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Irish and British Convicts to Australia=This is the umbrella project for convicts projects and profiles currently on GeniBetween 1788 and 1868, approximately 165,000 convicts were transported to the various Australian penal colonies by the British government.During the 17th and 18th centuries the British government transported some of their criminals to the American colonies, but this practice ...
Bound for TasmaniaPortal page for projects related to immigration to Tasmania.14 June 1825 – the colony of Van Diemen's Land is established in its own right; its name is officially changed to Tasmania on 1 January 1856. The first settlement was made at Risdon, Tasmania on 11 September 1803 when Lieut John Bowen landed with about 50 settlers, crew, soldiers and convicts. The site proved unsuitab...
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...
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, 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...
The Secret History of My Family=First televised by BBC 2 on 10th March 2016 BBC Media Centre This project will use as a starting point this excellent BBC documentary, tracing families from different ends of the social scale of Victorian Britain who crossed paths and discover the positions of their descendants. We will endeavour to add all the members of each family featured in the series but wi...
Waterloo=Waterloo built in Bristol, enters Lloyd's Registry in 1815 with James Ray, master, and trade London-Jamaica In 1829 “Waterloo” begins service as British convict ship, Prisoners were transported 6 times, to New South Wales on the “Waterloo” in 1829, 1831, 1833, 1836 and 1838 and to Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) in 1835. Captain Ager Captain of the “Waterloo” in 1842, had made several jou...
The following is a list of Australian Penal Colonies.=Cockatoo IslandLocated in New South Wales . Opened in 1839 and closed in 1869=Rose HillLocated in New South Wales . Opened in 1788.=Sydney CoveLocated in New South Wales . Opened in 1788.=Moreton BayLocated in Queensland. Opened in 1824.=RedcliffeLocated in Queensland. Opened in 1823 and closed in 1824.=Maria IslandLocated in Tasmania . Open...
This project is one which will link the prisoners of Robben Island from 1673-1834 to profiles on Geni. The information is from the transcriptions of documents of The Court of Justice at the Cape of Good Hope regarding convicts, exiles and prisoners.The documents have been transcribed by TEPC (Transcription of Estate Papers of the Cape of Good Hope). It was a joint project of the Universities of...
MEMORIAL BY THE COLONISTS OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA AGAINST THE INTRODUCTION OF CONVICTS. IN publishing the memorial of the colonists against the introduction of felons from British prisons, we have left ourselves so little space that we can give only a very few particulars in explanation.The first intimation to the colonists of the proposal by Mr McLaren, Manager of the South Australian Company, to i...
WRECK OF GEORGE III.Tragic Story RetoldEarly Tasmanian History - Great Loss of LifeTucked away in what remains of St. David's Cemetery there is a stone tablet bearing the following inscription: >"Sacred' to the memory of Gregor McGregor , Assistant Surgeon of the 50th, who died April 24, 1835, aged 25 years. This tomb was erected by the officers of the 50th Regiment to mark their deep regret at...