"To five on in tfu fiearts and minds of 'Desundants is never to die! • :Fellowship of 1788 .9l.'D. :First :Freeters N E w s l E T T E R JOURNAL OF THE FELLOWSHIP OF FIRST FLEETERS INC. H~ 1988 PRICE 504 Registered by Australia Post Publication No. NBH J271

PATRON: His Excellency Rear Admiral Peter Sinclair, AC AO, Governor of OFFICE ADDRESS: Fleet House, 105 Cathedral Street Woolloomooloo NSW 2011 PHONE: (02) 360 3788, 360 3988 r'- NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 1992 VOLUME 23 NO. 6 PRESIDENT'S REPORT

he A.G.M., held at Newcastle in Fellowship will be holding a luncheon at Donations to the "Buy a Brick" fund to November, was attended by some the Lawson Hotel, Bulwara Street, Ultimo, help in reducing the debt on 50 members and fr iends and at a cost of $32.00 per person - Children House have been most encouraging, appreciation is due to John and Viv 12 years and under, half price and under please keep this Fund in mind if you have Bone and members of the 2 years no charge. some spare dollars! There is a backlog in TNewcastle Chapter of the Fellowship for acknowledging donations. for which we Please note that on the Sunday before acting as hosts on that day. apologise, but there is one donation I , that is 23rd January, after would like to mention: NICOLE It remains one of my first duties as your Morning Service at the Garrison Church BOWMAN, FF Andrew Fishburn, sent a President to thank, on behalf of all (Holy Trinity) the usual procession to lay donation of $10.00 from her pocketmoney members of the Fellowship, Jim Donohoe floral tributes will take place. Contact the Nicole, aged 71/, years Is the granddaughter for his leadership and work as President office for further details. of Marge Mcpherson, and even at that age over the past three years. Appreciation of The official Australia Day Celebration will we are assured that she is a very keen and Jim's efforts was recorded at the October proud descendant of a First Fleeter. Executive meeting. be held at Darling Harbour at 6.30pm. I have been informed that there will be We have had news of our Vice-Patron, some public seating in the Festival Market I must also put on record our indebtedness Commodore Paul Kable RAN (FF Henry to Treasurer Roy Morris. Many of those Place. Perhaps members of the Fellowship Kable and Susannah Holmes). Paul, a could meet at the steps to the Market present at the A.G.M. remarked most former Captain of HMAS Darwin. has ( favourably on the manner in which Roy Place at 5.00pm. It appears that no separate been posted to the Australian Defence outlined our financial position. Our arrangements have been finalised so please Staff in London. Our personal best wishes mortgage on First Fleet House has been ring the office sometime in January for go to Paul and his family. considerably reduced and therefore details. I believe there is to be a Lantern interest repayments are down as well. Roy Procession and Fireworks Display later in \Ve were sorry to learn that Executive also paid tribute to the help he had the evening. Through good detective work member Jim Maclean has recently met received from Cec Thompson in the month of member Laurel McMiles, we have with an accident resulting in some nasty to month preparation of the accounts. purchased a rare publication of John fractures We hope that he is on the mend Eastey·s Diaries from a bookshop at Leura and that we see him back in the office in In the coming year the Fellowship will Archivist Joyce Cowell is ecstatic about the near future. require the services.of an acting Treasurer this First Fleet journal, as there had been due to the absence for several months only one publication of limited number in As this is my first President's Report for overseas of Roy Morris. Any help 1965. The book is available for viewing in some three years, I found it somewhat forthcoming would be very much difficult to start it but I must say that look our library and our thanks are due to the forward to the year ahead. appreciated. Daytime Fellowship Executive for the The raffle drawn at the A.G.M. was well donation of this important work which was Finally, may I wish all members of the supported. Congratulations are in order to purchased for $95.00. Fellowship a happy and Holy Christmas the Treasurer of the Daytime Auxiliary, and an exciting New Year. Please note in this issue meeting dates for Wynne Anderson, who held the lud.)' the Daytime Fellowship. It would be of ticket. The prize was an extremely If you wish to contact me personally enormous encouragement to this please ring the office on a Monday interesting book "The Secret History of the important group working for the good of 10.00am to 2.00pm or ring me at home Convict Colony" kindly donated by Vice­ the Fellowship if you could attend some of President Alice Clarke. (02) 868 3063 evenings after 7.00pm. (Not the planned events in the year ahead, Thursdays.) Please note in your diary coming events some of which are announced in this issue In Fellowship, for Australia Day, 26th January 1993. The of the Newsletter. Peter Christian. EXECUTIVE COORDINATING COMMITTEE Admiral Peter Sinclair AC AO, who will FOR FUNCTIONS open the Muster at 11.00am. COMMITTEE The role of this committee is to organise SETTLERS: Thomas and Jane Rose and and coordinate the social functions of the family, Elizabeth Fish, Elizabeth Watts 1992/93 Fellowship. Frederick Meredith, Edward Powell, PRESIDENT: Peter Christian There are three sub-committees within the Thomas Webb, Joseph Webb, James Thorpe, Walter Brody VICE-PRESIDENTS Alice Clarke, Doug Activities Committee: Oakes I. Daytime Fellowship CONVICTS: Margaret Allen, Sarah Bond,Catherine Buckley, Jane Dunstan, SECRETARY: Zona Maguire 2. Social 3. Excursions (Weekend) Mary Ann Grecion, Esther Jane Hardy, TREASURER: Roy Morris Sarah Mason, Elizabeth Matthews, ARCHIVIST: Joyce Cowell These sub-committees organise an annual Sarah Poulson, Mary Randall, Lydia Rod Best, June Bigham, Ula Clarke, program of events. Stephens, Hannah Warbuton, Ann Case Anne Holloway, Jane Maria Newman, James Donohoe, Naida Jackson, Jim Members of the Activities Committee are: Mary O'Brien, Elizabeth Thomas Maclean, Ron Maguire, Beverley Activities Coordinator: Beverley Naughton, Cec Thompson Naughton SEAMAN: Matthew Boyd Daytime Fellowship: Joyce Cowell, ••• Closing Date for Next Newsletter This event will take place at Macquarie 26th January 1993 ••• Bernice Smart, Phyllis Selby Social: Alice Clarke, Ula Clarke University, where all wi ll celebrate the OFFICE HOURS: 10.00am to 3.00pm Excursions: Naida Jackson, Joy Pankhurst 200th anniversary of the arrival of the Monday through Friday. Activities Recorder: Anne Davison Bellona. A modest entry fee per person into the Muster area will cover costs of an Opinions expressed herein are those of the all-day program, including offi cial article authors and correspondents and do ceremony, Bellona and family displays. not necessarily reflect the policy or views BELLONA MUSTER Time will be 10.00am until 4.00pm, and all~ of the Fellowship of First Fleeters, nor the descendants and their friends are invited. 1 views of the Editor. 1793 -1993 Macquarie University Kiosk will be open The Bellona arrived in Port Jackson on 16 The Editor reserves the right to omit any for light snacks and drinks and ample January 1793 bringing the first group of material considered unsuitable for parking is available in the University Free Settlers, as well as I 7 women convicts, publication. grounds. Wet weather will not cause a to the Colony of New South Wales. A Space limitations may result in some cancellation of the Muster since adequate reunion has been organised for I 6 January cover is available. material being held over to another issue. 1993 for all descendants of those who RON MAGUIRE travelled on the Bellona, and the opening For more information contact the organ­ Hon. Editor ceremony will be attended by the ising committee at 13/46 Fontenoy Road, Governor of New South Wales, Rear- North Ryde 2113. FELLOWSHIP OF FIRST FLEETERS ACTIVITIES AUSTRALIA DAY LUNCHEON PROGRAM 1993 TUESDAY, 26th JANUARY 1993 Tuesday, 26 January BUFFET LU NCHEON - 12.30pm Australia Day Luncheon at Hotel at Lawson, Bulwara Road Hotel Lawson 383 Bulwara Road, Ultimo 12.30pm. (Free parking in Hotel Car Park) Wednesday, 3 March Cost $32.00 per head Children under 12 years half price Annual Meeting Daytime Fellowship ' This luncheon will replace the traditional Australia Day eve Dinner - Invite Talk by Peter Christian on his ~ Family and Friends. b icycle tour of China Please send cheque, Money Order, to Sunday, 4 April FELLOWSHIP OF FIRST FLEETERS, Excursion 105 Cathedral Street, WOOLLOOMOOLOO 2011, with stamped, self-addressed envelope. Wednesday, 5 M ay Outing to O ld Town Inquiries to Alice Clarke, Office Friday 360 3788 Home: 428 4530 Sunday, 13 June FELLOWSHIP OF FIRST FLEETERS Excursion TOUR - Thursday, 1 July 4th MARCH - 11t h MARCH Meeting at First Fleet House 7 Nights - Colonial Hotel - Continental Breakfast Guest speaker Twin Share - $1,145 - soup and damper lunch. Includes Return Air Fare Transfer - Airport - Hotel - Return Sunday, 8 August Join in Foundation Day Celebrations Saturday, 6th March, 1993 Excursion Tours to places of historic interest - enjoy walking. swimming, exploring, Wednesday, I September shopping - plus special evening entertainment and festivities Outing We still have vacancies, an early reply appreciated to F.F.F. Office or phone 360 3788, 360 3988 or Alice Clarke (home) 428 4530 Sunday, 10 October Excursion THE LUCKY WIMMER OF THE BOOK DRAW W ednesday, 3 November Outing 'The Secret History of the Convict Colony of NSW' was \Vynne Anderson Thanks to all of you who participated in the competition. BEVERLEY NAUGHTON, Convenor

Page2 A WALK THROUGH from Wellington for the Walk. ROSE FAMILY Our thanks go to Judith Dunn for making HISTORIC the Walk such an interesting experience. REUNION ST. JOHN'S Douglas Oakes The bicentenary of the arrival of the first free settler family of Thomas and Jane CEMETERY Rose and their four children, Thomas, Mary, Joshua and Richard, who arrived in On 31st October an enthusiastic group FROM THE LIBRARY gathered at St. John's Cemetery, Sydney on the Bellona on 16 January , to be conducted on a most Two volumes of interest have recently 1793, will be celebrated in 1993. The satisfying and entertaining walk by Judith been donated. Bellona brought out eight other settlers including Jane's niece, Elizabeth Fish, a nd Dunn, a well-known local historian. ! ) ''In Joseph's Footsteps," by Janet Healey. Historic St. John's is a non-sectarian her baby daughter, who died nine days cemetery with no area set aside for any An extremely interesting and well­ after sailing, and a dairymaid, Elizabeth particular religion or sect. researched and documented history. }cmet Watts. There were also 1 7 women convicts is to be congratulated on this work. A Thomas Rose was given a grant of 120 The first burial was in January 1790 must, not only for descendants of Joseph making St John's the oldest cemetery still acres at Liberty Plains (now Strathfield) Tuzo but for those who have an abiding which he found unsuitable for farming and existing in Australia. Many famous people interest in the founders of our nation. including over 60 First Fleeters are buried in 1802 purchased land at Wilberforce. He in this cemetery. I was quite taken by the last paragraph in built a home on the banks of the the book: ''Although Joseph