(1757-1841) born in Prestbury, Gloucester, was sentenced to death at Gloucester Lenten Assizes on 24 March 1784 on two counts of theft for stealing ten live pigs and a chestnut mare. The sentence was reduced to seven years transportation to America. Initially the 17 year old was taken to the hulk Censor where he stayed for 3 years and at the end of February 1787 transferred to the Alexander to leave for New South Wales with the First Fleet. After almost a year at Sydney Cove, Continue Reading »
William Broughton
made the voyage to Sydney Cove on Charlotte as servant to Surgeon John White. Following his arrival he was appointed store-keeper at Parramatta, and received a 30 acre grant at Concord. In 1795 William and three NSW Corps privates were jointly granted 100 acres at North Bush in the Field of Mars district and it is assumed he took full control of the property naming in Chatham Farm. By 1800 he had sown wheat and was grazing live stock. He also purchased a house in Summer Row Sydney and in Continue Reading »
Thomas Lucas : Thomas O’Brien : Stephen Martin
Thomas Lucas was a private marine 23rd (Portsmouth) Company arriving at Port Jackson aboard Scarborough and there served in the company of Captain John Shea. Thomas also worked in the colony as a glazier, being his former profession. On 29 December 1791 a son by Ann Howard (Lady Juliana) was born and in December 1792 he enlisted in the NSW Corps and left for Norfolk Island. In April 1797 he was discharged from the corps and received a grant of 60 acres. On the Island he worked as a glazier Continue Reading »
Daniel Stanfield : Alice Harmsworth
Marine and settler, Daniel Stanfield is reputed to have come from an English naval family. He arrived with the First Fleet at Port Jackson as a private in the marines. Promoted to corporal, he married Alice, widow of Thomas Harmsworth, on the 15 October 1791 at St Phillip’s Church, Sydney. In less than a month he was on duty at Norfolk Island. In 1794 he was discharged from the marines and sworn in as constable and started to farm. Stanfield talked of enlisting in the NSW corps and in Continue Reading »
Edward Garth : Susannah Gough
Edward Garth was indicted for feloniously stealing on the 29 October 1784, two live cows, being the property of Thomas Rhodes the younger. He was reprieved on 3 March 1785 to transportation to Africa for seven years. Following time spent in the prison hulk he was sent to Portsmouth for embarkation on Scarborough. Immediately on arrival at Port Jackson, Edward was selected to go with the first group to settle Norfolk Island, which included six female and eight male convicts. One of the female Continue Reading »
John Martin : John Randall
John Randall a black American, was sentenced on 14 April 1785 at Manchester Quarter Sessions to transportation for seven years for stealing a steel watch chain. Aged 21 in 1786, he was sent to the Ceres hulk then on the 6 January 1787 to Alexander. John had two wives, Esther Howard who died in 1789 and Mary Butler (Neptune 1790). He had three children by Mary Butler, Lydia 1791-93, Mary 1793 and John 1797. John had received a grant of 60 acres at the Northern Boundary Farms. He later sold Continue Reading »
William Faddy
had a fair amount of sea service before being commissioned with the First Fleet as 2nd lieutenant of marines. He had married Martha Escott Johnson on 18 November 1784 and their children were born before he sailed aboard the Friendship. In 1790 William was sent to Norfolk Island and remained there until December 1791 when he returned to Port Jackson and then to England aboard Gorgon. On 18 April 1793 he was commission 1st lieutenant 76th Company and served on Royal Sovereign. He was promoted Continue Reading »
Matthew Everingham
was sentenced at the Old Bailey on 7 July 1784 to transportation for seven years on the charge that being a profligate person he had obtained some books by false pretences and attempted to sell them. At his trial he had been in “great distress”. He was aged 15, when received on the Censor hulk on 6 September. Three years later on 24 February 1787 he was sent to Portsmouth by wagon for embarkation on Scarborough. In Sydney Cove on 13 March 1791, Matthew married Elizabeth Rimes (Neptune) Continue Reading »
Edward Kimberley
was sentenced to seven years transportation for grand larceny (theft of several parcels of muslins from a milliner’s shop) at Coventry, Warwickshire on 23 March 1783. He spent time on the Ceres or Censor and Justinia Hulks before embarking on the transport Scarborough. At Sydney on 20 October 1791 Edward married Mary Cavenor/Cavenagh off the Lady Juliana. Both were sent to Norfolk Island, where Edward settled on 12 acres of land at Queenborough. Within a year he was Continue Reading »
26 January 1788
26 January 1788 A flagstaff was erected at Sydney Cove. Captain Arthur Phillip and his officers drank to the health of His Majesty and success of the new colony. Perhaps you can add some colour to the scene of these pioneering men. Download the Australia Day PDF1 to colour in here: Australia Day 1 Download the Australia Day PDF2 to colour in here: Australia Day 2 Continue Reading »
