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How did ned kelly die

State Library of Victoria, H His father was born in Tipperary, Ireland, in and sentenced in to seven years' transportation for stealing two pigs. He arrived in Van Diemen's Land in When his sentence expired in he went to the Port Phillip District, where on 18 November he married Ellen, the eighteen-year-old daughter of James and Mary Quinn; they had five daughters and three sons.

Ned attended school at Avenel until his father died on 27 December 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 James Quinn had taken up a cattle run of 25, acres 10, ha of poor country in Well known in the district, the Quinns and two Lloyd brothers, who had married into the family, were suspected by the police in connection with thefts of horses and cattle.

In Ned was arrested for alleged assault on a Chinaman and held for ten days on remand but the charge was dismissed. Next year he was arrested and held in custody for seven weeks as a suspected accomplice of the bushranger, Harry Power , but again the charge was dismissed. In Kelly was convicted of summary offences and imprisoned for six months.

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Soon after release he was sentenced to three years' imprisonment for receiving a mare knowing it to have been stolen. In he was discharged from prison and his mother married George King. Kelly worked for two years at timber-getting but in joined his stepfather in stealing horses. The Kelly family saw themselves as victims of police persecution, but as they grew up the boys were probably privy to the organized thefts of horses and cattle for which the district was notorious.

Ned's younger brother, James b. He lived respectably after his release from gaol and died in