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Australian bushranger (1835–1870)

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

Fred Ward was eventually hunted down and murdered by a policeman with whom he had gone to school.

This Timeline documents all the information discovered for Frederick Ward and Mary Ann Bugg for the year , with associated source-references.

This Timeline documents all the information discovered for Frederick Ward for the year , with associated source-references.

Next to Morgan, perhaps, no individual bushranger earned greater notoriety than did Frederick Ward, otherwise called "Thunderbolt".

Collection of information on Captain Thunderbolt, Frederick Wordsworth Ward, Born Wilberforce (), Michael Handley Thompson Ward, Sophia Ward.

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