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Sydney Cove is a focal point for community celebrations, due to its central Sydney location between the Sydney Opera House and the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Sydney Cove was the site of the First Fleet's landing on 26 January 1788 and the subsequent raising of the Union Jack, a seminal date in Australian history now marked as Australia Day. Sydney ...
Abel was pregnant when she embarked and gave birth to a child, William on 13 April 1787. Mary married Thomas Tilley on 4 May 1787 at Sydney Cove. Her son died on 19 May 1788. On 21 July 1788, Abel died at Sydney Cove. [6] Lady Penrhyn: Robert Abel c. 1772 London 15 Sep 1784 Death commuted to 7 years
The exact number of people directly associated with the First Fleet will likely never be established, as accounts of the event vary slightly. A total of 1,420 people have been identified as embarking on the First Fleet in 1787, and 1,373 are believed to have landed at Sydney Cove in January 1788.
Johnson was appointed chaplain of the prison colony at New South Wales in 1786. [1] This appointment was due, in large part, to the influence of the Eclectic Society and two notable men, John Newton and William Wilberforce, who were keen for a committed evangelical Christian to take the role of chaplain in the colony. [2]
Lightfoot returned to England after his sentence had expired around 1792. He petitioned to return to New South Wales as a settler, with his wife. In February 1794, Samuel received a 30-acre land grant on the north side of the harbour opposite Sydney Cove. Samuel and his wife arrived in the colony in 1803 aboard the Calcutta. He went to Van ...
Edward Corbett – 28 June 1788 – Hanged at Sydney Cove for the theft of four cows. [5] James Daly – December 1788 – Hanged at Sydney Cove for theft of a handkerchief from a fellow convict using force and arms. James Baker – 27 March 1789 – One of six Marines hanged at Sydney Cove for theft of government stores.
Sydney Cove was the Bengal country ship Begum Shaw that new owners purchased in 1796 to carry goods to Sydney Cove, and renamed for her destination. She was wrecked in 1797 on Preservation Island off Tasmania while on her way from Calcutta to Port Jackson. She was among the first ships wrecked on the east coast of Australia.
The Overseas Passenger Terminal (OPT), known officially as the Sydney Cove Passenger Terminal, [1] is a public passenger terminal servicing cruise ships and ocean liners located in Circular Quay, Sydney, Australia. Whilst commercial shipping operations on and around the site date from 1792, the current primary structure and waterfront promenade ...