had no sons Hawkesbury River but soon experienced The cemetery was originally surrounded and therefore the Tuzo name for this line disastrous floods and between 1810-16 so by a bank with a ditch, mainly to stop did not perpetuate, his many, many built present ironbark-framed Rose animals walking through the place. Later, descendants are proud and honoured to Cottage which still stands on the original Governor Brisbane had a solid brick wall remember the man whose life was to reach site to this day. It is a focal point of the ( ·built around the cemetery and that wall such dramatic extremes in his 56 years. A Australiana Pioneer Village, Wilberforce, still stands. man who went from convict to sealer, police­ and is the oldest timber building still standing on its original site. The Thomas Henry Dodd, who died in 1791, was the man, juror, labourer, landholder and business­ and Jane Rose Family Society is very first First Fleeter buried in the cemetery. man he has perhaps best earned his place in active in looking for ways for preserving Other First Fleeters buried there, still with history as a mariner who sailed with Matthew the cottage for future generations. a memorial, are Baron Augustus Theodore Flinders on the first circumnavigation of Henry Alt, John Palmer, Christopher this great country - Australia!" The Rose descendants will be celebrating Palmer, William Elliott, David Kilpack, Copies available from Janet Healey, PO the arrival of the Rose family at a John Herbert, Deborah Herbert, Thomas Box 332, Hurstville South 2221. $35.00 bicentennial reunion a t Australiana Eccles, James Wright, Jane McManus, incl. P.P. Pioneer Village, Wilberforce, on Sunday Hugh Hughes. Isa,;c Knight and Mary 17 January 1993, commencing at 9.00 am. Kelly. 2) "Strands of Anthony Rope and It is a BYO lunch although there will be Elizabeth Pulley," by Sylvia Taylor. refreshments available at the village. Gordon Brown, the stonemason, has There will be a re-enactment of the arrival fini shed restoring the tombstones of John This is yet another comprehensive history of the family at 10.30am, short church and Christopher Palmer, William Elliott, of a First Fleet family. Sylvia has service, and photo session. Period dress David Kilpack, John and Deborah completed a monumental exercise in would lend atmosphere to the day. Herbert, James Wright, Jane McManus putting together some 260 pages of family Hugh Hughes, Isaac Knight and Mary history, obituaries, newspaper articles, This will be a historic occasion for Kelly. The restorations have made a rolls of honour, snippets of oral family members of the Rose family so it would he wonderful difference to the tombstones. history which have all been collated in this great if as many people as possible were well-researched volume. Again another able to participate. A number of missionaries who arrived on member of the Fellowship is to be the Duff from Tahiti are buried in close congratulated in bringing forth an For further information contact Peter ( proximity Lo each other. They are Francis important and lasting statement of the Castle, I Liguria Street South Coogee 2034, Oakes, , Rowland Nossell, history of our homeland. phone 344 0484, or Roy Rose. 20a Ivey William Shelly and James Elder. Francis Street, Lindfield 2070, phone 416 2958. Oakes married Rebecca Small. Rebecca, Many thanks, Sylvia. the first child of First Fleeters John and #890 LOU ISE M. PRINCE, PETER CHRISTIAN Mary Small, bore Francis l4 children Acting President seven boys and seven girls. The Reverend Samuel Marsden and his son-in-law the Reverend N. Bobart are buried in this cemetery. Wives of two Governors are also interred there. Lady Bourke, who died in Old xw- :, ._ .. ¥> ?. ::-; ·. ->•-: °' "~ . j -" · :··'.. < Government House in 1832, the wife of We.urgently need a volunteer to take-on the role· of Treasurer or Assistant Treasurer:~ Major-General Sir , and , . Our Treasurer will be away for about six months next year, .including the period Lady Mary Fitzroy, who met a tragic end when the Annual Accounts arc prepared. So we need a volunteer to take over the in December 1847, the wife of Sir Charles role or·at he very least to stand in while he is away. The duties do not require a lot Fitzroy. of time as mqst qf the day to day work is done by other volunteers and our accounts D'Arcy Wentworth , father of William "" · •"_;n;:~~""' ,, are maintained on computer by a firrn of accountants, ,,,, _ c-<::,. :',, ,· 1 1 .r· ;,:;:?t< .:ti{~1>~'.~,c;,·- ,. ..., < ' ,,:+::e1:;f~>~ ~J{;" Charles Wentworth, surgeon John Harris, The Fellowship Is an Incorporated body, so a general kriowledge of the requirements William Batman, father of John Batman of the Corporations Law as applicable to small organisations such as ours is pioneer of Melbqurne, are all laid to rest in · necessary. Formal account!ng qua~fic;~ions would be a big advantage. "c-;' · St. John's. ""':' ,,.~ ~;,,.,. ,.,., , -1,.>>, .,~ "' ~ :, :,1, Pat Robinson, a descendant of First _· i(you Cit!) 1,,!!Ir,, please contact our President,' Peter Christian, :on 868 3063 ·,-" • ·c ' after 7.00pm (not Thursdays) ·- k • "c Fleeter James Wright, came all the way r; ., ,,. "' ~

