fred ward thunderbolt

If you require continued access to this site then you will need to The last of the New South Wales bushrangers, Frederick Wordsworth Ward, better known as "Captain Thunderbolt", ruled the highways and byways of New England High Country and beyond for much of the 1860s. Ward was sent back to Cockatoo Island.

Bushranger Thunderbolt and Mary Ann Bugg: Timeline 1868 Blanch, Russ. Ward and two others robbed inns and mail-coaches in the Liverpool Plains District; in December 1865 at Caroll near Gunnedah they held up an inn and danced and drank until the police arrived. Directed by Cecil Holmes. He was working as a drover and horse-breaker at Tocal station on the Paterson River when arrested with James Garbutt and indicted for stealing and receiving seventy-five horses at Maitland on 21 April 1856; Ward was sentenced to ten years' hard labour on 13 August on the receiving charge. Fred was one of eleven children. He was arrested in 1856 for selling 50 stolen horses, and sent to prison on Cockatoo Island for ten years. Ward and his nephews John and James Garbutt were all convicted, the Garbutts of horse-stealing and Ward of receiving stolen horses knowing them to be stolen. Your web browser has been identified as Internet Explorer He was working as a drover and horse-breaker at Tocal station on the Paterson River when arrested with James Garbutt and indicted for stealing and receiving seventy-five horses at Maitland on 21 April 1856; Ward was sentenced to ten years' hard labour on 13 August on the receiving charge.Released conditionally from Cockatoo Island late in July 1860, Ward worked as a horse-breaker at Cooyal near Mudgee until his ticket-of-leave was cancelled on 17 September 1861 for 'absence from Muster' and he was tried on 3 October for horse-stealing. will no longer be supported as of September 2020. Escape. Frederick Ward was the son of convict Michael Ward, and his wife Sophia, and was born in 1835, the youngest of ten around the time his parents moved from Wilberforce, New South Wales to nearby Windsor. Captain Thunderbolt. Ward separated from his companions and never again made a stand when the police approached.Alone, with a reward of £200 on his head, Ward held up mailmen and on 3 February 1867 was almost captured while drunk near Manilla. Yearning for freedom, Ward fled Cockatoo Island with another prisoner, Fred Britten, on 11 September 1863 by swimming to shore and then heading north out of Sydney.

After four years he was given a ticket of leave which meant he was able to leave the gaol as long as he reported to the police every three months. Returned to Cockatoo Island to complete his original sentence with an additional three years, Ward escaped with Frederick Brittain about 11 September 1863. Mary Ann Bugg was one of two notable female bushrangers in mid-19th century Australia. versions of Internet Explorer do not provide the functionality required for these changes and as such your browser While hiding out in the Borah ranges they became separated, Mason was captured in August and convicted of highway robbery. Fred was born in the Windsor district of New South Wales during the mid-1830s. A Protestant, he was buried in Uralla cemetery without religious rites.Ward was 5 ft 8 ¼ ins (173 cm) tall, slight, and of sallow complexion with hazel-grey eyes and light-brown curly hair. Older Frederick Ward was the son of convict Michael Ward, ("Indefatigable" 1815) and his wife Sophia,In 1856 Ward's nephew John Garbutt became the ringleader of a large horse and cattle stealing operation, and enticed other members of the extended Ward family to join him.