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McFarlane & Erskine, Gold escort attacked by bushrangers, 187-, print: lithograph. Image courtesy of the National Library of Australia: nla.pic-an8420450. Black Caesar escaped into the bush in 1790 with a musket where he later joined five or six other es...
The songs and music that has come from people's experiences of living and surviving in the Australian bush has become known in Australia as 'bush music'. The convict songs of the early days of the Australian colonies became the foundation of Australia's ...
The songs and music that has come from people's experiences of living and surviving in the Australian bush has become known in Australia as 'bush music'. The convict songs of the early days of the Australian colonies became the foundation of Australia's ...
McFarlane & Erskine, Gold escort attacked by bushrangers, 187-, print: lithograph. Image courtesy of the National Library of Australia: nla.pic-an8420450. Black Caesar escaped into the bush in 1790 with a musket where he later joined five or six other es...
p class="style1">> BUSHRANGERS, BOLTERS & OTHER WILD COLONIALS With My Swag All On My Shoulder My Name Is Edward Kelly/Farewell Dan and Edward Kelly...
2260139 SHI Number Penrith Heritage Inventory Item Name: Donohoe's Cave Location: off Nortons Basin Road, Mulgoa State Heritage Inventory Study Number MV- 13 Physical Description: "Donohoes Cave" is in a sandstone rock wall above Norton's Basin. 2260139...
DOOLAN, JOHN (1856-1882+), bushranger, was born on 28 April 1856 in Castlemaine, Victoria, second son and one of at least six children of William Dooling and his wife Ann, n. 'Jack Doolan' is the name of the bushranger described in the song Wild Colonial ...
> (A-Z) Donohoe, James Joseph (Jim) (1860? Print Publication Details: Russel Ward, 'Donohoe, John (Jack) (1806? Russel Ward, 'Donohoe, John (Jack) (1806? ...
> (A-Z) Ryan, James (1863? RYAN, JAMES TOBIAS (1818-1899), butcher, pastoralist, politician and sportsman, was born on 4 January 1818 near Penrith, New South Wales, son of John Michael Tobin Ryan, printer, and his wife Mary (1791-1872). John Ryan reache...
Mr Davies's version of the tune, and his singing style, both suggest English rather than Irish influence. The tune used for this text, 'Jim Jones at Botany Bay', was 'Irish Molly-o', he said; seemingly another Anglo-Celtic song. The bushranger ballads, ...
Anslinger, Harry J. & oursler, Will Arthur Barker London 1962 First Edition8vo - over 7æ" - 9æ" tall Cloth Ex Victorian Police College Library. Nown, Graham ISBN: 0246136502Grafton Books London 1991 First EditionOctavo- over 7æ" - 9æ" Tall Black Cloth Gi...
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Many of the events that have been woven into The Wild Colonial Girl did happen in the Colony of South Australia in the mid nineteenth century, though their combination in this story, and the major characters themselves, are fictional. Irish famine orphan...
1827 January 1 The Sydney Gazette begins daily publication. December 14 John `Bold Jack´ Donohoe and his gang rob carts on the Sydney-Windsor road. Other The Colonial Office sanctions the establishment of the Colonial Museum in Sydney. ...
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