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Huguenots were French Protestants, the term possibly deriving from mispronunciation of the Swiss-German Eidgenosse, meaning sworn companion or confederate. They were at the centre of political and religious disputes in France in the 16th and 17th centuries. Under Henri II (1547-59) they formed a powerful group which included the king of Navarre and Gaspard de Coligny, Admiral of France, and was...
Obituary - Western Australia Portal - A sub project of Obituary Portal Obituaries are an excellent way to find information, or confirm facts about a persons life, relationships, occupation and ethnic background. Eventually this will become a portal for minor projects that will be sorted by year of death.If you find a person on the tree, or add someone that has his/her obituary here, please copy...
Patrick de Size and Bridget Evans arrived in South Australia on the "William Nichol" on 7th July 1840 with some of their children.Please add profiles of the ancestors and decedents that have been matched by DNA testing. This usually requires a few results and some are not able to be shared, please be scientific in your approach in adding profiles.If you have been tested and feel you are connect...
This is an Australian portal page similar to the Occupations Portal , with two separate lists, Crime and Punishment. Please add persons who committed crimes and were deported to Australia, the crimes can have been committed anywhere, the punishment must have taken place in Australia. When we work in migration areas, often the occupation, place born and in many cases in Australia the crime and p...
The ship Zebra, 350 tons, Captain Dirk Meinerts Hahn, from Altona 12th August, Hamburg 21st August 1838, arrived at Holdfast Bay (Glenelg) 28th December 1838 & Port Adelaide, South Australia 2nd January 1839, Dr. Matheison, ships' surgeon and a crew of 16 men.Along with 189 German Emigrants, it carried with it 100 barrels of pork, 100 barrels of flour, 2 boxes boots and shoes, 18 water casks & ...
Within weeks of the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788 and the establishment of Sydney, New South Wales as the first permanent European settlement, Thomas Barrett became the first person to be executed in Australia under British law. Most of the earlier hangings were for stealing, one person hanged for stealing bread due to hunger. These people escaped the gallows in England, to, some of them, ...
"Indefatigable" was a convict ship and she came to Australia twice# 1812# 1815This project is for the second voyage which left England in 1814 and arrived in Port Jackson, Sydney, NSW on 26/4/1815. She transported 200 male convicts with 2 dying enrouteLISTS* Abraham, James* Anthony, Michael* Arnold, Mark* Bainbridge, James* Baker, John* Bakes, Edward* Bannister, Joseph* Barwell, Charles* Bell, ...
This is a project for all of Graham Bartlett's Family Trees . The aim is to put down all descendants from the family tree onto Geni. If you would like to help, then please send a collaborator a message.If you get invited unexpectedly, that means that you might manage some profiles that have people on the family tree.APPROXIMATE COMPLETED STATUS ON TRANSFER TO GENI: (FYI these are all the family...
Most are aware of the wonderful network of photo volunteers at Find A Grave Site and Billion Graves who have teamed up with Geni.Com Billion Graves Team Project The process involves requesting a photograph on the site for a specific profile, the request is broadcasted to all volunteers in that area. This is a test project to co-ordinate a specific area IF you place a request for an area on Find...
List of Lieut.-Governors in the South ==# Colonel David Collins ( wikipedia entry) # Edward Lord# Captain J. Murray== List of Lieut.-Governors in the North ==# Colonel William Paterson ( wikipedia entry) # John Brabyn# Major G.A. Gordon# Captain J. Ritchie== List of Governors of Van Dieman's Land ==# Colonel Thomas Davey ( wikipedia entry) # Colonel William Sorell ( wikipedia entry) # Colonel S...
DNA tests have been taken by a large section of our population and, many of us have found we stem from non European families. Australia is a very diverse country, and was settled from all over the globe. The resilience of Australians can probably be accredited to this fact.This project hopefully will help family researchers, accompanied by the dna results and matches, we may find some connectio...
Port Arthur is a small town and former convict settlement on the Tasman Peninsula, in Tasmania, Australia. Port Arthur is one of Australia's most significant heritage areas and an open air museum.The site forms part of the Australian Convict Sites, a World Heritage property consisting of eleven remnant penal sites originally built within the British Empire during the 18th and 19th centuries on ...
The Independent Order of Rechabites (IOR), also known as the Sons and Daughters of Rechab , is a friendly society founded in England in 1835 as part of the wider British temperance movement to promote total abstinence from alcoholic beverages. Always well connected in upper society and involved in financial matters, it gradually transformed into a financial institution which still exists, and s...
