Thunderbolt and the family secret
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 family had dealings with the bushranger no-one was ever supposed to know, especially when Thunderbolt’...
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