Garrison Marines HMS Sirius 1788
Misattributed Marine arrivals on HMS Sirius Jan 1788 to NSW and the distinction between Garrison Marines and Ship Marines
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First Fleet Marines
Norfolk Island Marriages Nov 1791
Even though there are no official contemporaneous records of the actual marriages of November 1791 on Norfolk Island there are
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Peter Dargin First Fleet Marine
Peter 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.
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First Fleet Deaths Norfolk Island
List of the 43 deaths of First Fleeters on Norfolk Island 1788 – 1814 including convicts, marines, ships crew and free people
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First Fleet 1788 Norfolk Island
Some 65% of the First Fleet 1788 of convicts, marines, ships crew, ship marines, free people lived on Norfolk Island at some time during the Colonial Settlement 1788 to 1814.
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Ships Marines HMS Sirius 1787 to 1790
List of Ships Marines who served on HMS Sirius 1787 to 1790
Read moreColonial Sentences to Norfolk Island 1789 – 1807
Norfolk Island was also a place of banishment for colonial sentences of secondary transportation and hard labour issued by authorities in NSW, namely the Court of Criminal Jurisdiction (Criminal Court), Judge Advocate’s Bench of Magistrates (Bench), and the Court of Enquires regarding the various Irish rebellions.
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