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Thunderbolt the Bushranger, real name Fredrick Wordsworth Ward, was a taboo subject at home when I was a child.
In my early teens I realised there was something my mother’s family didn’t want revealed and when I asked her, my mother refused to say more than, “It wasn’t Thunderbolt they shot.”
How would she know, I thought, but there was no more and it took several years of digging around to find out the truth.
The family secret
You see, my mother’s maternal family had dealings with the bushranger no-one was ever supposed to know, especially when Thunderbolt’s partner, William Monckton, after having given himself up to police and serving time in gaol, married into my great-grandfather’s family in Uralla, NSW. ....

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