Did Ned Kelly have to go to jail because he stole a horse?
Yes. In his early years Ned Kelly was convicted of horse stealing.
Why did Ned Kelly assault a hawker?
Kelly claimed he took McCormack's horse to help pull another hawker's wagon out of a bog. McCormack claimed Kelly stole his horse without permission and beat him up.
Is Ned Kelly a famous Australian scientist?
No, Ned Kelly was a famous Australian bush ranger not a famous Australian scientist.
How many people were in Ned Kelly's family?
Australian bushranger Ned Kelly had an extended family, with 11 children, including himself.
He had five sisters, two half-sisters, two brothers and one half-brother. His sisters were Maggie (born in 1857) and Catherine, also known as Kate or Kittie (born 1863), Mary, who died as a baby, Anne and Grace.
After Ned Kelly's father died, his mother remarried, and gave birth to another two daughters, Ellen and Alice.
His brothers were Daniel (Dan) and James and his half-brother was John (also known as Jack).
Did anyone in Ned Kelly's family influence him to become a bushranger?
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).
Who was the boy that ned kelly saved?
No one knows the name of the boy but he was 7 years old,The boy had 8 brothers and 3 sisters.
Were any members of the Ned Kelly gang aboriginal?
No. None of the Kelly gang members were Aborigines.
Ned Kelly's family certainly had pet dogs.
From "The Complete Inner History of the Kelly Gang and their Pursuers" 1929:
Superintendent Hare, continuing his evidence on oath, said.—I may say that sympathisers’ dogs and dogs of relations were a great nuisance to us. . . . The next time I went to the spot I appointed a man with a few baits in a bag, and told him to drop a bait here and there and let any animal that liked pick it up. (RC1369)
Question.—Baits to destroy dogs?—Yes.
Question.—Strychnine on a bit of meat?—Yes, but after that many of the dogs about the place you could not poison if you tried. They always had muzzles on day and night, and used to come into Benalla with the muzzles on. I have seen Mrs Skillion and Kate Kelly come into Benalla with their dogs muzzled.
Question.—What you want to convey to the Commission is this: That the Kellys were so supported by the sympathisers and actually the dogs were so trained that if strange horses came the dogs would look out for the trackers and boys follow them up?—Yes, that is it.
Does Donald Sutherland have any brothers or sisters if so who are they and where do they live?
Yes, Ned Sutherland, his nickname: cornbread ned.
Why did Ned Ned Kelly become a bush ranger?
Ned Kelly became a bushranger largely due to his difficult upbringing and conflicts with the law. Raised in a poor Irish immigrant family in Australia, he faced systemic oppression and discrimination, particularly from the police. After a series of encounters with law enforcement, including the wrongful arrest of his family members, he turned to a life of crime as a form of resistance and rebellion against the authorities. His notoriety was amplified by his charismatic personality and the romanticized narrative of his fight against colonial oppression.
How much money did Ned Kelly rob?
.His main take was from the National Bank at Euroa, getting £2141 (worth half a million today).