Children who departed Norfolk Island for Port Jackson per Kitty March 1793
The Kitty embarkation of Mar 1793 was the beginning of an exodus of free and expired convict settlers from Norfolk Island.
Read moreThe Kitty embarkation of Mar 1793 was the beginning of an exodus of free and expired convict settlers from Norfolk Island.
Read morePeter Dargin, who was one of the longest serving men of the military in the early Colony, arriving in 1788 as a Marine Pte, in 1792 transferring over to the NSW Corps and then to the Veteran Company in 1810 where he remained through to its disbandment in Sep 1823.
Read moreHistorian Cathy Dunn has identified the male convicts, convict wives and children who arrived on Norfolk Island per the Brutus in June 1825, for the island’s resettlement.
Read moreHMAT Supply, was a Royal Navy vessel which arrived, as vanguard of the First Fleet, at Botany Bay on 18 Jan 1788.
Read moreOne may ask why after publishing many historical books on Norfolk Island’s Colonial Settlement 1788 – 1814, that we are
Read moreHMS Sirius Babies and Love Children expands on previous research about HMS Sirius, focusing on children born on the ship,
Read moreList of the 43 deaths of First Fleeters on Norfolk Island 1788 – 1814 including convicts, marines, ships crew and free people
Read moreRecently located lurking in the Colonial Office records was a list of deaths for NSW 1795. Historian Cathy Dunn has crossed referenced this list with the burial records of St Phillips Sydney and St Johns Parramatta resulting in 11 new death details for 1795 for which no burial records exists.
Read moreGypsy Girls: Mary and Priscilla Loveridge is the story of some and historical insight from the early colony of NSW,
Read moreThomas Huckles convict arrived in NSW per Salamander in August 1791 with the Third Fleet .
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