by Karen | Nov 24, 2023 | Australian Colonial History, Biographies, Family History, Mariners, Social History
Part 1 – Dickens’ London Francis Foote – The Convict Francis Foote, aged about 17, arrived in the Colony of New South Wales on the convict ship ‘Bengal Merchant’ 23 July 1838, one of 270 male prisoners. All the prisoners’ physical descriptions were...
by Karen | Nov 20, 2020 | Australian Colonial History, Biographies, Family History, Social History
The following is an excerpt from an account I wrote on several ancestors, including Matthew Charles Thomson, or better known as Charlie. He arrived in Queensland, Australia from Kilmarnock, Scotland in the 1860s. This excerpt is from his later years. While W & M...
by Karen | May 28, 2020 | Australian Colonial History, Biographies, Family History, Social History
Finding Frederick Foot. There is little available information on the Frederick Foot who informed Governor Gipps of the murders of a large group of Aboriginal people (Wirrayaraay) at Myall Creek, Liverpool Plains in 1838. In all accounts he is usually described as a...
by Karen | May 20, 2020 | Australian Colonial History, Australian Legal History, Biographies, Family History, Social History
Frederick Foot is not well known but he is acknowledged for his key role in one of the earliest infamous events in Australia’s colonial history, the Myall Creek Massacre in 1838. It is Frederick Foot who is credited with informing Governor Gipps of the unprovoked...
