Biography Of Ned Kelly

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Exercise – Editing Edit the following passage. There are about 16 errors. Reduce the word count from 359 words to 320 words. Ned Kelly was born in June 1855 at Beveridge, Victoria. His father, John, arrived in Australia as a convict. After serving his time in jail, he moved to the Port Phillip region where on November 18, 1850, he married Ellen Quinn who was the eighteen-year-old daughter of James & Mary Quinn. John died in December 1866, leaving the family destitute. His widow and children moved to a hut at Eleven Mile Creek, about halfway between Greta and Glenrowan in northern Victoria, to be near Ellen’s parents. The Kelly family saw themselves as victims of police persecution. On April 15, 1878, a police trooper went to the Kelly’s

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