Convicts of the first fleet biography

1787 transportation to New South Wales

Stories of Convicts on the First Fleet contains information about a number of convicts on the First Fleet to the penal colony of New South Wales who meet the following criteria:

• There is information about the individual following their arrival in the colony, with appropriate references, that may be of interest to readers.
• The information includes, in addition to offence, sentence and death details, a story about the activities of the individual subsequent to arrival in the colony.
• No separate Wikipedia article exists, or is likely to be written, for the individual.

Background

The List of convicts on the First Fleet contains basic information about most of the 775 convicts who were on the First Fleet when it sailed.^[1][2] For about 93 of these individuals useful information is available, often of such volume that it is not suitable for inclusion in the “Other informatio