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Photo: Uralla sign 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 fami...