Tag: Trooper O’Grady

  • Nerrigundah – Gold, bushrangers, robbery and a shoot out remembered 150 years later

    Nerrigundah – Gold, bushrangers, robbery and a shoot out remembered 150 years later

    A gold rush, bushrangers, miners, armed hold ups and Chinese joss houses – everything was happening  in the bustling 1860s gold rush settlement of Nerrigundah. The population at that time was approximately 1200 people – extremely difficult to imagine now! Saturday’s ceremony and presentation in the now very sleepy and empty Nerrigundah marked the 150th anniversary of…

  • A STORY HANDED DOWN

    A STORY HANDED DOWN

     Editor’s note: This article, written by Anne McDougall, provides a family perspective on the events of almost exactly 150 years ago by shining some new light on Tom Connell, one of the bushrangers in this exciting colonial tale of gold, bushrangers, troopers and death – all ending in retribution through death by hanging. The 150th…