His body was laid to rest in an unmarked grave with his family, in Victoria at the weekend.
Local community members recalled the relationship he had with the Koori people in Glenrowan, Wangaratta and the surrounding areas.
It was his dying wish to be buried next to his mother, the land of the Pangerang people.
Ned Kelly was known to the locals as the Pangerang bushranger...
Uncle Freddie Dowling was born in 1937, and he remembers, fondly, the stories he was told about the infamous outlaw.
“We had a lot in common with him... they were marginalised and so were we,” he said.
Those marginalised Koori helped Ned Kelly evade capture.
Frustrated, the police had to turn to trackers from Wiradjuri further north, after Kelly had killed three policemen.
There are even stories about a romantic relationship between Ned Kelly and an Aboriginal woman, he nicknamed mitta-wong-boing, or little kangaroo in the local language.
