for stealing pigs. He married Ellen, a free migrant and also Irish, after he had been freed.
Nov 10, 2020 · The 11th November 2020 marks 140 years since Ned Kelly was hanged at Melbourne Gaol. Matt scores an exclusive interview with the famous bushranger to find ou...
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Ned Kelly's armour on display in the State Library of Victoria. The helmet, breastplate, backplate and shoulder plates show 18 bullet marks. Also on display are Kelly's Snider Enfield rifle and one of his boots. In 1879, Australian bushranger and outlaw Ned Kelly devised a plan to create bulletproof armour and wear it during shootouts with the ...
