Bushrangers

Sidney Nolan's Ned Kelly series are probably the most well known of the art works about Ned Kelly.

Remained in New South Wales until his murder on 15 February 1796. Convict John 'Black' Caesar became Australia's first bushranger when he fled the settlement in December 1795 and led a gang of fellow escapees in the bush surrounding Port Jackson.

1st 1853 2nd 1915 3rd 1978

Most people on the goldfields were from European origin.there were many nationalities including Irish,English and the Chinese.

He robbed banks

Captain Moonlite, aka Captain Moonlight, aka Andrew George Scott, was an Australian bushranger during the 1870s and 1880s.

Prior to becoming a bushranger, he was a preacher at the small Victorian town of Egerton, but his misguided admiration for Ned Kelly caused him to decide to become a bushranger. His first target was the manager of the Egerton Bank, who was fully aware of Scott's identity. Scott tied him up, with orders to tell police he had been robbed by Captain Moonlight. It is believed that the choice of name was a spur-of-the-moment decision based upon the robbery occurring in the middle of the night, under moonlight.

At one stage, Moonlight was caught and imprisoned in Ballarat, but upon his escape, he resumed bushranging. He was caught again, sentenced to prison again, and finally released in 1879 - whereupon he promptly formed a gang and resumed bushranging. He was finally caught when he and and his gang held up a farmhouse at Wantabadgery and held numerous people hostage. One man escaped and alerted the police. Nine policemen surrounded the farmhouse, and during the gun battle that ensued, one policeman and two of Captain Moonlight's gang were killed. Moonlight was captured, tried and hanged.

probably for the thrill of it and also so he wouldn't get caught by the police

These words are claimed to have been the final words of bushranger Ned Kelly.

A bushranger was an outlaw from Australia's colonial and goldrush times. They used the cover of the Australian bush, which was dense and therefore easy for them to hide in, to ambush travellers or people living in outlying settlements.

In the beginning, the first bushrangers were escaped convicts, but many of these did not survive the conditions of the bush, often surrendering to the authorities after a short while.

Later, bushrangers came more from workers on the land, who saw bushranging as an easy option for making money. Some were descendants of convicts who still had the fire of rebellion in their blood. Ned Kelly, Australia's most notorious bushranger, came from this group.

Once the goldrushes were on, there were plenty of pickings among the coaches that carried the gold and currency between the major centres.

1 million two hundred and thirty five siblings

Probably not directly. His father, Red Kelly, had done 7 years in gaol in Tasmania before he met Ellen Quinn and married her. The Kelly's were Irish Catholic living in British Colonial north eastern Victoria and times were tough. After Red Kelly's death, Ned's mother resorted to some illegal methods of earning money such as distilling alcohol. The Kelly's were constantly harassed by the police for various crimes around the district, but there does not seem to be a great wealth of reliable evidence to support the charges. (The Kelly Outbreak 1878-1880 by John McQuilton).

He was a bushranger arrested several times on the charge of stealling, he served many years on hard labor and arrived in Australia as a free man.

Ben Hall was an Australian bushranger from 1862-65, who with his gang held up coaches and travellers and took gold cargoes, cash and valuables, eventually shot in a police ambush on the intelligence provided by an informer.

Ben Hall was a wild colonial bushranger, not a convict bolter.

Because his friend nearly convinced him to murder a man and steal his money.

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.

Fred Ward could not be considered a hero. He was a murderous bushranger.

Yes, it seems he was.

Captain Moonlight was an Australian bushranger called Andrew George Scott. He came to Australia in 1868 and became a lay preacher in Bacchus Marsh, in Victoria. A bank was robbed and the gold was found with Andrew Scott. He was sent to prison in Pentridge, in Melbourne.

In jail he met James Nesbitt and they became best of friends. When they got out of jail they lived together in Melbourne. Scott was lecturing on prison reform, but he was getting into trouble from the authorities, so the pair, along with two other young men, set off for New South Wales, where they hoped to find work.

Unable to find work, they went back to the last place they had been turned away from, Wantabadgery Station, and held it up. The police arrived with reinforcements, thinking the Kelly Gang was there. Two bushrangers were shot, including James Nesbitt, and one of the police, Constable Bowen.

Captain Moonlight carried the dying Nesbitt back into the farmhouse, and "wept over him like a child...and kissed him passionately."

During his trial for the murder of the policeman, Scott wore a ring made of Nesbitt's hair. He wrote many letters in Darlinghurst Gaol before he was executed. The letters were never sent and were discovered by historians.

"We were one in heart and soul, he died in my arms and I long to join him, where there shall be no more parting," Captain Moonlight wrote in a letter to one friend. In another he said, "He died in my arms, his death has broken my heart." And in another letter, "When I think of my dearest Jim, I am nearly driven mad."

Just before his death by hanging on January 20, 1888, he wrote: "I want to rest in the grave of my friend, James Nesbitt. Gratify my last wish if you can. I have one hour to live." Sadly, his wish was not granted, and he was buried in Rookwood Cemetery, in Sydney.

But there is a happy ending. In 1998 his body was exhumed and carried in a horse-drawn wagon, to Gundagai Cemetery, where he was buried next to his dear James Nesbitt.

the first one came in 1789 and don’t tell me I’m wrong I’m from Australia we learnt this in school

Mad Dan Morgan earned his nickname because he was a particularly vicious and ruthless bushranger. Between 1863 and 1865 he committed many murders, and the reward for his capture was raised to 500 pounds in 1864.

Bushranger Captain Thunderbolt was an excellent horseman whose crime was horse stealing. He was sentenced in 1856 to the infamous Cockatoo Island in Sydney Harbour but released four years later on a ticket-of-leave to work on a Mudgee farm. During this time, he stole more horses, and was sent back to Cockatoo Island where he often had to suffer solitary confinement. In September 1863, he and another inmate escaped from the supposedly escape-proof prison by swimming to the mainland.

After he escaped, Ward started bushranging, under the name of Captain Thunderbolt. Much of his activity was around Uralla, a small town in northern NSW country. He sheltered at a rock which became famously known as "Thunderbolt's Rock". After a six-year reign as a "gentleman bushranger", Thunderbolt was shot dead by Constable Alexander Walker in May 1870.

beacuse he was sad

Frank was born in Rosshire, Scotland.