Talk:Captain Moonlite

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THE CORRECT SPELLING IS 'MOONLITE'!!!! Johneen Treanor Jones - Gundagai —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 203.54.9.178 (talk • contribs). The gravestone supports this view.--Golden Wattle talk 21:56, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

Moonlite and nesbitt were lovers, not just friends.... and he asked to be buried WITH nesbitt, not next to him. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 203.202.86.18 (talk • contribs).

Wasn't Captain Moonlight [sic] also the name used as a (possibly fictitious) leader of Irish uprisings against English landowners? A bit like the Captain Swing of the Swing Riots. I came to the page hoping to learn something about that particular Captain Moonlight, but was disappointed. Bluewave (talk) 19:55, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

Captain Moonlight was a name used by the 'whiteboys' of Irish leveller fame. Gundagai, where Moonlite the bushranger is now buried as a tourist attraction, was an area of whiteboy style activity in the 1820s - 40s and possibly later. Its also probable that actual Irish Whiteboys who had been transported to Australia were active in the Gundagai area. They used to whistle the tunes of the convicts to make people think they were them or coat their skins in charcoal to make out they were Aboriginal people. They would then go on ramapges nabbing squatter stock here and there or levelling assets elsewhere, and worse. The events were blamed on escaped convicts or Aboriginal people. They took particular offense at the vine dressers in the area. Johneen Treanor Jones - Gundagai —Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.138.156.102 (talk) 11:13, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

Gundagai, where Moonlite is buried, also has association with the Australian explorer, Capt Charles Sturt. Sturt had his own brushes with irish 'whiteboys', viz:

" ... In 1813 Sturt joined the army as ensign, and saw active service on the Continent and 'in Canada. For some time he served in .' Ireland. Here he passed through some stirring experiences in connection with the Whiteboy organisation, which sprang into being as the result of numerous evictions, and spread rapidly through many counties,for a time establishing a reign of terror. Sturt was called one night to defend a farmhouse attacked by the Whiteboys, and his experience on this occasion was such as to destroy all sympathy with Irish agitators. He found among the ruins of a farmhouse the dead bodies of a beautiful girl and of other members of the family. ..." Johneen Treanor Jones - Gundagai The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1889-1931, p.5 Wednesday 28 December 1904.  Available [online] http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/5034389?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.138.156.102 (talk) 11:27, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

Talking of Moonlites, Whiteboys and Gundagai - the town celebrates its Irishness through a festival each year plus its bridge naming is enough to raise any eyebrow. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.138.240.107 (talk) 05:19, 25 February 2011 (UTC)

I understand this article is a start but it has many limitations and errors. There are many publications on bushrangers but many are not widely publicized leading to rehash after rehash. The references quoted are extremely limited. Certainly the death cell letters were not discovered by Garry Wotherspoon, copies were first obtained by the well known poet and writer John Meredith in the 70s and copies were passed on to Stephan Williams in 1987. Stephan Williams under his private press Popinjay Publications published the definitive story of Captain Moonlite as 'The Moonlite Papers' in 4 volumes in 1988-91: Vol 1: The Wantabadgery Statement February 1988 50 copies Vol 2: The Egerton Statement March 1988 50 copies Vol 3: The Death Cell Letters of A.G. Scott November 1989 100 copies Vol 4: The Wantabadgery Bushrangers November 1991 45 copies

Unfortunately these publications are rare but include an enormous amount of information. Besides my own collection the National Library of Australia have some copies. Stephan produced an update in 2000 titled: "The Wantabadgery bushrangers with the Death Cell Letters of A,G. Scott" which is a partly combined version of the above volumes with some updated information including the background behind the transfer of Moonlite's body to Gundagai. No article on Moonlite can be written without reference to this extremely important work. Similarly Popinjay has published may other definitive bushranger biographies. Drkjm (talk) 08:16, 22 June 2013 (UTC)

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"At some time during this period Scott seems to have decided"
Saying "seems" makes this seem like speculative, unreferenced OR. Dgndenver (talk) 05:23, 12 September 2023 (UTC)