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Hanged at Old Melbourne jail, he was buried among other executed prisoners within the grounds, and though his remains were thought to have been moved to Pentridge Prison with the rest in 1929, authorities didn't know for sure.
Scientists Nab an Australian Outlaw Enda Curran 2011
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Scientists at the institute set out to determine who the skull belonged to, and to identify Kelly's full remains among the tangle of skeletons exhumed from the Pentridge site.
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But when the facility closed in 1929, officials decided to exhume Kelly's body along with the remains of other executed convicts and move them to the nearby Pentridge prison.
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The skeleton of Ned Kelly, Australia's most famous outlaw, was confirmed by forensic scientists Thursday as being among remains found at Pentridge Prison in the southern city of Melbourne—albeit missing most of the skull.
Scientists Nab an Australian Outlaw Enda Curran 2011
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From his expression — so scowling and vindictive was it — the barrister judged his ultimate destiny to lie between Pentridge and the gallows.
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A tablet in Pentridge church commemorates his death in 1746, but, needless to say, it has only been erected since his great descendant became famous.
Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter Edric Holmes
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February 1800, at Rushay, near Pentridge in Dorset, the son of John Barnes and Grace Scott, of the farmer class.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Various
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At Rushay Farm, near the lonely hamlet of Pentridge, William Barnes, the Dorset poet, was born, and a forefather of Robert Browning was once footman and butler to the Banks family who lived at Woodyates.
Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter Edric Holmes
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His eldest son, Thomas, “was granted a lease for three lives of the little inn, in the little hamlet of East Woodyates and parish of Pentridge, nine miles south-west of Salisbury on the road to Exeter.”
Robert Browning Dowden, Edward 1904
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The poet's paternal great-grandfather, who was owner of the Woodyates Inn, in the parish of Pentridge, in Dorsetshire, claimed to come of good west-country stock.
Life of Robert Browning Sharp, William, 1855-1905 1897
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