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Aaron Sherritt was born in the Melbourne suburb of Prahran in August 1854, to Irish migrants John and Agnes Ann (née Nesbitt) Sherritt. He was the eldest of 13 children. He grew up at Woolshed near Beechworth and was a childhood friend of Kelly gang member Joe Byrne. On 26 December 1879, Sherritt married fifteen-year-old Ellen "Belle" Barry.
The Murder of Aaron Sherritt. Aaron Sherritt. Today marks 137 years since the death of Aaron Sherritt at the hands of his best friend Joe Byrne. This event was the trigger for the Kelly Gang’s Glenrowan campaign and would ultimately result in tragedy for most everyone involved. On the evening of June 26, 1880, German immigrant Anton Wick was ...
Aaron Sherritt (August 1854 - 26 June 1880) was a close friend of bushrangers Joe Byrne and Ned Kelly. [1] His murder in 1880 was the first of the actions that led to the Kelly Gang's final shoot out with the police at Glenrowan . Sherritt lived about three miles from Byrne, in the Woolshed Valley, near Beechworth, Victoria.
Jun 26, 2021 · July 3, 1880.] Sherritt was born into an Irish protestant family in 1854, growing up in the Woolshed Valley – a notoriously rough area of the north east of Victoria right in the heart of the goldfields of that region. He met Joe Byrne as a young boy and the pair were inseparable. Naturally, the Catholic Byrnes were wary of Aaron, and the ...
The first intimation of the affair received by the police in Melbourne was the following telegram :— "Watch party stuck up by the Kelly gang at 6 o'clock Saturday night. Aaron Sherritt shot dead in the hut he occupied by Joe Byrne. Fired seven shots into the hut, the bullets passing beside the constables heads; but owing to the position taken ...
Feb 24, 2021 · Kelly gang was destroyed, and even in this tragic event there is a humourous side – the four constables who sheltered themselves between the two women under the bed received £42 each of the reward money. It was through Aaron Sherritt that the authorities ascertained the particulars of Sergeant Kennedy’s cruel death. After expending all his ...
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Jul 15, 2022 · Or fastest delivery Tuesday, 18 June. Order within 13 hrs 20 mins. Details. Only 1 left in stock. New & Used (9) from£1699FREE Delivery . Aaron Sherritt: Persona Non Grata Hardcover – 15 July 2022. In this new book by Aidan Phelan (A Guide to Australian Bushranging, Glenrowan) the true story of Aaron Sherritt's involvement in the Kelly saga ...
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