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| x Martin Cash |
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Martin Cash (baptised 10 October 1808–27 August 1877) was a notorious convict bushranger known for escaping twice from Port Arthur, Van Diemen's Land. His 1870 autobiography The Adventures of Martin Cash, ghostwritten by the former convict James...
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| x Mary Ann Bugg |
Mary Ann Bugg (1834 – November 11, 1867) was one of two notable female bushrangers in mid 19th century Australia.
Bugg's influence on her husband Frederick (Fred) Wordsworth Ward, the bushranger known as Captain Thunderbolt, is cited as the reason...
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| x Lawrence Kavenagh |
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Lawrence Kavanagh (c. 1805 – 12 October 1846) was a convict bushranger known for escaping from Port Arthur, Van Diemen's Land (the so-called escape proof colony) with Martin Cash and George Jones.
Born in Waterford, Ireland, he was convicted for...
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| x John Caesar |
John Caesar (1764 – 15 February 1796), nicknamed "Black Caesar", was the first Australian bushranger and one of the first black people to arrive during British colonisation of the continent as a penal colony.
Caesar was a slave on a sugar plantation...
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| x Dan Kelly | The Kelly Gang |
Dan Kelly (1861 - 28 June 1880) was the youngest brother of Australian Bushranger Ned Kelly. He was a member of the Kelly Gang and was killed at the siege of Glenrowan.
Born in 1861, Dan grew up with his brothers and sisters and their widowed mother...
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| x Jimmy Governor |
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Jimmy Governor (1875 – 1901) was one of the Governor brothers, two Indigenous Australian men who committed a series of murders in the Central West and New England regions of New South Wales around the turn of the twentieth century.
Governor had held...
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| x Frank Gardiner |
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Frank Gardiner (born c. 1829, Ross-shire Scotland; died c. 1904 in Colorado,USA) was a noted Australian bushranger of the 19th century. He either migrated from Scotland to Australia as a child with his parents in 1834, or was born in the settlement...
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| x Ben Hall |
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Ben Hall (9 May 1837 - 5 May 1865) was an Australian bushranger of the 19th century. Operating mainly in New South Wales, he was known variously as `Bold Ben Hall', `Brave Ben Hall' and `The Gentleman Bushranger' for his avoidance of bloodshed and...
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| x Moondyne Joe |
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Joseph Bolitho Johns (c. 1826–August 13, 1900), better known as Moondyne Joe, was Western Australia's best known bushranger.
Little is known of Joseph Johns's early life. Born in Cornwall, England around 1826 and raised as a Roman Catholic, he was...
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| x Joe Byrne |
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The Kelly Gang |
Joe Byrne (1857 – 28 June 1880) was an Australian bushranger born in Victoria to an Irish immigrant. A friend of Ned Kelly, he was a member of the Kelly Gang, who were declared outlaws after the murder of three policemen at Stringybark Creek....
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| x Ned Kelly |
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The Kelly Gang |
Edward "Ned" Kelly (June 1854/June 1855 – 11 November 1880) was an Australian bushranger, and, to some, a folk hero for his defiance of the colonial authorities. Kelly was born in Victoria to an Irish convict father, and as a young man he clashed...
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| x Jackey Jackey |
William Westwood (Jackey Jackey) Jackey Jackey was often referred to as a "gentleman bushranger" because of his dress and respect for his victims.
Jackey Jackey was born William Westwood to James and Ann Westwood on 7 August 1820, in Manuden, Essex,...
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| x Mark Jefferies |
Mark Jefferies was a bushranger, serial killer and cannibal in the early 19th century in Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania, Australia).
Jefferies was known to have murdered and eaten at least four adults during his escape from Macquarie Harbour by...
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| x John Dunn |
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Hall Gang |
John Dunn (14 December 1846 – 19 March 1866) was an Australian bushranger. He was born at Murrumburrah near Yass, New South Wales.