English Emigration to Australia== Please add profiles to the relevant State or Territory bellow ==Timeline==* 13 May 1787 – The 11 ships of the First Fleet leave Portsmouth under the command of Capt Arthur Phillip. Different accounts give varying numbers of passengers but the fleet consisted of at least 1,350 persons of whom 780 were convicts and 570 were free men, women and children and the nu...
Often referred to as the "Fifth Fleet" many ships arrived in Australia between 1947 and 1966. Less in the later years. The "refugees" from war torn Europe were part of the true building of our Nation and character.With them they brought a "work ethic" that built our Nation to the strength and prosperity that it enjoys today. This was a time of "Nation Building" and a time when any man could bec...
"Southworth" deaprted 23/6/1830 and arrived in Van Diemen's Land with 160 convictsConvicts* Matthew Adam* James Adams* Edward Agar* John Allen* Thomas Amor* Archibald Anderson* William Anderson* Richard Aspden* John Aspinall* Richard Banks* John Barns* Benjamin Beckett* John Bentley* Joseph Brackenbury* Joseph Brierley* Edward Brown* Thomas Burns* Isaac Burrows James Collins - see James Collins...
Rajah - Sailed on 1st April, 1841Arrived 19th July, 1841 at Van Diemen's Land 180 convictsConvicts* Mary Adshead* Agnes Agnew* Jane Alcock* Elizabeth Alexander* Margaret Anderson* Catherine Angus* Elizabeth Archer* Mary Bailey* Mary Maria Bailey* Sarah Bailey* Mary Bannon* Elizabeth Barnes* Elizabeth Barrett* Sarah Beckwith* Elizabeth Bell* Petus Bevington* Ann Bogle* Jane Bowie* Charlotte Boyc...
The "Providence" made 3 journeys to Australia# arrived 2 July 1811 New South Wales# arrived 7 January 1822 New South Wales# arrived 16 May 1826 Van Diemen's LandThis project is for the first journey* left England on 10 December 1810 and arrived 2 July 1811List of convicts A* Thomas ANGLIM B* Michael / Nicholas BALFE* Andrew BARCLAY - crew* William BARCLAY - crew* Denis BEGLEY* James BRADLEY - ...
The Commissioners of Police Australia - State and Federal===Federal* Sir Colin Woods KCVO CBE QPM 1979–1982 * Major General Ron Grey AO DSO 1983–1988 * Ronald "Peter" McAulay AO QPM 1988–1994 * Mick Palmer AO APM 1994–2001 * Mick Keelty AO APM 2 April 2001 – 2 September 2009 * Tony Negus APM 7 September 2009 – 30 September 2014 * Andrew Colvin OAM APM 1 October 2014 – current Reference ===Sout...
Heroes Bravery Kindness and Valor - AustraliaA place for the brave recognized or not. Not all heroes and acts of kindness or bravery are recognized with medals and notability. Many acts of bravery were not acknowledged or recorded. Please add your ancestors who were heroes, who were brave and who saved lives. Please make sure their story is written on their profile page so visitors may read abo...
Married abroad - marriage notices with overseas references - AustraliaIf an Australian has married abroad or parents live overseas, the information is not always in our local records.We will list those announcements here until the person is placed on the tree, or, add them to the project if profiles are created but not yet connected to the tree.This is a project to assist research, not a projec...
List of Lieut.-Governors of Western Australia ==# Captain Sir James Stirling RN ( wikipedia entry) == List of Governors of Western Australia ==# Captain Sir James Stirling RN ( wikipedia entry) # John Hutt ( wikipedia entry) # Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Andrew Clarke KCH ( wikipedia entry) # Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Irwin ( wikipedia entry)
South Sea Islanders living in AustraliaSouth Sea Islanders refers to Australian descendants of people from the more than 80 islands in the Western Pacific – including the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu (formerly the New Hebrides ) in Melanesia and the Loyalty Islands , Samoa , Kiribati , Rotuma and Tuvalu in Polynesia and Micronesia – who were kidnapped or recruited between the mid to late 19th ce...
Stowaway is someone who hides on a vessel for free passage or as a fugitive. These persons, if caught are reported in the Police Gazette. List them here and we may find them on the tree. Please add profiles of Stowaways to this project.==1885TASMANIAN INTELLIGENCE. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS.) HOBART, Nov. 26. At the City Police Court this morning, James Livingstone was charged with being a s...
Obituary - Victoria Portal - A sub project of Obituary Portal Obituaries are an excellent way to find information, or confirm facts about a persons life, relationships, occupation and ethnic background. Eventually this will become a portal for minor projects that will be sorted by year of death.If you find a person on the tree, or add someone that has his/her obituary here, please copy it to th...