Ned Kelly Trail

Pick up the Ned Kelly Trail at Beveridge where Ned Kelly was born and attended Beveridge Catholic School with his siblings Annie and Maggie. The house where he lived with his parents John and Ellen still remains.

Travel north to Avenel where the Kelly family moved and rented a 40 acre farm for £14 a year from Mrs Mutton. The bridge over Hughes Creek is where Ned Kelly saved Richard Shelton from drowning and was rewarded with a green silk cummerbund. Ned was wearing the cummerbund at the Siege of Glenrowan.

The court house in Avenel is where Ned's father John Kelly was charged with cattle stealing.
He was later acquitted but fined £25 for the illegal possession of a hide. Avenel Cemetery is where John 'Red' Kelly was laid to rest.
Visit nearby Euroa and see the bank that the Kelly Gang held up. The Euroa Inn is where gang member Ben Gould stayed while on his reconnaissance mission prior to the bank robbery.

A bit of history: The eldest son of John Kelly and his wife Ellen (née Quinn), Ned Kelly was born in June 1855. His father, also known as ‘Red’ was born in Tipperary, Ireland, in 1820 and was sentenced in 1841 to seven years' transportation for stealing two pigs. Red Kelly arrived in Van Diemen's Land in 1842. When his sentence expired in 1848 he went to the Port Phillip District and sought work as a labourer at the Quinn residence in Wallan. It is here that he met Ellen, the 18-year-old daughter of James and Mary Quinn and they married on 18 November 1850.

Ned attended school at Avenel until his father died on 27 December 1866. Ned was hanged at Melbourne Gaol on 11 November 1880.