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   James Nesbitt (27 August 1858 – 17 November 1879) was an Australian bushranger who was a member of the Wantabadgery Bushrangers led by Andrew George Scott, alias Captain Moonlite.

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3. www.abc.net.au › news › 2024/03/23Final resting place of queer bushranger pair in line for ...

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   Mar 22, 2024 · Andrew Scott, better known as Captain Moonlite, robbed banks and stole gold with a small gang of outlaws, including James Nesbitt, across Victoria and NSW in the late 1870s.

4. www.australiangeographic.com.au › blogs › on-thisOn this day: Captain Moonlite's hanging - Australian Geographic

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   Jan 12, 2017 · It was in Pentridge jail that Andrew met James Nesbitt. Released a few years early in 1879, Andrew lived in the Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy with the 21 year old. By this stage, Moonlite was a well-known public figure; a bushranger.

5. www.dnamagazine.com.au › aussie-gay-bushrangersAussie Gay Bushrangers Captain Moonlite And James Nesbitt ...

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   Mar 25, 2024 · Captain Moonlite, also known as Andrew Scott, led a gang of outlaws across Victoria and NSW in the late 1870s, engaging in bank robberies and gold theft. James Nesbitt was close with Moonlite and was eventually killed during a confrontation with police.

6. www.artshub.com.au › news › featuresThe queer bushranger who still inspires artists 143 years ...

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   Sep 5, 2023 · Condemned to be executed in January 1880, in the two months before his death, the Irish-born bushranger Andrew George Scott (aka Captain Moonlite) wrote endlessly from his Darlinghurst Gaol cell about his enduring love for James “Jim” Nesbitt, the young man he met while serving time in Melbourne’s Pentridge Prison a few years previously:

7. www.smh.com.au › culture › booksWhy bushranger Captain Moonlite died with a lock of hair in ...

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   Dec 4, 2020 · Perhaps the most compelling section of Moonlite features the extraordinary tenderness with which Scott regarded his last partner in crime and the love of his life, James Nesbitt, whom he met while ...

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   Who was James Nesbitt?

   • Not for his own life, but for the life of James Nesbitt, his fellow fugitive shot during the Moonlite gang’s standoff with police at Wantabadgery station two months previous. A well-educated man, Andrew wrote passionately in his last days, declaring his dying wish was:

   On this day: Captain Moonlite's hanging - Australian Geographic

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   How did James Nesbitt die?

   • James Nesbitt was close with Moonlite and was eventually killed during a confrontation with police. Following this event, the bushranger was said to have been apprehended and sentenced to death, too. Before his execution, Moonlite expressed deep affection for Nesbitt, revealing the nature of their relationship.

   Aussie Gay Bushrangers Captain Moonlite And James Nesbitt Graves

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   Who were Captain Moonlite & James Nesbitt?

   • The graves of Captain Moonlite and James Nesbitt are being considered for inclusion on the New South Wales heritage register. The two men were infamous Australian bushrangers and their romantic relationship is widely acknowledged by archivists and historians.

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   Did Andrew George Scott have a relationship with James Nesbitt?

   • Love letters, shootouts and bank robberies – Andrew George Scott’s life and relationship to James Nesbitt has left historians intrigued. WHILE NINETEENTH CENTURY bushranger Captain Moonlite’s biography is one of many adventures, continents and crimes, it is his final days that beg loudest for the Hollywood treatment.

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9. mhnsw.au › stories › general‘Well have we loved’ | MHNSW - Museums of History NSW

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   Awaiting execution at Darlinghurst Gaol in 1880, bushranger Captain Moonlite wrote moving letters describing his feelings for fellow gang member Jim Nesbitt.1. Cultured, charming and dangerous, Andrew George Scott (c1842–1880), known as Captain Moonlite, was an Irish-born bushranger.