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The First Fleet convicts are named on stone tablets in the Memorial Garden, Wallabadah, New South Wales. The First Fleet is the name given to the group of eleven ships carrying convicts, the first to do so, that left England in May 1787 and arrived in Australia in January 1788. The ships departed with an estimated 775 convicts (582 men and 193 ...
The List of convicts on the First Fleet contains basic information about most of the 775 convicts who were on the First Fleet when it sailed. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] For about 93 of these individuals useful information is available, often of such volume that it is not suitable for inclusion in the “Other information” column of the list article.
Esther Abrahams (born c. 1767 or 1771 – died 26 August 1846) was a Londoner sent to Australia as a convict on the First Fleet. She was de facto wife of George Johnston, who was for six months acting Governor of New South Wales after leading the Rum Rebellion. They later married legally, in 1814.
There were an insufficient number of skilled farmers and domesticated livestock to achieve this. The colony had to await the arrival of the Second Fleet. The "Memorandoms" by James Martin provide a contemporary account of the events as seen by a convict from the first fleet. [17] The second fleet was a disaster and provided little in the way of ...
Thomas Barrett (c. 1758 – 27 February 1788) was a convict transported on the First Fleet to the colony of New South Wales. He created Australia's first colonial art work, the Charlotte Medal, which depicts the arrival of Charlotte at Botany Bay. He was also the first person to be executed in the new colony.
Nicknamed “Old Ironsides,” the USS Constitution was the backbone of a new country’s navy in 1797. Filled with 30 24-pound cannons, the USS Constitution was ahead of its time.
Toby Loughnane, 45, of Melbourne, Australia, was found guilty of the 2021 murder of his girlfriend, 37-year-old Maryam Hamka, according to the Guardian. ... as well as drug-related convictions.
On 19 February 1777 Sarah Tongue was convicted of stealing various items from Robert Grey, and received £1 1s from Tongue. At that time Grey and his wife had an old clothes shop in Saffron Hill. [2] On the 3 November 1781, Dorothy Grey, an illiterate widow, married John Handland, a widower, in Southwark St George the Martyr. [2]