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•To live on in the hearts and minds of jftlloltlsbtp Descendants is never to dier · of 1788A.D. jffrst jfleeters J}eltlsletter :--= =:::- JOURNAL OF THE FELLOWSHIP OF FIRST FLEETER$ INC. NSW 1988 PRICE: 50c Registered by Australia Post Publication No. NBH 1271 PATRON: His Excellency Rear Admiral Peter Sinclair, AO, Governor of New South Wales. OFFICE ADDRESS: First Fleet House 105 Cathedral Street, Woolloomooloo, N.S.W. 2011 TELEPHONE: (02) 360-3788, 360-3988 March/Aprl 1991 Volume 22 NO.2 PRESIDENT'S REPOKI' Our congratulations to the men and I have been infonned by contractors that SOCIAL DIARY women of the Australian Anned Forces Cambridge Street in the Rocks is being serving in theGulfforajobwell done. We refurbished. Cambridge St is the looition 1st May, 1991 should now thank God that this nation of the sight where convicts were assembled Daytime AuxUiary Ferry Trip to suffered no casualties this time. after they came off the transports. The Meadowbank. street is to be lined with sandstone pavers Ith - 12th May, 1991 Oneofourlongtermmembersandhardest Six Annual Conaress on Genealogy and the contractor proposed to put the and fieraldry working volunteer office workers, Keith name ofa First Fleeter on each of the blocks. Saturday 25th May, 1991 Selby, passed away. Mrs Selby is also one Herbert FarnUy Reunion <four most ardent workers. Keith will be I suggested that as we have the signatures 4th July, 1991 SIUJ.Iy missed. Our sincere sympathy and of 150 of them it would enhance the scheme Daytime AuxUlary Meeting condolences are extended to the family. if they were put on the blocks too. 7th July, 1991 St.Mary Maadalene's Church, St. My wife Sandra and I were recently It has lllso been suggested that if this idea MarysNSW honoured by our patron His Excellency goes ahead visitors could transfer the Rookwood Tours the Governor <f New South Wales, Rear signatures (X's) onto a rubbing sheet. I 5th May 2nd June Admiral Peter Sinclair and Mrs Sinclair believe Molly Gillens work "The Founders 7th Juy with an invitation to attend a dinner of Australia" contains almost all the 4th August which they hosted at Government House surviving signatures. 1st September 6th October for leading Community Achievers. I was 3rd November very proud to attend and mingle with such If ,nyone has other samples of First Fleet 1992 grellt Australians as Rear Admiral signatures I would be most grateful if they Pioneer Reunion - Ryde Municipality Hudson, Alan Davidson (the cricket could be sent to me. Don't forget to wear your First Fleet T great) Bill Collins (Mr Movies) etc. shirts, Wfndcheaters, Ties etc to Yours In Fellowship these outings James Hugh Donohoe Rrst Fleet House Office Hours: Mon/\Yed/Thur/Frl .... 10am - 3pm Tues •.•• 1oam - 5.30pm page one EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 1990/91 James Donohoe Rod Best PRESIDENT: June Bigham VICE PRESIDENTS: Peter Christian Ulaaarke Naida Jackson Alice Clarke Jim Maclean SECRETARY: Zona Maguire Ron Maguire Hugh Morgan TREASURER: Roy Morris Doug Oakes Beverley Naughton ARCHMST: Joyce Cowell Suzanne Stanton (Jnr. Newsletter Editor) BITS AND PIECES have thousands of them, all recorded Additional Family Association. and colour-coded for generation. THOMAS KIDNER FAMILY Liverpool Bicentennial Museum The narrative material received with ASSOCIATION. applications is also filed in the family Contact: Mrs N.J. Cunningham files of all those First Fleeters from 28 Stretharn Avenue, An interesting time can be enjoyed by whom we have descendants. all who visit the Liverpool Picnic Point Bicentennial Museum. The archivist has spent the year NSW2213 putting together the record of our PHONE: (02) 774 3459 Situated just out of Liverpool the Bicentennial project - to identify with museum is easy to get to by train, bus plaques the tombstones of First and car. Address: Fleeters and to install commemorative Australia Day in the Copper Triangle Cnr Hume Hwy and Congressional plaques on First Fleeter "sacred sites• Australia Day 1991 - nowhere near as Drive, Liverpool, NSW adjoining the - areas where First Fleeters are known exciting as 1988 but none-the-less Tourist Information Office to have been buried but where pleasant. So I thought I would tell gravestones no longer exist. We have how we came to be celebrating it with Phone: (02) 602-0315 found some 72 such graves and some other First Fleeters. Hours: Wed - Fri 9.30am - 4pm 19 sites to mark with the We recently moved to the Yorke Saturday, Sunday and commemorative plaques. Public Holidays 11am - 4pm Peninsula in South Australia, to an Photographs of family groups, area known as the Copper Triangle, a ARCHIVES descriptions of sites, churches and stronghold of descendants