NEWSLETTER OF FELLOWSHIP OF FIRST FLEETERS 1 ~ ' / ,1 /11 t 1)// Ill th,· /i,·,11 ,., llll,) IJl{/1(), , ,,J /),·,,, t'll()tlll/,, (,' II, 1·,·, /1 1,Jlt. PATRON: Her Exce llency, Professor Marie Bashir, AC , Governor of New South Wales PreJtJent'J report riday, 13 May wa s the 2 18th w ill be the g uest speaker. Rosemary is a co-life anniversary of the F irst Fleet sailing trustee, w ith me, o f St J a mes C hurch, King from Portsmouth. It is indeed gratifying Street Sydney. Please mar k this event in your to know that there were at least three diary and ring FF H ouse to reserve your booking oFrganised events to celebrate this occasio n. O ur N OW. Lunch is p rovided, cost $5.00. own South Coast C hapter held a luncheon a t On Wednesday, 14 September our daytime Kiama, well-organised and well-attended, to mark meeting will have Tony Laffan, the a uthor of the this event. Congratulations to J ean Mortimer book Ann Colpitts, First Fleet Convict Pioneer, and her executive for their efforts. as our guest speaker. Please also note this in your The Sydney/Portsmouth Sister City committee diary. organised a cocl<tail party at the Town Hall ·with History_Week commenres on 19 September Brian F le tche r as g uest a nd the F ellow s hip has speaker. Brian is well know n la unched into a new exercise. to us within the Fellowship. Last year we did a tour of First 'HISTORY WEEK COMMENCES T his was attended by a F leet sites in the C ircula r number of o u r executive ON 19 SEPTEMBER ... DURING Q uay area of our city o n the members. As a member of this S unday, w h ich proved committee I should have been HISTORY WEEK, FFF HOUSE WILL extremely popular. T his year present ... BUT. The Friends of on Sund ay 25 September we the First Government H ouse BE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.' ho pe to be able to provide S ite he ld their annua l an other walk for members to Memorial Lecture at H istory fi nish at F F H ouse for w ine, INSIDE House, w here, for my sins, I was the g uest cheese a nd bickies. Before proceeding to FF 2 N EWS OF MEMBERS speaker. St. Thomas Cathedral in Portsmouth House we will stop at the Arthur Phillip Memorial a lways hold a special service o n this date. It in the Gardens a nd also at Matthew F li nders 2 CONTACT CORNER would be a fine gesture for Sydney to also hold statue in Macquarie Street. Cost to members will a Memorial Evensong in the future. How about be $ 10.00, non members $ 15.00. 5 WHAT'S ON at St. Phillips, Church Hill in 2006? D uring History Week, FF House will be open T he Fellowship has resumed daytime meetings to the public. 5 THE ORMSBY LETTERS w ith guest speakers this year. O n Wedn esday, 25 On 14 Decem ber members are invited to a May we welcomed the vice-president of the C hr istmas Party at FF House. Surprises a ll 4 THE STORY T ELLERS Friends of First Government House, Dawn Moss, round! We have even opened bookings now for w ho treated those fortunate enoug h to be present his event. O ur o utside courtyard, which is 5 F IRST FLEETER to a most interesting talk. T hanks to Pam, Jean, certainly looking good, has been enhanced by JACOB NAGLE Leonie a nd Bonney for the p repar atio n of a potted ferns, courtesy of Leonie. scrumptious lu nch . Dawn was still being Good news re the next Com monwealt h 6 lACHLAN MACQUARIE bomba rded w ith q uestions during lunch! census. It has been annou nced that they will, if T he next proposed Fellowship weekday the respondent assents, be kept in storage for 99 7 LONDON LETTER gathering will be our Soup and Damper Day to years a nd not be shredded. Congratulations to U PDATE be held on 27 J uly . In past years there has been member Stephen M utch, a for mer Federal MP a full house to this event. This year we are and N ick Vine Hall for their efforts in this regard. 