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The crossing, and Brisbane
Part V · 🇬🇧 🇦🇺
Seven lines reached Australia seven different ways: a garrison posting, a convict ship, a free passage, a paid one, and three nobody has dated. A major of the 39th Foot reached Port Jackson in September 1826 on the convict ship England, with his wife and baby daughter in the cabin, and the General Hewitt followed in 1854. These pages run on to Brisbane, an inquest in 1902, the Great War and the graves.
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- V.1How they got hereSeven lines reached Australia seven different ways.
- V.2AustraliaA major of the 39th Foot in charge of the guard on a convict ship, with his wife and baby daughter in the cabin.
- V.3The General HewittThe passenger register gives how, when and on what.
- V.4BrisbaneFrom a Parramatta boy who came north in the 1860s to a hundred and sixty years of Brisbane people.
- V.5The Inquest, 1902A coronial file, read in full and published in full.
- V.6The Great WarA sergeant, two brothers of his wife, and a cousin: soldiers of the Great War.
- V.7The Search for ArthurTwenty-three pages of men trying to find out what happened to one private soldier at Pozières.
- V.8Graves and BurialsWhere this family is buried, gathered from the tree.