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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.
The First Fleet is the name given to the group of eleven ships carrying convicts, the first to do so, that left England in May 1787 and arrived in Australia in January 1788. The ships departed with an estimated 775 convicts (582 men and 193 women), as well as officers, marines, their wives and children, and provisions and agricultural implements.
Ned Kelly has progressed from outlaw to national hero in a century, and to international icon in a further 20 years. The still-enigmatic, slightly saturnine and ever-ambivalent bushranger is the undisputed, if not universally admired, national symbol of Australia. [213]
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]
Annie Oakley (born Phoebe Ann Mosey; August 13, 1860 – November 3, 1926) was an American sharpshooter and folk heroine who starred in Buffalo Bill's Wild West.. Oakley developed hunting skills as a child to provide for her impoverished family in western Ohio.
Other spellings of her name include Trukanini, [6] Trugernanner, Trugernena, Truganina, Trugannini, Trucanini, Trucaminni, [a] and Trucaninny. [b] Truganini was widely known by the nickname Lalla(h) Rookh, [a] and also called Lydgugee. In the Indigenous Bruny Island language, truganina was the name of the grey saltbush, Atriplex cinerea. [8]