This project is to capture all the convicts and free settlers who arrived in Australia on board the "Neptune" on 27 June 1790. The "Neptune" left England on 19/1/1790The second fleet earned the nickname of "The Death Fleet" as of over 1000 convicts, half arrived sick and 270 died enroute.The Neptune had the highest mortality rate of 150.The Neptune carried* 42 male convicts* 78 female convicts*...
A project to collect and merge the profiles for any convict, naval personnel or free settler arrivals on the Second Fleet from England to Australia, 1789.=Second Fleet= From Wikipedia The Second Fleet is the name of the second fleet of ships sent with settlers, convicts and supplies to colony at Sydney Cove in Port Jackson, Australia. The fleet comprised six ships: one Royal Navy escort, four c...
A project to collect and merge the profiles for any convict, naval personnel or free settler arrivals on the Third Fleet from England to Australia, 1791.=Third Fleet= From Wikipedia The Third Fleet consisted of 11 ships which set sail from United Kingdom in February, March and April 1791 bound for the Sydney penal settlement, with over 2000 convicts. The passengers consisted of convicts, milita...
A project to collect and merge the profiles for any convict or naval personnel arrivals on the First Fleet from England to Australia, 1778-1788.=First Fleet= From Wikipedia First Fleet is the name given to the 11 ships which sailed from Great Britain on 13 May 1787 with about 1,487 people, including 778 convicts (192 women and 586 men), to establish the first European colony in Australia, in Ne...
The Coromandel arrived at Portsmouth on 12 January 1802 and departed from Spithead in company with the Perseus bound for Port Jackson on 12 February 1802. She came direct, the first convict ship to do so, and arrived in Port Jackson on 13 June 1802. ==Sources* Jen Willetts, Convict Ship Coromandel 1802 Only one prisoner died on the voyage out138 Male convictsShip Master* Alexander SterlingShip ...
William Pitt reached Port Jackson on 11 April 1806 with one hundred and seventeen female prisoners who all arrived in a state of good health. Convicts - 120 women, 1 man Deaths on voyage 4Free Settlers* Charles YORK, son of Mary CROOKS* Gregory BLAXLAND (see Gregory Blaxland, Free Settler "William Pitt" 1806 ) - born 1778 died 1853. Spouse Eliza SPURDEN (see Elizabeth Blaxland, Free Settler "Wi...