Meet the people of the KellyGang story
The police got really stirred up over a report of a visit by the KellyGang which they got on the morning of the 24/5/1879 to the following effect: "that a party of four men had been seen crossing through some country on two occasions by a farmer, and that they were going in the direction of Cleary's house. ...I feel certain that they were the outlaws. .. I did not know them by their personal appearance, but from their manner I think they must be the outlaws."
Sup Hare and a party of police came up as a result and I met them on the road. On the road from Glenrowan to the station owned by Mr. Newcomen, some of the police saw me. Hare described me as one of the greatest sympathizers of the KellyGang, The police continued towards Wangaratta before they turned for Cleary's but they did not fool me. When the police turned up at Cleary's they found me staying there. (RC1285)
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My brothers Michael and Daniel Nolan were members of the Greta
Mob and we were all sympathizers.
I was the eldest son ( of 16 children) ( other brothers and sisters include
John and Mary Nolan, Ellen (originally known as John Nowlan).
My parents lived at Greta – they seemed to settle there around the mid 1870s.
My father, John Nolan was born in 1856 or 1857 and died in 1930. According
to the death notice (Wangaratta Chronicle Feb 5 1930) John Nolan was a farmer
from Myrrhee and ‘very highly
respected” and from “an old district family”
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