Thanks to an invitation from WTFN Media Productions (Olwyn Jones) the First Fleet Fellowship was given an opportunity to participate in a Television production which involved Tony Robinson and his team visiting four states of Australia. Englishman Tony Robinson is a renowned producer of British documentaries – ‘The Time Team’, ‘Catastrophe’ and some years ago ‘Blackadder’. Our part of this production was to make available four descendants of the First Fleet. Helen Lucas, Cheryl Continue Reading »
Mary Cavanaugh
A SIX YEAR SCENARIO For the last six years I have been researching and scrutinizing everything I can acquire on Mary Cavenaugh a young convict who arrived in Port Jackson on the Lady Juliana in 1790 ahead of the second fleet. Mary Cavanaugh or Cavenor married Edward Kimberley (A First Fleet Convict) on the 20 October 1791 at Port Jackson, (Sydney) Australia. On the wedding certificate both Mary and Edward sign their names with an X? My grandmother was Emily Eveline Bramich. Her Continue Reading »