Frederick_Ward2

Frederick Ward 2 Bush Rangers Frederick Wordsworth Ward (Alias “Captain Thunderbolt”)
 * Fredric Ward was born at Wilberforce in the Windsor District in NSW Australia in about 1836 as his exact birth date was unknown.
 * He was the son of a convict called Michael Ward and his wife (Fredericks mother) Sophia.
 * Frederick was one of ten children: William, Sophia Jane, Sarah Ann, Amelia, Edward B, Joshua, George E, Esther P, Selina Maria and Himself
 * When he was about twenty years old, he was working as a groom and a horse-breaker on Tocal Station, NSW when he suddenly resigned.
 * He fell in love with a woman called Mary Ann, she was described as a beautiful woman and she was five feet two and a half inches tall, black hair and brown eyes.
 * He was sent too many years of solitary confinement but escaped on the 11th September 1863, there was a 50 pound reward for who ever found him.
 * Mary Ann gave birth to their first child, Marina Emily Ward, on October 26th 1861.
 * Mary Ann had something to do with the escape.
 * On the 21st December 1863, Fred held up the tollbar house at Campbell's Hill between Rutherford and Maitland and from that point on the name Frederick Ward ceased to exist, but a daring bushranger emerged in the New England District, calling himself ‘Captain Thunderbolt’.
 * Captain Thunderbolt was not on his own he had by his side a bloke named McIntosh also known as “The Bully”~ he was 17,and a young 13-14 year old bloke named John Thompson.
 * At the end of March a party of police found their camp, several shots where fired, one of which was believed to have wounded Captain Thunderbolt, but they still managed to escape. However the police found the stolen horses.
 * His children and wife Mary Ann where taken from and where sent to Willbie Willbie station.
 * Mary Ann and her children escaped and when they where found she was arrested and was put in prison.
 * Captain Thunderbolt then joined his wife in time for his other Childs birth.
 * He got shot dead by the poliece.