Australian History Research

04/02/2025

Descendants of George GUEST, Convict Alexander 1788 and Mary BATEMAN, Convict Lady Juliana 1790 the Norfolk Island Convict Ancestry Tour: June 2025 as Qantas are currently having a sale of plane tickets to Norfolk Island Sun 1 June to 8 June ex Sydney ($700) and aligns with the Norfolk Island Convict Ancestry Tour: June 2025 https://heritagetourismau.rezdy.com/685301/norfolk-island-convict-ancestry-tour-june-2025

03/02/2025

Qantas are currently having a sale of plane tickets to Norfolk Island Sun 1 June to 8 June ex Sydney ($700) and aligns with the Norfolk Island Convict Ancestry Tour: June 2025 https://heritagetourismau.rezdy.com/685301/norfolk-island-convict-ancestry-tour-june-2025

02/02/2025

19 March 1790 after the shipwreck of HMS Sirius the crew were able to get one tender alongside and safely send ashore Captain Cook’s timepiece, and some passengers of marines John Nash, William Gilbourne, two marine wives and one marine child: pregnant Maria Nash, Margaret Gilbourne and her 20 month old son William Gilbourne. https://www.australianhistoryresearch.info/hms-sirius-babies-and-love-children/

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02/02/2025

Our February 2025 newsletter https://web.emsnd.net/22c81502-8dd4-11ef-b152-ab7dd0f33f6e/email/ba83312c-e0fb-11ef-97e2-4f6abe9c29e7.html

31/01/2025

Our latest publication: HMS Sirius Babies and Love Children being launch on Sirius Day on Norfolk Island, orders now been taken. HMS Sirius Babies and Love Children focus is children born on the ship, those who travelled to Norfolk Island in March 1790, and love children born on the island up to November 1790. New findings and corrections have been made through archival investigations and analysis of primary records. The book provides detailed profiles of these children, including their births, family backgrounds, lives, and eventual fates, with citations and references to primary sources. https://www.australianhistoryresearch.info/hms-sirius-babies-and-love-children/

29/01/2025

Gypsy girls: Mary and Priscilla Loveridge royal admiral 1792 - Miryyal baptisms - burials - marriages church records of Budawang people south coast NSW. Now at the SAG https://www.australianhistoryresearch.info/gypsy-girls-mary-and-priscilla-loveridge-royal-admiral-1792/

22/01/2025

Peter Dargin First Fleet Marine who later served with the NSW Corps https://www.australianhistoryresearch.info/peter-dargin-first-fleet-marine/

22/01/2025

Historian Cathy Dunn has identified the male convicts, convict wives and children who arrived on Norfolk Island per the Brutus in June 1825, for the island’s resettlement. As there is no shipping muster, a vast range of other primary record were examined and analysed to extract the convict shipping list for the Brutus of June 1825. https://www.australianhistoryresearch.info/norfolk-island-brutus-1825-shipping-list/

18/01/2025

Back in 1963 and later editions of Sydney Cove 1788 all have the 1788 Supply as HM Brig Supply, as we have always call the ship HM or HMAT (armed tender as per some primary records); and criticised for using HM or HMAT too. So no idea who and when decided the ships name was to be HMS Supply.

18/01/2025

18/01/2025

A bit of sorting out our bookcases this morning - now for a book sale - https://www.facebook.com/groups/1136028823110068

13/01/2025

Sometime January/February** 1803 David Collins was commissioned lieutenant governor of the proposed new dependency under the governor of New South Wales. His salary was £450 and, to equip himself, he mortgaged his patrimony and ran up a large debt. He sailed in April in H.M.S. Calcutta. When he arrived at Port Phillip Bay on 9 October, two days after the storeship Ocean, Collins was dismayed by the lack of timber and water, but he began unloading his convicts, settlers and stores at Sullivan Bay (near Sorrento), while Lieutenant Tuckey and George Prideaux Harris explored. Their reports were not encouraging, so he wrote to Governor Philip Gidley King suggesting removal of the settlement. King agreed, and Collins decided to move to the Derwent where Lieutenant John Bowen had already established a settlement at Risdon.

After reaching the Derwent, Collins landed at Risdon on 16 February, but he disapproved the place and soon chose and named Sullivan Cove as a better harbour and site for Hobart Town.
**ADB says 4 Jan, Remembering Australia FB page says 14 Jan, and Wikipedia says early Feb!!
From ADB online and painting of Collins, https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/Yr8MXJbn

12/01/2025

There were 43 deaths of First Fleeters on Norfolk Island 1788 - 1814 including convicts, marines, ships crew and free people: https://www.australianhistoryresearch.info/first-fleet-deaths-on-norfolk-island-1788-1814/

12/01/2025

one of the HMS Sirius carpenters was the last man off the shipwreck on 20 March 1790. He was one of these Ships Carpenters – James Davies; James Heatherley, William Hambly, William Knight, William, Charles Parker. HMS Sirius was wrecked the day before at midday 19 March 1790. HMS Sirius finally broke apart in Jan 1792. https://heritagetourismau.rezdy.com/609812/hms-sirius-norfolk-island-1790

11/01/2025

The Seamen Settlers of Norfolk Island were not just from the late HMS Sirius but also from the late Endeavour shipwrecked at Dusky Sound (Tamatea) South Island New Zealand in late 1795 and abandoned seaman from the late East Indiaman Hunter 1799 shipwrecked on Norfolk Island among others https://www.australianhistoryresearch.info/seaman-settlers-of-colonial-norfolk-island-1788-1814/

06/01/2025

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John Buffett Family diaries - Transcribed by albert F Buffett can now be brought ONLINE https://www.norfolkonlinenews.com/product/john-buffett-family-diaries-by-albert-f-buffett

Mail from Norfolk island to Australia is normally fast so you could have your copy within a week and half. Contact Alison for more information [email protected]