Ned Kelly - from Iron-outlaw to Iron-icon
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![]() ![]() ![]() Read the BENALLA ENSIGN NEWS 24th June 2020 by SIMON RUPPERT |
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![]() The supporting report was written by Dave White for website Iron Outlaw - Dave had a series of articles The White Stuff. Click on image to enlarge- |
Background images are of 1/3rd scale model replicas of Kelly Gang iron helmets for sale direct from the make |
![]() Click here http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks13/1305481h.html supposed to have been slain in the famous siege at Glenrowan. This book was originally published in 1911 only 33 years after the Kelly outbreak. It was re transcribed and edited by Ambrose Pratt in 1926 from an original brittle aged copy. I urge all readers to read Chap1 and 5, and if you would like a printable copy as a MS Word File let me know as I was given such by a claimed descendant of 'Dan Kelly'. |
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![]() It will be 139 years this year since notorious bushranger Ned Kelly was hanged in a Victorian prison for the murder of police constable Thomas Lonigan. At recent police remembrance services, Kelly has again been branded a psychopath but who, asks STEVE HODDER, were the real villains in the tale of Australian history’s most famous outlaw? Note; thumbnail left shows Dan Kelly's helmet ! |
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Kelly sites < pro or con > |
![]() Link to 'Bill is Right about Stringybark Creek' |
![]() Shortly before her death she was interviewed by a representative of ‘Smith’s Weekly’. Throughout a long life her actions and views were governed by an hereditary bias of revolt due to her birth. In the course of the interview she unconsciously showed that this influence subsisted to the last. |
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![]() Eleven Mile Creek is where the Kelly homestead stood near Greta West. Sharon Hollingsworth and Brian Stevenson present news, views, nuggets and musings, some serious, some lighthearted but all to do with all things associated with Ned Kelly and the gang. |
Background images are of 1/3rd scale model replicas of
Kelly
Gang iron helmets for sale direct from the maker. An authentic piece of Australiana that makes a great gift for any history
student.
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Sue Rabbitt Rolf studied and taught at Melbourne and Monash
Universities.
Her recent writings on cultural aspects of settler colonial Australia have been published in Meanjin, Overland, the Conversation, the Independent and on Pearls & Irritations. In her comprehensive article Ned Kelly the man with the iron head - is a well considered question in regards breathing while within the 10kg iron helmet as Ned had done for several hours prior to his capture at Glenrowan. |
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![]() A recent photo reported to be the members of the 'Kelly gang' was put up for auction. It sold for $16k. My first reaction to the photos authenticity with faces so poorly detailed they could be almost any group of young men of the time? But added the fact the names penned in at the bottom overlapped the mismatched oval picture mount, proves this was a copy of a copy. I gave the photo thumbs down for auction but think fellow researcher Capt Jack Hoyle has identified these characters each with a pipe in their mouths as a huge joke, you be the judge. |
Recent photos? |
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Ned Kelly Centre developments but when? |
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![]() Journal 'Agora magazine, has published - The Politics of Ned by Bill Denheld Title 'What links did Ned Kelly and his associates have with the republican and Federation movements in nineteenth-century Victoria'? |
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Stuart
Dawson research article |
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Since the Glenrowan siege the police have almost universally been
blamed for the subsequent death of labourer
George Metcalf, who
claimed he was struck by a police bullet during the siege and had
his
medical costs paid by the police.
However, witness statements of the time show that
Metcalf was accidentally
shot in the face by Ned Kelly before the siege began. |
Stuart
Dawson research article |
![]() Constable Fitzpatrick is the man most often blamed for triggering the Kelly outbreak. Ever since the event Fitzpatrick has been widely labeled a drunkard, liar and perjurer. Yet this is not correct. This article by Stuart Dawson reconstructs, corroborates, and vindicates Fitzpatrick's courtroom testimony, and shows - without trying to make him into a saint - that almost everything written about his role in the Kelly outbreak by numerous "historical experts" for the last 140 years is wrong. The real story is put forward here. |
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![]() If you have an opinion or can add to the story, have your say. Ned Kelly and Stringy Bark Creek are an important starting point to the Kelly story, share your thoughts or critique, agree or disagree and claim a genuine fragment of the Kelly target tree. This tiny wood keepsake relic of Australian folklore history is limited.. * |
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![]() An army of historians and folklore aficionados have been unable to establish in the 131 years since the armour made its mark on Australian judicial legend, where was it made? Beechworth local Darren Sutton believes he has found the forge where Byrne's armour suit was created. Darren found a piece of iron off cut that he claims matches part of Joe Byrnes armour. - reports Age writer- Steve Waldon . Unfortunately however, scientific analysis of the Darren's iron piece has proven a metallurgical negative match to the real Joe Byrne armour which leaves Darren with a tricky problem to overcome. See Darren's iron piece match Byrne armour in Benalla. |
![]() Watch Darren'Suttons find on YouTube video here- In trying to help resolve Darrens delema with ANSTO , during 2006 I contacted and visited Darren with a scientist willing to offer for free an independent sampling of his piece using 'Varian Techtron 'Atomic Absorption Spectrometer ' Details of the procedure were put in place so no false outcomes would be argued about, but Darren did not want to prceed. Now also see Dee's Blog which exposes Darren's tricky problem with the help of some real pictures. |
