TWENTY ONE AUSTRALIAN BUSHRANGERS AND THEIR IRISH CONNECTIONS FATHER–JAMES KENNIFF FROM IRELAND–CAME FREE TO NSW. AFTER ONE BOOK WRITTEN ON PATRICK AND JAMES HARRY POWER CALLED (JNR) WERE CONVICTED FATHER – THOMAS SCOTT OF CATTLE STEALING AN ANGLICAN CLERGYMAN ALL THE FAMILY MOVED CAPTAIN MOONLITE FROM RATHFRILAND IN CO. THE BUSHRANGER TO QUEENSLAND BUT (1842-1880) DOWN WHERE ANDREW HARRY POWER THE BROTHERS WERE MARTIN CASH ANDREW GEORGE SCOTT WAS BORN. HARRY POWER TUTOR OF NED KELLY AGAIN CONVICTED. (1819-1891) BY PASSEY AND DEAN LATER THEY TOOK UP A MOTHER - JESSIE JEFFARIES 1991 LARGE GRAZING LEASE FROM THE SAME AREA. AT UPPER WARRIGO NEAR MARYBOROUGH IN SOUTHERN QUEELSLAND ANDREW TRAINED AS AN ENGINEER IN LONDON INSTEAD OF BECOMING A MOTHER – MARY CLERGYMAN AS HIS FATHER WISHED. THE FAMILY MOVED TO NEW (1810-1878) STAPLETON BORN NSW. PATRICK KENNIFF JAMES KENNIFF ZEALAND IN 1861, WHERE ANDREW BECAME AN OFFICER IN THE MAORI PRISON PHOTO (1863-1903) WARS AND WAS WOUNDED IN BOTH LEGS. HE WAS COURT MARSHALLED (1869-1940) BORN 1810 IN ENISCORTHY CO. WEXFORD AND GOT INTO TROUBLE IN 1828 FOR MALINGERING BUT WAS NOT CONVICTED. IN 1868 HE MOVED TO THE KENNIFF BROTHERS STARTED OFF AS CATTLE DUFFERS AND SPENT TIME FOR SHOOTING A RIVAL SUITOR AND TRANSPORTED TO NSW FOR 7 YEARS. MELBOURNE AND BEGAN HIS STUDIES FOR THE CLERGY. HE WAS SENT TO BORN HENRY JOHNSTON (JOHNSON) IN CO. WATERFORD C.1820. HE MIGRATED TO ENGLAND BUT GOT CAUGHT IN JAIL IN NSW. AFTER MOVING WITH THE REST OF THE FAMILY INCLUDING STEALING A SADDLE AND BRIDLE (SOME SAY IT WAS SHOES) AND TRANSPORTED TO VAN DIEMENS LAND FOR 7 HE WORKED OUT HIS SENTENCE BUT GOT INTO TROUBLE FOR BRANDING BROTHERS THOMAS AND JOHN TO QUEENSLAND, THEY RACED HORSES THE GOLDFIELDS BUT GOT MIXED UP IN A BANK SWINDLE AND WAS SENT TO PRISON. HE SPENT 7 YEARS IN JAIL AND AFTER HIS RELEASE HE WAS SO YEARS. HIS MOTHER WAS SENT OUT FOR STEALING CHICKENS AND ALSO ENDED UP IN VAN DIEMENS LAND WITH STOLEN CATTLE. HE FLED WITH HIS MISTRESS TO VAN DIEMENS LAND BUT AND RAN BOOKS ON LOCAL RACE MEETINGS. HOWEVER, AFTER LOSING A HARRY’S 3 YOUNG HALF SISTERS WHO WERE BORN IN ENGLAND. HARRY SERVED OUT HIS TIME AND WENT TO EVENTUALLY GOT JAILED FOR LARCENY. HE ESCAPED THREE TIMES FROM THE CATTLE LEASE DUE TO THE ACTION OF NEIGHBOURS THEY BECAME MORE HARASSED BY AUTHORITIES HE DECIDED TO LIVE UP TO HIS LEGEND AND ASSEMBLED A GANG NEAR KELLY COUNTRY IN VICTORIA (THEY TOOK THE MAINLAND. HE GOT INTO TROUBLE WITH 2 DRUNKEN GERMAN TROOPERS AND WOUNDED ONE OF THEM DREADED PORT ARTHUR PRISON. THE LAST EPISODE LASTED 2 YEARS IN ACTIVE IN STEALING CATTLE AND HORSES AND HOLDING UP STOREKEEPERS. WHICH HE DID A LOT OF LOCAL BUSHRANGING. FINALLY CAUGHT AND SENT ADVANTAGE OF THIS AND ROBBED PEOPLE) BUT NED KELLY SAID HE AND ENDED UP IN JAIL. AFTER SERVING 6 YEARS HE WAS RELEASED ONLY TO END UP AGAIN IN JAIL FOR EVENTUALLY ARRESTED FOR MURDERING A POLICEMAN AND A STATION STEALING HORSES. HE ESCAPED AND TURNED TO BUSHRANGING IN WHAT WAS TO END UP AS