Bushranger Cluster Cranbourne East

Black Caesar Drive, Clyde, Victoria, Australia

A cluster of streets in Cranbourne East immortalises many of our bushrangers.

Black Caesar Drive
John Black Caesar (c1763-1796) was Australia’s first bushranger. Sentenced to transportation for 7 years at Kent, England in 1786, he arrived at Botany Bay on the First Fleet.

Donohoe Street
John (Jack) Donohoe (c1806-1830) was born in Dublin and sentenced to transportation for life for intent to commit a felony. He arrived in Australia in January 1825.

Starlight Rise
Henry Arthur Readford (1841-1901) was the son of a convict and was born in New South Wales. He died in 1901 in the Northern Territory trying to swim across the flooded Corella Creek.

Surveyed: 17 January 2017 by Lynne

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