Daniel
"Dan"
Kelly
Born in Beveridge, Colony of Victoria
Ancestors 
Son of John Kelly
and Ellen Elizabeth (Quinn) King
Brother of
Mary Jane Kelly, Ann (Kelly) Gunn, Edward Kelly, Thomas Kelly, Margaret Mildred (Kelly) Skilling, James Kelly, Catherine Ada (Kelly) Foster, Grace (Kelly) Griffiths, Ellen Kelly [half], Ellen (King) Knight [half], John King [half] and Alice (King) Dawe [half]
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died
at age 19
in Glenrowan, Colony of Victoria
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Daniel (Dan) Kelly
Biography
Daniel Kelly was an Australian Bushranger
The early years
Dan Kelly was the youngest brother of Australian Bushranger Ned Kelly Born in 1861, Dan grew up with his brothers and sisters and their widowed mother near Greta in the state of Victoria. Dan's father was an ex-convict. Dan first came into trouble with the law when aged ten. He and his brother Jim, aged twelve, were arrested by Constable Flood for riding a horse that did not belong to them. In fact, they had been doing some work for a local farmer and he had lent the boys the horse to ride home. Flood did not believe the boys and they were forced to spend a night in the cells before the matter was cleared. In 1873, fourteen-year-old Jim Kelly was jailed for five years for dealing in stolen cattle. He and his family always claimed that he had simply been helping some relatives, unaware that not all the cattle was theirs.
Horse theft
On 15 April 1878 Constable Alexander Fitzpatrick arrived at the Kelly home and asked for Dan, who was wanted on suspicion of horse theft. While he was there Fitzpatrick made a pass at Dan's sister, Kate. The other members of the household reacted by throwing him to the floor and his wrist was lightly cut. Fitzpatrick later claimed that the Kellys had attacked him with revolvers and that Ned Kelly was also involved. In fact, the only other men in the house were Dan, William Williamson and Bill Skillion. Ned Kelly always maintained that at the time of the incident he had in fact been in New South Wales. Dan's mother was arrested along with Williamson and Skillion for the attempted murder of Fitzpatrick. Although his account of events was believed in court, Fitzpatrick was later dismissed from the force for drunkenness and perjury and Dan and Ned went into hiding.
In October 1878, at Stringybark Creek, they were joined by their friends Joe Byrne and Steve Hart. They came across a group of policemen and in the confrontation that followed three of the officers were shot dead. Now certain to hang if they were captured, the gang turned to bank robbery raids were carried out at Euroa in Victoria, and Jerilderie in New South Wales.
The siege at Glenrowan
The Kelly gang Ned and Dan Kelly, Joe Byrne and Steve Hart were surrounded at the Glenrowan Inn by the police on June 27, 1880. The gang wore suits of armour to protect themselves. Made by a local man, these were constructed from heavy iron and weighed about 44 kilograms each. The armour was tough enough to repel bullets but their legs and arms were not protected, Joe Byrne was shot in the groin and died. Ned Kelly's refusal to surrender, and his loyalty to his mates when he could have escaped, is part of what created the Kelly legend.
When the siege was over, the bodies of Steve Hart, 21, and Dan Kelly, 19, lay side by side, in a back room of the inn a priest, Father Matthew Gibney, entered the burning inn and found them together, dead, with their helmets removed it is believed they shot each other.
Steve Hart and Joe Byrne
PostScript on the death of Dan Kelly
Dan Kelly is said to have [1]died in the Glenrowan pub fire of June 28, 1880 as a 19-year-old a man, and was buried in the Greta Cemetery Greta. Or did he live his life under the assumed name of James Ryan, Ryan walked into the Brisbane offices of the Sunday Truth in 1933 claiming to be the real-life Dan Kelly, this was a front-page story the following week and it ran for four consecutive weeks. The following year in 1934 he was at the Brisbane Exhibition at sideshow alley answering questions people paid money to question and quiz him but no-one was able to successfully challenge him he had an intimate knowledge of names and knew everything about the Kelly family and Kelly gang that is something that would have been hard to fake in those days as they didn't have Google or the internet.
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| James Ryan |
James Ryan claimed the bodies of the two bushrangers retrieved from the Glenrowan fire, believed to be the dead Steve Hart and Dan Kelly, were both unidentifiable Ryan said the bodies were 2 drunks in the pub. Link to the photo of the body of Dan Kelly after the fire at Glenrowan
One of Dan Kelly's sister did identify one of the corpses as her brother after the Glenrowan fire due to the peculiar formation of his teeth but could this be to protect her brother once he had escaped.
Ned Kelly didn't think the bodies were Dan Kelly and Steve Hart in court at his murder trial, the judge said to him that "your unfortunate and miserable companions have died a death you might rather envy". Ned replied, tellingly "I don't think there is much proof that they did die."