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emember how, once upon a time, Our division were the first Australians into I have seen done. We took over about ten everyone everywhere used to action on the Somme; we got there about minutes after. The trench was heaped with stop for a couple of minutes the end of July. How we took Poziers, you dead and dying men, some of them awful reflection on the eleventh hour of have read in the papers I presume, long sights. Sixty or more were killed, and the eleventh day of the eleventh before this. It was an experience I'll never about 20 taken prisoners. In these Rmonth? The occasion appears to be forget, and I am not too keen on seeing again. trenches we stayed till Thursday night, slipping quietly away. when we were relieved. All the time I was not in the actual charge. It happened subjected to a hellish bombardment, and The following is a letter written by Herbert this way. Of the !st Brigade, two battalions expecting every night to have to charge or Edwin Cowell to his brother, Alfred. It pen­ were to go over in the first line, one in the stop a counter-attack, but to my great paints a picture of the horrors of the trenches second, and two companies of the 4th to disappointment the attack never came, for in the war to end all wars. A romantic scene for the third line, to go on past the other I should have been delighted to settle a it does not paint. It may help us to remember three battalions and take the third German few of them, especially as I had been the next I Ith November. line, while the remaining two took up a keeping my automatic in great working position in newly-made trenches in No order. It was terribly hard to have to set Herbert Edwin Cowell: Mans Land in reserve. We missed nothing tight in a trench and be bombarded. to see Enlisted 25-7-1915 by being in reserve, for after our artillery your pals killed and wounded, and not Embarked 6-1-1916 had finished there was absolutely nothing even have a slap back. Wounded 17.8.1916 left of the village of Poziers, and the Returned to Unit December 1916 German trenches were hard to find. The Well , Alfred, old man, I can't tell you all I Killed in Action at Lagnicourt 15-4-1917 charge was very successful very little have seen and been through. Some of the opposition being encountered. The boys sights were horrible, especially as the dead Saw service with the first Australia simply went over and took charge and dug couldn't be buried and had in some cases Infantry Force at the Somme and at the '°' themselves in, while we in the old trenches been there a fortnight or longer. But I am capture of Poziers. received all the change in the shape of a very thankful to be here, alive and well, hellish bombardment. It seemed that without any other souvenir but myself. every time a man moved he was being Convalescent Camp, followed by a shell. The charge took place The trenches are a sight never to be Woodgate Park, on a Sunday morning about 12.30am. All forgotten - arms and legs, and bodies, Epsom England. day Sunday and Sunday night we were protruding from the sides and on the 23rd October, 1916. shelled, while the boys who went over parapets; dead bodies in heaps, some were left to dig themselves in peace. But buried, some completely buried by shell Dear Alfred, on Monday Fritz got the ranges o( the explosions; and the stench! - something captured positions and concentrated his awful. Bodies were there without a stitch Have been receiving your letters fairly of clothing - all torn off by the force of the ., ,,__ __ regularly, thanks Alfred, old boy for writing artillery. All day Monday he made it that hot that he very nearly annihilated the explosion alone. There was no lime for so often. I always look forward to them, and burying; besides, the risk was too great. I am pleased to know that you are doing new trenches and we were ordered over to relieve them. We went over that night and Some of the wounded had been in the well at Belmore Whatever you do, don't trenches five days or longer. It was simply enlist unless you are forced to - the game relieved what was left of our other two companies. The trenches was nothing but impossible to shift them. The stretcher is not what it is cracked up to be; besides, bearers could not get across to them, and I am depending upon you for a start with a line of shell holes. I don't know how the hell we got there and lasted the night. We to take a stretcher through the trenches, you in the building line when I get back to and communication in some places was the good old land of the gum leaves. had to dig for dear life remember the portion I had to dig. There were three poor impossible. The place was like a I have now been nine weeks in "Blighty," chaps who had been killed and buried by catacomb. Half the time we didn't know six at Ipswich Hospital, and three weeks the one shell. I had to dig them out and where we were. For instance, in one it was, here. Tomorrow I start my 14 days haul them over the parapet into a shell about 300 yards across to a trench which furlough . I think I'll have about three days hole. As shells bursting on the parapet. led back to head-quarters and the dressing in London, a weekend at Ipswich, and the However, we lasted the night, expecting station. To get there without going over the remainder in Scotland. every moment to be buried alive or put on parapet was a distance of about four miles the missing list. But its marvellous how of winding and narrow communications. I guess I'll have a rare time. A slouch hat close a shell may burst to you and not do Of course, what I call trenches here, were, is enough to ensure that, for the any more damage than fill the trench and in most cases, nothing else but a track of Australians are very popular everywhere. half bury you. Next morning the order shell holes. To view the battlefield it just Well, Alfred, I have seen enough war by came to fix bayonets and be ready to looked for all the world like a huge rubbish this to satisfy my thirst for gore; three charge Then the order came to take up heap as far as you could see; what had months around Armentiers and five weeks another position. We filed out of the been woods was nothing but a few short of the Somme. I have had as many trench and went for dear life, not knowing black