Ned Kelly - the bushranger
transportation for stealing two pigs. He arrived in Van
Diemen's Land in 1842. When his sentence expired in
1848 he went to the Port Phillip District, where on 18
November 1850 he married Ellen, the eighteen-year-old
daughter of James and Mary Quinn; they had five
daughters and three sons.
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Ned attended school at Avenel until
his father died on 27 December 1866.
Left indigent, the widow and children
moved to a hut at Eleven Mile Creek,
about half-way between Greta and
Glenrowan in northern Victoria,
where Ned became the main
breadwinner, taking jobs as a timber
cutter and rural worker - ringbarking,
breaking in horses, mustering cattle
and fencing.
· Kelly, 14, was arrested and served seven weeks in jail for
the alleged assault of a Chinese pig farmer. It was also
alleged Kelly was an assistant to thief-turned-
bushranger Harry Power, although police found no
evidence to prove a connection to Power's crimes.
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