One of the first settlers who sailed to Australia from England in 1787.
many of the First Fleeters acquired dingoes as pets
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The prologue contrasts the First Fleeters' diet of mouldy bread and rancid pork with that of the Iora Aboriginals—Sydney rock oysters, crayfish and prawns, roasted kangaroo, grilled snapper.
Fifty of the 1,500 First Fleeters were children, some among them convicts.
Seven of my eight great grandparents are descendants of early settlers, including two first fleeters.
It is understood there was also a large contingent of 'First Fleeters' visiting for this special week in Norfolk's history.
Sydney was about as hot as the hottest day the First Fleeters experienced in their first four years.
Australia's first extinction wave began almost as soon as the First Fleeters stepped ashore, and by the 1940s it had carried away 10 per cent of the continent's mammal species.
Fear of starvation led to a division of the First Fleeters into two convict settlements.
As an entrepreneur, a businessman, and a family man, the ex-convict first fleeter, helped to lay the foundations for the new and respectable society which was to become Australia.
It is tucked away off the beaten track in a town over-endowed with magnificent, fading heritage left from First Fleeters.
In the course of an enthusiastic rummage through the online NSW Births, Deaths and Marriages records, I discovered a pair of five-greats grandparents who were both First Fleeters.