Ned Kelly was born in Australia in 1854. He was one of eight children to Irish parents. His father, a transported convict, died shortly after serving a six-month prison sentence, leaving Kelly, then aged 12, as the eldest male of the household. At the time Irish emigrants were heavily suppressed and brutally treated by the Victoria police and the Kelly family suffered greatly at their hands. A violent confrontation with a policeman occurred at the Kelly family's home where Ned’s mother was unjus
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Ned Kelly was born in Australia in 1854. He was one of eight children to Irish parents. His father, a transported convict, died shortly after serving a six-month prison sentence, leaving Kelly, then aged 12, as the eldest male of the household. At the time Irish emigrants were heavily suppressed and brutally treated by the Victoria police and the Kelly family suffered greatly at their hands. A violent confrontation with a policeman occurred at the Kelly family's home where Ned’s mother was unjus
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