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          Captain Thunderbolt

          Australian bushranger (1835–1870)

          For the 1953 film, see Captain Thunderbolt (film).

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        5. Thunderbolt's Rock is a tangible marker of colonial memory celebrating the life of legendary nineteenth century bushranger, Captain Thunderbolt (Frederick.

          6. For the South Australian criminal, see John Kerney. For Australian furniture & interior designer, see Frederick Charles Ward.

          Frederick Wordsworth Ward (c. 1835 – 25 May 1870), better known by the self-styledpseudonym of Captain Thunderbolt, was an Australian bushranger renowned for escaping from Cockatoo Island, and also for his reputation as the "gentleman bushranger" and his lengthy survival, being the longest-roaming bushranger in Australian history.[1]

          Early years

          Frederick Ward was the son of convict Michael Ward, ("Indefatigable" 1815) and his wife Sophia,[2] and was born in about 1835, the youngest of ten around the time his parents moved from Wilberforce to nearby Windsor.[3] Ward entered the paid workforce at an early age, and was employed at the age of eleven by the owners of "Aberbaldie Station" near Walcha as a "generall