Today's Trove Tuesday article concerns my Great Great Grandfather Joseph Robert Jones, his death and bushranger tales from his younger days that he liked to tell. Unfortunately it seems he was guilty of embellishment as he was born in 1857 and Ben Hall died in 1865 making it highly unlikely that Ben Hall's gang had robbed him as described in the article. That is not to say that he wasn't held up, it just probably wasn't anyone associated with Ben Hall's gang. He does sound like a very good story teller though and obviously enthralled his audience with his bushranger tales! Source: KNEW THE BUSHRANGERS. (1939, December 22). The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser (NSW : 1886 - 1942), p. 4. Retrieved August 18, 2014, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article125949802 Transcript: KNEW THE BUSHRANGERS AND HOW TO BEAT THEM. Mr. Joseph Robert Jones, 82, who died at Young last week, could tell many an interesting tale of the bush-rangers wh...
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