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| x Francis Greenway |
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Francis Howard Greenway (20 November 1777 – September 1837) was an iconic colonial architect in Australia.
Greenway was born at Mangotsfield near the English city of Bristol, son of Francis Greenway and Ann, née Webb. Greenway became an architect ...
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| x Mary Bryant |
Mary Bryant (1765 - ?) was a Cornish convict sent to Australia. She became one of the first successful escapees from the fledging Australian penal colony.
Born Mary Broad (referred to as Mary Braund at the Exeter Assizes) in Fowey, Cornwall, United...
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| x William Redfern |
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Mutiny |
William Redfern (c.1774 – July 1833) was a leading surgeon in early colonial New South Wales.
Redfern appears to have been born in Canada and raised in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England. He passed the examination of the London Company of Surgeons in...
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| x Mary Reibey |
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Horse-stealing |
Mary Reibey (12 May, 1777 - 30 May, 1855) was an Englishwoman who was transported to Australia as a convict but went on to become a successful businesswoman in Sydney.
Mary Reibey, baptised Molly Haydock, was born on 12 May 1777 in Bury, Lancashire,...
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| x Joseph Wild |
Joseph Wild (also Wilde) (c.1759 or 1773 - 1847) was an early explorer of Australia. He was sentenced on 21 August 1793 in Chester for burglary, together with his brother, George. Both were transported to Australia as convicts in 1797, arriving in...
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| x Esther Abrahams | Theft | Old Bailey |
Esther Abrahams (1771 – 26 August 1846) was a Londoner sent to Australia as a convict on the First Fleet. She later married George Johnston, who was briefly governor of the colony after leading the Rum Rebellion.
Abrahams was tried at the Old Bailey...
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| x Samuel Barsby | |||||
| x Billy Blue |
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Billy Blue or William Blue (c.1767 - 1834) is believed to have been born in Jamaica and arrived in Sydney in 1801. He had been transported from England to Botany Bay).
The enterprising Billy Blue soon became good friends with Governor Macquarie and...
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| x William Buckley |
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William Buckley (1780 – 30 January 1856) was an English convict who was transported to Australia, escaped, was given up for dead and lived in an Aboriginal community for many years.
Buckley's improbable survival is believed by many Australians to be...
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| x Aaron Burr | |||||
| x Wade Cardilini | |||||
| x Sean Cardilini | |||||
| x Martin Cash |
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Martin Cash (baptised 10 October 1808–27 August 1877) was a notorious convict bushranger known for escaping twice from Port Arthur, Van Diemen's Land. His 1870 autobiography The Adventures of Martin Cash, ghostwritten by the former convict James...
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| x Margaret Dawson |
Margaret Dawson (c1770-1816) was a convict on the First Fleet sent from Britain to New South Wales in 1787. She had a long-term relationship with the surgeon, William Balmain, and was one of Australia's 'founding mothers' whose descendants still...
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| x Daniel Herbert | |||||
| x Mark Jeffrey |
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Mark Jeffrey (1825-1903) was an English convict transported to Australia. He was known as "Big Mark", the grave digger on the Isle of the Dead Cemetery at Port Arthur, Tasmania. While a living alone on the island for several years he dug his own...
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| x Lawrence Kavenagh |
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Lawrence Kavanagh (c. 1805 – 12 October 1846) was a convict bushranger known for escaping from Port Arthur, Van Diemen's Land (the so-called escape proof colony) with Martin Cash and George Jones.
Born in Waterford, Ireland, he was convicted for...
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| x John Kelly | |||||
| x Simeon Lord |
Simeon Lord (c. 28 January 1771 – 29 January 1840) was a pioneer merchant and a magistrate in Australia. He became a prominent trader in Sydney, buying and selling ship cargoes. Despite being an emancipist Lord was made a magistrate by Governor...
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| x John Mitchel |
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John Mitchel (Irish: Seán Mistéil; 3 November 1815 – 20 March 1875) was an Irish nationalist activist, solicitor and political journalist. Born in Camnish, near Dungiven, County Londonderry, Ireland he became a leading Member of both Young Ireland...
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| x Francis McNamara | |||||
| x Alexander Pearce |
Alexander Pearce (1790–1824) was an Irish penal convict in Tasmania who was hanged in Hobart in 1824, for murder and cannibalism.
He was originally a farm labourer from County Fermanagh who was sentenced at Armagh in 1819 to penal transportation to...
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| x William Smith O'Brien |
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William Smith O'Brien (17 October 1803 – 18 June 1864) was an Irish Nationalist and Member of Parliament (MP) and leader of the Young Ireland movement.
Born in Dromoland, Newmarket on Fergus, Co. Clare, he was the second son of Sir Edward O'Brien,...
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| x James Ruse |
James Ruse (1759-1837) was convicted in 1782 of breaking and entering and was sentenced to seven years' transportation. He arrived at Sydney Cove on the First Fleet with 18 months of his sentence to go. Ruse applied to Governor Phillip (of the...
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| x Henry Savery |
Henry Savery (4 August 1791 - 6 February 1842) was a convict transported to Port Arthur, Tasmania and Australia's first novelist. It is generally agreed that his writing is more important for its historical value than its literary merit.
Henry...
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| x James Squire |
James Squire (1754 - 16 May 1822), a convict transported to Australia, is credited with the first successful cultivation of hops in Australia at the turn of the 19th century, and is also considered to have founded Australia's first commercial...
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| x Mary Wade |
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Mary Ann Wade (October 5, 1777 – December 17, 1859) was only 11 years old when transported to Australia as the youngest convict aboard the Lady Juliana as part of the Second Fleet. Her family grew to include five generations and over 300 descendants...
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| x Henry Browne Hayes |
Sir Henry Browne Hayes (1762–1832) was an Irish-born convict, transported to New South Wales.
Hayes was born in Ireland, the son of Attiwell Hayes. Hayes was admitted a freeman of the city of Cork in November 1782, was one of the sheriffs in 1790,...
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| x John Mortlock |
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John Mortlock (1755-1816) was a British banker, Member of Parliament and 13 times mayor of Cambridge. In 1778 Mortlock bought himself the Freedom of Cambridge for £40. In 1780 he founded the first bank in Cambridge, later one of the banks that...
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| x Isaac Nichols |
Isaac Nichols (1770 - 1819) was a convict on the Third Fleet who became the first Postmaster of New South Wales in 1809.
Isaac is credited with starting the first central post office.
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| x Jonathan Griffiths | Theft | 100 | |||
| x Agnes Shales | |||||
| x Edward Eager | Forgery | Cork | |||
| x Robert Howe | Shoplifting | Warwick | |||
| x Michael Massey Robinson | Blackmail | Old Bailey |
Michael Massey Robinson (1744—22 December 1826) was a poet and author of the first published verse in Australia.
Robinson was an educated man and appears to have practised as a lawyer. In February 1796 he was charged at the Old Bailey, London, for...
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| x Maurice Margarot | Sedition |
Maurice Margarot (1745 - 1815) is most notable for being one of the founding members of the London Corresponding Society, a radical society demanding parliamentary reform in the late eighteenth century.
Margarot had been a member of the campaign to...
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| x Thomas Fyshe Palmer | Sedition | Perth | |||
| x Richard Parker | Mutiny | ||||
