Forthcoming Events

CONVICT SYDNEY EXHIBITION

Hyde Park Barracks Museum

Queens Square, Macquarie St Sydney NSW 2000

Saturday 11 September 2010 until Friday 31 May 2013

Daily 9.30am — 5.00pm

Contact 02 8239 2311

Admission:    Adult $10          Child/Concession $5   Family $20

 Explore Australia’s convict history at the World Heritage Listed Hyde Park Barracks.

Learn about the forced transportation of convicts, their daily lives and how they built the colony.

Wander the streets of 1820s Sydney on our giant map, try on a set of leg- irons, lie in a convict hammock,

look for your relatives on the convict database, and discover the intriguing stories of some

of the 50,000 convicts who passed through the barracks doors between 1819 and 1848.

Bring your kids for dress-ups and our convicts Kids Trail.

REPUBLISHING EVENTS

Two publications of great importance to the Fellowship and to its individual members

are being prepared for a Second Edition.

They are

The Founders of Australia by Mollie Gillen

and

Where First Fleeters Lie, by Joyce Cowell and Roderick Best

FFF Members are encouraged to make contact as soon as possible with the new editors if they wish

to contribute new material to the Second Editions or indeed to correct any errors in the First Editions.

Contact Michael Flynn for The Founders of Australia ~ russmike@bigpond.net.au

Contact Ron Withington for Where First Fleeters Lie ~ ronwit@ozemail.com.au