Joe Byrne at KellyGang. Importance of Joe Byrne I am called the second in command of the KellyGang and the planner of many of our ventures.
I was a close friend of Aaron Sherritt and a writer of many letters and songs. I lived at Sebastopol on Reedy Creek to the north of Beechworth. The area was an old gold mining community that was being worked over by the chinese miners. Ben Hall. Ben Hall (1837-1865), bushranger, is believed to have been born on 9 May 1837 at Maitland, New South Wales, son of Benjamin Hall and his wife Elizabeth; both parents were ex-convicts.
He became a stockman and with John Macguire leased a run, Sandy Creek, near Wheogo. On 29 February 1856 at Bathurst he married according to Roman Catholic rites Bridget Walsh of Wheogo. Her sister became Frank Gardiner's mistress. On the orders of Sir Frederick Pottinger, Hall was arrested in April 1862 at a race meeting for armed robbery but was acquitted.