Black Bunny's Bushrangers (T) - Ned Kelly - Avenel. Avenel, Victoria, Australia
By Black Bunny on 07-Oct-18. Waypoint GA6026

Bushranger Series - Ned Kelly Avenel

The Kelly Family at Avenel. 

This is where the Kelly family moved after they sold their Beveridge home.  Avenel is also the town where John 'Red' Kelly died.  Ned, only a 12 year old boy, registered the death himself.  You can visit the grave in Avenel cemetery.

Ned Kelly and his family moved to Avenel when Ned was about 8 years old. They lived here for about four years. Sadly, Ned’s father, Red, passed away here, shortly after which the family moved north to be closer to Ned’s mother Ellen’s family in Greta.

Bushrangers.

Over 2,000 bushrangers are estimated to have roamed the Australian countryside, beginning with the convict bolters and drawing to a close after Ned Kelly's last stand at Glenrowan.

Bushrangers were originally escaped convicts who had the survival skills necessary to use the Australian bush as a refuge to hide from the authorities. By the 1820s, the term "bushranger" had evolved to refer to those who abandoned social rights and privileges to take up "robbery under arms" as a way of life, using the bush as their base.

Bushranging thrived during the gold rush years of the 1850s and 1860s when the likes of Ben Hall, Frank Gardiner and John Gilbert led notorious gangs in the country districts of New South Wales. These Wild Colonial Boys typically robbed small-town banks and coach services.

In other infamous cases, such as that of Dan Morgan, the Clarke brothers, and Australia's best-known bushranger, Ned Kelly, numerous policemen were murdered.

The number of bushrangers declined due to better policing and improvements in rail transport and communication technology, such as telegraphy. Kelly's capture and execution in 1880 effectively represented the end of the bushranging era.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushranger & https://nedkellytouringroute.com.au/destinations/avenel/

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