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On 26 September 1791 the Queen transport anchored in Sydney Cove. The first convict ship to sail directly from Ireland to Australia, she was one of eleven vessels which comprised the Third Fleet. Ten other ships carrying English and Welsh convicts had sailed from Plymouth and Portsmouth in February and March 1791.1
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R.J. Ryan, The Third Fleet Convicts (Sydney: Horwitz Grahame, 1983) pp. xi–xiii.
M. Gillen, The Founders of Australia: a Biographical Dictionary of the First Fleet (Sydney: Library of Australian History, 1989) p. 421.
Navy Commissioners to Thomas Steele, 22 December 1790, PRO HO 35/10; PRO CO 210/6, T1/703 and research by Marie Jones, ABGR Newsletter, January 1989, re numbers of soldiers on board; E. Nepean to T. Steele, 5 January 1791, PRO T1/677; PRO WO 25/642 (this 1808 document gives enlistment details, age, birthplace and ship of arrival of NSW Corps soldiers still in the colony).
Cork Evening Post, 7 March 1791; Hibernian Journal, 18 March 1791.
Con Costello, Botany Bay: The story of the convicts transported from Ireland to Australia, 1791–1853 (Cork: Mercier Press, 1987) p. 15. See also, ADB, vol. I, p. 526.
This has been stated most recently by Costello, Botany Bay, p. 17, probably based on T. J. Kiernan, Transportation From Ireland to Sydney: 1791–1816 (Canberra: the author, 1954) p. 35. Unfortunately, neither author provides a source.
Indents and other documents relating to the Queen convicts are at AONSW, SZ115 and 2/8274, pp. 257–346.
Ibid.
Hibernian Journal, 12 April 1790; C. Baxter (ed.), Musters of New South Wales and Norfolk Island 1805–1806 (Sydney: ABGR, 1989); C. Baxter, ed., General Muster and Land and Stock Muster of New South Wales, 1822 (Sydney: ABGR, 1988).
C. St. George to Under-Secretary, 13 April 1790, PROI CC&P.
Kiernan, Transportation from Ireland, p. 36.
Hibernian Journal, 4 August 1788.
Hibernian Journal, 30 October 1790.
Freeman’s Journal, 29–31 July 1790.
Freeman’s Journal, 27–30 March 1790.
Hibernian Journal, 12 April 1790.
W. Oldham, Britain’s Convicts to the Colonies (Sydney: Library of Australian History, 1990) p. 166.
Capt J. Parker to T. Stephens, July 1792, PRO HO 28/8.
D. Collins, An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales ..., B. Fletcher (ed.) (Sydney: A.H. and A. W. Reed, 1975) p. 154 (first publ. 1798).
Mrs M. A. Parker, A Voyage round the World in the Gorgon Man of War: Captain John Parker, London, 1795, cited by J. Cobley, Sydney Cove 1791–1792 (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1965) p. 119.
Capt Arthur Phillip to Lord Grenville, 5 November 1791, HRA, vol. I, p. 274.
Minutes of the complaints made by the convicts of the Queen, PRO HO 28/8, pp. 240–241.
Ibid., p. 240.
HRA, vol. I, pp. 283–88. Subsequent quotations from this source.
Hibernian Journal, 14 July 1790.
Hibernian Journal, 16 June 1786.
Phillip to Grenville, 5 November 1791, HRA, vol. I, p. 274.
Dundas to Phillip, 15 May 1792, ibid., p. 353.
Phillip to Grenville, 8 November 1791, ibid., p. 294.
Ibid.
Collins, An Account, p. 154. See also, Phillip to William Nepean, 18 November 1791, HRA vol. I, p. 308.
Sydney’s First Four Years: Being a reprint of an Expedition to Botany Bay and A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson by Captain Watkin Tench of the Marines with an introduction and annotations by L. F. Fitzhardinge (Sydney: Library of Australian History, 1979) pp. 243–4.
Ibid., p. 244.
Cork Evening Post, 30 August 1790.
Collins, An Account, p. 155; microfilm copies of Sydney and Parramatta burial registers, Society of Australian Genealogists Library, Sydney.
A. Britten, History of New South Wales from the Records, F. M. Bladen (ed.) 2 vols., Sydney, 1894, vol. II (1789–1794), pp. 219–220.
Norfolk Island Victualling Books 1792–1796, ML; Baxter, Musters ... 1805–1806.
Baxter, 1822 Musters; C. Baxter, General Musters of New South Wales, Norfolk Island and Van Diemens Land, 1811 (Sydney: ABGR, 1987); M. Sainty and K. Johnson (eds) Census of New South Wales, November 1828 (Sydney: Library of Australian History, 1980).
Freeman’s Journal, 25–28 September 1790; B. Hardy, Early Hawkesbury Settlers, Sydney: Kangaroo Press, 1985, p. 156; C. Baxter (ed.) Musters and Lists: New South Wales and Norfolk Island 1800–1802 (Sydney: ABGR, 1988).
Freeman’s Journal, 8–10 April 1790; Norfolk Island Victualling Books 1792–1796; R. Wright, The Forgotten Generation of Norfolk Island and Van Diemen’s Land (Sydney: Library of Australian History, 1986) pp. iii, 132, 156, 165, 175, 182. See also, AONSW CSIL.
R. S. Cameron, Robert Cooper of Juniper Hall (Sydney: the author, 1986) p. 182; Baxter, Musters and Lists ... 1800–1802; Hardy, Early Hawkesbury Settlers, p. 168; Sainty and Johnson, Census of ... 1828.
Norfolk Island Victualling Books 1792–1796, ML; Wright, The Forgotten Generation; unpublished research on the Second Fleet by M. Flynn. See also, C. J. Smee and J. Selkirk Provis, The Bicentenary Pioneer Register, 2nd edn., vol. 3 (Sydney: the authors, 1987).
Freeman’s Journal, 6–8 October 1789; K. M. Bowden, Captain James Kelly of Hobart Town (Melbourne University Press, 1964) p. 2; Mutch Index, ML; Sainty and Johnson, Census of ... 1828.
Hibernian Journal, 1 November 1790; unpublished research by K. Johnson.
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Johnson, K., Flynn, M. (1991). Convicts of the Queen. In: Reece, B. (eds) Exiles from Erin. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21557-7_2
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