Marine and Seaman Settlers who departed Norfolk Island per Kitty 1793
The Marine settlers on Norfolk Island had not only grown uncomfortable with the prospects of their recent career change from soldier to farmer, but they also felt they had been short-changed with the realigning of their land boundaries as too did some of the convict settlers. After a struggle with the realities some gradually chose to revert to the career they were more familiar with by enlisting the colony-based NSW Corps. This would satisfy the need for gainful employment and the desire to remain in the colony with their newly established family. The Kitty embarkation of Mar 1793 was the beginning of an exodus of free settlers and expired convict settlers from Norfolk Island.
First Fleet Marine and Seaman Settlers who departed Norfolk Island per Kitty 1793
James Angell
Thomas Bishop with wife Mary Davis/Bishop; Mary/Charlotte Davis/Bishop
Thomas Bramwell
Stephen Gilbert with wife Ann Carey/Gilbert; child Mary Carey/Gilbert
John Jones
William Mitchell with son William Fitzgerald/Mitchell
John Redman
James Redman/Redmond
Lawrence Richards with wife Mary Richards; Children Samuel and William Richards
John Roberts
William Strong
William Tunks with wife Sarah Lyons/Tunks; child Rebecca Lyons/Tunks
Robert Watson (Seaman Settler)
People, Soldiers and Victualling Book of the Kitty Transport era from Norfolk Island 1793
A4, 68 pages includes index and detailed bibliography, by historians Cathy Dunn and Glen Lambert cost $35.00 includes Australian postage. Includes newly found records including the discharge dates for Marine Settlers as reported to Plymouth Headquarters in the 1791 Marine records. These records were discovered at the National Archives in England and have been extracted – published for the first time in the Kitty publication. There is also much new material and clarification of NSW Corps personnel from a range of Military service and pension records. There are also new findings regarding previously unknown exact locations of lands allocated to those settlers on Norfolk Island who handed them in prior to the departure of Kitty in March 1793, including Marine settlers Thomas Bishop, William Tunks and William Mitchell.
