Record ID:
36555373 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
Heading:
Birth:
  • Beveridge, Victoria
Death:
  • 18801111
  • Melbourne, Victoria
Occupations:
  • bushranger
Used for:
  • Kelly, Edward, 1855-1880
  • Kelly, Ned, 1854-1880
  • Kelly Gang
Notes:
  • Born in Beveriedge, Victoria in 1855, the eldest of eight children; saved a boy from drowning and was awarded a silk sash for his bravery; arrested when 14 for alleged assault; again in 1870 for being a suspected accomplice of bushranger Harry Power; his mother Ellen was arrested and sentenced to 3 years' imprisonment in 1878 for aiding and abetting an attempted murder of a policeman; Ned, with brother Dan and friends Joe Byrne and Steve Hart went into hiding; Ned shot and killed 3 policemen at Stringybark Creek and from then on they were officially outlaws; he was captured at Glenrowen in June, 1880 and was hanged November, 1880 at Melbourne Gaol.
  • Enc. Brit., 15th ed. (Kelly, Ned, byname of Edward Kelly; b. June 1855, Beveridge, Vic.; d. Nov. 11, 1880, Melbourne)
  • Aust. dict. of biog., v. 5 (Kelly, Edward, 1855-1880; bushranger)
  • State Library of Victoria online, Ned Kelly fact sheet https://www.slv.vic.gov.au/search-discover/explore-collections-theme/australian-history/ned-kelly/ned-kelly-fact-sheet
Local system number:
  • (AuCNL)134742
  • 000001563501
  • abv03294825
  • (AU-CaAIA)XX21556
Cataloguing source:
  • AuCNLKIN eng rda ANL
Authentication code:
  • anuc