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There are now over 167,000 references to Convicts, Settlers, Townsfolk, Bushrangers, Innkeepers, Soldiers and Land Owners.  Search by First Name, Last Name, Ship or all three

 Information about the voyages of approximately 350 convict ships and the Surgeon Superintendents who accompanied them can be accessed via the Convict Ship Index and Surgeon Superintendent Index 

 

 

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Voyage of the convict ship Guardian in 1789 Voyage of the Charlotte in 1788
Lawrence Armstrong - Surgeon Superintendent on the convict ship Daphne in 1819 A letter home by James Callam - Surgeon on First Fleet vessel Supply

Convict Ship Conditions

Reminiscences of Aboriginal Customs Hunter and Paterson Rivers

Map links - Hunter, Williams Paterson Rivers. N.L.A.

Report of the Commissioner of the Inquiry on the State of the Colony of New South Wales {Extracts Relating to Transportation, Disembarkation & Servitude}

Convict Ship Captains Index

Newcastle in 1831

 

Pirates - Newcastle 1825

William Grant Broughton's ship board diary on the convict ship John in 1829

Memoirs of Hydrography - Links to Biographies

Islands in the lower Hunter River included Moscheto Island, Dempsey Island, Spit Island, Spectacle Island, Bullock Island and Ash Island

A New Song - Botany Bay 1786

Botany Bay Fleet -Published in the Belfast Newsletter 6 June 1788

 
 
 

 

  
 

 

Hunter Valley Settlers Index

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Convict Ship Index

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