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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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Rebecca Boulton

May 4, 2017 by Cheryl Timbury

Mother and child were buried within a week of each other at Sydney Cove in April 1788.  The child Rebecca Bolton/Boulton was born in Lincoln Gaol around April 1786 as her mother Rebecca awaited embarkation on the Prince of Wales.  It was stated at her trial, that as Rebecca Gibson, she had married Thomas Bolton at Panton Lincolnshire in 1778. Rebecca, was aged 23 when tried at Lindsey Quarter Session at Spilsby Lincolnshire on 16 July 1784. She gave a voluntary confession on 8 May Continue Reading »

Filed Under: Child Convicts, Female Convicts, First Fleet, Stories

First Fleeters – What did they do?

May 4, 2017 by Cheryl Timbury

Some First Fleeters’ and the jobs they did: Augustus Alt, Surveyor Thomas Arndell, Assistant Surgeon Henry Lidgbird Ball, Captain of Supply William Balmain, Assistant Surgeon, later principal Surgeon Lieutenant William Bradley, author of journal, water colourist Henry Brewer, clerk to Phillip, Provost Marshall, administrator Ralph Clark, 2nd Lieutenant , author of journal David Collins, Judge Advocate, author Dennis Considen, assistant surgeon Lieutenant William Continue Reading »

Filed Under: First Fleet, Junior Fleeters

Parramatta

May 4, 2017 by Cheryl Timbury

About 24 km west of Sydney NSW. Parramatta is the second oldest settlement in Australia being established in 1788, only nine months after Sydney. Captain Phillip would probably have made it his chief base if he had found it earlier, because its fertile soil was vital to the infant colony. The original name Rose Hill, survives in a local racecourse. Continue Reading »

Filed Under: First Fleet, Junior Fleeters

Missing Cattle

May 4, 2017 by Cheryl Timbury

Listed on the manifest of the First Fleet were two bulls and five cows. These creatures were to form the basis of our cattle industry. Unfortunately only six months after arrival the herd escaped into the bush and were lost. It was to be another eleven years before the original herd was found grazing quietly at a site called Cowpasture. By 1878 the first set-back had well and truly been overcome and cattle numbers throughout the Australasian colonies exceeded seven million. Continue Reading »

Filed Under: First Fleet, Junior Fleeters

Ship Hire

May 4, 2017 by Cheryl Timbury

Nine of the eleven vessels which formed the First Fleet were hired at a cost of 10 shillings per ton per month. The merchant vessels hired by the Government were: Alexander, Lady Penrhyn, Charlotte, Scarborough, Friendship, Prince of Wales, Fishburn, Golden Grove and Borrowdale. The two naval vessels were, of course, Sirius and Supply. Continue Reading »

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Ann Daly : John Seymour

April 10, 2017 by Cheryl Timbury

Port Jackson November 1788, convict girls Ann Daly (Warburton) and Amelia Levy were sharing a hut together.  A fire was kept lit between their hut and Ann Farmer; sometimes in the evenings John Ryan and Bartholomew Reardon took advantage of the warmth from the fire. During the evening of 11 November a man had come into the girl’s hut and taken some clothing.  Ann claimed that she was lying awake in her hut when the door opened and a man came in. She thought the man had come in after Continue Reading »

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

Dorothy Handland / Gray

February 24, 2017 by Cheryl Timbury

Dorothy Handland is claimed to be the oldest female convict to have sailed on the First Fleet and one of the most colourful.  Arthur Bowes Smyth estimated Dorothy be 82 years old, but in Newgate Prison she was recorded as 60; another entry has her as 62, which is most likely correct.  Bowes Smyth’s pen and ink side faced sketch of Mother Gray, depicts a woman with a very pointy nose and chin, wearing a bonnet.  Shoemaker Robert Grey married Dorothy Coolley on 22 September 1766 Continue Reading »

Filed Under: Convicts, Female Convicts, Stories

Nancy Yates

February 6, 2017 by Cheryl Timbury

Like many of his fellow officers, Captain David Collins who became the Colony’s Judge Advocate, took convict women as mistresses during his years in Sydney Cove and Hobart Town, Van Diemen’s Land. One of his mistresses was convict milliner Nancy / Ann Yates / Yeates.  She was tried as a single-woman aged 17, at Yorkshire Summer Assizes held at York on 9 July 1785 with Jonathan Howard for burglary.  Breaking and entering into the dwelling of John Strickland in the township of Milton Continue Reading »

Filed Under: Female Convicts, Officers, Stories

Seamen

December 29, 2016 by Cheryl Timbury

Seamen were are tough bunch of men.  They crewed the First Fleet ships, fathered children to convict women, settled in the new colony, while others died on the inward and outward voyages. Life at sea during the age of sail was filled with dangers, even though these men were familiar with the discomfort and hardship of ship life.  Seamen were separated from their homes and families for long periods at sea.  They were crowded below decks in skimpy and cramped living conditions, Continue Reading »

Filed Under: Convicts, Female Convicts, First Fleet, Seaman, Stories

Thomas Prior : Rebecca Davidson

October 20, 2016 by Cheryl Timbury

In the Anglican Section of the Old Sydney (Devonshire/Sandhills) Burial Ground, was a very small headstone that marked the grave of Thomas Prior.  The stone was embellished with several Masonic emblems and inscribed with the wording: Sacred to the memory of THOMAS PRIOR, who departed this Life, July 24th, 1836, Aged 88 Years, who Arrived in the first fleet 1788.  Freemasonry has been associated with the British discovery and settlement of New South Wales from the beginning. Thomas Prior Continue Reading »

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

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