8 F ROM THE CHAPTERS restricting it to 45 mem bers. Rosemary Annable (con ti1111ed /Ill pnge J) Price 50¢ Registered by Australia Post Publication No NBH 1271 DANIEL STANFIELD/ALICE HARMSWORTH: Briarna Membership Report Krista Bourke (jun.). FOR PERIOD 20 MARCH TO 28 MAY 2005 W ILLIAM TUNKS: Patricia Marion Boaretto. We extend a warm welcome to new members joined during this period, nine adults, one associate spouse and three junior Births members. Welcome to additional First Fleeters: JAMES BRYAN CULLEN: W illiam Jonathan Fearon. DECLAN THOMAS MINEHAN (FF William Roberts), WILLIAM DOUGLAS/MARY GROVES: Jade Owens born 26 May 2005 at St George Private Hospital, second son (jun.), Clay Lloyd Owens (jun.). to Michael and Antoinette and baby brother to Liam Connor (#6889) and grandson to John (6701) and Judy, their fifth ANN FORBES: Ronald Frederick Haspell. grandchild. Eighth generation. NATHANIEL LUCAS/OLIVIA GASCOIGNE: Jennifer INDIA JOY RAFTER (FF Mary Williams), 24 May 2005, Margaret Jelley. Selengor Hospital, Nambour Q)d, daughter to Patrick and Lara Rafter, sister to Joshua and granddaughter to Mary-Joy WILLIAM NASH/MARIA HAYNES: Judit h Beatrice Payten (#1 135). Seventh generation. Maley. JOHN N ICHOLS: John Raymond Kirkby. Death JOHN RYAN: Raymond Henry Griffiths, M uriel Eva Deepest sympathy is extended to the famil ies of the fo llowing: Griffiths (associate spouse). SYD BALLARD passed away 24 May 2005, aged 104. On JOHN SMALLLMARY PARKER: Glenda Evelyn 9 April 2002 Syd was presented with Life Membershi p of--the---­ Montgomery. Fellowship. He had a long and active association with Northern Rivers Chapter of Fellowship of First Fleeters. Descendant WILLIAM STANDLEY: Valentine Sheila Littler. of F irst Fleeter John Nicholls. Contact Corner The following First Fleeter members wish to contact other members and friends from the same descendant. FORBES, ROBERT FORRESTER, EDWARD MILES l mmie Medlyn, 14 Nooal St Newport 2106, Phone 9940 0664, Email [email protected] JOHN CROSS, MARY DAVISON Closing date for Prue Friend, 30 Buvelot St Weston ACT copy ures 2611, P hone 6288 5296 July/A Issue Email [email protected] 28 July 2005 JAMES BRADLEY, JAMES MCMANUS, JANE POOLE J udy Dwyer, Tara 505 Burrendong Way, Orange 2800, P hone 6365 8234 Email [email protected] OFFICE HOURS ANN MARTIN .OOpm Faye Smith, 29 Clarke St Bowral 2576, Monday to Friday Phone 4861 3474, Email [email protected] CTI Peter Hibbs and Mary Pardoe Reunion There will be a reunion for descendants of First Fleet Sailor Peter Hibbs and Mary Pardoe FFF Daytime Auxiliary (Lady Juliana Second Fleet 1790). Program of Proposed The venue will be the grounds of Meetings Holy Trinity Church, Spencer 11 SEPTEMBER 2005 27 JULY Soup and Damper Day FROM 9.30am Speaker: Rosemary Annable, a former Chair of the RAHS and Archivist and Holy Trinity is three kilometres from Fellow Trustee of St James Church, King Spencer on the Wisemans Ferry Road. Street. Coffee, tea and hot water will be provided, 14 SEPTEMBER Speaker: Mr Tony Laffan (FF Ann Colpitts) will BYO lunch and folding chairs. talk on his book about Ann and several Associated Family Names include: others. Byrne, Cox, Webber, Kelly, Norman and 14 DECEMBER many more. Christmas Party - should be good - a few surprises for those attending. For further details contact: Betty Warn 4294 2735, Roy Cox 4377 I 128, Meetings to commence at I 0.45am. ~ Ae-¥oung-$874 6,-,,2,-,.72.,.......-- - Donation $5.00. He wrote three letters to his father in 1787/9 a nd copies The Ormsby Letters of these have turned up in the Archives of the Fellowship. They are of intense interest and one gives a description of the Charles Cutts Ormsby I 1796-1810} arrived in the Colony wreck of Sirill.J at Norfolk Island. on Siriu.1 as a midshipman. It is said that this young ma n was disturbed w ith a Mollie Gillen in her book The Founder.I ofAu.1tmLia gives a personality problem! description of him by Joseph Nagle as a young, arrogant Records show that he never married, nor left any midshipman who treated the seamen with unwarranted descendants. severity. We a re told that Captain John Hunter had warned The copies of these letters are a valuable addition to the Ormsby against mistreating his shipmates. After spending Fellowship Library. some time on Norfolk lsland, this First F leeter departed the Colony on Waak,:1amheiJ in March 1791. PETER PRESIDENT'S REPORT Probus, Drummoyne National Seniors and I took part in the (continued /mm page I) Central Coast Family History Groups Seminar at Gosford. Since the early 1990s member David Pike has prepared the I would like to record appreciation to Jim Donohoe, Nick layout for our newsletter and prepared it for printing. At Vine Hall and Nell Sansom for their individual generosity in times he has also acted as editor. He has intimated to t he donating material to FF House. I shall enlarge upon this in the executive that he w ill be retiring from this position after this next issue as details are at the moment locked in my old issue. At the last Executive Meeting the directors put on computer, a nd lam having trou ble in accessing them.