Bushrangers

Female bushrangers in Australia were women who engaged in criminal activities, often alongside male bushrangers, during the 19th century. Notable figures include Elizabeth "Lizzie" McCafferty, who was known for her daring escapes and confrontations with the law, and Mary Ann Bugg, who was a partner of the bushranger Jack Donohoe and played a significant role in his exploits. These women often defied societal norms of their time, becoming symbols of rebellion and resistance against colonial authority. Their stories highlight the complex roles women played in the bushranging era, challenging traditional gender expectations.

Mary Bugg, also known as Mary Bugg the Pirate, was an early 18th-century English pirate. She was known for her involvement in piracy, often stealing ships and engaging in acts of robbery at sea. Additionally, she was known to have committed acts of violence, including assaulting sailors and other pirates. Bugg's criminal activities ultimately led to her capture and trial for piracy.

Alexander Pearce became a bushranger primarily due to his criminal background and desperate circumstances. After escaping from a penal colony in Tasmania, he turned to bushranging as a means of survival and rebellion against the oppressive colonial system. His life of crime was marked by a series of robberies and violence, reflecting the harsh realities faced by convicts during that era. Ultimately, his notoriety as a bushranger stemmed from his attempts to evade capture and the brutal choices he made to sustain himself in the wilderness.

Before becoming a bushranger, Frank Gardiner worked as a gold miner in Australia. He was involved in the gold rush during the 1850s, which provided him with knowledge of the region and potential targets for his later criminal activities. His experience in mining also helped him understand the movements and behaviors of travelers carrying gold. This background contributed to his eventual rise as a notorious bushranger.

John James, the Australian bushranger, died on 15th September 1865. He was killed during a confrontation with police near the town of Goulburn, New South Wales. His death marked the end of his criminal activities, which had gained notoriety during the 1860s.

Michael Howe, the infamous Australian bushranger from the early 19th century, is described as having dark hair, but specific details about his eye color and skin tone are not well-documented. He was known to be of average height for his time, which is generally considered to be around 5'6" to 5'8". His skin color would have been fair, typical of European descent during that period. Overall, specific personal attributes like eye color remain largely unknown.

Ned Kelly was an Australian bushranger, and arguably one of the best known as he was said to nobly help out the poor (this is a myth). He formed the Kelly gang with his brother Dan Kelly, Steve Hart and Joe Bryne.

Kelly was particularly famous for the siege at Glenrowan when he held an entire town hostage. Following the murder of police informer Aaron Sherritt on 27 June 1880 Ned Kelly's gang expected a large number of police to travel to Glenrowan by train. They tried to get the townsfolk to help lift the rail tracks to cause a derailment, hoping to kill a large number of the expected police. Not many townsfolk were willing to assist, and people were gradually rounded up and held in the Glenrowan Inn so that they could not warn the train.

After several hours, the Kelly gang allowed the more trusted hostages to go home at nightfall, as the train was running late. Local schoolteacher Thomas Curnow was one of those released, and when he heard the approaching train in the early hours of June 28, he ran quickly to warn of the danger ahead.

Wearing their famous armour, the Kelly brothers held a shootout with police. Several hostages were injured in the gun battle and two later died from gunshot wounds. The other Kelly Gang members were killed, and Ned was shot twenty-eight times in the legs, which were unprotected by the armour.

He survived to stand trial, and was sentenced to death by hanging, which occurred in Melbourne on 11 November 1880.

he tried to kill the policeman at the siege of glenrowan

he was bored?

During the Australian gold rush period bushrangers wore the typical dress of the day, that is moleskin or cord material trousers, shirts with long sleeves and collars and sometimes a buttoned waistcoat over the top. They often wore a cravat or neckerchief under the collar like a tie and a straw hat called a cabbage tree, because it was made locally from the plaited cabbagetree palm leaf. They wore boots for riding and carried hand guns pushed into the waist bands of their trousers or in a gun holster. Their guns might be stolen from troopers or settlers when they raided their homesteads. When their clothes got too old or dirty, they'd just steal more so were often quite well dressed.

The first bushrangers were escapees of the convict system. They had no where else to go besides the bush. Technically they did need to steal because they couldn't go back to where they started, asking for food. They stole horses, food from farms, they robbed banks and they robbed from the rich. Some people became bushrangers perhaps out of boredom, and some where desperate to get away from everything.

probaly in australia

Harry Power became a bush ranger to survive after escaping Pentridge Prison in 1869. He was initially jailed for horse stealing.

he became a bushranger in 1868

theywere killed

She was not a bushranger, but she was the wife to a famous Tasmanian bushranger...

Bushrangers caused fear amongst the people of the goldfields, and those who had to convey the gold to the cities. They were particularly known for ambushing coaches with wealthy passengers. Essentially, they made travelling unsafe.

Ned Kelly's hideout was in the Wombat Ranges, near Stringybark Creek.

Martin Cash was convicted in county Cork, in 1820, for jealously firing at a suitor to his young mistress. Soon after arriving in Botany Bay in 1828, he was working as a farmhand, innocently branding cattle, when he was told that the cattle were stolen. Cash immediately left for Van Dieman's Land with his partner Bessie Clifford. Twelve months later, after two false accusations which were dismissed in court, he was convicted for beating the arresting officer and sentenced to seven years' imprisonment.

After two unsuccessful attempts at escape which added years to his sentence, Cash finally escaped and formed one of the marauding gangs in Van Dieman's Land - committing 'hold-ups, shootings, robberies, fights and brawls'. Eventually, after they falsely arrested Bessie, he was lured into Hobart town where he was captured.

Australia's first bushranger, John 'Black' Caesar, became a bushranger after he escaped custody as a convict after he was punished for stealing food. He began bushranging and stealing food from settlers when he discovered how difficult it was to hunt and catch wild animals in Australia.

• Ned Kelly (and his gang, Dan Kelly, Joe Byrne and Steve Hart)
• Ben Hall
• 'Mad' Dan Morgan
• Captain Thunderbolt
• Captain Moonlight
• Captain Starlight
• John 'Black' Caesar
• Jack Donohoe
• Matthew Brady
• Frank Gardiner
• John Gilbert
• Martin Cash
• Moondyne Joe

He and his wife Mary Ann Bugg were notorious bush-rangers and had 4 children between 1864 and1870.