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AUSTRALIAN Coffee Corner Please join this meeting-point to improve your interests in genealogy. It has been started for people of Australia looking for European ancestors and other Australian geni-users who can share there information about how to find your relatives in a country where distances are to long to walk, step or bike, archives are to far to ride and planes to ool-spending to use f...
Ovaj projekt je o iseljenim Splićanima i njihovoj migraciji u Argentinu, Australiju, Chile, USA, New Zealand / This is project page about of emigrants people from a Split, who were migrated and immigrated to the Argentina, Australia, Chile, USA, New Zealand. Izvor : Članak od gđa. Branka Bezić-Filipović, Hrvatska matica iseljenika-Podružnica Split: Splićani izvan Splita , BAŠTINA 34 121-142, ...
Freemasons in Australia - Masonic LodgeFreemasons, or simply "Masons," have been an important part of Western culture for centuries and have immeasurably shaped the world through their leadership, altruism, public service, and character. Although the most famous Freemasons have been presidents, CEOs, and other public figures, the vast majority of Freemasons were and are small-town members worki...
The bad ship Beejapore brought 967 government-sponsored emigrants from Scotland to Australia in 1852-3, including about 240 Paisley weavers. Half of the adults were said to hail from the Isle of Skye (Source: ?). The passengers included 342 children; 56 passengers died en route, mostly of measles, 55 of them children (including newborn infants) and one a teenager. The makeup of the passengers w...
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 ...
The "Queen" was a convict ship with the Third Fleet and it left Cork, Ireland in April 1791 and arrived in Sydney Cove on 26/9/1791 carrying 133 male convicts + 22 female convicts. 7 male convicts died on the voyage List of Passengers Blow, William Burr, Stephen Cameron, Duncan Cummings, William Higgins, Robert - Robert Higgins, Marine "Queen" 1791 Jamieson, William - William Jam...
Geni naming conventions - England See the projects Geni naming conventions and Geni naming conventions - data entry for general guidance. Use ordinary case. Name Preference Settings can be used to change how names are displayed to your personal preference. Name as close to original name as possible, language, geography and time period to be taken into consideration. Patronymics in the...
Scottish emigration to Australia" The links between Scotland and Australia stretch back to the first British expedition of the Endeavour under command of Lieutenant James Cook who was himself the son of a Scottish ploughman. Cook navigated and charted the east coast of Australia, making first landfall at Botany Bay on 29 April 1770. His discoveries and reports by Cook's expedition would lead to...
Prussian (German, Polish, Slav, Russian, Wendish) settlement in South Australia==Prussians began to settle in Australia in large numbers in 1838, with the arrival of immigrants from Prussia to Adelaide, South Australia. Prussian immigrants were prominent in settling South Australia and Queensland. Between 1850 until World War I, German settlers and their descendants comprised the largest non-Br...
Overview A list of Speedway Riders from Australia. A list of riders and a brief history of their achievements and time frame from the beginning of the sport around 1929 in Maitland NSW and Bathurst NSW. If you would like to contribute to this page, please feel free to edit it. Click here for instructions about using Wiki markup language. Send a message to the Project Manager to join us and ...
List of Governors-General of Australia ==# The Right Hon. John Adrian Louis Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun KT, GCMG, GCVO, PC ( wikipedia entry )# The Right Hon. Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, GCMG, PC ( wikipedia entry )# The Right Hon. Henry Stafford Northcote, 1st Baron Northcote, GCMG, GCIE, CB, PC ( wikipedia entry )
Irish Australians (Irish: Gael-Astrálaigh) are an ethnic group of Australian citizens of Irish descent, which include immigrants from and descendants whose ancestry originates from the island of Ireland. Irish Australians have played a considerable part in the history of Australia. They came to Australia from the late eighteenth century on as convicts or settlers, and contributed to Australia's...
Lithuanians began coming to Australia as early as 1830 after the uprising against regime of the Russian Empire. After the WWI Lithuanians from Scotland started moving to Australia and by 1939, there were 1000 Lithuanians in Australia. After WWII aproximately 10 000 Lithuanian refugees were relocated to Australia. This project aims to gather notable people who resided in Australia and were of Li...
Historical criminals, thieves and vagabonds Famous historical criminals are those individuals whose criminal behaviors became widely known to the general public for their unscrupulous acts. Aim of this project is to list people worldwide who have been convicted of serious crimes, or are notable for their criminal activities in the past. This is a worldwide project Australia Ivan Milat (194...
Prosperity in a new land - AustraliaWe have been talking about "following the money" as a way to find the ancestry of our Pioneers. This project will list pioneers who:1. Came to the country with very little2. Became very prominent in the new country 3. Became wealthy in the new country 4. Were heavily sponsored in fields such as arts, politics or businessPlease add profiles to this project tha...
Irish emigration to Australia=Irish Australians form the second largest ethnic group in Australia, numbering 1,919,727 or 9.0 per cent of respondents in the 2001 Census.Irish settlers – both voluntary and forced – were crucial to the development of the Australian colonies from the earliest days of European settlement. The Irish first came over in large numbers as convicts (50,000 were transport...
Irish Australians (Irish: Gael-Astrálaigh) are an ethnic group of Australian citizens of Irish descent, which include immigrants from and descendants whose ancestry originates from the island of Ireland. Irish Australians have played a considerable part in the history of Australia. They came to Australia from the late eighteenth century on as convicts or settlers, and contributed to Australia's...
Irish Australians (Irish: Gael-Astrálaigh) are an ethnic group of Australian citizens of Irish descent, which include immigrants from and descendants whose ancestry originates from the island of Ireland. Irish Australians have played a considerable part in the history of Australia. They came to Australia from the late eighteenth century on as convicts or settlers, and contributed to Australia's...
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The Pepperell family tree is a mess thanks to contradicting information on MyHeritage.com. I am hoping together we can fix it.
Explorers of Australia This is a short list, there are pages also dedicated to State explorers that I think could possibly all be included here for now. Reference The photo is of the ill fated Calvert Expedition complements State Library of South Australia A Alexander MacPherson (explorer) John Allen (miner) George Austin Said Ameer (camel driver) B Thomas Baines Henry Lidgb...
Prussian (German, Polish, Slav, Russian, Wendish) settlement in Victoria Australia==Germans/Prussians began to settle in Australia in large numbers in 1838, with the arrival of immigrants from Prussia to South Australia, Victoria and Queeensland. German immigrants were prominent in settling South Australia and Queensland some disembarked in Victoria and others left South Australia and moved to ...
HMS Orpheus The object of this project is to identify the 213 passengers aboard The Orpheus on 12 Sept. 1826 and link their trees to this project.=====Main Resource Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild protected under international copyright law HMS Orpheus was a Jason-class Royal Navy corvette that served as the flagship of the Australian squadron. Orpheus sank off the west coast of Auckland, Ne...
The House of Assembly, or Lower House, is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of Tasmania in Australia. The other is the Legislative Council or Upper House. It sits in Parliament House in the state capital, Hobart. The Assembly has 25 members, with five members coming from each of five electorates with identical names and boundaries as the single-member districts that return Tasmanian me...
Prime Ministers of Australia Edmund Barton, 1st Prime Minister of Australia - 1 January 1901 to 24 September 1903 Alfred Deakin, 2nd Prime Minister of Australia - 24 September 1903 to 27 April 1904, 5 July 1905 to 13 November 1908 and 2 June 1909 to 29 April 1910 Chris Watson, 3rd Prime Minister of Australia - 27 April 1904 to 18 August 1904 Sir George Reid, 4th Prime Minister of Austra...