Charles Cameron was employed as surgeon superintendent on the convict ships Midas 1825  Princess Charlotte 1827  Ferguson 1829  and the David Lyon in 1830 (to VDL). The female prisoners of the Midas were very grateful for the kind treatment they received from him. Select here to read the letter they wrote when they reached Sydney.

Charles Cameron also wrote a letter to his friend on arrival in Sydney (The Morning Post 16 October 1826).....

"After we left the River in the Midas, with the exception of having a good deal of sickness on board, everything, as far as the convicts were concerned , went on in such a pleasant manner that I am now almost astonished when I reflect upon it. Even the very worst of them, and those who behaved very ill, when they first came on board, afterwards conducted themselves in the very best manner. Whatever the opinion of the world may be, and however depraved those unfortunate women may be considered, the seed of virtue is not altogether dead in them, neither are they wholly insensible to kindness. they are more highly sensible of, and more grateful for, any act of kindness than mankind generally suppose, and particularly more so than many who are placed in more fortunate circumstances. I am also convinced, that if they were treated less harshly be those who have got authority over them, than they generally are, many more of them would return to the paths of virtue, and become good members of society. They were treated by every person on board the Midas with the utmost kindness and attention to their comforts, and they repaid that attention by their grateful demeanour and general good conduct; not one disagreeable circumstance occurred during the whole passage, as far as the female convicts ere concerned, and they were landed at New South Wales with the very best characters. I must acknowledge that I had every assistance from Captain Baigrie. With respect to the board's letter, granting gratuity to the mates in case of good conduct, I consider it to be a measure of great importance, and that it will frequently, if continued, be attended with the best effects, because it shews them the determination of the Navy Board to put a stop to all irregularity on board these ships. The conduct of the female convicts was high praiseworthy.

It was my intention to write to Mrs. Pryor, but I find my time will not permit me. I shall there fore take the liberty of enclosing a letter from the prisoners, which they begged of me to take home to her, which I trust you will be good enough to forward.

I know they were highly grateful to her and all the Ladies for their kindness, and I thin kit is expressive of their sentiments"

Second Extract.

"To the good and orderly conduct, as well as cleanly and decent appearance of the prisoners on this voyage out, many things perhaps contributed, but probably none individually more than the exertions of the Ladies' committee; of this I had daily proof on the voyage."

In 1830 Charles Cameron published the success of his treatment scurvy on the Ferguson and in 1832 published his New Theory of the influence of Variety in Diet in Health and Disease etc.....

Charles Cameron died at Haslar Hospital in February 1837

London Medical and Surgical Journal 

William Bell Carlyle was granted 2000 acres of land in 1823 which he took up in the Hunter Valley. Select  here to find out more about William Bell Carlyle and the location of his grant.

He was employed as surgeon superintendent on the convict ships Asia 1820  Morley 1823 (VDL) Henry 1825  Andromeda 1827 (VDL) Phoenix 1828  and Marquis of Huntley 1830

He was on the List of Surgeons of the Royal Navy who were fit for service in 1841.

He died on the 5th September 1844 at Port Macquarie.

Charles Carter was a surgeon in the Royal Navy.  He was appointed supernumerary to the Mediterranean  in 1813 and to the Britomart in 1817

Charles Carter was next appointed to the Hebe convict ship which departed England 31 July 1820 and arrived in Sydney on the 31st December 1820, and then to the Arab which arrived in Hobart on 6th November 1822. Charles Carter was later thanked by the Governor for establishing a school on board the Arab under the direction of W.A. Brett and using articles that had been provided by Lady Grey before leaving England. (50)

The Sir Godfrey Webster departed England 1 September 1823 and arrived in Hobart 30 December 1823 with 180 male prisoners under the care of Charles Carter. There were no deaths on this voyage.

His last appointment as Surgeon Superintendent on a convict ship was to the Henry Porcher which arrived in Sydney on 3 December 1825.

He was appointed to the Malabar in 1836 (88), and in 1838 he was appointed Surgeon Superintendent on the emigrant ship Palmyra, which arrived on 26 September 1838. Many of his patients on this voyages were babies and children. There were cases of scarlatina, bronchitis and hydrocephalus and he regretted that he could not employ adequate means of treating them. This seems to be his last employment as surgeon superintendent. He was on the List of Surgeons remunerated for services as Surgeon Superintendents and was paid £200 for his employment on the Palmyra

In 1840-42 he was appointed Surgeon to the Calcutta (89) and in 1845 to the Terrible (90).