stumps, and as for Poziers, nothing hairbreath escapes in five minutes as you where or why. However, we got there a bit remain but a few heaps of bricks here and perhaps will see in a lifetime. Have been too late, the dirty work had been done, there. In fact. just from a distance of a few very nearly blown to smithereens scores of and we were required to hold the trench. hundred yards nothing at all is to be seen times. Can't say that have accounted for It seems our battalion bombers had got in of the village. any of the brutes. Sorry to say. I never got one end of the trench and bombed right I have just told you a few of my close enough to any to do much harm, along to the other end. There were two excepting, of course, prisoners and experiences during my first go at the teams of bombers (16 men) and a few Somme. I was wounded about three weeks wounded, but a man can't vent his spite on machine-gun gunners. The Huns went for them - that wouldn"t be much of a victory. after this - the second day after returning to their life when the bombers got in, a lot the "push" after having a fortnight's spell. Very nearly all the fighting is done with trying to hop the parapet and get off that artillery, bombs, and machine-guns. It way, but that was where the machine-guns Your affectionate brother, came in. They were shot down like fleas as seems to me that we were there mainly as BERT. a target for Fritz. soon as their heads appeared over the parapet. It was the prettiest piece o( work

Page4 MEMORIAL JAMES BRADLEY BITS AMD PIECES I am delighted to report that the headstone PLAQUES How many third generation first Fleet has been re-erected on the grave of James descendants have we living in Australia The Fellowship has received permission to Bradley at St. Anne's, Ryde. Apart from now? install three more memorial plaques on the ravages of time and weather, the First Fleeter memorials. They are for headstone is in perfect condition, it had My aunt, Emma Barbara Prentice (nee Elizabeth (Fitzgerald) Wilkinson died 20 not been vandalised and the stonemason Garland), is in her 98th year, living in August 1832; James Bradley died 16 considered it had originally not been Inverell, N.S.W. She is a third generation February 1838; Mary (Davis) Bishop died placed deep enough in the ground and had Australian descended from a First fleeter, I January 1839. merely fallen over. He remarked on the the only one left of my late mother's very good and heavy quality of it (which James Bradley is buried at St. Anne's, brothers and sisters. necessitated a crane to lift it) and said "He Ryde. His tombstone was found removed must have been very wealthy to have such from its original site and placed on top of The generations are as follow: William a memorial"! another grave. Broughton [First Fleet] and wife Eliza Charlotte !st (daughter) - Emma Carne Thanks to the vigorous endeavours of Life As we all know that was far from true, but Broughton, 1815-1893, m. James Garland Member and former President Mrs Beryl it really gave me a feeling of great 2nd (son) - Thomas Archer Sparling Lewis, permission was obtained to have satisfaction to see it vertical again. Thank Garland, 1842-1937, m. Emma 3rd the tombstone replaced in its original you very much to those descendants who (daughter) - Emma Barbara Garland, b. location. contributed to the cost. 1895, m. Eustace Prentice

The dedication service will be held on BERYL LEWIS (#709) I must add that this very special aunt Is an Sunday, 14 February 1993 after the IO exceptionally bright and happy person, o'clock Morning Service at St. Anne's, living with one of her daughters. Ryde. r MARY GARLAND BAILEY Mary (Davis) Bishop is buried at St. (# 148, Foundation Member) Peter's Cemetery, Richmond She is buried HOW LITTLE WE with her daughter, Charlot Pently. The KMOWOF tombstone only identifies Charlot Pently. We are indebted to new member Wayne MEMBERS Robins, a descendant of both the ladies, Associate member Ross Shardlow is one of for acquainting us with this discovery Australia's most talented maritime artists BIRTHS as well as being the husband of Barbara The dedication service will be held on A warm welcome to the following New Sunday, 14th March I 993. after the 10 (#6164). His work has gone to many First Fleeters o'clock Morning Service at St. Peter's countries and he was Artist in Residence Church, Richmond. at Mystique Seaport, Connecticut, U.S.A., DANIEL PATRICK BUCK.LEY, ~ - '"'-· ' in 1988. He has also done some paintings 12th October 1992, F.F. Daniel Stanfield, Elizabeth (Fitzgerald) Wilkinson is buried for the Australian Maritime Museum in Edward Kimberley, Alice Harmsworth, at Christ Church Longford, Tasmania. Sydney. William Stanley. Associate member Thelma McKay, whilst In January this year his work came to the Third child and first son of Susan and researching for information for a book that fore when Australia Post brought out the she is preparing, discovered that First Vincent Buckley. Grandson of Bonney Australian Maritime Print Collection and Savill (#3642). Fleeter Elizabeth Fitzgerald is buried at had this to say about Ross: Most maritime Christ Church, Longford, as Elizabeth artists show a lifelong passion for the sea MARK and SIMON HINT, Wilkinson. A visit to the churchyard a nd Ross Shardlow is no exception. "A 31st October 1992, F.F. r revealed that the tombstone was being long-time maritime historian, Ross used as a stepping-stone for people going describes his work as 'more of a document 1\vin sons (eighth generation) to Janet and into a section for re-erected headstones. than fine art'. "Shipping registers, Robert Flint Grandchildren of Monica Numerous letters and phone calls to the captains' logs and a knowledge of (#1396) and Bill