Railways in Australia date from the 10 December 1831 when the Australian Agricultural Company officially opened Australia's first railway, located at the intersection of Brown Church Streets, Newcast ...
Frederick Ward was the son of convict Michael Ward, ("Indefatigable" 1815) and his wife Sophia, and was born in 1835 around the time his parents moved from Wilberforce, New South Wales to nearby Winds ...
John Fuller was born in Appin, New South Wales, Australia around 1830 to George Fuller and Mary Owen.At one time there was a press controversy as to Morgan's proper name, some holding that it was Mora ...
Ben Hall was born on 9 May 1837, at Maitland,NSW,Australia now East Maitland, New South Wales (though there was an 1865 newspaper report incorrectly naming Breeza as his birthplace) Breeza). His paren ...
He was born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada in 1842. His mother Eleanor (née Wilson) died shortly after his birth. His father William subsequently married Eliza Cord, a girl only slightly older than his ...
Appearance Gardiner was 5 ft 9 inches tall with an athletic build, with his brown wavy hair and hazel eyes, he was attractive with a face of a corsair and a smooth voice.Early career In 1850, Gardiner ...
The area was originally inhabited by the Wiradjuri people. The first explorer, George Wilson Evans, entered the Lachlan Valley in 1815. He named the area the Oxley Plains after his superior the survey ...
The area was occupied by the Wiradjuri people prior to European settlement. John Oxley passed through in 1817 during one of the first inland expeditions. Oxley named the site Camp Hill. He was unimpre ...
The Lachlan Valley covers a catchment area of 84,700 km2 (32,700 sq mi), running from Crookwell in the east to Oxley in the west of NSW. It is one of the most important agricultural regions in Austral ...
The Victorian Gold Discovery Committee wrote in 1854:The discovery of the Victorian Goldfields has converted a remote dependency into a country of world wide fame; it has attracted a population, extra ...
Musquito (c. 1780 – 25 February 1825) was an Indigenous Australian outlaw, or bushranger, based in Van Diemen's Land. He was born in Sydney Cove and transported to Van Diemen's Land for murdering his ...
Windsor is the third-oldest place of British settlement on the Australian continent. Settlement at the location was first established about 1791, near the head of navigation on the Hawkesbury River (k ...
Jack Donahue, also known as John Donohoe, was born in Dublin, Ireland around 1804. An orphan, he began pick-pocketing and, after later involvement in a burglary, was convicted of intent to commit a fe ...
Glenrowan was named after farmers James and George Rowan who ran farms in the area between 1846 and 1858. The township was settled in the late 1860s, the Post Office opening on 22 February 1870. It is ...
New South Wales issued rewards totalling ?4,000 for the gang, dead or alive. The Victorian Government matched that amount, making the total reward for the Kelly gang ?8,000. The Board of Officers, w ...