James L. Clarke M.D. was on the list of Surgeons of the Royal Navy who were fit for service in 1841

Robert Whitmore Clarke died in 1882 - The Will of Robert Whitmore Clarke late of Great Yarmouth in the Co. of Norfolk, Surgeon R.N. who died 1 October 1882 at Great Yarmouth was proved by Margaret Elizabeth Clarke of 33 Nelson road South Great Yarmouth, widow. Personal Estate £947/13/5d (130.)

Thrasycles Clarke was christened 18th September 1789 at Maghull, Lancashire, the son of Thrasycles (also known as Tracy) and Eleanor (nee Banks) Clarke. Tracy Clarke was a country doctor.  Thrasycles' brothers were John Edward christened 5 November 1786,  Addam christened 26 March 1788, William Augustus Frederick who was born 1 January 1792, Edward Stainslaus Augustus was born 22 September 1793, Erasmus born 18 June 1795. (58) The six brothers were nephews of Wesleyan preacher and theological writer Rev. Adam Clarke who was born about 1762 at Moygbeg, Kilcronaghan Co. Londonderry. The Clarkes on their maternal side were of a family which at one time had held extensive estates in the north of Ireland. (National Dictionary of Biography)

In 1803 Tracy Clarke (father of Thrasycles Clark RN) passed away and his brother the Rev. Adam Clarke felt the death of his only beloved brother keenly. .....The duties of a medical man in a small town or village are always arduous; but at the period we are now speaking of, they were more especially so, when the study of the healing art was much more limited, and its practitioners but comparatively few in number. Mr. Tracy Clarke being naturally of an extremely urbane character, and of kind and elegant manners, and being also deservedly held in high repute for his medical knowledge and skill, his practice was very great, and widely extended. After all the ordinary labors of the day, he has frequently been called up for five successive nights, and had often to ride on horseback many miles, alike exposed to the night air, cold, or tempest; for this severe labor he was not constitutionally fitted; not naturally strong, his health soon became impaired, and, in the end, symptoms of decided consumption too plainly proved that his life would fall a sacrifice to the hardships to which it was exposed. Mr. Tracy Clarke died at Maghull, near Liverpool, in the forty-fifth year of his age; but his memory still lives in the respect and esteem alike of the rich and the poor throughout the neighbourhood

Thrasycles Clarke was about 42 years of age when he was employed as surgeon superintendent on the convict ship Kains in 1831. Not very long after he returned to England after this voyage, he was called to the bedside of his dying uncle the Rev. Adam Clarke. Thrasycles is mentioned in 'An Account Of The Infancy, Religious and Literary of Adam Clarke LLD., F.A.S.' written in 1833........

George Clayton was employed as Surgeon Superintendent on the convict transport Shipley which departed England on 18 December 1817 and arrived in Sydney on 24 April 1817. He departed Sydney for Batavia on the Shipley on 28 May 1818.

His next employment as surgeon superintendent was on the Globe  which arrived in Sydney on 8 January 1819. He departed for Batavia on 5th March 1819 on the same vessel.

He departed England on the convict ship Competitor on 18 March 1823 bound for Van Diemen's Land however died at sea on the 8th July before reaching his destination. His personal effects were later auctioned in Sydney: they included a Bayley's Dictionary, folio; and upwards of 100 volumes of Latin, French, and English Works, principally medical; a case of surgical instruments; wearing apparel, bed, bedding etc.

Forth (1) 1830 

Norfolk 1832 

Sir Charles Forbes 1837

William Clifford was on the List of Surgeons of the Royal Navy who were fit for service in 1841

He was appointed surgeon to the Utile in 1811

Edward Coates was employed as surgeon superintendent on the convict ship Speke which departed England on 22 December 1821 and arrived in Port Jackson on 18 May 1821.

In July he volunteered to take medical charge of the troops to be embarked on the Speke to India. The Speke departed on 6th August 1821 under Captain McPherson. First Officer Thomas Christie, Second Officer Robert Dargue

The Bury and Norwich Post gave notice of the death of Edward Coates - On the 15th March last, aged 39, on board the ship Spike (Speke), on the West coast of the Island of Sumatra, of a disorder resulting from professional duty while in attendance on troops from New South Wales, to the East Indies, Mr. Edward Coates, surgeon in the Royal Navy, and son of the late Mr. Henry Coates, of Hinton Hall, in this county. - Bury and Norwich Post 4 September 1822. (Edward's father Henry Coates died in November, 1819)

Harman Cochrane's first appointment to a convict ship was to the Mary which departed England 16th June 1823 and arrived in Australia 18th October 1823. The Van Diemen's Land Advertiser reported that there were 126 female convicts, five or six of whose children died on the passage out.  Harman Cochrane was then appointed to the Mariner  which departed Cork 12th March 1825 and arrived on 10th July 1825.

