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Edward Kelly, better known as Ned Kelly, was a famous Australian bushranger, known for his illegal and unlawful activities against the Government of Victoria.
(1855–80). Ned Kelly was Australia’s most famous bushranger. Bushrangers were bandits of the Australian Outback, or bush. Kelly was considered a criminal by some people and a hero by others. To the poor people of northeastern Victoria he was a hero.
- Early Life
- The Fitzpatrick Incident
- The Kelly Gang
- "Last Stand"
- The Ned Kelly Story
- Interesting Facts About Ned Kelly
- Ned Kelly Quotes
- Images For Kids
Beveridge
Edward 'Ned' Kelly was born in Beveridge, north of Melbourne, in June 1855. He was the son of Irish Catholic parents, John "Red" Kelly and Ellen Quinn. Red Kelly had been a convict who had been sent to Van Diemen's Landin 1842 for stealing two pigs. He moved to Victoria in 1848. There he met Ellen Quinn, who had come to Victoria from Ireland with her family in 1841. Red started working for Ellen's father, James Quinn, who was a farmer at Beveridge. Ned was probably born at his grandfather's h...
Avenel
When Ned was about nine, his father moved the family north to a new farm at Avenel. Ned saved a young boy, Richard Shelton, from drowning in Hughes Creek. For his bravery, the Shelton family gave Ned a sash made from green silk for his bravery. The sash was 230 cm (91 in) long and 14 cm (6 in) wide. He was wearing this sash under his armour when he was captured at Glenrowan. The sash, still covered in Ned Kelly's blood, is now kept in the BenallaMuseum.} Ned Kelly's father was not a successfu...
Greta
Ellen Kelly moved the family to Greta. There were other members of Ellen's family living in the area. Her father, James Quinn, had moved from Beveridge to a large farm, called Glenmore, on the King Riverin north east Victoria. Her sisters, Catherine and Jane, and their ten children, were farming at Greta. Ellen Kelly and her children moved to a farm on the Eleven Mile Creek, between Greta and Glenrowan.
Constable Fitzpatrick was in charge of the small police station in Greta. Because of the Kelly family's long history of criminal activity, Police Superintendent C. H. Nicholson had given orders that the police were not to go to the Kelly's house alone. But Fitzpatrick decided he would 'fix the Greta mob'. In April 1878, he went to the house to arre...
Stringybark Creek
Ned and Dan Kelly went into hiding in the bush. They were later joined by two friends, Joe Byrne and Steve Hart. On 25 October 1878, two groups of police set out to find the Kellys. The Kellys were living in a hut nearby at Bullock Creek. They heard noises and discovered the police camp. They decided to capture the policemen and take their guns and horses. Ned and Dan went to the police camp and told them to surrender. Wnen the officers got out their guns, the bushrangers began shooting, kill...
Euroa
On 10 December 1878, the gang robbed the Australian National Bank at Euroa. They had stopped at Faithful Creek station (a farm) and held the people there prisoner. They locked 22 people including farm workers, hawkers (traveling salesmen) and visitors into a storeroom. Joe Byrne kept guard while the rest of the gang went into Euroa. They went to the bank and said they had a message from McCauley, the farm manager. They got into the bank and held up the bank's manager Robert Scott, along with...
Jerilderie
The police increased the reward on the Kelly Gang. More police were sent to guard banks in the country. Friends of the Kellys were locked in gaol. The gang crossed the Murray River and rode 60 km (37 mi) north into New South Wales. They arrived in Jerilderie on Saturday 8 February 1879. They broke into the local police station and locked the two policemen, Richards and Devine, in the police cells. The outlaws put on police uniforms and mixed with the local people. They said that they were ext...
Glenrowan
The gang decided that Aaron Sherritt, Joe Byrne's best friend, was a police spy. On the night of 26 June 1880, Dan Kelly and Joe Byrne went to Sherritt's house in the Woolshed Valley near Beechworth and killed him. The outlaws knew that the police would send extra men to Beechworth by train to try and capture them. Ned Kelly and Hart arrived in Glenrowan on 27 June, and took 70 hostages at the Glenrowan Inn (hotel). They knew that a train loaded with police was on its way. They forced railway...
Trial and execution
Ned Kelly was taken to the Melbourne Gaol where he was treated for his wounds. He was visited by his mother who was in the same prison for wounding Constable Fitzpatrick. In August he was taken back to Beechworth by train for the first court hearings. The court agreed that Kelly would be tried in court for the murder of two policemen at Stringybark Creek. The government thought people around Beechworth might not find Kelly guilty of the crimes, and so they had the trial moved to Melbourne. At...
Re-burial and recent DNA testing
Ned Kelly was buried in an unmarked grave at the Melbourne Gaol, in an area with other criminals who had also been hanged at the gaol. The bones of 32 people were dug up in 1929 when the gaol was being redeveloped, and reburied at Pentridge Gaol in Coburg, Victoria. The burial site at Pentridge was rediscovered in 2008. DNA testing has proved that one set of bones was the skeletonof Ned Kelly. Experts from the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine said that the DNA clearly matches one of K...
Ned Kelly is still a major part of Australian popular culture. His story has been told in books, movies, plays and television shows. His image has been used for everything from cakes to tattoos. In 1980, the Australian Post Office released a set of postage stampsto remember the 100th anniversary of the siege at Glenrowan. In June 2011 the Williamst...
Ned Kelly's actual date of birth is disputed as it was not registeredon the government list of births, deaths and marriages in Victoria.The "Jerilderie Letter" is a 56-page document dictated by Ned Kelly. The letter told his story, about how he became a bushranger, and the treatment of his family by the police. The letter has becom...A painting of Kelly by Australian artist Sidney Nolan was sold in 2010 for AU$5.4 million, the highest price ever paid for an Australian painting.Ned Kelly's image was used during the opening ceremony of the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney."I do not pretend that I have led a blameless life, or that one fault justifies another, but the public in judging a case like mine should remember that the darkest life may have a bright side...""If my life teaches the public that men are made mad by bad treatment, and if the police are taught that they may not exasperate to madness men they persecute and illtreat, my life will not be enti..."Let the hand of the law strike me down if it will, but I ask that my story be heard and considered."Kelly's boyhood home, built by his father in Beveridgein 1859Mugshot of Kelly, aged 15The imprisonment of 23 Kelly sympathisers without trial swung public sympathy away from the police. (Pictured: three of the sympathisers, left to right: John Quinn, John Stewart and Joseph Ryan)The gang holds up the Jerilderie Police StationSep 18, 2023 · Learn more about Ned Kelly's life and his legendary suit of armour. The history Quick facts. Ned Kelly: was born sometime between December 1854 and June 1855, in Beveridge, Victoria. His precise birthdate is not known. was the eldest son of eight children to John 'Red' Kelly and Ellen Quinn.
Dec 2, 2006 · A rare collection of photographs of Ned Kelly's family has been uncovered in Melbourne. The pictures show the bushranger's mother Ellen and his brother Jim. Author Kevin Morgan stumbled across the ...
Ned Kelly. Edward Kelly (December 1854 [a] – 11 November 1880) was an Australian bushranger, outlaw, gang leader and convicted police-murderer. One of the last bushrangers, he is known for wearing a suit of bulletproof armour during his final shootout with the police.
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The most notorious of the Australian rural bandits known as bushrangers was Ned Kelly, the leader of a gang that committed a series of armed robberies. His exploits and his defiance of the authorities captured the imagination of the Australian public, both during his lifetime and ever since.