of Comish The archives of the Fellowship are ceremonies, gravestone inscriptions miners who settled and worked the made of the genealogical details of the and maps are all recorded in print for area from the 1860's. Probably the last descendants of First Fleeters. the use of future generations. The place in the Country one would Extensive family trees are recorded, publication of this work "Where First expect to find First Fleeters, but find first with written form and then Fleeters Lie" has been a significant them we did. entered into the computer. Our achievement produced from the My husband (FF Jacob Bellett and records contain the details of some 180 archival records of the Fellowship. First Fleet Families. There are 25 Thomas Kidner) was wearing his Family Associations working on these Print ror Sale. Fellowship of First Fleeters sweater in families and some 37 books have been A framed print of the painting titled the local Hairdressers when a lady printed recording the details of their "The Second Eleven" by Steven Dews with her hair in curlers started lives and the lives of the early is available for sale from First Fleet gasping and jumping up and down descendants. House. when she recognised the logo on the sweater. It turned out that she and All intendin~ members must produce It shows The First Fleet Re-enactment her husband had moved here from proof of their descent by submitting off Sydney Heads, 26th January, 1988, Sydney about 7 years ago. She is birth, death and marriage certificates with the ships Tradewind, Amorina, descended from Ann Forbes and her showing their line of descent from a Solway Lass, Our Svanen, Eye of the husband is possibly also a First Fleet First Fleeter. After those certificates Wind, Soren Larsen, Tucker descendant yet to be confirmed. She have been examined by the Thompson, One and All, Anna was so excited and so were we. Membership Committee, they are Kristina, Bounty and Leeuwin. handed over to the Archivist. The Then about a month ago my husband certificates are carefully filed - we and I pulled up in the main street of ~fll 1)12IZI:: The book "The first fleet" b'Y Jonathan Nna 1)[2A\tN: lit Ma'Y, 1gg1 TICltT§: ~Oc each or 3 for S1.00 page two Moonta and there in front of us was a car with a Fellowship of First Fleeters DAYfIME AUXILIARY. sticker on the back. No occupants, so I scribbled a note with our address The meeting of the daytime auxiliary was held on Thursday 7th March. The and phone number and left it under Chairperson was Joyce Cowell. An early item discussed was a new name for the windscreen wiper. t.1'e Group, and a decision was made for "The Daytime Fellowship". lf interest is sustained in the gathering, meeting will be held on the first That night the phone rang and an Thursday of the month, to be advised, 11.30am to 2pm. Tea and coffee is excited gentleman introduced available, but please bring your lunch. It was also decided that Wednesday himself. He and his wife had just been should be kept as our day for outings. We have a meeting or outing, every transferred by the Education second month. Department to this area. He is a descendant of Ann Sandlin. Election of Office Bearers. So we decided to celebrate Australia Chairperson - Joyce Cowell Day together and hope to make it an annual event. Recorder - Bernice Smart Social Organiser - Phyllis Selby We flew the flag; had a good old Aussie barbecue with all the Tenure of Office to be One Year. trimmings; and a fruit cake with a convict figure complete with ball and chain on top; and jelly cakes made Our first outing has been arranged, and we ask for a good attendance. May with yellow and green jelly. we remind members, that friends and relatives are also welcome. You do not have to be member of F.F.F. to attend our days out. We do charge a small The chains were really rattling that amount on top of costs, which goes towards the purchase of books for our day. We discussed ancestors in great library, or similar small needs for our building. depth, (even I got a look in and I'm not a First Fleeter). Our guest speaker for the afternoon was member Ron Maguire, who was well qualified to tell us about the printing trade. Thank you Ron. In aJl it was a great day and we are looking forward to next years Australia Day with happy Ferry Trip anticipation. We are thinking of Date: lstMay 1991 putting an advert in the local paper, Ferry trip up Parramatta River to Meadowbank, stopping for who knows, there mi9ht be some lunch at Sydney Rowing Club at Abbotsford. Meet at Circular other First Fleeters lurking out there Quay No.5 Wharf, 11.30am. in this out-of-the-way Cornish stronghold. We hope to arrange other boat trips for later in the year, as we have found them in previous years to be very popular.