Phillip Gidley King returned to Norfolk Island on November 1791 per Atlantic; and finding the 1788 Government House in disrepair and thus built a new Government House, which was completed in December 1792.
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The Kangaroo departed Norfolk Island on 27 February 1814, marking the end of the island’s colonial settlement. Among this last group of people to leave, there were three First Fleeters.
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Not all the assigned crew members and ship’s marines were aboard HMS Sirius for the Mar 1790 voyage to Norfolk
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On 7 August 1790 the Surprize and Justinian arrived at Norfolk Island at Cascade. Provision and stores from both ships were unloaded from 9
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The Closure of Norfolk Island 1814 new publication by Australian History Research.
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Webinar reviewing landholders Convict Settler Andrew Goodwin and Seaman Settler William Hambly on Norfolk Island Seaman Settlers of Colonial Norfolk
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Even though there are no official contemporaneous records of the actual marriages of November 1791 on Norfolk Island there are
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