The following ships arrived during the period covered by this volume and contains the readable names of the persons on board those ships:-
WILLIAM - arrived 10.03.1794
SURPRISE (2) arrived 25.10.1794
VICTUALLER arrived 30.11.1794
SOVEREIGN arrived 05.11.1795
MARQUIS CORNWALLIS arrived 11.02.1796
INDISPENSABLE arrived 30.04.1796
BRITANNIA arrived 27.05.1797
GANGES arrived 02.06.1797
BARWELL arrived 18.05.1798
BRITANNIA arrived 18.07.1798
BUFFALO arrived 03.05.1799
PORPOISE arrived 03.05.1799
HILLSBOROUGH arrived 26.07.1799
MINERVA arrived 11.01.1800
FRIENDSHIP arrived 16.02.1800
SPEEDY arrived 15.04.1800
ROYAL ADMIRAL (2) arrived 20.11.1800
The William and Sovereign carried one convict each, I can find no record of these two names. No record can be found of what the Victualler carried, if any convicts. No records of the lists for the Buffalo, Porpoise, Minerva, or Friendship can be found, but part lists have been assembled from the names available in the 1828 Census.
We are indeed very lucky that the majority of the Convict Ship lists have survived the passage of nearly 200 years, and for this our Nation can be grateful to the dedicated staff of the Public Record Office of London, the Mitchell Library of N.S.W., the State Archives of N.S.W., the National Library of Australia, and the State Libraries and Archives of the various Australian States.
Some names have been difficult to transcribe, however, I have used all my logical knowledge of names to try to get the names correct. James McClelland, OAM
ISBN: 978-0-908492-25-1
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