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Ward, Frederick Wordsworth

Bushranger who is reputed to have been involved in over 80 major hold-ups and robberies, and famously escaped by swimming from Cockatoo Island in 1863.

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Died
Uralla, New South Wales
25 May 1870
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Captain Thunderbolt
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