Dunn associated with the known bushrangers Ben Hall and John Gilbert. On 26 January 1865, Hall, Gilbert and Dunn were...
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| x James Alpin McPherson |
James Alpin McPherson (1842–23 August 1895) otherwise known as The Wild Scotchman, was an Australian bushranger active in the area around Gin Gin, Queensland in the 19th century.
He was born in Inverness-shire, Scotland, the eldest of the eight...
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| x Musquito |
Musquito (1780? – 25 February 1825) was an Aboriginal bushranger based in Tasmania. He was made in Sydney and transported to Tasmania for murdering his wife.
After his release he turned to working as a wilderness tracker. According to some sources,...
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| x Matthew Brady |
Matthew Brady was born from two immigrants from Ireland (1799 – 4 May 1826) was a notorious bushranger in Van Diemen's Land (now known as Tasmania) in the early 1800s. He was sometimes known as the "Gentleman Bushranger" due to his good treatment...
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| x Michael Howe |
There are other people called Michael Howe
Michael Howe (1787 – 21 October 1818) was a bushranger in Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania).
Howe was born at Pontefract, Yorkshire, England, son of Thomas Howe and his wife Elizabeth. He served two years on...
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| x Patrick Daley |
Patrick Daley was a 19th Century Australian bushranger.
Patrick was born at Yass, New South Wales in 1844 and was only a lad when he became associated with John O'Meally. John introduced him to Ben Hall, John Vane, Alex Fordyce, Fred Lowry, Harry...
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| x Jack Donahue |
For the Louisiana politician and philanthropist, see Jack Donahue (Louisiana politician).
Jack Donahue (1804–1830) was a bushranger in Australia. He had numerous ballads written about him, including Bold Jack Donahue.
Jack Donahue was born in...
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| x John Gilbert |
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Johnny Gilbert was an Australian bushranger shot dead by the police at the age of 25 near Binalong, New South Wales in 1865.
He was born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada in 1842. His mother Eleanor (née Wilson) died shortly after his birth. His father...
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| x Dan Morgan |
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John Fuller (aka Daniel Morgan; 1830 - 9 April 1865) was an Australian bushranger.
Fuller was born in Appin, New South Wales, Australia around 1830 to George Fuller and Mary Owen. From the ages of 2 to 17 he lived with an adoptive father, John...
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| x Frank McCallum |
Francis McNeish McNeil McCallum (Captain Melville) was a notorious bushranger during the early part of the Victorian Gold Rush in Australia.
After being convicted under the alias Francis Melville, McCallum was transported to Van Diemens Land as a...
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| x Jack the Rammer |
Jack the Rammer aka Billy the Rammer was a bushranger in the Monaro District near Cooma in New South Wales during the latter half of 1834. His real name was probably Billy Roberts.
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| x William Armstrong | |||
| x James Atterall | |||
| x Graham Bennett | |||
| x Bill the Puntman | |||
| x Bogong Jack | |||
| x Robert Bourke | |||
| x Charles Bow | |||
| x John Bow | |||
| x Henry Bradley | |||
| x Jack Bradshaw | |||
| x Mathew Brady | |||
| x William Brookman | |||
| x Richard Bryant | |||
| x Michael Burke | |||
| x George Chamberlain | |||
| x Francis Christie | |||
| x George Comerford | |||
| x James Dalton | |||
| x Joseph Dignum | |||
| x James Duncan | |||
| x John Fuller | |||
| x John James | |||
| x Henry Johnstone | |||
| x Frederick Lowry | |||
| x James Alpine Macpherson | |||
| x George Melville | |||
| x James Morgan | |||
| x Patrick O'Connor | |||
| x George Penny | |||
| x Alexander Pierce | |||
| x John Peisley | |||
| x Andrew George Scott | |||
| x Thomas Smith | |||
| x John Vane | |||
| x Frederick Ward | |||
| x Thomas Clarke | Clarke brothers | ||
