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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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Second Fleet

August 6, 2019 by Cheryl Timbury

ARRIVES AT SYDNEY COVE HORRIFYING CONDITIONS says Chaplain JohnsonLong awaited ships from England have arrived bringing with them a load of problems far outweighing their aid to the Colony.  Lady Juliana, arrived June 3, 1790, was found to carry not food but female convicts, mainly elderly and infirm.  Justinian, arrived June 20, brought food and news that the principal store ship, Guardian, had foundered off the Cape of Good Hope. The ships carried the first detachment of the New Continue Reading »

Filed Under: Convicts, Female Convicts, Male Convicts, Ships

The Journal of Philip Gidley King: Lieutenant, R.N. 1787-1790

June 5, 2019 by Cheryl Timbury

By Anne Gibson. Philip Gidley King kept a number of journals during his service in the Southern Seas.  His Official journal, kept on Sirius became the basis of the Norfolk Island Report in some early books concerning Australia.  It was purchased in 1897 for the Sydney Public Library and is now in the Mitchell Library there. Another journal written by King and referred to as the private journal was purchased by the Mitchell Library from the P.G. King estate in 1933.  It is Continue Reading »

Filed Under: Convicts, Officers

John Small and Mary Parker

May 26, 2019 by Cheryl Timbury

The Reverend Richard Johnson, Chaplain to the colony married convicts John Small and Mary Parker on 12 October 1788.  The witnesses were convict Thomas Akers and servant to the Reverend Johnson, Samuel Barnes.  As chaplain’s clerk, his name appears numerous times as witness to Port Jackson weddings.  Mary Parker’s sentence did not expire until April 1792. John Small was not alone when he committed the crime that original carried the sentence Guilty. To be hanged.  A Royal Continue Reading »

Filed Under: Convicts, Female Convicts, Male Convicts, Uncategory

Early Australian Freemasonry

February 3, 2019 by Cheryl Timbury

Kurrie KuKurrie Kurrie NSW old Masonic Hall

Freemasonry has been associated with the British discovery and settlement of Australia from the very beginning. Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820), the naturalist who sailed into Botany Bay with James Cook in 1770 became a Freemason prior to 1768 and was a member of the Old Horn Lodge No. 4 in England. Thomas Lucas (1759-1815) a Private in the 23rd Company Marine Corps and a member of Lodge of temperance No 225 in England, arrived with the First Fleet. Captain Matthew Flinders (1774-1814) Continue Reading »

Filed Under: Marines, Officers, Stories, Uncategory

Elizabeth Cole

January 30, 2019 by Cheryl Timbury

Australia Day Cake

It is an amazing coincidence that there were two young women who came to Australia on the First Fleet and were named Elizabeth Cole. This was at first most confusing, but eventually we found proof of which one was ours and her whole story fitted together.   We have been told that our Elizabeth Cole was baptised on 25 May 1762 in the Parish Church of the small Devon village of Lamerton, not far from the western edge of Dartmoor and her parents were Thomas and Elizabeth Continue Reading »

Filed Under: Convicts, Female Convicts, Male Convicts, Uncategory

Robert Watson

January 30, 2019 by Cheryl Timbury

Norfolk Island Sirius Museum

ROBERT WATSON from Northumberland, was aged 20, from when he joined HMS Sirius on 20 December 1786 as an able seaman.  The next we hear of Robert was in March 1790 when he and his fellow seamen were stranded on Norfolk Island after HMS Sirius was wrecked. He remained on the Island, returning to Sydney aboard HMS Supply in February 1791, then returning a month later in the March to become settler.  He received a 60 acre grant at Cascade Run and was selling provisions to the Continue Reading »

Filed Under: Seaman

First Fleet Scribes

November 7, 2018 by Cheryl Timbury

How fortunate we are to have journals, diaries, letters, reports and logbooks written by officers who arrived with Captain Arthur Phillip in 1788.  Without these scribes our knowledge of the voyage, the settlement, and its people would have passed into history unknown. David Blackburn (1753–1795) HMS Supply, Master A party of gentlemen with their servants and 4 soldiers were walking to Botany Bay … met with a body of 300 natives all armed with spears and targets. They did not seem too Continue Reading »

Filed Under: Marines, Non Commissioned Officers, Officers, Seaman, Uncategory

Maria Nash (Haynes)

September 11, 2018 by Cheryl Timbury

Her story, told by descendant Rosemary SMITH Rosemary joined the First Fleet Fellowship in September 1987 and holds certificate number 181.  When asked how and when she found out that she was a descendant of First Fleeters, she seemed a little surprised by the question and said “I guess it’s something we’ve always known.” Here is the story of her ancestor.  "This is the story of my four times grandmother, as we, her descendants know it.  A lot of Australian histories Continue Reading »

Filed Under: Marines, Stories, Uncategory, Wives of Marines

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

Henry Waterhouse

March 11, 2018 by Cheryl Timbury

Midshipman Henry Waterhouse arrived with the First Fleet aboard HMS Sirius. He was the eldest son of William and Susanna (Brewer) Waterhouse, born 13 December 1770 and christened 28 December 1770 at St James Middlesex.  William had be page to the Duke of Cumberland who was Henry’s god-father.  He entered the navy at an early age (16) and on 20 November 1786 joined HMS Sirius as midshipman (having been recommended to Captain Phillip), raising to the rank of acting third lieutenant on 28 Continue Reading »

Filed Under: Female Convicts, Officers, Senior Officials, Stories

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