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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, John Chinery
(Convict Charlotte), John Coffin (Convict Charlotte)
People Australia,
George Francisco (Convict Scarborough), 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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