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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
with Captain Arthur Phillip

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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

Edward Miles

April 22, 2015 by Cheryl Timbury

Miles in uniform, Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW

Sentenced as Edward Moyle, to seven years transportation at Launceston Cornwall on 19 March 1785 for theft of two cloth coats, value 50s and other goods value 17s 8d, from the dwelling house of Benjamin Barrett.   Moyle and his partner John Rowe, were found guilty of stealing the goods, but not guilty of breaking and entering the house in the day. Moyle was on the Dunkirk hulk early in 1786 before embarking aboard Charlotte, but later transferred on 6 April 1787 to Scarborough, a month before Continue Reading »

Filed Under: Convicts, Descendants, Honouring 1914-1918, Male Convicts, Nurses, 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

Thomas Lucas : Thomas O’Brien : Stephen Martin

January 20, 2015 by Cheryl Timbury

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 »

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

Daniel Stanfield : Alice Harmsworth

December 30, 2014 by Cheryl Timbury

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 »

Filed Under: Descendants, Honouring 1914-1918, Marines, Military Awards, Privates, Returned Home, Wives

Edward Garth : Susannah Gough

December 30, 2014 by Cheryl Timbury

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 »

Filed Under: Convicts, Descendants, Female Convicts, Honouring 1914-1918, Male Convicts, Returned Home

John Martin : John Randall

December 30, 2014 by Cheryl Timbury

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 »

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

William Faddy

December 30, 2014 by Cheryl Timbury

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 »

Filed Under: Descendants, European Conflict, Honouring 1914-1918, Marines, Military Awards, Nurses, Officers

Matthew Everingham

December 24, 2014 by Cheryl Timbury

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 »

Filed Under: Convicts, Descendants, Honouring 1914-1918, Male Convicts, Returned Home

Edward Kimberley

December 24, 2014 by Cheryl Timbury

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 »

Filed Under: Convicts, Descendants, Honouring 1914-1918, Light Horse, Male Convicts, Middle East Conflict, Returned Home

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