Flint. Rector of Christ Church, Longford, has maritime history all help him build an resulted in a working-bee of local intimate knowledge of each of the ships he parishioners removing the tombstone from paints." where it was discovered and relocating it Besides the January Australia Day issue of within the Memorial Wall of other four stamps. Ross has now designed four OBITUARIES historical tombstones. more stamps for Australia Post to be Deepest sympathy is offered to the A memorial plaque is being made and will issued on Anzac Day 1993, consisting of families of the following: be sent to our Tasmanian Chapter four Australian World War II ships. Convenor, Roy Peck, for installation on ROBERT ANDERSON, the Elizabeth (Fitzgerald) Wilkinson Ross was also responsible for artwork, died 7th September 1992. Dear husband tombstone. Roy Peck will be organising a rigging and sail design for the Western of Wynne Anderson (#936). dedication service with the Rector of Australian Sail Training ship Leeuwin and Christ Church, Longford. The date for the is currently involved with artwork and the FREDERICK CAHILL IBELS (#5074) service will be announced in a later building of the replica of Captain Cook's F.F. Nash/Haynes, died 13th August Newsletter. Endeavour. 1992. Fond husband of Jean. These plaques will be the 69th, 70th and Barbara a Librarian, involves herself in the 71st memorial plaques that the Fellowship work by helping with the extensive has had installed si nce the project began. research involved to authenticate his drawings and paintings. DOUGLAS OAKES Plaques Convenor

Pages days? Probably penniless and hungry, he We have become orphans without a JOHN AND MARY assaulted a citizen of London stealing his father watch and five shillings. Mary Parker's Our mothers are like widows. SMALL crime was theft from her employer for whom she worked as a housemaid. The On January 26 1888 this fleet of 11 ships {CANADIAN BRANCH) sentence in each case: seven years arrived at Port Jackson, site of present-day transportation or in other words seven Sydney. We tend to think of in This speech by Judith Bridgeman of connection with the convicts and that was Ontario, Canada, was given at the World years banishment from the country - which, in practice, usually meant forever. indeed the first stop. The ships did not stay Day of Prayer, Stamford Presbyterian there very long, however, because of a lack Church, Niagara Falls, Ontario. What were the conditions in England in of fresh water. Instead, they sailed a few Mrs Bridgeman is a sixth-generation the 1700s that drove so many to theft? It miles fu rther north where a more suitable descendant of John and Mary Small. was a time of hardship and poverty when location had been found. Some died on Judith's mother, Amy Maud Oakes, moved basic welfare as we know it was but a route from dysentery or smallpox and to Canada in 1921 and married an Alfred dream. It was a time when fathers stole many of the prisoners were too weak or Tebbit. from landed gentry to feed their families; a sick to walk off unaided. No shelter time when children worked in factories awaited them, of course. because no one Judith, though born and raised in Canada, and down coalmines; and orphans were except a few explorers had yet set foot on became more aware of Australia when she taught to be pickpockets (remember Fagan this new land. There was nothing there but realised she was related to a First Fleeter in the musical Oliver and the song "You bush. hostile natives, and strange animals. and started corresponding with the Have to Pick a Pocket or Two"?) They made themselves rough shelters of Fellowship in the 1980s. bark and branches and were then Courts were very severe on people caught organised into work gangs by the soldiers As Judith was a relative of mine I stealing. On the river Thames derelict and put to work felling trees, building responded, giving details of the family tree. ships lay at anchor as floating jails roads. and erecting storage sheds for the overloaded with convicts for whom there In 1988, Mrs Bridgeman and her husband, provisions: rice, dried meat, dried peas, was no room in the jails on shore. Allan, came to Australia to visit her son hard tack and flour (weevil-infested by this ) who had moved here and at the same time time, I'm sure!). Seed grains must have to join in the Bicentennial celebrations. been brought, too, because their next task ·-· was to plant crops. (This first Government Al and Judith Bridgeman are again visiting They were young, afraid, farm is now the famous Botanic Gardens Australia to renew old friendships and to of Sydney.) The first year's crop was al most make new ones. and lonely, departing a complete failure and by the time the The following is the text of the talk given forever - unwilling arrived in 1790 the Colony by Mrs ludith Bridgeman to the World Day was close to starvation. In fact, food was of Prayer at Stamford Presbyterian pioneers off to a new in such short supply that anyone caught Church, Ontario. country, never to see their stealing any of it was hanged on the spot. families and friends again. A young woman convict wrote of her CHOOSE LIFE IN ITS FULLNESS wretched existence in this poem, which could just as easily have been written by When Phylis Brand spoke to me about Mary Parker. It's from the book "Prisoners coming here this afternoon, I could scarce and Gaolers" (you'll notice that this girl's believe my good fortune! I mean how often offence was similar to Mary's). does one get an uninterrupted chance to lransportatlon to Australia seemed the talk about one's ancestors Usually it's a perfect solution. Not only would it replace A CONVICT MAID case of trying to wedge in a few words the American colonies