More Tales of First Fleeters Updated by the Fellowship's energetic Membership Team. There are also some new stories: Sarah Bellamy - Convict on the Lady Penrhyn- sentenced to 7 years - wife of James Bloodworth - a new story Joseph Bellamy - son of Convict Sarah Bellamy and was born on the Voyage on the Lady Penrhyn - a new story…...
More Tales of First Fleeters Updated by the Fellowship’s energetic Membership Team. There are also some new stories: Sarah Bellamy – Convict on the Lady Penrhyn- sentenced to 7 years & #…
17/11/2025
As we know, the HMS Sirius had been shipwrecked off Norfolk Island on March 19 1790 - see painting of HMS Sirius by Frank Allen. That followed another tragedy. The HMS Guardian, a store ship of the Second Fleet, laden with urgently stores and supplies for the NSW Colony, hit submerged ice out of Cape Town in December 1789. Much of her supplies were jettisoned to keep the ship afloat....
As we know, the HMS Sirius had been shipwrecked off Norfolk Island on March 19 1790 – see painting of HMS Sirius by Frank Allen. That followed another tragedy. The HMS Guardian, a store ship …
14/11/2025
More Tales of First Fleeters Updated by the Fellowship's energetic Membership Team. There are also some new stories: Henry Abraham - Convict on the Alexander - sentenced to 7 Years - a new story Augustus Alt - Surveyor to the Colony, Army Officer - Prince of Wales - updated story Matthew Bowles Alt - Midshipman RN - HMS Sirius - a new story…...
More Tales of First Fleeters Updated by the Fellowship’s energetic Membership Team. There are also some new stories: Henry Abraham – Convict on the Alexander – sentenced to 7 Yea…
12/11/2025
From 1807 to 1814, Norfolk Islanders left for Van Diemans Land, and what they were to find was not favourable. Tasmanian historian Irene Shaeffer has written of their departures, and of how Governor Philip Gidley King did not hasten to implement the departures. He had been advised of the June 1803 decision to close Norfolk Island. The departures would also be spread under the regimes of Governor Bligh and Governor Macquarie....
From 1807 to 1814, Norfolk Islanders left for Van Diemans Land, and what they were to find was not favourable. Tasmanian historian Irene Shaeffer has written of their departures, and of how Governo…
09/11/2025
Did you Know? Over the last year, our Fellowship's Membership Team has been hard at work, reviewing biographic tales of over 200 First Fleeters. Some might describe many of those First Fleeters as unwilling voyagers to our ancient Australian continent. It was an astonishing, and never before attempted, social experiment. Sending a fleet halfway around the world, following the tragedies and fiascos of the earlier failed African venture....
Did you Know? Over the last year, our Fellowship’s Membership Team has been hard at work, reviewing biographic tales of over 200 First Fleeters. Some might describe many of those First Fleete…
03/11/2025
Being Developed Michael Griffin - Britannia - NSW Corps Soldier Mary Ann Griffin nee Amos - wife of Michael Griffin Ann Griffin - daughter of Michael Griffin & wife of Thomas Bates - Second Fleeter Convict, Neptune Nathaniel Griffin - son of Michael Griffin Thomas Griffin - son of Michael Grifffin
Being Developed Michael Griffin – Britannia – NSW Corps Soldier Mary Ann Griffin nee Amos – wife of Michael Griffin Ann Griffin – daughter of Michael Griffin & wife of …
03/11/2025
A Horse themed post for the 2025 Melbourne Cup Week. I have people associated with the Melbourne Cup and horse racing across my family tree, including the late James William Belmore “Jim& #8…
03/11/2025
A Horse themed post for the 2025 Melbourne Cup Week. I have people associated with the Melbourne Cup and horse racing across my family tree, including the late James William Belmore "Jim" Barden, a jockey and horse trainer in the Melbourne Cup. Jim Barden, then a jockey, was famed for introducing the Crouch style racing position. Later, he became a Horse Trainer, was once dubbed "...
A Horse themed post for the 2025 Melbourne Cup Week. I have people associated with the Melbourne Cup and horse racing across my family tree, including the late James William Belmore “Jim& #8…
31/10/2025
Recently, Robyn Leo, of the Fellowship's Arthur Phillip Chapter, shared a book review of Jacki French's Nanberry Black Brother White with the Fellowship's President. Robyn Leo has kindly agreed that her book review be published as part of the Fellowship's web presence: Nanberry Black Brother White by Jackie French is a story of historic fiction set in the early days of settlement in Sydney....
Recently, Robyn Leo, of the Fellowship’s Arthur Phillip Chapter, shared a book review of Jacki French’s Nanberry Black Brother White with the Fellowship’s President. Robyn Leo has…
30/10/2025
Representatives of the Fellowship visited Tasmania on October 28th - November 5th 1988 to dedicate six Bicentennial First Fleet Plaques and 10 individual plaques on the tombstones of First Fleeters. The Fellowship's Plaques were dedicated at the following locations: St Mary's Kempton, north of Hobart - Elizabeth Flexmore Christchurch Longford - Mary Phillips Launceston Grammar School St David's Park Hobart…...
Representatives of the Fellowship visited Tasmania on October 28th – November 5th 1988 to dedicate six Bicentennial First Fleet Plaques and 10 individual plaques on the tombstones of First F…
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