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Oct 23, 2014 · Murderers, madmen and outlaws are prominent in Australia's early colonial history. Here are some of Australia's most notorious bushrangers.
- Lily Johnson
- Daniel Morgan (1830-1865) Later dubbed ‘Mad Dog’, Daniel Morgan has a reputation for being one of Australia’s most bloodthirsty bushrangers. A prolific horse thief in his early life, he was first detained on the prison ship Success, where he was said to have been involved in the battery and eventual death of a warden there.
- Captain Thunderbolt (1835-1870) Frederick Wordsworth Ward, better known as Captain Thunderbolt or the ‘gentleman bushranger’, was the longest-roaming bushranger in Australian history and one of the only convicts to break out of the formidable prison of Cockatoo Island in Sydney Harbour.
- Ben Hall (1837-1865) Ben Hall was a leading member of the Gardiner-Hall gang, a group of bushrangers prolific across New South Wales. After falling in with notorious bushranger Frank Gardiner, Hall began a life of crime.
- Brothers Tom Clarke (1840-1867) and John Clarke (1846-1867) Like many bushrangers, brothers Thomas and John Clarke began their lives as outlaws under the guidance of their father Jack, who had been transported to Sydney in 1828.
Oct 15, 2020 · Ned Kelly is the most infamous bushranger, and his known crimes include cow and horse theft, alongside assault and murder. He became a bushranger under the mentoring of Harry Power, an absconding prisoner, in the late 1860s.
Sep 12, 2024 · Ned Kelly, most famous of the bushrangers, Australian rural outlaws of the 19th century. He was the leader of the Kelly gang, who perpetrated a series of daring robberies in the Victoria-New South Wales borderland (1878–80) that captured the imagination of the public.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Aug 24, 2023 · Bushranging declined in the 1870s and 1880s as Ned Kelly, our most famous bushranger, began his criminal life. At the State Library Victoria, we examine the proclamation printing plate that declared Ned Kelly and his brother Dan outlaws.
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Aug 18, 2023 · That's what happened with a number of Australia's most infamous bushrangers. Sure, they were violent men and women who robbed and killed their way across the Land Down Under, but there's a touch of something else there, too.
Australia’s most famous bushranger is Ned Kelly. Kelly’s mother, Ellen, was a free Irish immigrant. His father, ‘Red’, was born in County Tipperary, and transported from there in 1841.
