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== The Kelly Home ==
...a place in the
=== KellyGang ===
story
== location ==
Near [[Greta|Greta]] on the [[Fifteen Mile Creek|Fifteen Mile Creek]] on the old Sydney Road, (before the new road going through Glenrowan became the Hume Highway
== Beginnings ==
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== What was the Kelly Home like in the late 1870s ==
In October 1869 [[Ned Kelly|Ned Kelly]] working with [[William Skillion|William Skillion]] and '''William Gray''' on Mrs Kellys. Annie was hear at the time. a Chinaman, Ah Fook said that he was robbed by Ned Kelly.
The case came to court in Benalla on 26/10/69. Supt [[Sup Nicolas|Nicolas]] procecuted. Ned Kelly gave his version and it was backed up by his two mates. He was not convicted.
([[The Argus at KellyGang 30/10/1878 (5)|Argus30/10/78]]) In [[1874-1877 Events|1877]] while [[Ned Kelly|Ned Kelly]] was 'working' with his uncles and having problems with [[Whitty|Whitty]], police including Assistant Commissioner [[Nicolson|Nicolson]] started visiting Mrs Kelly's looking for Ned. This is his description of [[Mrs Ellen Kelly|Mrs Kelly]]'s home:
<blockquote>'I visited the notorious Mrs Kelly's on the road from hence to Benalla. She lived on a piece of cleared and partly cultivated land on the roadside, in an old wooden hut, with a large bark roof. The dwelling was divided into five apartments by partitions of blanketing, rags, &c. There were no men in the house, only children and two girls of about fourteen years of age, said to be her daughters. They all appeared to be existing in poverty and squalor.' ([[Royal Commission report day 4 page 8|RC1024]]) ([[The True of Bushrangers Chapter 3 page 2|CHC]])
</blockquote>
Nicolson told Const [[Thom|Thom]] to never to go near the house alone ([[Royal Commission report day 4 page 9|RC1035]])
== At the time of the Fitzpatrick incident ==
Const [[Fitzpatrick|Fitzpatrick]] alleged [[Ned Kelly|Ned Kelly]] wounded him in the arm at Kelly family home on [[Fifteen Mile Creek|Fifteen-mile Creek]] 15/4/1878 See also ([[The Complete Inner History of the KellyGang and their Pursuers (13)|JJK]]) See also([[The Argus at KellyGang 17/4/1878|Argus17/4/78]])
At this time the Kellys had recently moved into their new home. ([[Royal Commission report day 36 page 4|RC12822]])
It was made of bark and slabs ([[Royal Commission report day 36 page 7|RC12877]])
The beginning of the story
"How did he (Const Fitzpatrick) come in contact with Ned Kelly at that time?- He stated when he was going to Greta that he rode across and went into Mrs. Kelly's, and when there about-some short time, half-an hour- He heard some chopping, and asked if Dan was at home, and was told by Mrs. Kelly that he was not. He heard some chopping on the hill, and got his horse and rode up to the top of the ranges where he heard the chopping, and found Williamson there, and asked where Dan Kelly was, and he said, "Out riding." While speaking he saw two men riding into the paddock, and asked Williamson who they were, and he said he did not know. Fitzpatrick said, "I think that is Dan Kelly's mare," and went down and found Skillion with the saddle off his own horse." ([[Royal Commission report day 19 page 1|RC5948]])
See also Ned Kellys version of what happened in the [[Jerilderie Letter (2)|Jerilderie Letter]]
In October [[17/4-4/10/78 Events|1878]] life at the Kelly home changed for ever. Mrs [[Ned Kelly|Kelly]] who had been arrested soon after the Fitzpatrick incident, was then finally sentenced to 3 years in goal. [[William Skillion|Skillion]] and [[William Williamson, Brickey|Williamson]] received 6 years. This meant that Mrs Kelly would not be able to return home until after [[Dan Kelly|Dan]] and [[Ned Kelly|Ned]] Kelly had died.
The place was looked after by [[Margaret Skillion|Maggie]] and [[Kate Kelly|Kate]] in particular. Maggie moved the family to her home three quarters of a mile west of Eleven Mile Creek.
The boys were home soon after the [[Stringy Bark Creek|Stringy Bark Creek]] incident ([[The Complete Inner History of the KellyGang and their Pursuers (29)|JJK]])
Later James [[Jimmy Quinn|Quinn]] was arrested there in early [[events79-2_4Jerilderie Robbery|1979]] and Frank [[Frank Harty|Harty]] had stock grazing there at about this time
== Later ==
Were the suits of [[Kelly's Armour|armour]] made here? ([[The Complete Inner History of the KellyGang and their Pursuers (52)|JJK]])
Const [[Const Robert Graham|Graham]] spent time watching the house ([[The Complete Inner History of the KellyGang and their Pursuers (54)|JJK]])
A few weeks before the Glenrowan siege Consts Cornelius [[Const Cornelius Ryan|Ryan]], [[Const Daniel Barry|Barry]], and [[Const Wallace|Wallace]] were sent to watch the Kelly home on the strength of information that came from Const [[Const Faulkiner|Faulkiner]] and others. See also ([[The Last of the Bushrangers Chapter 10 page 2|FH]]) and Maggie [[Margaret Skillion|Skillion]] ([[The Complete Inner History of the KellyGang and their Pursuers (51)|JJK]])
They were withdrawn on [[events 1880-4/ 1880-6|25/6/1880]]. ([[Royal Commission report day 18 page 20|RC5817]])
After the Glenrowan [[Jones' Glenrowan Inn|siege]] the bodies of [[Dan Kelly|Dan Kelly]] and [[Steve Hart|Steve Hart]] were brought home to 's home. See Richard [[Richard Hart|Hart]] for details. See also ([[The Age (14)|Age1/7/80]])
The authorities sought to take the land just before Ned Kelly's trial ([[The Age (48)|Age16/10/80]])
The Royal Commission visited the Kelly home ([[The Argus at KellyGang 16/5/1881|Argus16/5/81]]) ([[The Argus at KellyGang 16/5/1881 (3)|Argus16/5/81]])
== What happened at the Kelly Home after the time of the Kelly Gang ==
See a description of the Kelly home ([[The Argus at KellyGang 16/5/1881 (3)|Argus16/5/81]]) and later in 1910. ([[Cookson, 28_08_1911_1|BWC]]) ([[Cookson, 03_09_1911_3|BWC]])
== What is happening at the area of the Kelly Home today ==
All that remains of the kelly home would sadden any Australian. Bushfires and time have taken their tole
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