KELLY COUNTRY. TO NORFOLK ISLAND WHERE HE SERVED OUT A LONG SENTENCE BUT WAS OWNER. BOTH WERE SENTENCED TO HANG BUT ON APPEAL JAMES ESCAPED WOULD SHOOT THEM IF HE FOUND THEM. SCOTT LEFT FOR NSW AND HELD UP A STATION THERE BUT WAS UNDONE WHEN SOME TROOPERS ARRIVED. AT ONE TIME HE HAD YOUNG NED KELLY WITH HIM. FINALLY BETRAYED BY A WOULD BE FRIEND AND LOCKED UP SET FREE WHEN THE PRISON CLOSED DOWN. HE RELATED HIS STORY TO THE NOOSE AND GOT 15 YEARS. LET OUT AFTER 10 YEARS, HE DIED OF AGAIN TO GET RELEASED WHEN 66 YEARS OLD. HE DIED AT 72 FROM DROWNING IN THE MURRAY RIVER. JAMES LESTER BURKE WHO PUBLISHED IT. MARTIN DIED A FREE MAN AT 67. CANCER IN 1940,THE LAST OF THE AUSTRALIAN BUSHRANGERS TO DIE. HE WAS CAUGHT, TRIED AND LATER HUNG (ON HIS FATHER’S BIRTHDAY). JACK (JOHN) DONOHOE (1806-1830) FATHER - JOHN CLARKE BORN IN 1808, AN IRISH REBEL FROM NEWRY CO. DOWN SENT OUT IN 1828 FOR 7 YEARS ONE OF THE WILD COLONIAL BOYS. (PREVIOUS CONVICTION WAS PIG STEALING). HE SERVED OUT HIS SENTENCE IN NSW AND TURNED TO TANNING LEATHER AS HE WAS A SHOEMAKER BY TRADE. HE RENTED A SMALL BLOCK AND GOT INVOLVED IN HORSE STEALING. LATER WHEN GOLD WAS DISCOVERED NEAR BRAIDWOOD HE AND HIS SONS STOLE THE DIGGERS HORSES, HID THEM FOR A WHILE AND THEN CLAIMED THE REWARDS FOR THEIR RETURNS. HE DIED IN 1866 IN GOULBURN PRISON OF INFLUENZA WHILE WAITING TRIAL FOR KILLING AN ABORIGINE. NATIVE OF CO. LAWRENCE KAVENAGH MOTHER - MARY ANN CONNELL (1820-1905) WAS AN IRISH IMMIGRANT FROM LOGHILL CO. LIMERICK WHO CAME WATERFORD (1805-1846) STONE MASON AND WITH! HER PARENTS MICHAEL AND MARGARET AND HER SIBLINGS TO SYDNEY IN 1839. THEY WERE EMPLOYED IN A DISTRICT THAT WAS TO BECOME BRAIDWOOD IN NSW. MARY MARRIED JOHN CLARKE (SENIOR) IN 1839. QUARRYMAN SONS JOHN AND THOMAS CLARKE BECAME PART OF THE CLARKE GANG WHICH AT TIMES HAD WITH THEM TOM AND PAT CONNELL (MARY’S BROTHERS). YOUNGER BROTHER JAMES CLARKE WAS JAILED FOR 7 YEARS FOR HAVING BANKNOTES THAT WERE STOLEN BY THE BEN HALL GANG IN A STAGECOACH ROBBERY. THIS SAVED HIM LATER FROM THE FATE OF HIS TWO BROTHERS. THE CLARKES TOGETHER WITH 4 OTHER CRIMINALS , WILLIAM AND CONVICTED OF BURGLARY AND SENT TO SYDNEY FOR LIFE. HE WAS SOON IN JOSEPH BERRIMAN, BILL SCOTT AND WILLIAM FLETCHER BECAME THE SCURGE OF THE BRAIDWOOD AREA. THEY TROUBLE BY ATTEMPTING AN ARMED ROBBERY, THEN BUSHRANGING AND SHOT POLICE AND ROBBED THE RICH AND THE POOR WITHOUT EXCEPTION. A PARTY OF 4 OFFICIAL BOUNTY ALSO ESCAPING FROM CUSTODY. IN 1831 HE WAS SENT TO NORFOLK ISLAND BORN IN DUBLIN 1806 AND CONVICTED IN 1823 OF INTENT TO COMMIT A HUNTERS WERE AMBUSHED AND KILLED. 