• Home
  • About
    • Membership
    • First Fleet Website
    • site map
  • First Fleet
    • Junior Fleeters
    • Ships
    • Convicts
    • Marines
    • List of Livestock, Provisions, Plants and Seeds
    • Trades of the First Fleet Convicts
    • First Fleet Cattle
    • Talk on Arthur Phillip
    • Norfolk Island
    • The Voyage
  • Stories
  • First Fleet TV
  • Honouring 1914-1918
  • Events
  • Contact

First Fleet Fellowship Victoria Inc

Descendants of those who arrived with the First Fleet in 1788 with Captain Arthur Phillip

First Fleet Fellowship Victoria Inc

Descendants of those who arrived with the First Fleet in 1788
with Captain Arthur Phillip

You are here: Home / Archives for Convicts / Male Convicts

Lucas Family

October 10, 2011 by Cheryl Timbury

Nathaniel Lucas The history of the Lucas family in Australia begins at London’s Old Bailey in July, 1784, with the trial of Nathaniel Lucas, who was sentenced to seven years transportation for the theft of linen clothing to the value of £2.2s.2d. Nathaniel was evidently out of favour with the wife of the publican at the Red Lion Inn at Holborn, near London, where he had lodgings. They had clashed over her demands for early payment of board, and his lack patronage of the inn’s bar. The day Continue Reading »

Filed Under: Convicts, Female Convicts, Male Convicts, Stories

James Ruse

October 9, 2011 by Cheryl Timbury

FIRST CONVICT FARMER Gloria Axcelsis In Sacred To the memrey of James Ruse who departed this life Sept 5th in the year of houre Lord 1837 Natef of Cornwell and arrived in this coleney by the Forst Fleet Aged 77 My mother reread me Tenderly With me she tock much paines And when I arrived in this coelney I owed the forst grain and now With my hevenly Father I hope ever to remain   So reads the headstone of James RUSE who was born on 9 August 1759 Continue Reading »

Filed Under: Convicts, Male Convicts, Stories

  • « Previous Page
  • 1
  • …
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6

Please Support Us

please help usThe First Fleet Fellowship Website provides an educational resource for up to 20 000 Australian students per month. We have one volunteer who researches and writes the articles and one artist providing sketches for us. Our researcher needs your support to be pay for the upkeep and technical support they need to maintain this site. Please help us by making a donation through Give Now.

Categories

  • Convicts (94)
    • Child Convicts (7)
    • Children of Convicts (5)
    • Descendants (32)
    • Female Convicts (54)
    • Male Convicts (52)
  • Events (8)
  • First Fleet (10)
  • First Fleet Fellowship (6)
  • Honouring 1914-1918 (34)
    • Doctors (2)
    • European Conflict (22)
    • Gallipoli (8)
    • KIA (18)
    • Light Horse (4)
    • Middle East Conflict (4)
    • Military Awards (10)
    • New Zealander (3)
    • Nurses (7)
    • Returned Home (28)
  • Junior Fleeters (12)
  • Marines (45)
    • Child (1)
    • Children of Marines (3)
    • Non Commissioned Officers (6)
    • Officers (25)
    • Privates (11)
  • Miscellaneous (1)
  • Seaman (8)
  • Senior Officials (8)
  • Ships (15)
    • Borrowdale (1)
  • Stories (56)
  • Uncategory (8)
  • Wives (4)
  • Wives of Marines (3)

Recent Posts

  • The Shoemaker (Cordwainer)
  • EXTRACTS FROM THE DIARY OF WATKIN TENCH, A CAPTAIN OF THE MARINES
  • Colonial Vessel ‘Francis’
  • Sullivan Bay to Port Dalrymple
  • FIRST FLEET CONVICT CLAIMS DISCOVERY OF A GOLDMINE

Finding your way around this site

Please use our search function to find specific information, if not click on one of the categories below to find the articles you want.

Categories

Copyright © 2023 First Fleet Fellowship Victoria, SOME RIGHTS RESERVED · Website built and maintained by 13th Beach Marketing

Copyright © 2023 · Zen on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in