He married Mary Gore at St. Mary Lambeth Surrey in the first half of 1826. Mary was the daughter of Richard Gore Esq., of Lumville, King's co., Ireland. Harman Cochrane's next appointment was to the convict ship Boyne in 1826 which departed Cork 29th June 1826 and arrived in Australia 26 October 1826.

He was next employed as surgeon on the convict ship Mangles which departed Dublin on 23 February 1828 and arrived in Australia on 2nd June 1828. This was Harman Cochrane's last appointment to a convict ship. Over six hundred and thirty convicts arrived in Australia under his care

He had been allowed £50 return passage money for each of the above voyages, as was the custom of the time.

His next appointment was to H.M. Sybille. From 4 December 1826 until 1830, the Sybille was part of the West Africa Squadron, which sought to suppress the slave trade. She was under the command of Commodore Francis Augustus Collier. (25) In September 1828 it was reported in the Morning Chronicle that the Sybille was cruising in the Bight of Benin, in vigilant search of a slave vessel. Within twelve months, the squadron under the active and zealous Commodore Collier had captured (and liberated) the extraordinary number of 1739 slaves.  On the 3rd October 1828 the Sybille was reported to have arrived at St. Helena from Sierra Leone with forty pirates taken out of a vessel under the Brazilian flag eighteen days previously (20).  On the Anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar (21st October), the Commodore gave a splendid ball and supper at the hotel at St. Helena to the ladies and gentlemen of the island. The officers and crew were in excellent health.(21)  Harman Cochrane died on 24th October. He was deeply lamented by his family and friends and his remains were attended to the grave by Commodore Collier, C.B., and all the Officers of his Majesty's ship Sybille, and by most of those of the Garrison of the Island. (22).  Commodore Collier wrote on 29th November that there had been three deaths on the Sybille in the previous two years -  two from accidents and one from fever contracted on one of the prize vessels(23)  The Sybille frigate sailed from Saint Helena on 21st November having been amply supplied with beef, beer and vegetables by the contractor Mr. Saul Solomon

Harman Cochrane's widow Mary re-married in 1831 to Monsieur Jules Forneir of the 11th Regiment of Foot in the service of His Majesty the King of France (24)

In 1892 Harman Cochrane's niece Isabella Clinton of Gavagh, Londonderry, Ireland, applied to obtain payment of £188 17s 7d due to her as the heiress of Harman Cochrane R.N. The estate had been collected by the Curator of Intestate estates in 1830 and the money had remained to the credit of the estate in the New South Wales Treasury every since. The application was granted. The entries relating to the matter were made in the first pages of the first book issued in the office of the curator in the colony. (46)

He was employed as Surgeon Superintendent on the convict ships :

Southworth departed Cork 18 November 1821 and arrived in NSW on 9 March 1822. Intending to depart on the Southworth for England later in March.

Sir Charles Forbes  departed Portsmouth 25 January 1825 and arrived in Van Diemen's Land 18 April 1825. 128 male convicts arrived on the Sir Charles Forbes, two having died on the voyage. Dr. Cook departed from Sydney on the Deveron on 25th May 1825

Phoenix  departed Dublin 27 August 1826 and arrived in NSW 25 December 1826

Louisa  departed Woolwich 24 August 1827 and arrived in NSW 3 December 1827. He returned to England on the Eliza departing 8th April 1828.

Mellish  departed Falmouth 2 January 1829 and arrived in NSW 18 April 1829. He departed for London on the Harmony on 23 October 1829

Forth (11)  departed Cork 3 June 1830 and arrived NSW 12 October 1830

Portland departed Portsmouth 22 November 1831 and arrived in NSW 26 March 1832. He returned to England on the Portland in June 1832.

Peter Cunningham was granted land in the Hunter Valley. Select here to find the location of his grant

He was employed as surgeon superintendent on the convict ships Recovery 1819  Grenada 1821  Recovery 1823  Grenada 1825  and Morley 1828.

In 1827 Peter Cunningham published Two Years in New South Wales; a Series of Letters, Comprising Sketches of the Actual State of Society in that Colony; of its Peculiar Advantages to Emigrants. Select here to read Cunningham's description of Currency Lads and Lasses

He died in 1864. His obituary was printed in the Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review: -