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Mary Ann Bugg was born at the Berrico outstation of the Australian Agricultural Company near Gloucester, New South Wales, on 7 May 1834. [2] [3] Her father, James Bugg, who was born in Essex, England in 1801, was convicted of stealing meat (two lambs, a wether sheep and two pigs) at the Essex Assizes, was held at Chelmsford in July 1825 and was sentenced to death. [4]
Her first name is not given and she is called 'Mrs Winter'. The Monitor reports two incidents from a period in Tennant's career when he appears to have spent time away from his gang. Tennant had been shot in July 1827 by James Farrell at an outstation on the Yass River . [ 5 ]
Elizabeth Jessie Hickman (née Hunt; 6 September 1890 – 1936) was an Australian bushranger.She had multiple aliases but is often referred to as The Lady Bushranger.In the 1920s she established herself as leader of a gang of cattle thieves in the area that is now Wollemi National Park.
Articles relating to bushrangers, originally escaped convicts in the early years of the British settlement of Australia who used the bush as a refuge to hide from the authorities.
Edward Kelly (December 1854 [a] – 11 November 1880) was an Australian bushranger, outlaw, gang leader and convicted police-murderer.One of the last bushrangers, he is known for wearing a suit of bulletproof armour during his final shootout with the police.
A bushranger on horseback being chased by the police in Hard-pressed (Flight of a Bushranger), painted by S. T. Gill, c. 1853. The earliest documented use of the term appears in a February 1805 issue of The Sydney Gazette, which reports that a cart had been stopped between Sydney and Hawkesbury by three men "whose appearance sanctioned the suspicion of their being bush-rangers". [3]
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Martin Cash (baptised 10 October 1808 – 26 August 1877) was a notorious Irish-Australian convict bushranger, known for escaping twice from Port Arthur, Van Diemen's Land. His 1870 autobiography, The Adventures of Martin Cash , ghostwritten by James Lester Burke, also a former convict, became a best seller in Australia .