Article Alert: Nationwide Hunt for Kelly Gang to Decide Ned's Resting Place

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The Sunday Herald Sun of Sept. 18, 2011 has an article called Nationwide Hunt for Kelly Gang to Decide Ned's Resting Place.

   
The article begins with:


A nationwide search will be launched for long-lost descendants of Ned Kelly as his family and authorities prepare to fulfill the bushranger's dying wish.

More than 130 years after Ned was captured and hanged, a new crusade to round up the Kelly gang will begin today in a bid to have all sides of the family decide the final resting place of his remains....

From further down in the article:


But Leigh Olver, the great grandson of Kelly's sister Ellen, said the family was desperate to locate two missing ancestors before any decision was made on where he was laid to rest.

The search is on for descendants of Alice King and Jack King - Ned's half-brother and sister from his mother's second marriage to George King.

King and his wife are believed to have dumped their children, born after Ned's execution, in an orphanage and toured the world as a circus act called Kelly and Kelly.

Mr Olver, whose DNA was used to identify Ned's remains, said the family was desperate to track down all the ancestors.

"It's an important step for all the descendants of Ned to gather together and decide where his final resting place should be," he said....


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http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/more-news/nationwide-hunt-for-kelly-gang/story-fn7x8me2-1226139963419