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First Fleeters
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First Fleeters Stories
The Fellowship of First Fleeters was
formed in 1968, and a key project of Life Member and former
Director John Boyd, FF #7163, and former Webmaster & Life Member Bob Rickards,
FF #7715, has been for Stories of First Fleeters to be recorded on
this Website.
Former Chapter Liasion Officer and Life Member, Jean Mortimer,
FF #6409, also submitted verses for those First Fleeters
who died in 1788.
By 2021, Stories for over 200 First Fleeters have
been compiled.
Note - Ron Withington's "Dispatched Downunder -
Tracing the Resting Places of the First Fleeters" is a
recommended resource for burial locations of First Fleeters.
Note - A spreadsheet has also been prepared for those First Fleeters those whose burial place is
unknown-
click here
Click on the
First Fleeter's name in the table below to read their story.
NB. Use the lower Search Box in the left
side column of this
page to find other stories & information about your First Fleeter Ancestor(s).
Hint - Search using "Archer Isaac" &
"Isaac Archer"
Can't find your First Fleeter Ancestor(s) in the table
below?
Why not write a story for your First Fleeter(s)? The
Fellowship of First Fleeters welcomes submissions for First
Fleeter Stories for consideration for
Founders and then
for this Website.
Diversity in the First Fleet
from
THE FIRST FLEET Part 2
by Peter Christian :
"There
were 235 Non
English First Fleeters
There were, for instance, 141
persons known to have been
born in Ireland, or
whose surnames suggested they may have been Irish or of Irish
Extraction -
mostly convicts convicted in England for petty crimes. It is
interesting that the Irish Rebels
arrived at a later date.
In addition there were 2 from
the Channel Islands,
and 33 Scottish-
although no First Fleet Convict was
convicted in Scotland and,
of these, only one Scottish convict,
John Ramsay, the rest being marines and seamen. The Scots
certainly looked after their own!!!!
The Welsh weren't
left out – 9 in
number including four convicts.
Also there were at least 12
Black Africans, Americans or West
Indians plus 14
North Americans, and 15 Other
Nationalities ,comprising
convicts from Madagascar, West Indies, Holland, France, Germany,
Norway, Portugal, Jamaica, Sweden, Bengal
India, and Scandinavia
....
Some of us in the Fellowship of First Fleeters have this
blood in our veins...."
African Ethnicity
: John Caesar (Convict Alexander)
ADB, Samuel Chinery
(Convict Charlotte)
People Australia, John Coffin (Convict Charlotte)
People Australia,
George Francisco (Convict Scarborough)
Convict Records, Daniel/Janel/Jack/ Gordon (Convict Alexander)
People Australia,
John Martin
(Convict Alexander), John Moseley (Convict
Scarborough)
People Australia, George Nelson (Cook Prince of Wales), Thomas
Orford (Convict Alexander)
People Australia,
John Randall (Convict
Alexander), James "Back Jemmy" Williams
(Convict Scarborough), John
"Black Jack"Williams (Convict Scarborough)
Channel Islanders :
France
Germany
Irish :
Jewish:
mostly Sephardim… during the Diaspora or the dispersion of
the Jews from Israel one tribe moved across the Northern African
continent and settled in Spain. During the Inquisition in the
16th Century, they scattered north to Holland, France and
England and most of the
Jewish convicts
were from England
including Ester Abrahams, (Convict Lady Penrhyn),
Esther Abrahams (Convict’s Child Lady Penrhyn)
Henry Abrahams (Convict Alexander), Aaron
Davis (Convict Alexander)
People Australia, Daniel Daniels
(Convict Scarborough)
People Australia,
John Harris (Convict Scarborough) Frances Hart (Convict Charlotte),
John Hart (Convict Scarborough)
People Australia, David
Jacobs (Convict Scarborough), Thomas Josephs
(Convict Scarborough) Flora Larah (Convict Prince
of Wales)
People Australia, Amelia Levy (Convict Lady Penrhyn)
People Australia,
Joseph Levy (Convict Scarborough)
People Australia, and Peter
Opley (Convict Alexander)
People Australia.
Madagascar
Netherlands
Norway
Portugal
Scottish :
Swedish
Welsh :
USA:
Jacob Nagle Able Seaman (HMS
Sirius),
James Walburne (Scarborough),
Please contact First Fleet House
for further details
Ph: 02 9360 3788 Fax: 02 9360 3988
Email:
fffaus@optusnet.com.au
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