St. John’s First Fleeters is a collection of peer-reviewed essays on the First Fleeters buried at St. John’s Cemetery, Parramatta and/or registered in the St. John’s Parish burial register, as well as two feature essays about the history and significance of the cemetery. The biographies in this collection have been selected and edited by Dr. Michaela Ann Cameron, with a number of historians contributing individual essays. The biographical essays are being published gradually from early 2016 onwards. Over 50 First Fleeters are registered in the St. John’s Parish burials register, but the majority have no memorial plaques and lie in unmarked graves, exact location unknown. Ultimately, a complete list of St. John’s First Fleeters will appear on this page. The full-length essays completed thus far and currently available can be accessed below.

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Augustus Alt: The Baron

The Killing and Keening of Simon Burn

Frances Hannah Clements: The Convict’s Child

Thomas Daveney: The Tyrant of Toongabbie

Henry Dodd: The Faithful Servant

Elizabeth Eccles: The Dairy Maid

Thomas Eccles: The Swine Connoisseur

Edward Elliott: The Husbandman

Thomas Freeman: Minding the Store

Deborah Herbert: A Prigger of Toggery

John Herbert: From Felon to Farmer

Hugh Hughes: The Wheelwright Made Right

John Irving: The Best Surgeon Amongst Them

Mary Kelly: The First Lady of Kellyville

David Killpack: The Merry Mutineer

Isaac Knight: The Trusty Sergeant

The Magees: The First Burial

John Martin: The Self-Freed Slave

Jane McManus: The Maid Freed from the Gallows

Lives Left Behind: The Forsaken Families of First Fleeters William Gloster and James Ogden

Christopher Palmer: Perils of a Purser

John Palmer: The Purser, The P.O.W

Richard Partridge: The Left-Handed Flogger

Ann Smith: A Plunderer in the War Against Want

James Wright: The Highwayman

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CREDITS

This project is supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW. This project has been supported through a Parramatta City Council Community Grant. This project has been assisted by funds allocated to the Royal Australian Historical Society through the Heritage Branch of the NSW Office of Environment and Heritage.

Collection Design, Research Assistance, Editing, Multimedia and Publishing: Michaela Ann Cameron

Authors: Caitlin Adams, Michaela Ann Cameron, Alexander Cameron-Smith, Judith Dunn, Penny Edwell, David Morgan, Danielle Thyer, Ben Vine.

Research Assistance: Jennifer Follers, The Fellowship of First Fleeters

© Copyright Michaela Ann Cameron 2015–2020