as a dumping before being cut off by the other person ground for convicts, but would also secure Ye London maids attend to me trying to wedge in a few words about his Great Britain's hold on the new land While I relate my misery ancestors So you see, this is my big claimed by Captain cook in I 770. Thro' London streets I oft have strayed ~ chance, and I'll try to make it as But now I am a convict maid \ interesting for you as it is for me - although And so, on 13 May 1787, John Small and I realise this is never entirely possible. Mary Parker were loaded aboard the First In innocence I once did live Fleet along with 750 other convicts and In all the joy that peace could give Today we've already heard several 250 soldiers, and Government officials. But sin my youthful heart betrayed references to some of the pioneer women They were young, afraid, and lonely, And now I am a convict maid of Australia - Mary Reiby, Carolyn departing forever - unwilling pioneers off Chisholm, Catherine Spence, Rosa Scott, to a new country, never to see their To wed my lover, I did try and Daisy Bates. The first name, Mary families and friends again. Day after day To take my master's property Reiby, stands alone because she was a they were confined below decks - a cargo, So all my guilt was soon displayed Since doomed to be a Convict Maid pioneer not by choice but by force - an nothing more. For eight long months they unwilling pioneer - ·a convict endured seasickness, insufficient food, At length the judge did me address to Australia for seven years of exile for her lack of exercise and fresh air, poor Which filled with pain my aching breast crime of stealing a horse. The other four sanitation and ventilation and possessing To Botany Bay you will be conveyed women mentioned were pioneers by nothing but the clothes they were wearing. For seven years a convict maid choice - willing pioneers - free settlers who In the next SO years, 160,000 were came with their husbands to take up land transported in similar conditions before For seven years, oh, how I sighed in the Colony. the practice was stopped in 1841. They While my poor mother loudly cried My lover wept and thus he said My great-great-great-grandparents were must have felt like the Jews taken into like Mary Reiby, unwilling pioneers. Their exile in Babylon! Lamentations S: 1-3 May God be with my Convict Maid names were John Small and Mary Parker. reads: To you that hear my mournful tale John (who served as a sergeant in the Remember, 0 Lord, what has befallen us I cannot half my grief reveal British Army) fought for George Ill in the Look and see our reproach No sorrow yet has been portrayed American War of Independence, and Our inheritance has been turned over to Like that of the poor Convict Maid when the defeated troops returned to strangers Far from my friends and home so dear England he was mustered out of the army Our houses to aliens - and whoever heard of pensions in those My punishment is most severe Page6 My woe is great and I'm afraid before she came to Canada and before her That I shall die a Convict Maid cousin became Archdeacon she used to DAYTIME accompany him on Sundays as he went by I toil each day in grief and pain horse and buggy on his preaching rounds. FELLOWSHIP And sleepless through the night remain A few hours at Manly on a pleasant spring My constant toils are unrepaid But what she didn't tell me was the story day was a fitting finale to our excursions And wretched is the Convict Maid of John and Mary a nd Francis and for the year. We had planned little more Rebecca. It wasn't until during a visit to than a leisurely lunch in the bistro of a Oh could I but once more be free Australia that I found out about our beach-front hotel, with a tentative booking I'd ne'er again a captive be convict background. My mother was then made for a tour of North Head Quarantine But I would seek some honest trade 96 years old, and when I asked her ii she Station, if sufficient members had not been And ne'er become a Convict Maid. knew we were descended from convicts before. So this, in fact, was what we did. How Mary Parker met John Small I do not she said, "Oh yes, I knew that." "So how know - perhaps in a work detail - but in come didn't know?", to wh ich she just We were a little early for lunch, so enjoyed October 1788, the same year they arrived said, "Well dear, you wouldn't." the sunshine at the beach, while some in Australia, they were married by the Apparently such knowledge used to be an shopped. Reverend Richard Johnson who had come embarrassment! Today, though, it seems After we were well fed, we caught the bus with the Fleet; but not as a convict I to be the "in" thing in Australia to be able to North Head. The few who were visiting hasten to add! to trace one's ancestors back to the First Fleet - something like being able to claim for a second time (the majority were first­ Now at least they had each other to ease descent from the Mayflower. One can even timers ) found things a little different, as a their pain and despair, and a year later join the Fellowship of First Fleeters and cinema has been installed in one of the they not only had each other but a attend gigantic family reunions. And in a buildings, which seems to be the nor for daughter as well. They named her Rebecca strange reciprocal turn of events one of Government-funded tourist attractions. - Rebecca Small - one of the very first Amy Maud's grandsons has become an (It's nice to sit down for a while, but was I white babies born in Australia. Australian citizen and one of her the only one becoming drowsy before the film ended?) r About this time a mission ship named Duff granddaughters a missionary! was getting ready to leave England, and on To quote from