Ryan tells the story that he and Steve Hart were in the hotel in Glenrowan when the police set fire to it to flush them out, he and Hart got down in the basement. It was slabbed and nailed so well they couldn't get the slab off. They were getting burned from the heat above them. They eventually got a slab off and got out.
They were then befriended by an old German family and they stayed there until the wounds were healed enough to leave. They then went to western NSW first and Dan later made his way to Queensland.
One person who lived near James Ryan as a young boy recalls the time the old man "dropped his tweeds" and showed his father the brand marks of DK on his body that old man Kelly had given him as a youngster as a punishment. "I saw the brand marks on him and I saw the horrendous burns on his shoulder".
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James Ryan came forward in 1933 because he believed the statute of limitation after 50 years prevented him from being prosecuted for murder. That wasn't true, but almost all if not all, of the key witnesses, were dead so he didn't face prosecution.
On 29 July 1948 James Ryan or Dan Kelly was released from the Brisbane General Hospital after a short illness and made his way to Ipswich that afternoon at 9.00 pm. He was walking along the main Ipswich-Brisbane railway line at the end of Wharf Street in Ipswich when he was struck by a coal train and decapitated. He was carrying a small suitcase with all his earthly possessions. Ten pounds was found in his pockets which went towards his burial costs.
He was buried as a Roman Catholic in a pauper's grave at the Ipswich General Cemetery on 31 July 1948 under the name J. Ryan. His story has never been disproved. Only an exhumation of the body and DNA testing would prove once and for all who the man buried under the name of James Ryan truly was.
Plaque wording at Ipswich General Cemetery
DNA
- As at 10 September 2019, no DNA testers currently shown on this page have any triangulated segments that can confirm their descent back to this ancestor. If you are a descendant and have had your DNA tested, we encourage you to add your lineage to WikiTree!
- Any descendants who tested at AncestryDNA are encouraged to upload their results to GEDmatch so that they can be compared to other testers.
- Please direct any questions about the DNA analysis or any DNA confirmation data to Veronica Williams 21:37, 10 September 2019 (UTC)
DNA of Ned KELLY
- A ‘mitochondrial’ DNA sample (from the maternal line), taken from Melbourne school teacher Leigh Oliver, the grandson of Ned’s sister Ellen has confirmed the female line of Edward Kelly. The haplogroup is J1c.[2][3][4]
- Male descendants carrying the KELLY surname are encouraged to join the Kelly Y-DNA project at FTDNA. Other descendants who have take autosomal tests are encouraged to upload their results to GEDmatch and add their descent line to Wikitree so that others may compare their results. [5]
Sources
- ↑ The Queenslander (Brisbane, Qld. : 1866 - 1939) p.7; 22nd June 1938 Article Did the Kelly gang perish at Glenrowan
- ↑ Australian Geographic, 2011, accessed 22 Apr 2020.
- ↑ Kelly Clans DNA Update, 2013, accessed 22 Apr 2020.
- ↑ The contributions of anthropology and mitochondrial DNA analysis to the identification of the human skeletal remains of the Australian outlaw Edward 'Ned' Kelly, 2014, accessed 22 Apr 2014.
- ↑ DNA notes added by Veronica Williams, Project Leader, Australia Project, 22 Apr 2020.
- VIC BDM death: KELLY Daniel -Death
Mother, Ellen QUINN -Fthr: , John Unknown Spouse Age 19 yrs Yr 1880 reg 4380/1880
- Mirror (Perth, WA : 1921 - 1956) p9; Saturday 14th October 1933 Article Kelly Gang Story revived
- City of Ipswich Kelly Gang
- Dan Kelly Wikipedia
- Queensland Times mystery of Dan Kelly
- Mystery of Dan Kelly
- A Pictorial History of Bushrangers, 1966 Landsdowne Press, Melbourne. Paul Hamlyn revised edition 1970. H. Nunn, Bill Wannan and Tom Prior.
- Obituries Australia - Kelly, Daniel (Dan) (1861–1880)
- Find a Grave, database and images : accessed 01 September 2021), memorial page for Daniel “Dan” Kelly (1861–28 Jun 1880), Find A Grave: Memorial #89667655, citing Greta Cemetery, Greta, Wangaratta Rural City, Victoria, Australia; Maintained by graver (contributor 47037760).
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Daniel by comparing test results with other carriers of his ancestors' Y-chromosome or mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA test-takers in his direct paternal line. Mitochondrial DNA test-takers in the direct maternal line:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Daniel by comparing test results with other carriers of his ancestors' Y-chromosome or mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA test-takers in his direct paternal line. Mitochondrial DNA test-takers in the direct maternal line:
- Ned Kelly
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Mitochondrial DNA Test HVR1 and HVR2, haplogroup J1c
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