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Douglas Septs convicts shipped to Australia
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Records of the first Drysdale convicts to travel to Australia
Data from Australia Convict transportation database & Find my past Convict - William Drydale 1796 Hampshire - Barwell Indents from Early Fleet Ships 1786-1799William Deydale, Convicted at Hants. Assizes for a term of 7 years on 01 March 1796. William Deydale, one of 311 convicts transported…
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William Drydale - the 1st recorded "Drysdale" to arrive in Australia (1798)
Hi allWilliam Drysdale was one of the first British convict settlers in Australia.It was only some 28 years earlier, in 1770, that Lieutenant James Cook, captain of HMB Endeavour, had claimed the eastern portion of the Australian continent for the British Crown, naming it New South Wales.William…
It was not just Douglases who were shipped to Australia, but members of our Septs too. This group is for them.