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

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Descendants of those who arrived with the First Fleet in 1788
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Andrew Goodwin : Lydia Munro

April 20, 2018 by Cheryl Timbury

ANZAC Day marks the anniversary of the first campaign that led to major casualties for Australian and New Zealand forces during the First World War, 100 years ago.  The acronym ANZAC stands for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps, whose soldiers were known as ANZACS.  Australia is commemorating this most important centenary period 2014 to 2018. The ANZAC centenary is a time for all present First Fleet descendants from Andrew Goodwin and Lydia Munro to honour their past descendants Continue Reading »

Filed Under: Convicts, Descendants, Doctors, European Conflict, Gallipoli, Honouring 1914-1918, KIA, Light Horse, Middle East Conflict, Military Awards, New Zealander, Nurses, Returned Home

Thomas Eddington

May 21, 2015 by Cheryl Timbury

was sentenced to transportation for 7 years on 5 or 6 July 1785 at the Berkshire, Summer Assizes.  Tried as Thomas Heddington (sic) late of the parish of Bray in the county of Berkshire Labourer on the 23rd day of March, with force and arms in the parish aforesaid, 2 silver Tablespoons of the value of 12s.  One Wooden Dish of the value of one penny four copper farthings of the value of one penny 20 copper halfpence of the value of 10d and six pounds in monies numbered of the goods and monies of Continue Reading »

Filed Under: Convicts, Descendants, European Conflict, Gallipoli, Honouring 1914-1918, KIA, Middle East Conflict, Returned Home

Nathaniel Lucas : Olivia Gascoigne

May 4, 2015 by Cheryl Timbury

Amongst the many descendants of convicts Nathaniel Lucas (Scarborough) and Olivia Gascoigne (Lady Penrhyn), were men who were born into this large extended family. Brothers and cousins became of age when WW1 was declared. They joined the various contingents to leave Australia for overseas. These men saw action in France and Turkey, were wounded and hospitalised. Those that did not return home, are buried in Commonwealth War Graves or honoured on Memorial Walls. You can follow their lives by Continue Reading »

Filed Under: Convicts, Descendants, European Conflict, Female Convicts, Gallipoli, Honouring 1914-1918, KIA, Light Horse, Male Convicts, Middle East Conflict, Military Awards, Returned Home

Thomas Kidner

May 2, 2015 by Cheryl Timbury

THOMAS KIDNER was committed to Newgate prison for feloniously stealing four pieces of Irish Linen valued at £6, the property of Mr Wm Overend, in the parish of St John, Bristol.  Sentenced to seven years transportation on 30 October 1782, he spent time on the Censor hulk before being transferred to the Alexander on 6 January 1787. Thomas was sent to Norfolk Island by Supply and at 11 July 1791 he was subsisting himself on a Sydney Town lot and was sharing a sow, which produced a litter of Continue Reading »

Filed Under: Convicts, Descendants, European Conflict, Gallipoli, Honouring 1914-1918, KIA, Male Convicts, Military Awards, Returned Home

William Broughton

February 9, 2015 by Cheryl Timbury

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 »

Filed Under: Convicts, Descendants, European Conflict, Gallipoli, Honouring 1914-1918, KIA, Light Horse, Military Awards, Nurses, Returned Home

William Hambley : Mary Springham

November 3, 2014 by Cheryl Timbury

Mary Springham was tried at the Old Bailey for feloniously stealing, on the 5 March 1786, two guineas, value 21. 2s. and nine shillings in monies numbered, and an iron japanned snuff box, value 1d being the property of William and Mary Reynolds.  Found guilty, Mary received a sentence of 7 years transportation, and was delivered to Lady Penrhyn on 6 January 1787.  In Sydney Cove on 15 January 1790 a child William, by convict Mary Springham and William Hambly was baptised. William Hambly was Continue Reading »

Filed Under: Convicts, Descendants, European Conflict, Female Convicts, Gallipoli, Honouring 1914-1918, KIA, New Zealander, Returned Home, Seaman

Jacob Bellett

September 13, 2014 by Cheryl Timbury

a Silk Weaver, made off with 51 ells of half-ell lining, one pound of unwound black silk, and 32 ounces of double black silk would, and was chased by the worker who missed them.  Found later by searchers, he was sentenced at the Old Bailey on 12 January 1785 to seven year’s transportation.  Following time spent in the prison hulks he embarked on 24 January 1787 on Scarborough.  In March 1790, Jacob was sent to Norfolk Island, where he successfully farmed and was selling grain to the public Continue Reading »

Filed Under: Convicts, Descendants, European Conflict, Gallipoli, Honouring 1914-1918, KIA, Male Convicts, Returned Home

Elizabeth Hayward

September 4, 2014 by Cheryl Timbury

Richard Hume in uniform

was the youngest female convict, at 13, on the First Fleet.  She received seven years transportation at the Old Bailey in January 1787, for being accused of stealing clothes from the clog maker she was working for.  Elizabeth was on board the Lady Penrhyn for about three and a half months before the Fleet set sail. Read more on Elizabeth’s life story under Stories Honouring her WW1 Descendants 5133 Ronald Davie Private 12th Infantry Battalion, 18th Reinforcements, 13th Rifts Continue Reading »

Filed Under: Child Convicts, Descendants, Doctors, European Conflict, Female Convicts, Gallipoli, Honouring 1914-1918, KIA, Military Awards, Nurses, Returned Home

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