1787

Marks the departure of the First Fleet For Botany Bay

Marines who were scheduled to, but failed to embark the First Fleet to New South Wales – May 1787

1st Lieut George Forster, 45th Ply
1st Lieut William Boxley, 56th Ply
1st Lieut Benjamin Barbaud,60th Ply
2nd Lieut James/Wm Morrison, 60 Ply
Pte Joseph Taylor, 2nd Prt
Pte James Merchant, 44th Prt
Drummer James Daniel, unknown Prt

Marines who died enroute to Botany Bay

Corporal Peter Talbot, 8th Prt
Pte Daniel Creswell, unknown Ply

Wives of Marines who departed Spithead with the First Fleet – May 1797. 33 Embarked, two died enroute

Martha Parsons, d.12 Nov 1787
Jane Bacon
Margaret Gilbourne
Ann Thomas
Susannah Turner
Jane Scott
Mary Kennedy
Sarah Hume
Sarah Bagley
Johanna Gough
Sarah Parfett
Agnes Jackson
Ann Wright
Judah Dougherty
Mary Richards
Jane Chapman
Mary Wright

Ann Munday
Martha Davis
Elizabeth Redman
Maria Nash
Hannah Barrisford
Alice Harmsworth, m. Stanfield 15 Oct 1791
Rachel Clayfield
Elizabeth Dinger
Margaret Stewart
Elizabeth Young
Elizabeth Russell
Ann Perry
Jane Dwan
Mary Cook, d.17 Oct 1787
Susannah Cresswell, m. Mapp 24 Feb 1788
Elizabeth Brown

Children of Marines who departed Spithead with the Fleet May 1787

James Colethread
Maria Bagley
Joseph Gough
Mary Ann Wright
Elizabeth Chapman
Jane Chapman
Edward Munday
Ann Harmsworth

Thomas Harmsworth
John Stewart
Robert Stewart
John Young
Thomas Young
Mary Russell
Alexander John Ross, aboard Lady Penrhyn

Children of Marines born during the voyage to New South Wales

Jane Davis
James Parfett
Daniel Dougherty
Thomas Russell
Elizabeth Scott

Samuel Richards
Elizabeth Wright
James Thomas
John Harmsworth
Elizabeth Bacon (or born soon after arrival)

List of convicts sentenced Transportation to New South Wales with five year terms

It is an unexplained annomoly that over the first few years a small number of persons were sent to the colony with terms of five years to serve. It is considered that this was due to some regional Courts not being aware of the requirement of 7yr/14yr/life terms for transportation. They are listed together here for convenience

Ann Beardsley, tried Aug 1786 Derby, 5yrs. Arrived 1788
Mary Spencer, tried Oct 1786 Wigan, 5yrs. Arrived 1788
Richard Collins, tried 13 Jul 1789 Portsmouth, 5yrs. Arrived 1791
Peter Pritchard, tried 29 Aug 1791 Lancaster, 5yrs. Arrived 1792
Daniel McKeig, tried April 1791 Donegal, 5yrs. Arrived 1793

Under-Secretary of State Evan Nepean’s early proposal for allocation of Convicts, Marines & Wives aboard six Transports – Dec 1786. Note the vessel ‘*Prince of Wales*‘ had not been determined at this point

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