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![]() UPDATE, This looks at the possibility there were two huts occupied by the Kelly's at Bullock Ck. One was described by Constable James who found the Kelly camp one month after the killings at Stringybark Ck, the other is a photo of a hut, but the description doesn't match the photo? Here is a possible answer to the vexing question, were there TWO huts at Bullock Ck ? Another recent discovered is a 1930's photo of the Kelly Ck sawmill that was built directly over one of the Kelly camp hut sites. The picture shows a tree that could be one of the Kelly target trees.* |
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Main story -
The Stringybark Creek
shootings -
The above
visor slots are of Joe Byrne's helmet
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![]() Melbourne newspaper ' The Age' on 10 Feb 2003 by Geoff Strong. A gunpowder flask recovered from the ' Shingle' hut site (dating from the time of the Kellys) proves where the Kelly gang shootout occurred. The Age article headline, true to its word was not appreciated by eminent Kelly historian Mr. Ian Jones, who had declaring the huts finding as 'codswollup' on Melbourne ABC morning radio 774 AM. Mr.Jones's denigrating remark was unfortunate, since the huts finding proves the location of the shootout . Picture SANDY SCHELTEMA |
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Watch
this video-
Professor Tim Flannery and social historian John Doyle see the magic of the Viewer Scope to match the real site of the Kelly Gang verses Police shoot out site. This is the place without any doubt - The subject of the Stringy Bark Creek police camp, the shooting dead of the three Police by the Kelly Gang, the exact spot is no longer a mystery. With logic and on ground 'primary source evidence' for all to see, three other contended sites have been proven negative. But the proponents of those sites don't seem able to accept historical truth when presented to them. Please continue to read their opposing documents, then also see their web-forum debates and their ill conceived arguments. People I have shown this site to, like Prof. Tim Flannery, global warming activist, John Doyle, award winning writer, radio presenter and comedian, author Ian MacFarlane, of important recently published book 'Ned Kelly Unmasked', author Peter Fitzsimons his latest book 'Ned Kelly', all these people and dozens more highly professional observers all agree with my evidence presented, that the site of two huts fireplaces at SBC being the true correct site. All I ask is for my opponents to present a compelling case to the contrary! Forget all the hoopla, maybe etc, etc prove your case for another site. Bill |
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This
booklet |
Its truly mind boggling. |
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![]() Dr Scott joined with Melbourne historian and author of ‘The Kelly Gang Unmasked’, Ian MacFarlane, to reach remarkable conclusions about the bushranger for an article in the journal Psychiatry, Psychology and Law. Read book Abstract |
![]() Glenrowan-based historian Gary Dean, who has been researching the Kelly history for more than 40 years, says while there's a strong possibility the remains belong to Kelly, he's not convinced the connection has been conclusively proven. DNA passed along the male line is needed in addition to mitochondrial DNA that was passed down from Kelly's sister, he says - |
![]() Historians, Sheila Hutchinson and Fay Johnson bring you back to where the Kelly occupation had left its mark. Using their fascinating research, the exact location of the Kelly target tree and the Kelly hut site can be plotted on the ground. As expected the Kelly related sites were marked on the earliest maps of the district. They advance material to suggest the shoot out site was north of the picnic ground at SBC. |
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The Royal Commission into the Kelly outbreak ~ 12 Mb all 721 pages in 'html' format suitable for search by 'names' and is hosted at ironicon.com.au from Gary Dean's files. |
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![]() Seems more happens on IO Facebook than this big website! |
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Forums Here are two other members only forums- KC2000 For-um and Stringybark Creek For-um"
Double J
ABC radio interview
with author Doug Morrissey,
his new book Ned Kelly - A Lawless Life
and Leo Kennedy's
thoughts on the Kelly myth and the problems with Stringy-Bark Creek.
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Where was Ned Kelly born? Dctr Maikel Annalee narrows it down to Wallan East some 3 Km North East of Beveridge town, (the previously accepted area). Like an archeological dig, we find new information that follows a thread connecting Ned to the Federation of Australia. A recent Herald Sun article by journalist Mike Edmonds follows the thread. |
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![]() But this may not have been the only cave being looked for- See Feedback opposite |
Background images of 1/3rd scale model replica of Kelly gang iron helmets. Write a short essay why you are a Kelly sympathizer and submit here to admin for consideration to publication and receive a courtesy 20% discount on any one of the four Kelly Gang helmets. This page supports a fair go denied to Ned and also Julian Assange locked up in a UK gaol. Lets get Assange home ASAP. |
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![]() Sharon Hollingsworth brings to light who may have drawn this hut doodle. |
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Any
suggestions for other web links are always welcome. |
Links to other Kelly related sites Glenrowan Gazette ~ The Kelly trail ~ The Ned Kelly Touring Route ~ Glenrowan1880 ~ Kelly Gang Educational Services ~ Burnt to a Cinder was I ~ Ned Kelly- Australian Bushranger ~ Ned Kelly Bushranger ~ Ned Online ~ The Jerilderie letter at 'Treasures of the State Library of Victoria' ~ Music sites ~ Australian history ~ Forums
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