5000 POUND WAS POSTED FOR THE CAPTURE OF THE MURDERERS. PAT FOR 14 YEARS. HE WAS STILL IN TROUBLE THERE AND RECEIVED AT ONE TIME FELONY AND THEN TRANSPORTED FOR LIFE TO NSW. IN 1827 WITH TWO CONNELL WAS KILLED IN A SHOOTOUT, THEN A LITTLE LATER THE TWO CLARKE BROTHERS WERE ALSO 40 LASHES FOR INSOLENCE AND THEN 140 FOR TRYING TO ESCAPE. HE WAS OTHER CONVICTS HE HELD UP A NUMBER OF BULLOCK DRAYS BUT GOT CAPTURED. THOMAS WAS CHARGED WITH 9 ROBBERIES OF MAIL AND 36 ROBBERIES OF INDIVIDUALS PLUS THE RETURNED TO SYDNEY IN 1842 AND RECEIVED ANOTHER 36 LASHES FOR CAUGHT AND SENTENCED TO DEATH. HE ESCAPED AND ASSISTED BY A GANG JOHN AND THOMAS CLARKE SUSPECTED MURDERS. JOHN CLARKE WAS CHARGED WITH 26 ROBBERIES PLUS THE SUSPECTED MURDERS. THEY TRYING TO ESCAPE. HE DID EVENTUALLY ESCAPE BUT GOT CAUGHT AND SENT BECAME THE MOST FAMOUS BUSHRANGER TO THAT DATE. THE GANG EVENTUALLY WERE FOUND GUILTY BY A JURY AND HANGED AT THE SAME TIME. THE JUDGE REMARKED AS HE TO PORT ARTHUR IN VAN DIEMENS LAND WHERE HE MET MARTIN CASH. AFTER OPERATED OVER A LARGE AREA AROUND SYDNEY OVER THE NEXT TWO SENTENCED THEM - THE STAIN OF CONVICT BLOOD WAS NOT DIMINISHED ENOUGH IN THEM OTHERWISE THEY ESCAPING WITH CASH AND JONES THEY BECAME SUCCESSFUL BUSHRANGERS YEARS. HE WAS FINALLY CORNERED BY TROOPERS AND POLICE AND DIED MIGHT HAVE BECOME WORTHY CITIZENS (OR WORDS TO THAT EFFECT). OVER A 2 YEARS PERIOD BUT HE WENT TO HOBART WITH CASH AND GOT GAMELY IT IS SAID. NUMEROUS BALLADS WERE SUNG ABOUT HIS DEEDS. A CAUGHT. HE WAS SENT BACK TO NORFOLK ISLAND WITH CASH AND WAS FAMOUS BALLAD COMPOSED IN 1860 WAS BASED ON HIS EXPLOITS. HUNG THERE AFTER TAKING AN ALLEDGED PART IN A MUTUNY. JOHN TENNANT (1794-1837) PATRICK JOHN KELLY (1831-1873+) JOHN DOOLAN 1856-1882+) NO KNOWN PHOTO (ALIAS WILLIAM LONG) NO KNOWN PHOTO NATIVE OF BELFAST – SENTENCED TO LIFE IN 1823 AND TRANSPORTED . PATRICK KELLY WAS BORN IN CO. TYRONE IN1831. IN 1841 TO NSW (CRIME NOT LISTED). OCCUPATION - CATTLE DEALER. FATHER – WILLIAM DOOLING - BORN 1823 IN CO. TIPPERARY AND CONVICTED OF STEALING FIREARMS AND HE CAME TO MAITLAND NSW WITH HIS FATHER MILES KELLY TWO POUNDS IN 1848 AND TRANSPORTED TO VAN DIEMENS LAND FOR 7 YEARS. HE WAS DESCRIBED AS AND MOTHER WINIFRED (UNITY) KELLY NEE LYNCH AND HIS NATIVE OF JOHN LYNCH ON ARRIVAL IN SYDNEY IN 1824 HE WAS SENT TO AN AREA THAT IS NOW BEING 5’ 9’’ TALL, WAS SINGLE AND COULD READ AND WRITE, RELIGION WAS CATHOLIC. HE MET AND CO. CAVAN (1813-1842) THE CAPITAL OF AUSTRALIA - CANBERRA. IN 1824 HE ABSCONDED WITH SIBLINGS. HE MARRIED MARY ANN CUSHAN IN WEST MAITLAND IN 1857. AFTER MANY YEARS AS A LAW ABIDING MARRIED ANN BURKE IN 1852 AND HAD 6 CHILDREN. THEY MOVED TO THE VICTORIAN GOLDFIELDS AFTER JOHN RICKS AND TOOK TO THE BUSH. THEY PROCEEDED TO ROB PEOPLE SERVING OUT HIS SENTENCE. NO FURTHER CRIMES NOTED AND HE DIED IN 1897 AGED 74. CITIZEN HE LEFT HIS WIFE AND 3 CHILDREN DAVID, SARAH FOR THE NEXT 2 YEARS BUT THEY ALWAYS RETREATED TO HIDEOUTS IN MOTHER – ANN BURKE (1826.-(1891) LAUNDRESS, CONVICTED IN CO. WEXFORD OF BURGLARY AND SENT AND PATRICK JOSEPH AND BECAME PART OF THE THE LIMESTONE CAVES ON MOUNT CURRIE NOW CALLED MOUNT TENNENT TO VAN DIEMENS LAND FOR 7 YEARS. DESCRIPTION 5 FOOT 3 AND A HALF INCHES TALL, BROWN HAIR, PRISON PHOTO BUSHRANGER THUNDERBOLT’S SECOND GANG (DIFFERENT SPELLING). AFTER AN ATTEMPTED ROBBERY IN 1828 BLUE EYES, SLIGHTLY FRECKLED, READS, UNMARRIED – CATHOLIC.