page four of our Order of Our conducted tour took us through the board was Francis Oakes, a member of the Service, "Each age has its p ioneers who various stages of quarantine, starting from London Missionary Society. It was the first are the first, the lonely ones, symbols of the patient's arrival at the private beach mission ship to visit the islands of the courage and faith." And so when I think of The site has not been used now since 1962 South Pacific. Because of tribal warfare all that's best in the word "pioneers" I and seldom for many years before that. the ship later moved on to Port Jackson for think of John and Mary Small and Francis Many of the inmates have left their names safety, arriving in 1799 when Rebecca and Rebecca Oakes. They personify that and that of their ships engraved on the cliff Small would have been 10 years old. quality of character and spirit that says walls. There are walking trails all around Francis Oakes was given a grant of land "never give up"; that outlook on life which the headland, and magnificent views. near the convict colony of Parramatta, looks to God for strength and courage. So another year has almost rolled away, today a suburb of Sydney, where he was They chose life in its fullness, and from with only our Christmas luncheon to be appointed chief constable, a post which them came leaders in business, agriculture,· reported on. in the new year. As it is the '-.. . customarily came to be assigned to local in government, and in the Church. last column for the year, our President is , ..,"' missionaries Then if there were any joining me for some words before I close. complaints against convicts, they would We, too, are challenged today to choose BERNICE SMART be the ones to hear evidence and decide fullness of life. But how do we do this and on punishment or acquittal. One such what does it mean? When Jesus said, "I At this time of the year it is appropriate magistrate, the Reverend Samuel Marsden, have come in order that you might have that, as the President of the Daytime earned himself the title of the Flogging life - life in all its fullness," He gave us the Fellowship, I wish all the supporters of our Parson. Francis Oakes, however, wasn't key in those three words, '' I have come." activities, past and to come, a happy and like that he was a much kinder and more He came to demonstrate the life He peaceful Christmas. humane man. expects us to reproduce. There is a 1 condition, however - before we can We have enjoyed great times together at f Francis Oakes, pioneer missionary, was 35 reproduce His life we must first admit Him the meetings and excursions arranged by years old and a bachelor. Here I have to into our life as Saviour and Lord and allow Bernice Smart and Phyllis Selby, with leave out some interesting details because Him to make us more loving, more humble Wynne Anderson taking care of our I don't know the chain of events. But in and more sensitive. And although we may accumulating funds. Suggestions on using 1806 he married Rebecca Small who was never be a pioneer missionary like Francis this money for the benefit of the now I 7 years old. They became a loved Oakes in a far-off land, yet we still have a Fellowship would be helpful. and respected pioneer couple, raising mission as pioneers here at home. I say We have some interesting ideas in the fourteen children to mature and "pioneers" because when we first set out responsible adulthood. One of their many pipeline for next year. Peter Christian and on our personal Christian walk, we are his wife, Joy, have just returned from a tnp grandchildren once wrote: "no one could pioneers. We are treading a brand new, be more worthy than our grandmother, to China where they viewed the villages unique path which no one has ever walked and countryside from the seat of a bicycle. who lived for so many years in Parramatta before. And like the pioneers of all ages and whose good and charitable life was Peter will tell us about this at our March before us, we too will have obstacles to meeting An excursion to Old Sydney Town recognised by all sections of the overcome and opportunities to seize - community." Rebecca lived to the age of is being considered, and so is an excursion perhaps not big dramatic ones, but small by minibus to Fagin Park. Do any 94 and a plaque now hangs in St. John's everyday opportunities to be a blessing to Church, Parramatta, in honour of her and members have any ideas for other outings someone we meet along the way; a kind or speakers. We would be glad to hear Francis and their fourteen children. On the word, a kind deed. a note of encouragement. plaque is the text, "What shall I render from you as we are now making up our unto the Lord for all his benefits towards Then we will truly find "Life in its program for next year. me?" In 1930 another grandchild, Fullness" - a Christ-centred life , a life of Thank you for your support this year. Archdeacon George Spencer Oakes, response to His love for us. Please come along to our functions and preached from this same text in the same Judith Bridgeman (#335 I), World Day of outings in 1993. church on the fiftieth anniversary of his Prayer, Stamford Presbyterian Church, Yours in Fellowship ordination. My mother, Amy Maud Oakes Niagara Falls, Ontario. 7/3/198 (her maiden name), used to tell me that DOUGLAS OAKES (#45) JOYCE COWELL Page 7 WHAT YOUR DOLLAR BUYS FOR YOU ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTIONS: Have you recorded your Size, Colour, !st or 2nd choice of colour? You can only buy Fellowship I-Shirts and Windcheaters from our Full Membership $22.00 Senior (holding Pension Card) $13.00 Wear them with pride at Family Gatherings. 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