She was a mother of seven when her husband died after months in a police lock-up, lived through famine and Australian drought, saw her babies die, listened through the prison wall while her eldest son was hanged and saw the charred remains of another of her children who’d died in a shoot-out with police. When she died at the age of 91 in 1923, having outlived seven of her 12 children, motor cars plied the highway near her bush home north of Melbourne, and Australia was a modern sovereign nation.The wife of a convict, Ellen, like so many Australian pioneering women, led a life of great hardship. When she arrived in Melbourne in 1841 aged nine, British convict ships were still dumping their unhappy cargo in what was then known as the colony of New South Wales. The astonishing life of Ned Kelly’s motherEllen Kelly was born during the troubles in Ireland. You can read this before Mrs Kelly: The Astonishing Life of Ned Kelly’s Mother PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Mrs Kelly: The Astonishing Life of Ned Kelly’s Mother written by Grantlee Kieza which was published in February 20, 2017. Brief Summary of Book: Mrs Kelly: The Astonishing Life of Ned Kelly’s Mother by Grantlee Kieza
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