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- The bushrangers included John Gilbert, John O’Meally, Michael Burke, John Dunn, and others. Not all of these men were of Irish descent, but all lived in and ranged over remote and isolated country that had been settled in the 1840s and 50s, often by Irish immigrants and ex-convicts.
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Its origins in a convict system bred a unique kind of desperado, most frequently with an Irish political background. Native-born bushrangers also expressed nascent Australian nationalist views and are recognised as "the first distinctively Australian characters to gain general recognition."
NameLivedArea Of ActivityFateThe Barber (alias of George Clarke)1806–1835Liverpool Plains in New South WalesHangedBluecap (alias of Robert Cotterell)c. 1835–?New South WalesImprisoned, cause of death unknown1799–1826Van Diemen's LandHanged1803–1831Van Diemen's LandHangedIn 1869, 14-year-old Kelly met Irish-born Harry Power (alias of Henry Johnson), a transported convict who turned to bushranging in north-eastern Victoria after escaping Melbourne's Pentridge Prison. The Kellys were Power sympathisers, and by May 1869 Ned had become his bushranging protégé.
- The Kelly Gang
- ‘Mad Dog’ Daniel Morgan
- Alexander Pearce
- ‘Gentleman Bushranger’ Martin Cash
- ‘Bold Jack’ John Donohoe
- ‘Black Douglas’ Charles Russell
- Michael Howe
- ‘Captain Thunderbolt’ Frederick Ward
- ‘Brave’ Benjamin Hall
- Frank Gardiner
Seared into the collective psyche of the Australian public is a curious sense of national pride towards the infamous Ned Kelly and his gang of bushranging outlaws, younger brother Dan Kelly and friends Steve Hart and Joe Byrne. In their brief years as outlaws, the Kelly Gangmurdered three police officers (Sergeant Michael Kennedy and Constables Tho...
Some Australian bushrangers made their name from martyrdom, others from pure madness. In the case of ‘Mad Dog’ Daniel Morgan, the source of his infamy was definitely the latter. In June of 1864, Morgan shot a bush worker near Albury, New South Wales. He asked another worker to ride for help, then, suspecting the man would ride to the police instead...
Following through with the theme of madness is the disturbing Alexander Pearce, a convict who escaped the Macquarie Harbour Penal Colony in 1822 with seven others. Desperate, starving and disoriented in the bush for several weeks, three men abandoned the group while the other five began to murder and eat each other. Pearce was the only survivor. He...
From one moral extreme to another, ‘Gentleman Bushranger’ Martin Cash was easily one of Australia’s most considerate criminals. Cash was originally sent to Sydney from Ireland in 1827 for shooting a rival suitor in the buttocks. After serving seven years, he left for Tasmania as a free man only to be charged shortly after with theft and sentenced t...
Another Irish convict-turned-bushranger was ‘Bold Jack’ John Donohoe. He arrived in Sydney from Dublin as an 18-year-old in January 1825 to serve a life sentence on a settler’s farm in Parramatta. Donohoe escaped with two other convicts and together they formed a gang known as ‘The Strippers’ – named after their technique for taking everything from...
The legendary ‘Black Douglas’ Charles Russell was an English-born bushranger who held Melbourne and its surrounding areas to ransom during the 1850s. Russell preyed on those diggers travelling to and from the goldfields between Bendigo and Melbourne. There are several accounts of victims being tied naked to a tree or fallen log with their boots ful...
Former British soldier Michael Howe arrived in Tasmania in October of 1812 to serve a seven-year sentence for highway robbery. He bolted into the bush after a year on a settler’s farm, joining a gang of 29 escaped convicts and army deserters. Howe quickly rose to become joint-leader of the bushranging bandits who ransacked the house of Magistrate A...
Despite dubbing himself with a title more fitting for a comic book hero than an Australian bushranger, ‘Captain Thunderbolt’ Frederick Ward recruited children for armed holdups and shootouts with police. Originally a drover from Paterson River, New South Wales, Ward was charged with horse thievery and sent to Cockatoo Island in August 1856 to serve...
‘Brave’ Benjamin Hall was a skilled stockman from Maitland, New South Wales who was driven to bushranging by a series of unfortunate events. In April 1862, he joined John Gilbert’s gang of bushrangers, who had been raiding Forbes since 1860. Hall quickly rose in their ranks to become an efficient leader, ensuring his men were well armed and well mo...
Frank Gardiner, born in 1830 Scotland and shipped out to Australia as a child with his parents, made an illustrious career out of horse thievery and highway robbery. On 15 June 1862, Gardiner along with Ben Hall, John Gilbert and associates held up a gold escort travelling from Forbes to Bathurst. They stole over £14,000 worth of gold and bank note...
Henry Johnson (18 May 1819 – c. November 1891), better known by his alias Harry Power, was an Irish-born convict who became a bushranger in Australia. From 1869 to 1870, he was accompanied by a young Ned Kelly, who went on to become Australia's best known bushranger. [1]
Kelly was found guilty and hanged at Melbourne Gaol on November 11, 1880. His last words were supposedly ‘such is life.’ While he was an outlaw and criminal, Kelly’s attempts to end the poor treatment of Irish settlers opened the eyes of many which is part of the reason for his legend.
twenty one australian bushrangers and their irish connections quarryman father – william dooling - born 1823 in co. tipperary and convicted of stealing firearms and two pounds in 1848 and transported to van diemens land for 7 years. he was described as being 5’ 9’’ tall, was single and could read and write, religion was catholic. he met and
