The 1792–1796 Norfolk Island Victualling Book is not a comprehensive population record but a list of victualing provisions, leading to various errors and omissions, such as mis-recorded names, shipping and births, which complicate family history research
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Paradise on Norfolk Island: Goodwin Family 1790 – 1807 provides a detailed timeline of the diverse historical records relating to
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HMAT Supply, was a Royal Navy vessel which arrived, as vanguard of the First Fleet, at Botany Bay on 18 Jan 1788.
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Janet (Jane) Scattergood died on 13 Dec 1838 at Back River, New Norfolk, VDL arrived in NSW as Janet Gordon a convict per Royal Admiral 1792
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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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James Tucker was Norfolk Island’s hangman from 1796 until his death in 1807. But how did he become the hangman?
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