a bit of nit-picking, Amos - I assume you are quoting one of the news stories

Ned did not have any descendants - but his sistes did & even one of their descendants didn't object to a journalist calling him a descendant of Ned sometime back -

most of the first page of a Google search on 'Ned Kelly burial' says his body was handed to his descendants - including sites in Ireland, Sudan, NZ, Britain, Australia ...

sandra (picky pedant)